
SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker
Karl Schmieder
Messaging Lab
CEO
Karl Schmieder is the founder and CEO of Messaginglab, a strategic consulting firm helping commercialize biotechnology. He is the co-host of the Grow Everything podcast, and co-author of What's Your Biostrategy? How Business Should Prepare for Synthetic Biology.



Reagan
Jarvis
Anocca AB
CEO, Co-founder

Alex
Rives
CZI Biohub
Head of Science

Karen
Akinsanya
Schrodinger
President, R&D – 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


