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]
Austin Che Founder, Ginkgo Bioworks
Early-stage backers of Rivian, JIMCO seeks MIT spin-off startups that are initiating or improving commercialization efforts across multiple industries - eg. energy, water, mobility.
The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s longest running social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. For more information and to apply, please read here.
Chazz Sims, Founder, Wise Systems
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
Rei Goffer, Cofounder & Chief Strategy Officer, ClimaCell