EVENT: Synbiobeta Leaders Retreat

EVENT: Synbiobeta Leaders Retreat
May 31, 2019 | Half Moon Bay, California

Ela attended Synbiobeta Leaders Retreat in Half Moon Bay. It was an exclusive conversation about how the community of CEOs, founders, and investors working at the intersection of biology can continue to flourish and make an impact in the world. The event was also a preview of what’s in store at SynBioBeta 2019. Synbiobeta Leaders Retreat brings together the synthetic biology industry’s emerging innovators, investors, engineers, and thinkers.

EVENT: Impact.Tech Stress Management for Entrepreneurs seminar

EVENT: Impact.Tech Stress Management for Entrepreneurs seminar
May 29, 2019  | San Francisco, California

Together with Impact.tech, Fifty Years hosted a seminar on Stress Management for Entrepreneurs. This workshop covered the neuroscience of chronic stress, the gifts of acute stress and how to stay on the performance edge of stress. During the seminar we learned some quick tools for transforming stress into a friendly superpower and how to identify early signs of the enemy face of stress. The seminar was taught by Kari Sulenes, PsyD with a background in organizational behavior. 

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EVENT: Impact.Tech Clean Chemicals Seminar - cohort #2

EVENT: Impact.Tech Clean Chemicals Seminar - cohort #2
May 14, 2019  | San Francisco, California

Together with Impact.Tech, Fifty Years hosted a deep dive seminar on Clean Chemicals. The seminar provided the audience with an overview of forces shaping the chemical industry at large and reviewed the 12 principles of green chemistry, especially the atom economy. It focused on the aspects of competitiveness, and how to use technological innovation and economy of scale to survive on the commodity-based market full of multibillion-dollar incumbents. The seminar was taught by Wojciech Osowiecki, a PhD candidate in chemistry at UC Berkeley. 

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EVENT: Impact.Tech Transformative Technologies Seminar

EVENT: Impact.Tech Transformative Technologies Seminar
April 4, 2019  | San Francisco, California

Together with Impact.Tech, Fifty Years hosted a deep dive seminar on Transformative Technologies. Transformative technologies” is an umbrella term for medically and scientifically validated technologies supporting mental health, sleep, well-being, and thriving. The seminar covered the main growth drivers, market leaders and active investors in select verticals, exciting areas of research ready to hit the market. The seminar was taught by Nichol Bradford, who is the CEO of the Willow Group and Executive Director of the Transformative Technology Lab. 

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EVENT: Carbon Impact.Tech Symposium

EVENT: Carbon Impact.Tech Symposium
March 28, 2019  | San Francisco, California

Together with Impact.tech we hosted our first solution seminar Carbon Impact.tech. The Carbon Symposium focused on solutions around carbon sequestration and carbon removal. The event showcased the state of the technologies for profitable carbon removal and provided an overview of the status quo of carbon solutions, followed by lightning talks of entrepreneurs working with carbon solutions and investors funding the development of the field. 

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EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar Introduction to Synthetic Biology

EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar Introduction to Synthetic Biology
Jan 24, 2019  | San Francisco, California

Together with Impact.Tech, Fifty Years hosted a deep dive seminar on synthetic biology. Introduction to Synthetic Biology seminar was an introduction to the world of biology, biotechnology and synthetic biology. We started with an input/output approach to biological systems, then explained where biological molecules come from and how they perform such a wide variety of functions. We learned how these very same properties of native cell function allow us to probe, manipulate, and modify cell function. We discussed state of the art industry applications, such as the ability of biological systems to produce a vast variety of chemicals including fuels, biomaterials, food and drugs.

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EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar on Clean Chemicals

EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar on Clean Chemicals
Dec 12, 2018  | San Francisco, California

Impact.Tech hosted a seminar on Clean Chemicals. The Clean Chemicals seminar provided an overview of forces shaping the chemical industry at large and a revieweded the 12 principles of green chemistry, especially the atom economy. It focused on the aspects of competitiveness, and how to use technological innovation and economy of scale to survive on the commodity-based market full of multibillion-dollar incumbents. The seminar was taught by Wojciech Osowiecki, a PhD candidate in chemistry at UC Berkeley. 

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EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar on Cellular Agriculture

EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar on Cellular Agriculture
Oct 10, 2018  | San Francisco, California

Impact.Tech hosted a seminar on cellular agriculture. The event was led by Liz Specht and the discussions focused on major breakthroughs in the field, the main actors in the academia and industry, as well as commercialization and cost curves for “clean” products.

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EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar on New Technologies in Plant-based Food Production

EVENT: Impact.Tech seminar on New Technologies in Plant-based Food Production
Oct 3, 2018  | San Francisco, California

This Impact.Tech seminar focused on New Technologies in Plant-based Food Production. The seminar was taught by Liz Specht, a Senior Scientist with the Good Food Institute, a non-profit organization advancing plant-based and clean meat food technology. She works with researchers, funding agencies, entrepreneurs, and venture capital firms to prioritize work that advances plant-based alternatives, cellular agriculture, and clean meat.

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EVENT: Speaking at the Reducetarian Summit 2018

EVENT: Speaking at the Reducetarian Summit 2018
Sept 28 - 30, 2018  | Los Angeles, California

At the end of September Ela visited Los Angeles to participate in one of the panels at the Reducetarian Summit. The goal of the Summit was to bring together people and perspectives from all corners of the world to explore strategies and tactics for ending factory farming and reducing societal consumption of animal products - and provoke conversations that matter. 

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EVENT: Speaking at The Good Food Conference

EVENT: Speaking at The Good Food Conference
Sept 6-7, 2018  | San Francisco, California

Ela spoke at The Good Food Conference in September. GFC is the only event in the world focused on accelerating the commercialization of plant-based and clean meat. Other speakers included Ann Veneman, Fmr. United States Secretary of Agriculture, Uma Valeti, Founder & CEO of Memphis Meats and Pat Brown, Founder & CEO of Impossible Foods.

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EVENT: Hosting an Impact.Tech seminar on The Science of Aging

EVENT: Hosting an Impact.Tech seminar on The Science of Aging
August 8th, 2018 | San Francisco, California

The Seminar on Anti-aging Science taught by Martin Borch Jensen, who did his doctoral research in biogerontology at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore and the University of Copenhagen and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, where he uses fruit flies to study mechanisms of life extension.

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EVENT: Hosting a deep dive Impact.Tech seminar on Quantum Computing

EVENT: Hosting a deep dive Impact.Tech seminar on Quantum Computing
July 10, 2018 | San Francisco, California

We hosted Cohort 2 of the "Arrival of Quantum Computing” deep dive Impact.Tech seminar on July 10th. The seminar was led by with Will Zeng from Rigetti Computing and covered the basic science of QC, main architectures and approaches, commercialization timelines, and include the current QC industry overview.

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EVENT: Speaking at Future Food Tech Seminar

EVENT: Speaking at Future Food Tech Seminar
June 19-20, 2018 | New York, New York

Seth spoke at the Future Food Tech event about impact investing and the role of the food-tech VC in shaping the future of food.

Future Food Tech Seminar brings together the world’s largest food companies and retailers with technology companies and investors from the food tech field. 

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EVENT: Speaking at Annual Founder’s Pledge Forum

EVENT: Speaking at Annual Founder’s Pledge Forum
June 15, 2018 | London, United Kingdom

Ela gave a keynote at the Annual Founder’s Pledge Forum. The event took a close look at the current trajectory of business and technology, asking where we are heading, and how all changemakers - social sector, public sector, academia, and business included - can coordinate to create a fair and sustainable future.

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