2021 Good Food Conference - Online
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Speakers

New Harvest Fellow, New Harvest

Chair, House Appropriations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives

Chair, House Science Subcommittee on Research & Technology

Director of Business Development, Food, C16 Biosciences

Regulatory Counsel. Barrella Law

Executive Director, FAIRR Initiative

Deputy Assistant Director for Engineering, National Science Foundation

Head of Future of Protein, COVID Response, and Food Health, World Economic Forum

Managing Partner and CEO, Stray Dog Capital
VP of Product Innovation, Impossible Foods

Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Founder & CEO, The Good Food Institute

Chief Innovation Officer, Schmidt Futures Foundation

Technical Lead, Investment Committee, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

CEO and Founder, UPSIDE Foods

General Manager, Hormel

Journalist, The Washington Post
U.S. Digital Editor, The Economist

Head of Global Marketing, Eat Just, Inc.

CEO, Tofurky

Chief Strategy Officer, Finless Foods

Chief Operating Officer, UPSIDE Foods

Co-Founder & CEO, Ohayo Valley

Distinguished Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

CEO & Founding Director, Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation

Director of R&D, The Mediterranean Food Lab

Founder, Cultivated Meat Modeling Consortium

CEO, Clara Foods

Head of Strategic Partnerships, Impact Investor, Mission Barns

Co-Founder and Partner, Synthesis Capital

Senior Manager, Research and Engagements, FAIRR Initiative

Head of R&D, Cultured Meat, Merck KGaA / MilliporeSigma

Cellular Agriculture Specialist, Agriculture Cellulaire France
VP Innovation, Israeli Innovation Authority

Operating Partner, Temasek

Assistant Chief Executive (Biomedical Research Council), A*STAR

Population and Sustainability Director, Center for Biological Diversity

Food and Agriculture Analyst, The Breakthrough Institute

Deputy Director, Strategic Innovation and Enterprise, A*STAR

Chief Marketing Officer, Change Foods

Innovation Specialist, GFIC

General Manager, GFIC

Senior Counsel, Dentons

SciTech Consultant, GFIC

SciTech Specialist, GFIC

Startup Innovation Specialist, The Good Food Institute

Scientific Research Funding Coordinator, The Good Food Institute

Founder and CEO, abillion
Senior Manager of Retail Reporting, SPINS

Vice President of Science & Technology, The Good Food Institute
Head of Sustainability, EU SMART PROTEIN Project

Assoc. Professor, Science Team Leader, Dept. of Food Science, Aarhus University

CEO, BioMADE/EBRC

Founder and CEO, Rebellyous

Co-Founder and CEO, TurtleTree

Senior Sustainable Seafood Initiative Manager, The Good Food Institute

Co-Founder & CEO, WildType
Michael Fam Chair Professor and Director of Food Science and Technology Program, NTU Singapore
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Associate Director, Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training
Professor, Tufts University

Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat, The Good Food Institute
Staff Writer, National Geographic Society
Program Director, Food and Agriculture, ClimateWorks Foundation
Online commodities editor, Financial Times
Chief Scientific Officer, Mosa Meat

Academic Community Coordinator, The Good Food Institute
Founder and CEO, Nobell Foods
Science and Environment Correspondent, The Straits Times

APAC President, Taste & Wellbeing, Givaudan

Chief Operating Officer, TiNDLE (Next Gen Foods)

Managing Director, The Good Food Institute India

Director of Business Engagement and Innovation, The Good Food Institute Israel
Managing Director, The Good Food Institute Israel

VP Business Development, The Kitchen Hub
Managing Director, The Good Food Institute Europe
Policy Manager, The Good Food Institute Europe

Honorary Research Associate, University of Bath
Corporate Engagement Manager, The Good Food Institute Brazil

Managing Director, The Good Food Institute Brazil
Policy Advisor, The Good Food Institute
Director of Science and Technology, The Good Food Institute Brazil
Reporter, CNBC
Managing Director, Credit Suisse
Managing Director, Alternative Protein, Cargill

Partner, McKinsey

Chief Business Officer, Laurus Bio
Science and Technology Analysis Manager, The Good Food Institute

Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology and Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Davis

Head of Media & Process Development, Wildtype

Group Head Sustainability and Technology Ventures, Global, Kerry Group

Head of Americas, Sustainable & Impact Banking, Barclays Investment Banking

Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, Synthesis Capital
Senior Scientist & Plant-Based Specialist, The Good Food Institute
Senior Fermentation Specialist, The Good Food Institute

Editor at Large, CNET

Assistant Professor in Food Safety and Cellular Agriculture, Virginia Tech

Co-Founder, Wageningen Alt Protein Project

Vice President of Policy, The Good Food Institute

Partner, Stray Dog Capital
Branch Head, Risk Assessment & Comms Dept, Singapore Food Agency’s National Centre for Food Science
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Gathered Foods
Director of Engineering, Black & Veatch

