
SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker
Bruce Friedrich
Good Food Institute
Founder & President
Bruce Friedrich is founder and president of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a global network of nonprofit science think tanks with more than 240 full-time team members across affiliates in the U.S., India, Israel, Brazil, APAC, and Europe. GFI is accelerating the science of plant-based and cultivated meat in order to bolster the global protein supply while protecting our environment and promoting global health.Nature featured Bruceโs new book Meat as one of its five "best science picks,โ and Publishers Weekly included Meat on its list of the 10 best new releases in science, writing: โThis packed account makes food science feel like an urgent and essential undertaking." Foreign Policy ran an excerpt from Meat, and it has been covered favorably by The Atlantic, Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, PBS News Hour, and more. The book has earned endorsements from Nobel Laureate in economics Michael Kremer; Nature Biotechnology deputy editor Kathryn Aschheim; primatologist Jane Goodall; former UNFCCC head Christiana Figueres; The Ministry for the Future author Kim Stanley Robinson, SpaceX board member Steve Jurvetson, and Center for Strategic and International Studies director of global food and water security Caitlin Welsh (who penned the foreword).



Reagan
Jarvis
Anocca AB
CEO, Co-founder

Alex
Rives
CZI Biohub
Head of Science

Karenโฏ
Akinsanya
Schrodinger
President, R&D โ Therapeutics

Christopher
Arendt
Takeda
CSO, Head of Research

Stef
van Grieken
Cradle
CEO

Michael
Koeris
DARPA
Director, BTO

Jennifer
Dionne
Pumpkinseed
CEO

Daniyal
Hussain
GSK
Exec. Dir., Tech BD

Cynthia
Hong
Novartis
Dir., Search & Evaluation
SynBioBeta 2027 May 3-6, San Jose, California


