CELLULAR AGRICULTURE: A Focus on Cultivated Meat

What is cellular agriculture? What are the major breakthroughs in the field? Who are the main actors in the academia and industry working in cellular agriculture? What are the commercialization and cost curves for "clean" products? Where do the best opportunities lie? The Impact.Tech seminar on Cellular Agriculture focuses on all the previous questions and, most importantly, provides the audience with an understanding of how you can get involved in cellular ag as an entrepreneur or investor.

The seminar on cellular agriculture is hosted by Elliot Swartz, a senior scientist at The Good Food Institute, a global nonprofit organization accelerating innovative strategies toward creating a healthy, humane, and sustainable food supply via plant-based and cultivated meat, egg, and dairy technologies. He focuses on understanding how cutting edge science disciplines feed into these technologies, leading key GFI-sponsored research projects in cultivated meat, educating scientists and the public, and expanding awareness of career opportunities in the cultivated meat field. He also has experience consulting for startups in the biotech industry related to drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. Swartz has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked with induced pluripotent stem cells to model neuromuscular disease.