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David Shrier, CEO & founder, Distilled Identity

Sanjay Manandhar, Aerva Founder & CEO

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]

Natalie Kuldell, President, Founder, & Executive Director, BioBuilder Educational Foundation

Sertac Karaman, Cofounder, Optimus Ride

Panel moderator: Marcus Dahllof, Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange

Panelists:
Caleb Harper, Director, OpenAg, MIT Media Lab
Dilip Sundaram, President, Corporate, Mahindra Group - Americas
Jan Schnorr, CEO, C2Sense
Alan Kriz, Strategic Alliance Manager, Crop Science, Bayer
Tejal Mody, Managing Director, Rabobank

Adam Paxson, CEO; Annica Blake, COO; David Borrelli, CTO
Dropwise Technologies

Panel Discussion 

• How can technology improve the lifestyle choices we make and how productive we are at work over time?  
• As wearables move from measuring physical data to measuring brain health, how can we “listen” to our bodies to minimize stress, and avoid lost productivity?
• What nutritional technologies will enable individuals and companies to make the right dietary decisions for healthier and happier lives?
• What role do companies play in furthering these changes?

Panelists: 

• Prof. Leonard P. Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology, MIT & co-founder, Elysium Health
• Matthew Decker, Global Technical Leader - Comfort and Biophysics Group, W.L. Gore & Associates
• David T. Thibodeau, Managing Director, Wellvest Capital
• Josh Sarmir, Co-Founder & CEO, SplitSage

Moderator: Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, MIT Startup Exchange, MIT ILP

"Slowing the aging process of aging by tweaking the body’s metabolism", Prof. Leonard P. Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology, MIT & co-founder, Elysium Health