P&G is looking for new approaches and technologies that can help them to address key business challenges/opportunities.
Lightning Talks featuring startups: Enbiotix, Ginkgo Bioworks, ManusBio, Glympse Bio, BioDevek, Asimov, and BioBuilder.
Trond Undheim, PhD, Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange; Paula Hammond, PhD, David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and Department Head, Chemical Engineering, MIT; Laura Indolfi, PhD, CEO of PanTher Therapeutics; Peter Sandor, VP, Head of Oncology Marketing Strategy, Astellas.
Anurag Bajpayee, Founder and CEO, Gradiant
Austin Che Founder, Ginkgo Bioworks
Rana el Kaliouby, CEO & Cofounder, Affectiva
MIT Academic innovator: "AI killer apps for Energy," Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Scalable production of RNA for agriculture Andrey Zarur, Cofounder & CEO, GreenLight Biosciences Potassium fertilizer innovation Philip Wender, Managing Director, Advanced Potash Technologies Chemiresistive gas sensing for food safety Merry Smith, Senior Scientist, C2Sense Novel dehumidifying material for indoor farms Sorin Grama, Cofounder, Transaera Probiotics for plants Michael Miille, CEO, Joyn Bio [Joyn is a JV between Ginkgo Bioworks and Leaps by Bayer]
Panelists include Sangbae Kim, Grant Allen, Alexander Zak, Sampriti Bhattachryya, Tom Ryden, and Maja Haji