Engineering Biology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
May 10, 2023 • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
followed by reception

Location:
Industry City, Camp David
220 36th Street, Brooklyn NY

Price:
$299 Members  |  $349 Non-members

MEDIA PARTNER

Speakers & Panelists

Aaron Nesser, Principal, Keep Earth Company, Formerly Co-Founder & CTO, Keel Labs

Adam Uliana, ChemFinity Technologies, Co-Founder & CEO

Alison Mears, Director/Co-Founder Parsons Healthy Materials Lab, Associate Professor of Architecture

Andrew Hessel, GP-Write and the Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology, Chairman, Co-Founder

Anthony Clark, Helaina, CTO

Beth Tuck, Genspace, Executive Director

Chui-lian Lee, Co-Founder & CEO, Werewool

Daniel Grushkin, Biodesign Challenge, Executive Director

David Heller, C16 Biosciences, Co-Founder, Head of Operations

Ellen Jorgensen, Molecular Biologist & Co-Founder, Aanika Biosciences

Emily Bogan, Fork & Good, Business Operations Manager

Eva Brown Cramer, Vice President for Biotechnology & Scientific Affairs, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Jeanne Pfordresher, Adjunct Professor, Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute and partner at Hybrid Product Design and Development Inc.

Jim Somoza, Industry City, Managing Director

Karen Ingram, Karen Ingram & Associates, Creative Director, Designer & Artist, Genspac

Mitch Simpler, JBB Managing Partner Emeritus, Builds Bio+ Founding Member

Mitchell Joachim, Co-Founder, Terreform ONE, Associate Professor, NYU

Nancy J Kelley, President & CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates; Founding Member and Steering Committee, Builds Bio+

Ross McBee, Tomtex, Co-Founder & CSO

Sabriya Stukes, Chief Scientific Officer, SOSV

Sam Levin, Melonfrost, CEO & Co-Founder

Satish Rao, Newlab, Chief Product Officer

Susan Schofer, Partner, SOSV, Chief Scientific Officer, Hax

Suzanne Lee, Biofabricate, CEO & Founder

Theanne Schiros, FIT, Assistant Professor

Tom Hall, BioBAT, Executive Director

Uyen Tran, Tomtex, CEO and Co-Founder

Vishaal Bhuyan, Aanika Biosciences, CEO & Co-Founder

The Future is Here

In 2018, at the first Symposium for Builds Bio+, Nancy J Kelley talked about disruptive new technologies that were transforming both the life science and healthcare industries fusing biology, engineering, design and manufacturing. These changes were described as a Fourth Industrial Revolution characterized by a fusion of technologies that were blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological realms, opening up new markets for biological innovation in agriculture, chemicals, bioremediation, energy, advanced materials, fashion and direct to consumer healthcare. Today, that future is here.

Biofabricate

NYC Launched/Based Companies

Spawned by the early efforts of nonprofit organizations in New York City such as Biofabricate, Biodesign Challenge, and New Harvest, amongst others, a plethora of NYC launched/based companies are harnessing nature’s design principles and manufacturing capabilities, such as C16 Biosciences, which is producing a sustainable alternative to palm oil, Tomtex, which creates “vegan leather” by using seashells and mushroom waste, Fork & Good, which is pioneering a new way of raising and producing meat, and Keel Labs, which uses algae to create yarn.

Biodesign Challenge

Explore This Emerging Sector

We spent the day exploring this emerging sector of life sciences beginning with the early organizations that worked to establish the industry and highlighting many of the exciting new companies bringing new products and services to market. We learnt how the lab needs of these companies substantially differ from traditional life science companies developing therapeutics.

