2024 EXPERT SPEAKERS Aaron Hummel Vice President - Technology & Pipeline Strategy Pairwise Anindya Bandyopadhyay Head of Biotechnology & Precision Genetics CIMMYT Balaji Vasudevan Venture Partner & Agrifoodtech Consultant 16 VC & UM6P Ventures Carl Jones Director - Plant Sciences Mars Christine Shyu Regulatory Science Genome Editing Enablement Lead Bayer Crop Science Dhyaneswaran Palanichamy Plant Breeder and Data Scientist Ingredion Gaganpreet Sidhu Chief Technology Officer/CTO Meiogenix Jamie Saxon Senior Director, External Innovation and Sustainability Inari Jennifer Hubert Executive Director Plant Biotechnology CropLife Lucas Lieber Chief Executive Officer BioHeuris Markita Landry Associate Professor University of California, Berkeley Mathias Müller Sr Director, Corteva Catalyst Corteva Nicolas Kral CTO Phytoform Labs Piero Barone Capability Leader, Genome Editing Corteva Agriscience Pushpak J Mehta Corn Breeder Ingredion Ratan Chopra Vice President, Research CoverCress Shai Lawit Director - Trait Strategy & Testing Pairwise Shan Jiang Associate Professor University of Iowa Shira Corem Vice President, R&D BetterSeeds Stephanie Gamez Director of R&D Agragene Stuart Harrison Head of R&D Partnerships & Open Innovation Syngenta Tal Sherman Chief Innovation & Technology Officer BetterSeeds Vishnutej Ellur Regulatory Scientist, Protein Biochemist Syngenta Yianni Lagos CEO Soilcea Yiping Qi Professor University of Maryland EVENT GUIDE WORKSHOPS