Peter M. Pellerito

Senior Policy Advisor
BIO

Stephen Ezell

Vice President for Global Innovation Policy

ITIF

Brian Darmody

Chief Strategy Officer

AURP

Scott Andes

Moderator

U.S. Economic Development Administration

 Sara Imhof - PhD

Senior Director of Integration

Focused Initiative Team

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

Julie Lenzer

Chief Innovation Officer

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute

Joy Polefrone
Executive Director
Alliance for Building Better Medicine

Jeff Seymour
Executive Vice President
Economic Development

Erica Monique Vilsaint
Executive Director
BioNetwork and Life Sciences
Economic Development Division
North Carolina Community College System

Donn Rubin
Founding President & CEO
BioSTL 

Alex Philippidis
Senior Business Editor
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

Rowan Walrath
Life Science Reporter
Boston Business Journal 

David J. Sutton
Executive Director and General Council
Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association

Jeff Talka - AIA, LEED AP 
Science & Technology Consultant
SEFA Lab of Year Judges 

Glennis Mehra
Director
Bio Labs at NYU Langone

Celina Chang
Vice President
Science Operations and Strategic Relations
Lab Central Boston 

John Stanford
Executive Director
Incubate

Joseph P. Allen
Executive Director
Bayh-Dole Coalition Vice President
Science Operations and Strategic Relations
Lab Central Boston 

Matt McMahon
Director
NIH SEED Office

Ulyana Desiderio 
Director
Life Sciences
Maryland Department of Commerce

Arti Santhanam
Executive Director
Maryland Innovation Initiative
TEDCO

George Thomas
Chief Innovation Officer
Connected DMV

Dr. Shahar Keinan

CEO & Co-Founder
Polaris Quantum Biotech

Gavin O. Jones - PhD

Manager
Senior Research Scientist
Quantum Computational Science
IBM

Michael Roberts

Chief Scientific Officer
International Space Station

Gavin D'Elia

Business Development Manager 
for Biomedical Applications
Axiom Space

Ken Shields

Senior Director
Business Development
Sierra Space

Dr. Camilla Urbaniak- PhD
Principal Investigator
ZIN Technologies

Jeanne LeClair
Senior Director
Business Development and Workforce Partnerships
Massachusetts Life Sciences

Travis McCready
Head of Life Sciences
Industries Americas, JLL 

Vinit Nijhawan
Managing Director
Mass Ventures
Lecturer
Boston University