2024 Expert Speakers

Amanda Pierce

Senior Advisor

U.S. EPA

Anindya Bandyopadhyay

Principal Scientist Head Biotechnology and gene editing

RTB-CGIAR

Bernadette Juarez

Deputy Administrator - Biotechnology Regulatory Services

Agricultural Research Service

Charlie Arnot

Chief Executive Officer

The Center for Food Integrity

Gilad Gershon

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Tropic Biosciences

Hiroshi Ezura

Chief Scientific Officer

Sanatech Seed

Jeff Habig

Director - Molecular & Cellular Biology Research & Development

J.R Simplot Company

Jennifer Hubert

Executive Director - Plant Biotechnology

CropLife

Juan-José Ripoll

Senior Scientific Adviser

UCSD

Keely Coppess

Program Director

The Center for Food Integrity

Krishan rai

Director - Plant Genetics

CoverCress Inc.

Lolita Mathew

Associate Director

Pairwise Plants LLC

Lucas Lieber

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

BioHeuris

Marc Cool

Global Seed Policy Lead

Corteva Agriscience

Matt Begemann

Senior Director - Gene Editing & Trait Discovery

Benson Hill Biosystems

Nicolas Kral

Co- Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Phytoform Labs

Rao Uppalapati

Biotech Discovery Portfolio Leader (Interim)-Disease Resistance (DR) Traits

Corteva

Ryan Bartlett

Chief Technology Officer

Pairwise Plants LLC

Stanton Gelvin

Professor of Biological Sciences

Purdue University

Timothy Kelliher

Head, Crop Trait and Technology Discovery

Syngenta RTP

Yiping Qi

Professor

University of Maryland

Yunde Zhao

Professor

UCSD