8:00 am Coffee & Registration
8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Optimizing the Bioprocess to Accelerate the Development of Cultivated Products
9:00 am Optimizing Cultivated Seafood Biomanufacturing With Machine Learning
Synopsis
- Identifying the limitations of current methods for bioprocess scale-up, especially when applied to cultivated fish Exploring how we leverage machine learning to accelerate process development and optimization
- Benchmarking how these machine learning approaches can be applied to enable model-based process control for manufacturing
9:30 am Unlocking the Potential of Cultivated Meat: A Comprehensive Cost Analysis for Achieving Commercial Viability
Synopsis
- Demonstrating data driven case studies how to achieve commercial viability in terms of cost and capacity
- Addressing challenges and solutions faced at each stage of the bioprocess to achieve industrialization of cultivated products
- Highlighting key measures of viability throughout the process including densities, nutritional profiling and scaling
10:00 am Developing Food-Grade Media for Cell-Cultured Seafood
Synopsis
- Understanding metabolic pathways that impact proliferation of fish cells and the benchmark effective media
- Evaluating food-grade alternative solutions to cell culture media and their impacts towards cost-effective scalable process
- Exploring industrial options that could impact cost of cell culture media
10:30 am Morning Break & Speed Networking
Working Towards an Economical Streamline Scale Up Process to Improve Market Potential
11:30 am 0 to 2000L at Vow-speed: A Scale-Up Case Study
Synopsis
- Challenging the current timeline & capex assumptions to advance the scale-up process
- Leveraging parallelizing and learning through failure
- Identifying the advantages of flying blind and deleting the unnecessary
12:00 pm Developing the next generation of robust and scalable cell lines with hyperspeed evolution
Synopsis
- Making cultivated meat a reality requires the industry to have access to robust cell lines that can grow reliably at large industrial scale
- Developing a library of cell lines to do just that. Using our platform, we can screen 10s of millions of cell lines in a fraction of the time traditional of plate screening – effectively running evolution at hyperspeed
- Changing growth phenotypes like suspension and cell density, without relying on genetic editing.
12:15 pm How do they do it : Learnings from Scale Up Success Stories
Synopsis
- What does scaling-up mean for a Food-tech start-up?
- What can (and will) go wrong?
- What’s key for success?
12:45 pm Lunch & Networking
1:45 pm Harnessing Techno-Economic Modelling to Inform Smart Scale-Up Decisions
Synopsis
- Modeling cell growth characteristics, cell density limitations, and capital costs to understand scale-up costs
- Understanding unit economics and CapEx to guide scale-up process steps
- Underpinning the importance of the appropriate calculations/economic modeling to translate benchtop processes to scale up
2:15 pm “It Takes A Village To Raise A Child”, & It Takes An Ecosystem to Build An Industry
Synopsis
- Collaboration and ecosystem building are crucial for the success of the fermentation- and cell-based alternative food protein industry
- Achieving commercial-scale production is essential to realize the environmental, animal welfare, and health benefits of alternative proteins
- Building alliances with supply chain partners, understanding existing nutrient supply chains, and making sustainable choices are necessary for long-term profitability and industry sustainability
2:45 pm Afternoon Break & Poster Session
Money, Money, Money – Balancing Technical Expertise & Funding to Turbocharge Cultivated Products to the Market
3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Benchmarking Key Milestones to Establish Confident Relationships With Investors
Synopsis
- Reaffirming expectations of investors and aligning them with the technical reality to build reliable partnerships
- Rethinking the current financial models to establish realistic timelines for commercial partnerships
- Understanding how to optimize business models to continue to raise funds in the current climate (integration vs pick and shovel companies)
4:00 pm Investor Insights: Understanding the Funding Landscape & How to Capitalize on It
Synopsis
- What are the required milestones and key performance indicators to obtain funding?
- What is the current venture capitalist perception of investing in this market?
- What are the white spaces that would support funding relationships?
4:30 pm Roundtable Discussion: How to Navigate Industrializing Processes in the Current Economic Climate
Synopsis
Join in problem solving discussions on the following topics:
- Creative approaches to reducing the cost of the bioprocess
- Ensuring harmony across the industry to prevent under delivery to investors
- Understanding the economic impact on the pace of growth in the cultivated space
- Growing industry production of these foods at a cost that’s going to allow consumers to have access
- What to do if funds cannot be raised
5:00 pm Close of Conference Day 1 & Hanson Wade Drinks Reception
