
SynBioBeta Speaker
Karl Schmieder
Messaging Lab
CEO
Karl Schmieder is the founder and CEO of Messaginglab, a strategic consulting firm helping commercialize biotechnology. He is the co-host of the Grow Everything podcast, and co-author of What's Your Biostrategy? How Business Should Prepare for Synthetic Biology.
Sessions Featuring
Karl
This Year
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Biomanufacturing
Bio-Sharpened: Enzymes Transforming Cleaning, Processing, and the Industrial Food System
Enzymes are becoming the precision tools behind cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable production across both home-care and food manufacturing. In cleaning products, next-generation enzymes replace harsh chemicals with biodegradable, high-performance biocatalysts that work at lower temperatures and deliver superior stain, odor, and grease removal. In food processing, engineered proteases, lipases, amylases, and fiber-modifying enzymes are unlocking new textures, cleaner labels, better stability, and reduced energy use—reshaping how everything from dairy and bakery to beverages and plant proteins are made.
Featuring

Michael Hershkowitz
IFF
Dir., Sustainable Innovation

Alex Rosay
Cascade Bio
Co-founder & CEO
Made enzymes last months with “Body Armor.”

Trevor Nicks
Caravel Bio
Founder & CEO

Matthew Thompson
Biomatter
VP - Industrial Biotech
Reimagining enzymes for industrial biomanufacturing with AI

Karl Schmieder
Messaging Lab
CEO
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Biomanufacturing
Bio-Sharpened: Enzymes Transforming Cleaning, Processing, and the Industrial Food System
Enzymes are becoming the precision tools behind cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable production across both home-care and food manufacturing. In cleaning products, next-generation enzymes replace harsh chemicals with biodegradable, high-performance biocatalysts that work at lower temperatures and deliver superior stain, odor, and grease removal. In food processing, engineered proteases, lipases, amylases, and fiber-modifying enzymes are unlocking new textures, cleaner labels, better stability, and reduced energy use—reshaping how everything from dairy and bakery to beverages and plant proteins are made.
Featuring

Michael Hershkowitz
IFF
Dir., Sustainable Innovation

Alex Rosay
Cascade Bio
Co-founder & CEO
Made enzymes last months with “Body Armor.”

Trevor Nicks
Caravel Bio
Founder & CEO

Matthew Thompson
Biomatter
VP - Industrial Biotech
Reimagining enzymes for industrial biomanufacturing with AI

Karl Schmieder
Messaging Lab
CEO
Session lineup still growing
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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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