Covid-19, the decreasing biodiversity, scarcity of raw materials, unsustainable production of food and a growing world population are challenges of our time that ‘we cannot solve with the same thinking we used when we created them’ as Albert Einstein famously said.

Synthetic biology holds the key to making technology based on nature that can offer new solutions to these unmet problems.

Technologies based on engineered living systems will radically change the way we manufacture products, feed and cure ourselves and forces us to rethink the relationship of nature and technology.

Those who control life, control the future.

Keynote topics

1. What your industry can expect in this age of Synthetic Biology where digital meets biology
2. Tomorrow we farm cells, not animals
3. How biofabrication can make our planet more sustainable
4. Interactive ethical scientific debate

Biography

Dr. Nadine Bongaerts is Chief Innovation Officer at the French cultured meat startup GOURMEY and synthetic biologist by training. GOURMEY’s first mission is to merge culinary arts and state-of-the-art science to reinvent France’s most iconic delicacy, foie gras.

Bongaerts believes biology will drive innovation in the coming decades and is a true connector between science, society and business. She is frequently asked to provide her thought leadership on the industrial, societal and sustainability impact of biotech advances.

She obtained her Master degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Delft University of Technology and conducted her PhD in Synthetic Biology at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Moreover, she serves as a board member of the international deeptech organisation Hello Tomorrow and co-founded science communication agency Science Matters to support scientists and organisations in communicating research to the public.