Conference Day Two

7:45 am Check-In & Light Refreshments

8:45 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Sarah Marie Cole Chief Marketing Officer, MyForest Foods

Working with Consumers & Within Regulatory Frameworks to Guide Product Development & Foster International Innovation

9:00 am Panel Discussion: Delving into Consumer Insights & Leveraging This Information to Guide Product Development

Irina Gerry Chief Marketing Officer, Change Foods
Brittany Chibe Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer, Aqua Cultured Foods
Ben Berman Co- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tomorrow Farms
Kesha Stickland Chief Executive Officer, The Mushroom Meat Co.
Sarah Marie Cole Chief Marketing Officer, MyForest Foods

Synopsis

Uncovering how to align market research with the target market to maximize insights
Delving into current trends in consumer perception from actual consumer behaviour and market research
Reviewing how to implement consumer insights into product development from R&D to commercialization

10:00 am Harmonizing Across International Regulatory Frameworks to Align with Commercial Strategy

Isabella Iglesias-Musachio Founder & CEO, Bosque Foods GmbH

Synopsis

Understanding how varying international frameworks affect the path to commercialization, and how to navigate this
Exploring how different regulatory requirements affect the claims that can be made about a product
Considering how to realize the global potential of the alternative protein industry by working with regulators, government, and traditional food retailers

10:30 am Morning Networking Break

R&D & REGULATORY PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING COMMERCIALIZATION & CONSUMER

R&D & REGULATORY

Streamlining Technical & Strategic Decision-Making in R&D for Efficient Progression

11.30 Exploring the World of Microbes to Find New Protein Manufacturing Hosts

Highlighting microbial hosts used today for protein
manufacturing, and their limitations
Demonstrating a variety of microbial phenotypes that could
improve the precision fermentation of proteins
Introducing Wild Microbes’ strain domestication, and early
results from our first year of development

Timothy Wannier, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Wild Microbes

12.00 Determining the Correct Investment into R&D to
Support Efficient Strain & Fermentation Development

Identifying appropriate R&D resource allocation at early, mid,
and late-stage companies
Driving transparency between senior management and the
technical workforce
Understanding the implications of R&D investment on
the COGS

Ranjan Patnaik, Chief Technology Officer, Mycotechnology

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING

Unlocking Strategic Decision Making & Novel Technologies to Aid the Transition From R&D to Pilot Scale & Beyond

11.30 Estimating Process Development & Manufacturing Costs to Secure Investment & Enable Longevity

Determining the critical point to carry out an order of magnitude analysis to identify the major costs
Utilizing pilot runs to predict productivity, mass and energy balances, and demonstrate tech transfer costs
Assessing the impact of different parameters on scaled-up bioprocess

Augusto Desuque, Chief Technology Officer, Ergo Bioscience

12.00 Machine Learning-Enabled Optimization of a Continuous Biomanufacturing Process

Bioprocessing is currently experiencing a notable shift away from traditional fed-batch fermentation toward continuous systems, but this is not without its challenges
Continuous systems often operate with preset process parameters, making optimization challenging and resulting in suboptimal conditions
A machine learning-powered auto-optimization system dynamically tunes process conditions based on user-defined metrics, leading to significant improvements in specific productivity and product yield compared to traditional methods

Ouwei Wang, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Pow.bio

COMMERCIALIZATION & CONSUMER

Chair: Thomas Cresswell, Chief Business Officer, Melt&Marble

Uncovering Commercial Considerations & Strategies to Accelerate the Path to Market & Consumer Adoption

11.30 Partnering with Traditional Industry Names/Brands/Retailers to Promote Alternative Proteins & Reduce the Marketing Burden

Getting buy-in through partnerships with traditional food producers across B2B and B2C alternative protein producers
Persuading potential partners of the value of alternative proteins by leveraging consumer and commercial opportunities for them
Identifying the most promising potential partners

Steve Shevick, Chief Financial Officer, Superbrewed Food

12.00 Evaluating the Differential Economics of High vs Low Inclusion Ingredients to Maximize Profitability

Calculating rough orders of magnitude for low inclusion ingredients as industry capabilities diversify
Mapping how the industry can replace a range of biologically derived food products
Exploring how to optimize the costs of low
inclusion ingredients

