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
- Nigel Scrutton, Co-Founder and CSO, C3Biotechnologies
Plenary Session
Lunch
Five Key (non technical) Developments in Synthetic Biology: an American Perspective
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
- Alicia Showering, Bugbiome
- Joe Price, Evoluter
- Harsh Amin, Ivy Farm Technologies
- Meir Wachs, Kyomei
- David Venables, Laverock Therapeutics
- Pedro Correa de Sampaio, Neobe Therapeutics
- Prantar Tamuli, Tattva
- Ben Wilding, Sun Bear Biofuture
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