Living factories - Carbon Neutrality with Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology enables sustainability and the use of waste streams and CO2 as a carbon building blocks for materials, food, fuels, chemicals and medicines. Keilaniemi Summit 2019 will bring together industry, decision makers, researchers and designers as well as international ecosystems to envision how a fossil free future can be made possible harnessing biology.
Time: September 18th, 2019 from 9am to 5:15pm
Venue: Dipoli, Aalto University, Otakaari 24. Auditorium Lumituuli, City of Espoo, Finland
Moderator: Nina Pulkkis, Synbio Powerhouse
Exhibition: Korvaa - The Microbial Headset by Synbio Powerhouse
Synbio and Biotech Ecosystems in New Nordics
(from 10am to 5pm)
Registration by 23.8. - If you are interested to attend, please apply for invitation: tuula.palmen@synbio.fi
Programme
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Opening
Mayor Jukka Mäkelä, City of Espoo. Finland
9:10 Plastics without oil
Korvaa - headphones, Saku Sysiö, Industrial designer,
Aivan. Finland
9:20 What is Synbio Powerhouse Ecosystem?
Tuula Palmén, Co-creation manager, VTT, Synbio Powerhouse. Finland
9:30 Keynote: Synthetic Biology
- Transformational Technology for Enabling the Bioeconomy
Richard A. Johnson, Director - EBRC, iGEM Foundation, and BioBricks Foundation/Stanford, CEO, Global Helix LLC (United States)
10:10 Synbio opportunities
Merja Penttilä, Research Professor, VTT, Aalto University, Synbio Powerhouse. Finland
10:30 Refreshments and exhibition
11:00 Food without fields or animals
Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods. Finland
Horacio Acerbo, CEO, Kernel. Argentina
11:30 CO2 as feedstock
Michael Köpke, Synthetic biology leader, Lanzatech. USA
Pauli Kallio, University of Turku. Finland
Michael Lienemann, VTT. Finland
Discussion: Harnessing industrial CO2 emissions with microbes
Future visions
12:20 Espoo Innovation Garden
Harri Paananen, Manager, Economic and Business Development, City of Espoo. Finland
12:30 Lunch and exhibition
13:30 Materials with microbes
Cellulose without trees
Nanollose, Australia (video): fabrics made from microbial cellulose derived from coconut waste)
Cellulose with enzymes (video)
Waste to fungal leather, Géza Szilvay, VTT. Finland
Biosynthetic spider silk, Pezhman Mohammadi VTT, Aalto. Finland
Discussion: Japanese collaboration, Jarkko Jussila, Kuumeri. Finland
Sustainable Luxury Clothing, Mervi Kärkkäinen, FERE. Finland
14:00 Chemicals with microbes
Ute Galm, Zymergen Inc, Associate Director. USA
The EU prize winner for women innovators:
Irina Borodina, CTO, BioPhero ApS. Denmark
Discussion: Synbio and water chemicals, Kemira. Finland
Synbio and industrial enzymes, Jari Vehmaanperä, Research Director, Roal. Finland
14:45 Refreshments and exhibition
15:00 International ecosystems
Richard Kitney (tbc), Professor, Imperial College. UK; EBRC Global Forum, Academic co-chair
New Nordics - what’s up in Nordics in synthetic biology & biotech
Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Professor, Lund University. Sweden
Juris Vanags, Professor, Dr.sc.ing. Latvian State Institute of Wood Engineering. Latvia
Ole Jörgen Mardal, Special Advisor Life Sciences, Innovation Norway. Norway
Petri Lahtvee, ERA Chair in SynBio, University of Tartu, Estonia
16:15 Storing data in DNA
Karin Strauss, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research. US
16:30 Artificial intelligence, machine learning and
vision accelerating Synbio
Simone Bianco, Dr., Researcher, IBM Almaden Research Center. USA
16:50 Boosting circular economy with synthetic biology
Riitta Silvennoinen, Circular Economy Specialist,
The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. Finland
17:00 - 17:15 Closing remarks
Tuula Antola, Director, Economic and Business Development, City of Espoo. Finland