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SynBioBeta Speaker

Bruce Friedrich

Good Food Institute

Founder & President

Bruce Friedrich is founder and president of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a global network of nonprofit science think tanks with more than 240 full-time team members across affiliates in the U.S., India, Israel, Brazil, APAC, and Europe. GFI is accelerating the science of plant-based and cultivated meat in order to bolster the global protein supply while protecting our environment and promoting global health.Nature featured Bruce’s new book Meat as one of its five "best science picks,” and Publishers Weekly included Meat on its list of the 10 best new releases in science, writing: “This packed account makes food science feel like an urgent and essential undertaking." Foreign Policy ran an excerpt from Meat, and it has been covered favorably by The Atlantic, Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, PBS News Hour, and more. The book has earned endorsements from Nobel Laureate in economics Michael Kremer; Nature Biotechnology deputy editor Kathryn Aschheim; primatologist Jane Goodall; former UNFCCC head Christiana Figueres; The Ministry for the Future author Kim Stanley Robinson, SpaceX board member Steve Jurvetson, and Center for Strategic and International Studies director of global food and water security Caitlin Welsh (who penned the foreword). 

Sessions Featuring

Bruce

This Year

Book Signing

12:30 PM

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1:15 PM

General

"Book Signing" Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food―and Our Future

Book Signing

12:30 PM

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1:15 PM

General

"Book Signing" Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food―and Our Future

Keynote

1:55 PM

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2:10 PM

Planetary Health

Using Science to Remake Meat: The Next Agricultural Revolution

Meat is one of the world’s most complex biomanufacturing systems—and also one of its least optimized. For 12,000 years, we’ve cycled crops through animals to make meat. Drawing from his new book Meat, Bruce Friedrich contends that advances across science and engineering now make it possible to produce meat far more efficiently, which will reduce meat’s contribution to hunger, climate change, deforestation, antibiotic resistance, and pandemic risk. Most importantly for the success of alternative meats, these new technologies will also improve food security and add to GDP for the nations that lean in. It’s been exactly ten years since the first plant-based burgers were introduced and also exactly ten years since the first cultivated meat companies were incorporated. Bruce will reflect on how far we’ve come, how far we have to go, and what it's going to take to get there. Welcome to the next agricultural revolution—courtesy of science.

Keynote

1:55 PM

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2:10 PM

Planetary Health

Using Science to Remake Meat: The Next Agricultural Revolution

Meat is one of the world’s most complex biomanufacturing systems—and also one of its least optimized. For 12,000 years, we’ve cycled crops through animals to make meat. Drawing from his new book Meat, Bruce Friedrich contends that advances across science and engineering now make it possible to produce meat far more efficiently, which will reduce meat’s contribution to hunger, climate change, deforestation, antibiotic resistance, and pandemic risk. Most importantly for the success of alternative meats, these new technologies will also improve food security and add to GDP for the nations that lean in. It’s been exactly ten years since the first plant-based burgers were introduced and also exactly ten years since the first cultivated meat companies were incorporated. Bruce will reflect on how far we’ve come, how far we have to go, and what it's going to take to get there. Welcome to the next agricultural revolution—courtesy of science.

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Fireside Chat

12:00 AM

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8:30 AM

Human Health

From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology

Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level while interventions work at the tissue, organ, or whole-patient scale. This mismatch can make accurate cell-level predictions irrelevant in the clinic. This session dives into strategies to bridge that gap: multiscale modeling that nests single-cell dynamics within organ-level simulations, spatial transcriptomics that preserve context, and surrogate models that translate cell-level outputs into clinical biomarkers. Speakers will ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the real complexity of patients?

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