2024 Expert Speakers

Amanda Pierce

Senior Advisor

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Anindya Bandyopadhyay

Head Biotechnology and Genome editing

CGIAR

Balaji Vasudevan

AgroBioscience Chief Scientist

ViridianSeeds

Bernadette Juarez

Deputy Administrator, Biotechnology Regulatory Services

USDA APHIS

Charlie Arnot

Chief Executive Officer

The Center for Food Integrity

Fedor Kuzminov

Sr. Director, Upstream Development and Analytics

Plantible Foods

Gilad Gershon

CEO

Tropic Biosciences

Greg Gocal

Vice President of Research

Cibus

Jeff Habig

Director R&D

J.R Simplot Company

Jennifer Hubert

Executive Director - Plant Biotechnology

CropLife

Keely Coppess

Program Director

The Centre for Food Integrity

Krishan Rai

Director of Genetics

CoverCress Inc.

Lolita Mathew

Associate Director, Vegetable Program

Pairwise Plants LLC

Lucas Lieber

Co-Founder & CEO

Bioheuris

Matthew Begemann

Senior Associate Director - Molecular Technologies,Gene Editing & Trait Discovery

Benson Hill Biosystems

Meghna Malik

Senior Director

Yield10 Bioscience Inc.

Nicolas Kral

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Phytoform Labs

Stanton Gelvin

Professor of Biological Sciences

Purdue University

Timothy Kelliher

Science Fellow, Head of Crop Trait and Technology Development

Syngenta Biotechnology Inc

Tom Adams

Co-Founder & CEO

Pairwise Plants LLC

Yiping Qi

Associate Professor

University of Maryland

Yunde Zhao

Professor

University of California, San Diego