Keel Labs’ seaweed-based yarn

Agenda 

9:30am – 10:00am: CHECK-IN, NETWORKING, AND BREAKFAST

10:00am – 10:05am: WELCOME

•  Jim Somoza 
  Partner, Managing Director, Industry City 
• Mitchel W. Simpler 
  Partner Emeritus, JBB
  Founding Member and Steering Committee, Builds Bio+ 

10:05am – 10:15am: OVERVIEW OF THE MEETING

• Nancy J Kelley 
  President & CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates
  Founding Member and Steering Committee, Builds Bio+

10:15am – 11:10am: EARLY DAYS

MODERATOR

• Nancy J Kelley
  President & CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates
  Founding Member and Steering Committee, Builds Bio+ 

SPEAKERS

• Indie Bio: Sabriya Stukes 
   Chief Scientific Officer 
• The HAX: Susan Schofer 
   Hard Tech Venture Capital Investor
  Partner at SOSV and Chief Science Officer at The HAX 
• Genspace: Karen Ingram 
  Creative Director, Designer and Artist 

11:00am – 12:10pm:  LAYING THE FOUNDATION

MODERATOR

• Nancy J Kelley 
  President & CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates
  Founding Member and Steering Committee, Builds Bio+

SPEAKERS

• Biofabricate: Our Material World. Built with Biology 
  Suzanne Lee, CEO and Founder 
• Genspace 
  Beth Tuck, Executive Director 
• GP-Write and the Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology 
  Andrew Hessel, Chairman, Co-Founder 
• Biodesign Challenge
  Daniel Grushkin, Founder and Executive Director 
• Biotech without Borders 
  Ellen Jorgensen, Founder and Treasurer 

12:00pm – 12:50pm:  LUNCH BY SAHADI’S

12:50pm – 1:50pm:  BIRTHING THE INDUSTRY IN NYC

MODERATOR

• Daniel Grushkin
  Founder and Executive Director, Biodesign Challenge 

SPEAKERS 

• Fashion Institute of Technology 
  Theanne Schiros, Associate Professor 
• Pratt Institute
  Jeanne Pfordresher,  Artist/Designer 
• New School Parsons Healthy Materials Lab
  Alison Mears, Director/Co-Founder Parsons Healthy Materials Lab
  Associate Professor of Architecture 
• Terreform One
  Mitch Joachim, Associate Professor NYU and Co-Founder 

1:50pm – 3:10pm:   GROWING THE INDUSTRY IN NYC

MODERATOR

• Sabriya Stukes 
  Chief Scientific Officer, IndieBio

SPEAKERS

• C16 Biosciences 
  David Heller, Co-Founder and Head of Operations 
• Helaina 
  Anthony Clark, Chief Technology Officer
• Aanika Biosciences
  Vishaal B. Bhuyan, CEO & Co-Founder 
• MelonFrost
  Samuel Levin, PhD, CEO 
• Fork & Good 
  Emily Bogan, Business Operations Manager 
• Werewool 
  Chui-lian Lee, Co-Founder and CEO 
• Tomtex
  Uyen Tran, Co-Founder & CEO and
  Ross McBee, Co-Founder & CSO 
• Keep Earth Company
  Aaron Nesser, Principal
  Formerly Co-founder & CTO, Keel Labs 
• ChemFinity Technologies 
  Adam Uliana, Co-Founder and CEO 

3:10pm – 4:00pm:   HOUSING THE INDUSTRY IN NYC/NJ

MODERATOR

• Susan Schofer
  Hard Tech Venture Capital Investor
  Partner, SOSV
  Chief Science Officer, HAX 

SPEAKERS

• Industry City 
  Jim Somoza, Partner, Managing Director 
• BioBat 
  Thomas Hall, Executive Director 
• Newlab 
  Satish Rao, Chief Product Officer,
  Newlab @ The Brooklyn Navy Yard 
• SUNY Downstate 
  Eva Brown Cramer, PhD,
  Vice President for Biotechnology and Scientific Affairs
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center 

4:00pm – 5:00pm:   RECEPTION & NETWORKING
Dinner by SAHADI’S
Refreshments available throughout the day!

Camp David, Industry City