2025 Event Programme
Programme is subject to change
Registration and Coffee
Welcome
Professors Richard Kitney and Paul Freemont, Co-Directors, SynbiCITE
Keynote: Synbio’s Role in the Race to Net Zero
Speaker TBA
Panel Discussion: Sustainabilty
Coffee Break
Company Presentations: Scaling Success
Plenary Session
Lunch
Plenary Session
Rick Johnson, Director of BioMade, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford
Panel Discussion: Biosecurity & Biosafety
Plenary Session: IP Law
Sara Holland, Partner – Patent Attorney at Potter Clarkson
Company Presentations
Tea Break
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
Panel Discussion
Synbio Unplugged
Champagne Reception
Arrival and Coffee
Keynote
Chris Voigt, Daniel I.C. Wang Professor and Head of Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Plenary Session
Mary Maxon, Executive Vice President at Carnegie Sciences
Plenary
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion:
Plenary Session
Makiko Matsuo, Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo
Company Reviews
Plenary Session
Lunch
Panel Discussion: Finance and Investment
- Joško Bobanović, Partner at Sofinnova Partners