NEXT.BIO 2025 - Enhancing food production through AI driven plant genomics

​​​​​In October 2025, A16Z #SFTechWeek will once again take over San Francisco. We are organizing NEXT.BIO, a world-class week long tech conference featuring the best startups, industry leaders and investors in AI x BIO across a series of TechTalks, and a unique Hackathon and DEMO Day 🚀 ​

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We are one week away from the launch of our TechTalks Series during #SFTechWeek and we couldn't be more thrilled.

​​You can find here speakers that are going to be joining us for this track on : Brain and BCI as the next frontier interface:

​​. "Agentic research and protein design for agriculture", ZaviaBio

​. "Beyond the Genome: How First Peoples' Wisdom and Neural Networks Can Save Our Earth", Portunus

​. "Teaching chemistry to computers in the era of AI", Migma

​. "Machine Learning for deep characterization of plant based foods", Entropy Labs

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​​We still have some slot left for speakers so feel free to reach out to us here with your talk title: [email protected]

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​​For those you interested in joining us for the Global AI x BIO Hackathon Challenge by Next Sequence:
. Register under the Hackathon participants ticket here

​​. More on the Global AI x BIO Hackathon Challenge here

​​. Find past resources on Food and Agriculture themes and available datasets here

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​​Finally, we are thrilled to unveil our amazing panel of speakers and judges coming on Oct 10th for our DEMO Day here.

​​For the startups interested in:

​​. Getting a chance to be selected to join the startups battlefield on DEMO Day, register under the Startup Battlefield participants ticket here

​​. Exhibiting your startup at one of the booth at the event, register under the Startup Booth here

​​See you soon !