
SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker
Kim Branson
GlaxoSmithKline
SVP, Global Head
Dr. Kim Branson is Senior Vice President and the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at GSK, where he leads a global team developing and applying AI methods that accelerate drug discovery and clinical development across GSKPrior to joining GSK in 2019, he served as Head of AI for Genentech and is a serial entrepreneur having previously co-founded multiple successful startups with exits including Twitter and Apple Dr. Branson earned degrees from the University of Adelaide, completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, and undertook post-doctoral training at Stanford University establishing a deep technical foundation at the intersection of machine learning, structural biology, medicine and drug discovery.



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


