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Planetary Health
From Feedstock to Fork: De-Risking Bio-Based Foods at Industrial Scale
Bio-based food innovation rarely fails in the lab. It fails in the transition to scale. Between pilot success and commercial launch lie the hardest problems in food: reliable feedstocks, waste stream integration, regulatory approval, capital intensity, and infrastructure built for yesterday’s products. This session brings together leaders across law, industrial food systems, waste valorization, and next-generation proteins to examine what it actually takes to move biological food innovations from concept to shelf. Panelists will explore where risk truly accumulates in bio-based food development, how incumbents and startups navigate scale differently, and why waste streams, compliance strategy, and supply chain design often matter more than the underlying biology. The result is a grounded conversation about what survives real-world constraints, not just what sounds compelling on paper.
Featuring
Michael Gay
Univ. of Wisconsin CDR
Tech Transfer/Bus Dev
Lauren Greenlee
XPRIZE
EVP
Aryé Elfenbein
Wildtype
Co-founder
Cardiologist turned cultivated-seafood pioneer reinventing how we eat fish.
Robert-Jan de Voogd
Corbion
General Manager
Celine Schiff-Deb
MISTA | Givaudan
CSO
Food-biotech translator: microalgae oils and methane-to-protein scaleups.
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Planetary Health
From Feedstock to Fork: De-Risking Bio-Based Foods at Industrial Scale
Bio-based food innovation rarely fails in the lab. It fails in the transition to scale. Between pilot success and commercial launch lie the hardest problems in food: reliable feedstocks, waste stream integration, regulatory approval, capital intensity, and infrastructure built for yesterday’s products. This session brings together leaders across law, industrial food systems, waste valorization, and next-generation proteins to examine what it actually takes to move biological food innovations from concept to shelf. Panelists will explore where risk truly accumulates in bio-based food development, how incumbents and startups navigate scale differently, and why waste streams, compliance strategy, and supply chain design often matter more than the underlying biology. The result is a grounded conversation about what survives real-world constraints, not just what sounds compelling on paper.
Featuring
Michael Gay
Univ. of Wisconsin CDR
Tech Transfer/Bus Dev
Lauren Greenlee
XPRIZE
EVP
Aryé Elfenbein
Wildtype
Co-founder
Cardiologist turned cultivated-seafood pioneer reinventing how we eat fish.
Robert-Jan de Voogd
Corbion
General Manager
Celine Schiff-Deb
MISTA | Givaudan
CSO
Food-biotech translator: microalgae oils and methane-to-protein scaleups.
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
