
SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker
Jiwon Kim
AWS AI Life Sciences
Product Lead, Amazon Bio Discovery
Jiwon Kim is a product lead for Amazon Bio Discovery at AWS AI Life Sciences โ an agentic AI application for drug design and discovery. He is an engineer and scientist with a Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan, where his research focused on engineering synthetic biomaterials for tissue regeneration. He has worked across different industries from consumer goods to tech, innovating across hardware, software, and AI/ML.



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


