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Keynote

1:31 PM

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1:50 PM

AIxBIO

Designed, Not Discovered: From Prompt to Drug-Like Antibody

Drug discovery has long meant screening vast libraries and optimizing whatever survives. Semiconductors and aircraft broke from this pattern, designed computationally before fabrication. Biologics may now be crossing the same threshold. Generative AI enables antibodies to be designed from first principles, rather than found. Latent-X2 generates drug-like candidates with developability and low ex vivo immunogenicity from the first generation, properties that previously required years of optimization, matching or exceeding approved therapeutics in head-to-head comparisons. Latent-Y extends this into fully autonomous campaigns: from text prompt through target analysis, candidate design, and computational validation, to lab-ready sequences. Across nine targets, it produced confirmed binders against six, a 67% success rate at single-digit nanomolar affinities, completed 56 times faster than expert estimates. In this keynote, Simon Kohl (CEO, Latent Labs) will share what this shift looks like in practice: what works, what remains hard, and what it means when the starting point is no longer a library, but a prompt.

Keynote

1:31 PM

-

1:50 PM

AIxBIO

Designed, Not Discovered: From Prompt to Drug-Like Antibody

Drug discovery has long meant screening vast libraries and optimizing whatever survives. Semiconductors and aircraft broke from this pattern, designed computationally before fabrication. Biologics may now be crossing the same threshold. Generative AI enables antibodies to be designed from first principles, rather than found. Latent-X2 generates drug-like candidates with developability and low ex vivo immunogenicity from the first generation, properties that previously required years of optimization, matching or exceeding approved therapeutics in head-to-head comparisons. Latent-Y extends this into fully autonomous campaigns: from text prompt through target analysis, candidate design, and computational validation, to lab-ready sequences. Across nine targets, it produced confirmed binders against six, a 67% success rate at single-digit nanomolar affinities, completed 56 times faster than expert estimates. In this keynote, Simon Kohl (CEO, Latent Labs) will share what this shift looks like in practice: what works, what remains hard, and what it means when the starting point is no longer a library, but a prompt.

SynBioBeta is where the people building with biology meet the people funding, buying, and partnering with them. If you're raising capital, scouting the next wave of AIxBIO companies, or looking for your next technology partner - the people you need are here for three days.

The startups on stage this year are building programmable RNA medicines, virtual cell models, AI-designed enzymes, and proteins that replace sugar - alongside GSK, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, J&J, Mars, Apple, Google, NVIDIA, Unilever, and P&G.

Watching where the partnerships form and which technologies the biggest players are actually evaluating is something you can't get from a report or a webinar. And our 1:1 Partnering App lets you book meetings before you arrive.

“SynBioBeta is a who’s who of AI and biology.
This is where the future is being built, so don't miss it”
“SynBioBeta is a who’s who of AI and biology.
This is where the future is being built, so don't miss it”

Eric Schmidt

Former CEO

"For every single fund at Boom Capital, one of our best companies has come directly from SynBioBeta. I met Mammoth Bio at SynBioBeta, and I met Nabla Bio at SynBioBeta."

Celestine Schnugg

Founder

"Nabla was accelerated into existence because of SynBioBeta. I met Seth Bannon from 50 Years, Cee Cee Schnugg from Boom Capital, and others from Y Combinator there, and those same people seeded Nabla. The vibe, leverage, and energy at SynBioBeta are unreal."
"Nabla was accelerated into existence because of SynBioBeta. I met Seth Bannon from 50 Years, Cee Cee Schnugg from Boom Capital, and others from Y Combinator there, and those same people seeded Nabla. The vibe, leverage, and energy at SynBioBeta are unreal."

Surge Biswas

Founder

"Our Series A came together because of a little bit of SynBioBeta magic. I’ve been attending for a decade and it’s been inspiring to watch the field evolve from a lot of hopes and dreams to real products and applications."
"Our Series A came together because of a little bit of SynBioBeta magic. I’ve been attending for a decade and it’s been inspiring to watch the field evolve from a lot of hopes and dreams to real products and applications."

Jacob Glanville

Founder & CEO

"I met Algen at SynBioBeta and later invested in the company. It’s exactly the kind of connection that makes the community so valuable."
"I met Algen at SynBioBeta and later invested in the company. It’s exactly the kind of connection that makes the community so valuable."

Bill Tai

Co-founder

"At SynBioBeta I met the team at Biomatter, an AI-driven enzyme design company. The environment made it easy to start a real conversation. That conversation turned into a collaboration to improve one of our enzymes. We're now exploring entirely new performance possibilities together."
"At SynBioBeta I met the team at Biomatter, an AI-driven enzyme design company. The environment made it easy to start a real conversation. That conversation turned into a collaboration to improve one of our enzymes. We're now exploring entirely new performance possibilities together."

Luis Cascao-Pereira

Head of Digital Biology

"Every time I attend SynBioBeta, I walk away with something transformative – a new investor, a fantastic hire, or an idea that changes how we work. It’s a community unlike any other."
"Every time I attend SynBioBeta, I walk away with something transformative – a new investor, a fantastic hire, or an idea that changes how we work. It’s a community unlike any other."

Ola Wlodek

CEO

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