The Future of Biosecurity with SPC NYC
Biosecurity work spans preventing, defending against, and recovering from biological threats to safeguard public health, ecosystems, and societal stability. It's gaining urgency as recent outbreaks strain detection and response and as AI lowers the barrier to engineered bio-threats.
Software is becoming central to the defense, and the technology industry is moving in with the formation of dozens of new startups and thesis-driven funds tackling biosecurity threats. We're bringing together leaders to show how these solutions get built and scaled.
We'll discuss how software protects against outbreaks today, how AI reshapes the future threat landscape, how it can speed the deployment of monitoring systems and countermeasures, and what it would take to end all respiratory disease.
Speakers include:
Spencer Weiss is the Technical Lead of Federal Health at Palantir. He's led projects that operate the US government's public health, bioscience research, and healthcare delivery. He's previously worked at startups, and is a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Charlie Petty is the co-head of Intercept and a long time investor in global public health technologies. He previously held leadership and investing roles at GHIC, Adjuvant Capital and the Global Health Investment Fund. Prior public health investments include Curevo (Eli Lilly), Vaccine Company (Eli Lilly), Alydia Health (Merck), Iantech (Carl Zeiss), Minervax, Monod Bio, Eubiologics, Terrestrial Bio, Centivax, Excision Biosciences, Codagenix, and Vitrivax.
& more to be announced.
About the moderator:
Amit Gupta is a member of SPC and the co-founder of Catalyze, an AI-powered platform for discovering, funding, and executing frontier science. Catalyze acts as a coordination layer across the research funding lifecycle, giving researchers visibility for their work, helping funders deploy capital with confidence, and reducing the friction between the two. The team works directly with institutions, foundations, and government agencies to build custom R&D infrastructure and AI tooling. Before Catalyze, Amit held multiple roles as a biotech operator and investor.
About South Park Commons (SPC)
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