🌿 Climate Biotech Forum – Presented by Biotech@Berkeley + Homeworld Collective
🗓️ Join us for an inspiring afternoon at the intersection of climate and biotechnology.
✨ Our keynote speakers will highlight the big ideas, hot questions, and pressing problems shaping the future of climate biotech — and showcase cutting-edge work already underway at Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute and Bakar Labs.
💼 Industry leaders will then share their innovative business models through lightning talks and continue the conversation at our networking happy hour.
🗓️ Agenda
🎤 Keynote Speakers
Paul Reginato — Co-Founder & Founding Scientist, Homeworld Collective
Shilpi Kumar — Director of Partnerships, Bakar Labs for Energy & Materials
Brad Ringeisen — Executive Director, Innovative Genomics Institute
⚡ Lightning Talks
Shannon Hall, Founder, Pow Bio — A novel tech stack for biomanufacturing
Sasha Milshteyn, Founder, Transition Biomining — Nature-based copper mining
Chris Eiben, Founder, Gigacrop — Engineering seeds to turbocharge photosynthesis
Joe Lampe, Head of Fermentation, Mango Materials – Scaling up Fermentation
🍷 Happy Hour
Connect with trailblazers in climate biotech 🧬
Discover emerging technologies, policy frameworks, & business models 🌍
Network with founders, industry leaders, faculty, and grad students 🥂
🕰️ Timeline
🟢 3:00–3:05 PM — Welcome Remarks from B^2
🧬 3:05–3:35 PM — Brad Ringeisen – Executive Director, Innovative Genomics Institute
🌱 3:35–4:00 PM — Shilpi Kumar – Director of Partnerships, Bakar Labs for Energy & Materials
☕ 4:00–4:10 PM — Break
🧪 4:10–4:45 PM — Paul Reginato – Co-Founder & Founding Scientist, Homeworld Collective
⚡ 4:45–5:15 PM — Lightning Talks
❓ 5:15–5:30 PM — Lightning Talk Q&A
🍸 5:30–6:30 PM — Social + Happy Hour (Food & Drinks)