SynBioBeta Speaker
Ori Zakin
BioRaptor
CEO
Ori Zakin is the Co-founder and CEO of BioRaptor, where he is building the definitive operating system for bioprocess development. With a background deeply rooted in engineering and computer science, Ori spent years building systems to handle and interpret complex and “noisy” information across sectors like cybersecurity and digital health.His journey into biotech began with a personal realization: biology isn’t magic, but it is often buried under layers of complexity. Driven by the belief that when an experiment "doesn't work," there is always a data-driven reason why, Ori founded BioRaptor to bridge the gap between scientific intuition and engineering rigor.At BioRaptor, Ori’s mission is to arm scientists—specifically those in cell culture and precision fermentation—with software tools as powerful as those used by developers. The platform integrates fragmented data silos (from online sensors to offline analysis results) to uncover the hidden patterns driving titer and quality. By turning biological variability into actionable insights, he helps biotech startups and CDMOs reduce experimental load and accelerate the path to manufacturing.Ori is passionate about data sovereignty and ensuring that AI empowers scientists to retain full ownership of their process knowledge while scaling from the lab bench to 100,000L reactors.
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AIxBIO
Data Factories: Building the Infrastructure for AI-Ready Biology
Biology is entering an AI-driven era, but most experimental infrastructure still produces data designed for individual experiments, not for learning at scale. As a result, much of today’s data is useful in the moment but poorly suited for training robust, long-lived models. This session will explore what biological data matters most today, what data needs to be generated now to support future models, and how leading teams are closing that gap. Panelists will discuss how automation, metadata discipline, and standardized testing pipelines can turn artisanal lab workflows into continuous experiment-to-learning systems. The focus will be on infrastructure and experimental design, highlighting practical bottlenecks, emerging best practices, and what becomes possible when biology produces abundant, high-quality, model-ready data by default.
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Featuring
Ori Zakin
BioRaptor
CEO
Building bioprocess R&D operating systems from noisy data.
Michael Koeris
DARPA
Director, BTO
Protecting National Security with Biology
Chase Olle
Robot on Rails
Founder & CEO
MIT-trained lab-robotics founder automating bench experiments at scale.
Michelle Chen
Form Bio
Pres, CEO & Board Mem.
Barry Bunin
CDD
Founder & CEO
Invented CDD Vault, data-sharing platform for drug discovery.
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AIxBIO
Data Factories: Building the Infrastructure for AI-Ready Biology
Biology is entering an AI-driven era, but most experimental infrastructure still produces data designed for individual experiments, not for learning at scale. As a result, much of today’s data is useful in the moment but poorly suited for training robust, long-lived models. This session will explore what biological data matters most today, what data needs to be generated now to support future models, and how leading teams are closing that gap. Panelists will discuss how automation, metadata discipline, and standardized testing pipelines can turn artisanal lab workflows into continuous experiment-to-learning systems. The focus will be on infrastructure and experimental design, highlighting practical bottlenecks, emerging best practices, and what becomes possible when biology produces abundant, high-quality, model-ready data by default.
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Featuring
Ori Zakin
BioRaptor
CEO
Building bioprocess R&D operating systems from noisy data.
Michael Koeris
DARPA
Director, BTO
Protecting National Security with Biology
Chase Olle
Robot on Rails
Founder & CEO
MIT-trained lab-robotics founder automating bench experiments at scale.
Michelle Chen
Form Bio
Pres, CEO & Board Mem.
Barry Bunin
CDD
Founder & CEO
Invented CDD Vault, data-sharing platform for drug discovery.
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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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