Paul Beamer
MN Dept. of Agriculture
Bioeconomy Program Manager

Maxx Chatsko
Solt DB
Founder

Steve Davies
Steven C Davies LLC
President

Brandon Day
The Yield Lab Institute
COO

Larry Fox, J.D.
Avisen Legal
Attorney

Billy Hagstrom
Bluestem Biosciences, Inc.
CEO & Co-Founder

Marc Hillmyer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry; University of Minnesota
Co-Founder, Valerian Materials; Director, NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers

Sean Hunt, Ph.D.
Solugen
CTO

Neal Jakel
Fluid Quip Technologies
President

Brendan Jordan
Great Plains Institute
Vice President

Christian Kemp-Griffin
CelluComp
CEO

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (Pre-recorded)

Aaron Knewtson
Compeer Financial
VP Food & Agribusiness

Eric Lee
Spiber
VP of Engineering

Suhas Narayanaswamy
Lewis & Clark AgriFood
Principal

Carolyn Olson
Fairview Farm & AURI Board of Directors
Co-owner

Gary Prescher
MN Corn R&PC
Council Chair

Stephanie Rich
Bread & Butter Ventures
Head of Platform

Jeff Rossate
Cargill
Director, North American Real Estate & Incentives

Shannon Schlecht
AURI
Executive Director

Joe Schroeder, Ph.D.
NatureWorks, LLC
Chief Scientist

Jack Starr, Ph.D.
BioMADE
Chief Manufacturing Officer

Todd Taylor, JD
Avisen Legal
Impact Counsel

Sundeep Vani, Ph.D.
Consultant (Industrial Biotechnology)