Aaron Schaller, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, MeliBio

12:30 pm Networking Lunch Break

R&D & REGULATORY PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING COMMERCIALIZATION & CONSUMER

R&D & REGULATORY

Co-Chairs: Patrick Westfall, Vice President Research & Development, Bond Pet Foods Augusto Desuque, Chief Technology Officer, Ergo Bioscience

13.30 Fireside Chat: Aligning Between Process Development
& R&D Teams to Streamline Fermentation Processes

Examining common challenges that result in strains being passed back from process development into R&D
Ascertaining where R&D and process development teams can work together to simplify development
Pre-empting development challenges in R&D

Patrick Westfall, Vice President Research &
Development, Bond Pet Foods

Augusto Desuque, Chief Technology Officer,
Ergo Bioscience

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING

Chair: Quentin Loth, Chief of Operations, Bosque Foods

13.30 Navigating the Lack of CMO
Capacity to Meet the Manufacturing Demands of Your
Alternative Protein

How are you demonstrating proof-of-concept, gathering prospective clients and building a fantastic product without access to CMO production tools?
How are you bridging your internal production capacity and specific process with CMO capabilities?
What have you learned when switching your production from internal to external (CMOs)?

Quentin Loth, Head of Production, Bosque Foods

COMMERCIALIZATION & CONSUMER

Chair: Thomas Cresswell, Chief Business Officer, Melt&Marble

13.30 Partnering with Governments to Capitalize on Value Beyond the Financial

Examining potential government interests in food system transformation, and related actions or potential actions – from investments to incentives to communications
Discussing approaches for innovators to tap into government or government-affiliated resources by aligning solutions to need-driven food system goals (nutrition, food security, etc.)
Understanding the path to de-politicize alternative proteins (and related innovations) and drive consumer adoption by regionalizing solutions and communications

Lisa Wetstone, Vice President of Marketing, Innovation & Growth Strategy, Mycotechnology

2:00 pm Afternoon Networking Break

Achieving Global Market Access & Longevity by Overcoming Funding Bottlenecks & Working Collaboratively

Adam Leman Lead Scientist, Fermentation, Good Food Institute

3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Uniting Across Companies to Drive Positive Change & Influence Regulatory & Consumer Perception

Paul Shapiro Chief Executive Officer & Co- Founder, The Better Meat Co.
Debbie Yaver Chief Science Officer, Nature's Fynd
Christopher Landowski Co- Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Onego Bio
Tony Pavel Deputy General Counsel Global Food Law, Perfect Day
Inja Radman Co-founder & CSO, New Culture
Isabella Iglesias-Musachio Founder & CEO, Bosque Foods GmbH

Synopsis

Hearing from founding members of the Precision Fermentation Alliance and the Fungi Protein Association on their strategy and future road map
Exploring how, despite commercial competition, companies can engage with key stakeholders
Including other companies in building the future strategy

4:00 pm Securing Late-Stage Investment to Bolster Your Ability to Meet Commercial Demand Sustainably

Sarah Ham Chief Operating Officer, EVERY

Synopsis

Moving beyond venture capitalist investment to support commercial-scale manufacturing and devise a sustainable strategic roadmap
Demonstrating the value of your product to later stage investors
Learning from previous attempts to generate new industries to improve longevity

4:30 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

Adam Leman Lead Scientist, Fermentation, Good Food Institute

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7:45 am Check-In & Light Refreshments

8:45 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Working with Consumers & Within Regulatory Frameworks to Guide Product Development & Foster International Innovation

9:00 am Panel Discussion: Delving into Consumer Insights & Leveraging This Information to Guide Product Development

Synopsis

10:00 am Harmonizing Across International Regulatory Frameworks to Align with Commercial Strategy

Synopsis

10:30 am Morning Networking Break

12:30 pm Networking Lunch Break

2:00 pm Afternoon Networking Break

Achieving Global Market Access & Longevity by Overcoming Funding Bottlenecks & Working Collaboratively

3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Uniting Across Companies to Drive Positive Change & Influence Regulatory & Consumer Perception

Synopsis

4:00 pm Securing Late-Stage Investment to Bolster Your Ability to Meet Commercial Demand Sustainably

Synopsis

4:30 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

4:45 pm End of 4th Fermentation-Enabled Alternative Protein Summit

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