Friday, October 22

Tentative schedule, subject to change.  

9:00 AM – Registration and Breakfast

10:00 AM – Opening & Welcoming Remarks

10:05 AM – Keynote Presentation: The Road to Commercialization for Cultivated Meat
Amy Chen, UPSIDE Foods

10:45 AM – The Path to Scaling Cultured Meat Production

Moderated by Kim Lovan, Black & Veatch

Tim Olsen, PhD, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Jed Johnson, PhD, Matrix Meats

Keri Szejda, PhD, North Mountain Consulting Group

11:45 AM – Fireside Chat: How Can Synthetic Bio Startups Be More Transparent With Consumers?

A conversation with Larissa Zimberoff, Journalist & Author

Patricia Bubner, PhD, Orbillion Bio, Inc.
Patrick Mills, Director of Service and Operations at Bi-Rite Market

12:30 PM – Lunch + Expo
Vegan lunch options will be served.

1:30 PM – U.S. Regulatory Updates for Cell-Cultured Meat

Brian P. Sylvester, J.D., Covington & Burling LLP

Jessica O’Connell, J.D., M.P.H., Covington & Burling LLP

2:00 PM – Scalability Track Presentation

Dr. Benjamin Larson, Wildtype

3:00 PM – Life & Food: Scaling our Next Food System Sustainably

Dr. Matthew Anderson-Baron, Future Fields

3:30 PM – Coffee Break + Expo

4:30 PM – Investment Opportunities in Cell-cultured Meat

Moderated by Alex Shirazi, SVCMS

James Stewart, Level One Fund

Nate Salpeter, Ph.D., SNØCAP, Sweet Farm

5:15 PM – Live Podcast Recording: Business For Good Podcast

Paul Shapiro, Better Meat Co 

Anita Broellochs, Balletic Foods
Alex Shirazi, SVCMS

6:00 PM – Evening Reception: Under The Dome