2024 Expert Speakers Amanda Pierce Senior Advisor US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Anindya Bandyopadhyay Principal Scientist Head Biotechnology and gene editing CGIAR Bernadette Juarez BRS Deputy Administrator USDA APHIS Charlie Arnot Chief Executive Officer The Center for Food Integrity Gilad Gershon Chief Executive Officer Tropic Biosciences Hiroshi Ezura Chief Scientific Officer Sanatech Seed Jeff Habig Director - Molecular & Cellular Biology Research & Development J.R Simplot Company Jennifer Hubert Executive Director, Plant Biotechnology CropLife Juan-José Ripoll Senior Scientific Adviser University of California, School of Medicine Keely Coppess Program Director The Center for Food Integrity Krishan rai Plant Genetics Director CoverCress Inc. Lolita Mathew associate director Pairwise Plants LLC Lucas Lieber Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Bioheuris Marc Cool Global Seed Policy Lead Corteva Agriscience Matt Begemann Sr Director, R&D Benson Hill Biosystems Nicolas Kral Co- Founder & Chief Technology Officer Phytoform Labs Rao Uppalapati Program Leader Corteva Ryan Bartlett Chief Technology Officer Pairwise Plants LLC Stanton Gelvin Umbarger Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences Purdue University Timothy Kelliher Head, Crop Trait and Technology Discovery Syngenta Biotechnology Inc Yiping Qi Professor University of Maryland Yunde Zhao Professor University of California San Diego
