Γ

SynBioBeta Speaker

Elisabeth Brier

Forbes

Deputy Editor

Elisabeth Brier is a Deputy Editor at Forbes, where she leads editorial strategy and operations for some of the publication’s most prominent franchises, including the AI 50, Midas List, and Next Billion Dollar Startups. Based in Los Angeles, she focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, venture capital, and sustainability, shaping narratives around the world’s most influential founders, investors, and technologies. She also leads Forbes’ major climate editorial initiatives, including the Sustainability Leaders list and summit, bringing together global leaders across climate and frontier innovation.

Sessions Featuring

Elisabeth

This Year

Main Stage Panel

11:05 AM

-

11:30 AM

Tools & Tech

From AI protein design to real-world commercial impact: powering the next wave of everyday products

For more than a century, everyday products - from detergents and shampoos to textiles and packaging - have relied on petrochemicals and harsh industrial processes. Today, AI-driven protein design is opening a radically different path: creating custom enzymes and biomolecules that outperform traditional chemistry while reducing environmental impact. This session explores how advances in computational protein design and machine learning enable the rational creation of enzymes tailored for home care, personal care, and next-generation materials—moving beyond incremental discovery to purpose-built performance under real industrial conditions. Critically, this highlights how AI-driven design is being translated into commercially deployed products at scale with partners and customers.

Main Stage Panel

11:05 AM

-

11:30 AM

Tools & Tech

From AI protein design to real-world commercial impact: powering the next wave of everyday products

For more than a century, everyday products - from detergents and shampoos to textiles and packaging - have relied on petrochemicals and harsh industrial processes. Today, AI-driven protein design is opening a radically different path: creating custom enzymes and biomolecules that outperform traditional chemistry while reducing environmental impact. This session explores how advances in computational protein design and machine learning enable the rational creation of enzymes tailored for home care, personal care, and next-generation materials—moving beyond incremental discovery to purpose-built performance under real industrial conditions. Critically, this highlights how AI-driven design is being translated into commercially deployed products at scale with partners and customers.

TBD

Session lineup still growing

Featuring

Speaker Coming Soon

Fireside Chat

12:00 AM

-

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?

Featuring

Speaker Coming Soon

Previous Speakers Include