CEO and Co-Founder, Meati Foods

Editor, FoodNavigator-USA
Head of Food Applications, Motif Foodworks

Writer, CNN Business

Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Co-Founder and CEO, Avant Meats

Lead Regulatory Counsel, The Good Food Institute
Policy Manager, The Good Food Institute Europe

Senior Manager of Digital Media and Policy Fellow, R Street Institute

Senior Director of Policy, Plant Based Foods Association
General Partner & Co-Founder, Siddhi Ops & Siddhi Capital
Journalist, The New York Times

Vice President of Corporate Engagement, The Good Food Institute
Senior Director, Safety & Regulatory, Intertek

Foodservice and Supply Chain Manager, The Good Food Institute

Co-founder, Moonshot Collective
Academy Engagement, The Good Food Institute
Research Associate, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba

Managing Partner, Univos Ventures

Research Associate, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, ThermoFisher

Research Scientist, CSIRO
Vice President, Innovation and Technology, Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Revo Foods

Interim Director and Associate Professor, School of Food Science, Washington State University
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Aarhus University
Co-Founder, Rival Foods

Co-Founder & CEO, Defined Bioscience

Research Scientist, Vow

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Investment Manager, Alternative Proteins, Nutreco NuFrontiers

Analyst, Food & Beverage Sector Lead, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Investment Manager, Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Managing Partner, Unovis Asset Management
Co-Founder, Agronomics Limited

Founder and CEO, Future Food Now Ventures
Partner, Enfini Ventures

President, Nourish Ventures (Griffith Foods)
Executive Director, Corporate Development, Pinduoduo

Chief Operations Officer, Blackhawke Behavior Science

Managing Member, Clear Current Capital

General Counsel & Chief People Officer, Nobell Foods

Founder & CEO, Eclipse Foods

Director of Communications, UPSIDE Foods

Chief Growth Officer, Nowadays

Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
CEO, PURIS Holdings

Co-Founder and CEO, Next Gen Foods
Program Manager, ABPDU, LBL
Business Development Manager & Group Leader Microbial Cell Factories, Wageningen University,

CEO & Co-Founder, New Culture Food

Senior Director, Bioprocessing. Culture Biosciences
Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, New Culture Food

PhD candidate, Food Process Engineering, Wageningen University

Chief Scientific Officer, InnovoPro
Food Materials Scientist (& GFI grantee), Paragon Pure
Vice President, Research and Development, PURIS Holdings

Senior Technology Research Manager, Benson Hill

Project Manager, Protein Technology, NIZO
CEO and Co-Founder, Aqua Cultured Foods
Inventor & Founder, Mogale Meat Co.

Co-Founder & CEO, Boston Meats

CEO, Umami Meats
CEO & Co-Founder, Terra Bio

Chief of Staff, Black Sheep Foods

Co-Founder & CEO, Alfred's Food Tech
Senior Bioprocessing Engineer, CellulaRevolution

CEO, Mycovation
Food Biotech Innovator & Entrepreneur, Fybraworks Foods
Co-Founder & CEO, Unicorn Biotechnologies

CEO, Roslin Technologies
Deputy Head, Research and Development, EMBRAPA

Assoc. VP, Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Senior Scientist, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium

Organizer, Stanford Alt Protein Project

Co-Founder, Chapel Hill Alt Protein Project

Co-Founder, Biosense Alt Protein Project

Biomedical Researcher and Past-President, Boulder Alt Protein Project

Research Assistant, Berlin Alt Protein Project

Co-Founder, Wageningen Alt Protein Project

President, Davis Alt Protein Project

University Innovation Manager, The Good Food Institute

University Innovation Specialist, The Good Food Institute

Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Director, Blue Horizon
Director, Temasek US (Asia Sustainable Food Platform)

Director, Product Innovation, CRB
Vice President, Global R&D, Int'l Flavors & Fragrances/DuPont

Product Manager, Givaudan

Chief Executive Officer, Nourish Ingredients
Managing Director, Further Processed Foods, OSI Europe
Founder, President & CEO, Esco Aster
President, Real Vision Foods

Founder, Warner Advisors LLC
Founder & President, Sol Cuisine

Booths

Stray Dog Institute
Cultivating dignity, justice, and sustainability in the food system.

Help Desk
Welcome to the GFC 2021 Help Desk!

CP Kelco – A Huber Company
Unlocking Nature-Powered Success
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Accelerating cultured meat production at scale

Kerry
Shaping the future of plant-based food with unrivaled preservation expertise and integrated taste and nutrition solutions.

Beyond Meat
Go Beyond with Beyond Meat

Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing
The alternative protein movement: our holistic approach

PowerPlant Partners
PowerPlant is a growth equity firm investing in emerging consumer food, beverage, foodservice, food-tech, & personal wellness brands.

