Agenda
Join the industry in attending the largest event exclusively dedicated to cell-cultured meat, poultry, and seafood technology.
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
Saturday, October 23
Tentative schedule, subject to change.
9:00 AM – Registration and Breakfast
10:00 AM – Opening & Welcoming Remarks
10:05 AM – Keynote: Finding Purpose: Medicine to Meat
Rachael Floreani, UVM
10:30 AM – Panel: Exploring the sustainable aspects of cell-based meat
Moderated by Kara Nielsen, WGSN
Nicky Quinn, Aleph Farms
Noreen Hobayan, BlueNalu
Kate Kruger, PhD, Helikon Consulting
11:30 AM – Fireside Chat: XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion
Caroline Kolta, XPRIZE
Nieves Martínez-Marshall, PhD, Novel Farms
12:00 PM – Lunch
Vegan lunch options will be served.
1:30 PM – Sustainability Track Presentation
John Pattison, Cultured Decadence
2:00 PM – Food Safety Considerations and Research Priorities for the Cultured Meat and Seafood Industry
Dr. Kimberly Ong, Vireo Advisors
2:30 PM – Beyond environmental sustainability: Making cultured meat good for people
Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Breakthrough Institute
3:00 PM – Ice Cream Break + Expo
4:00 PM – Challenges facing the cultured meat industry
Moderated by Anita Broellochs, Balletic Foods
Ron Shigeta, iAccelerate.tech
Meera Zassenhaus, New Harvest
Chris Fetterly, Future Fields
John Pattison, Cultured Decadence
4:30 PM – Closing