Keynote Speakers
Tom Burkett
TBA
Elliot Roth
Elliot is the founder of Spira, a company that genetically engineers spirulina for food ingredients. Spira has received awards from RebelBio, Lighthouse Labs, the World Food Programme, Halcyon Incubator, BeGreen, CommBeBiz, and National Science Foundation, and has presented at SXSW, Synbiobeta and Thought for Food. He is a Kairos Fellow, a Seasteading Ambassador, and sits on the Virginia Governor’s Council for Youth Entrepreneurship. Before Spira, Elliot graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering; he trained at the Stanford School as a University Innovation Fellow, and has 10 years of synthetic biology experience and worked for 5 years as a product consultant. He previously founded 6 failed startups and 2 successful nonprofits including an open community science lab. He is incredibly motivated to solve physiological needs using simple biological design.
Schedule
The Meetup will open for registration at 9:30 AM and will end approxmiately at 4 PM. Group assignments for presentation will be assigned closer to the meetup date based on team confirmations.
Finalized Schedule
- 09:30 AM Open for Registration (30 minutes)
- 10:00 AM Opening Remarks (10 minutes)
- 10:10 AM Group 1 Presentations (1 hour 10 minutes)
- 11:20 AM Coffee Break (10 min)
- 11:30 AM Guest Speaker 1: Tom Burkett (40 min)
- 12:10 PM Group 2 Presentations (1 hour 10 minutes)
- 01:20 PM Lunch and Pictures (30 minutes)
- 01:50 PM Guest Speaker 2: Elliot Roth (40 minutes)
- 02:30 PM Group 3 Presentation (1 hour 10 minutes)
- 03:40 PM Coffee Break (10 minutes)
- 03:50 PM Closing Remarks (10 minutes)
- 04:00 PM After Meetup Social
Directions & Parking
The Meetup will be held on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland.
It will be held in the Pepco Seminar Room in the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building. Please look for check-in right after you enter.
Parking is available in the Reagent's Drive Garage and various metered locations on campus for $3 per hour. Please head to the top of the garage for the pay lot. Alternatively, all day parking is available for $5 at the College Park Metro parking garage. A free shuttle bus is available from the station to campus.