CIBO
Meeting Demand for Sustainably Grown Ingredients

Big Idea Ventures
Solving the world's biggest challenges by investing in the best entrepreneurs.

Griffith Foods | Nourish Ventures
We Blend Care and Creativity to Nourish the World.

Firmenich
We Create food and beverage experiences to delight and enhance wellbeing, naturally for people and the planet!

A*STAR
Singapore's lead public sector R&D agency, bridging the gap between academia and industry.
Laurus Bio
Laurus Bio is an integrated research-driven biomanufacturing organization with deep expertise in precision fermentation and recombinant technology. We manufacture animal-free recombinant proteins and growth factors for the cultured meat industry. In addition, we offer in-depth precision fermentation expertise as a CDMO service for companies looking to develop, scale-up and manufacture microbial fermentation derived alternative proteins

Bright Green Partners
We empower our clients to win in alternative meat and dairy

MyEats
Through the power of mycelium, we're revolutionizing the way people choose to eat.
Bio-Lead Ltd.
key reagents & cell-culture media to support growth & differentiation of cultured-Meat/fish/dairy cells.

denovoMATRIX
Enabling biology in vitro

Motif Foodworks
Motif FoodWorks is a food technology company working to make plant-based foods better tasting, more nutritious and so desirable that people actually crave them.

BlueNalu
The global leader in cell-cultured seafood

Kuleana: Next Generation Seafood
Supercharged seafood made from plants. Welcome to #thenewschooloffish.

CREMER Nutrition
Benefit from nature.

Avant
A New Kind of Fish - Sustainable & Cruelty-free Cultivated Fish

Genedant Venture Capital
Investing in people. Inventing a world without equal.

Pinduoduo
China's largest agriculture-focused technology platform

Moolec Science
Real animal proteins in plants
New Age Meats
Cell-culture meat company based in Berkeley, CA.

Aleph Farms
Aleph Farms grows beef steaks, from non-genetically engineered cells isolated from a living cow, without harming animals and with a significantly reduced impact to the environment.

UPSIDE Foods
A world leader in cultivated meat, poultry and seafood

ENOUGH
Enough is a food tech company, producing ABUNDA mycoprotein, the most sustainable protein.

EY
Helping organizations capitalize on transformative opportunities and solve their toughest challenges

Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies
TFTAK - Your best partner for Innovative Food Technologies

Rival Foods
Rival Foods develops new technologies, processes and formulations that serve to create game-changing plant-based food products with the goal to outcompete animal protein on quality, health, environmental impact and cost.

Plant Protein Innovation Center
Plant Protein Innovation Center, using and interdisciplinary research approach, will help address you plant-protein challenges and opportunities

Rak Lab
The genetic basis of proliferation and differentiation in cultured meat

Mycovation
Asia's first Bio-tech start-up transforming Mycelium into Bespoke Food & Beverage solutions using our proprietary AI platform

DryGro
We grow Water Lentils - a sustainable, clean label plant protein with incredible functionality

Terra Bio Food
Taste, Texture, and Price has never looked so Sustainable with Upcycled Spent Grain Protein

Patch Organics
Patch Organics - The Worlds First Pumpkin Seed Milk.

Black Sheep Foods
Seeking to be the world leader in plant-based wild and heritage meats.

Fybraworks Food
Real meat proteins, real world solutions.

Umami Meats
Cultivating the future of sustainable seafood.

Boston Meats
Creating true texture in alternative meats!

Eagle Genomics
Unlocking radical innovation by enabling the conversation between microbiome data and the scientist

Altra Design
We are a design agency on a mission to reinvent food systems

Metaculus
A community forecasting platform partnering with GFI to forecast the future of alt-protein.

The Chapel Hill Alt Protein Project
An alt protein ecosystem builder for The Research Triangle Area

The Davis Alt Protein Project
Growing the Alternative Protein Ecosystem at UC Davis Through Direct Student Engagement

The Wageningen Alternative Protein Project
Bringing the protein transition to Wageningen University

Johns Hopkins [Alt.] Protein Project
University group advancing alt protein technology at JHU

FoodTech Tel Hai College
Alternative protein, healthy food product development and food sensory
Food Structuring Lab at Wageningen University
The shear cell is a great method to make new meat analogues: here we demonstrate how it works

Aarhus University
MeatSecret

Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba
Does it sound good? Probing meat-analogue texture with ultrasound

Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation
Designing the Future of Biomedical Innovation

XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion | ASPIRE
$15M XPRIZE competition to develop structured, alternative chicken & fish products. Late registration is open until December 1st!

CellulaREvolution
The leader in continuous cell culturing technologies

Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)
We are a technological innovation enterprise focused on generating knowledge and technology for Brazilian agriculture