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Food Tech Innovation Workshop April 22, 2015 One Main Street, Cambridge, MA

AGENDA 8:30am Breakfast and Registration

8:50am Welcome: “MIT’s Food Tech Startups,” Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (host)

9:00am Introductory remarks: “Connecting Industry to Research, Innovation, and Startups” Karl Koster, Executive Director, MIT Industrial Liaison Program

9:10am “Future opportunities for food tech product innovation from a research perspective,” Omer Yilmaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT, Gastrointestinal Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

9:25am “The Future of Food,” Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight, PepsiCo

9:35am Coffee break (10 min)

9:45am “Food, sensor, startups – the road ahead from an MIT perspective,” Timothy M. Swager, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at MIT and Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

9:55am “Innovation in Agricultural Productivity,” Larry Gilbertson, Ph.D., Cambridge Site Lead, Biotechnology, Monsanto Company

10:05am “Computational Food,” Caleb Harper, Research Scientist, Project Manager, City Science, MIT Media Lab See MIT’s Incubator-grown plants might hold key to food crisis (Wired, 10/16/2014)

10:15am Lightning Talks – Terry Adams, Assist. VP for Intellectual Asset Management, Nestle (MIT ILP Member); Christina Agapakis, Ph.D., Creative

Director, Ginkgo Bioworks; Aleem Ahmed, Co-founder, Love Grain; Ricky Ashenfelter, Co-founder, Spoiler Alert; Kris Bronner, Co-creator, UNREAL Brands, John Helferich, MIT, Sheel Shah, Senior Project Manager, Dimagi;

Katherine Shamraj, Founder and CEO, Sproot/Foodium; Craig Slavtcheff, VP Global Science and Technology, Campbell Soup Company

10:20am Coffee break (10-15 min)

PANEL DISCUSSION

10:30am

Panel Discussion: What’s Next in Food Tech Innovation? • What are important trends in food tech startups from MIT (and elsewhere)? • What does the new food tech innovation ecosystem look like (infrastructure, interoperability, technology, use cases, stakeholders,

success stories)? • What are corporate priorities in food tech? • What is the smart money focused on?

Panelists: • Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight, PepsiCo • Larry Gilbertson, Ph.D., Cambridge Site Lead, Biotechnology, Monsanto Company • Caleb Harper, Research Scientist, Project Manager, City Science, MIT Media Lab • Omer Yilmaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT, and Gastrointestinal Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

and Harvard Medical School

MIT-connected startup executives: Fredric Abramson, Ph.D., Founder, Digital Nutrition, LLC. Gabe Blanchet, CEO, Grove Labs

Dr. Alain C. Briançon, Co-founder/CEO, Kitchology Inc. Jan Schnorr, Chief Technology Officer, C2Sense

The panel will be moderated by Lauren Abda, Managing Director of the Food Loft. Lauren is also an analyst at Salt Venture Partners, a venture capital investment and advisory firm focused on the emerging area of food tech.

Associated STEX opportunities: Monsanto seeks Ag tech

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Panelists

Lauren Abda, Managing Director, Food Loft Lauren Abda is the managing director of the Food Loft, the first co­working space dedicated to food tech startups, and founder of Branchfood, an organization that unites entrepreneurs in transforming the food system through innovation. Lauren also works with Salt Venture Partners, a venture capital investment and advisory firm focused on

the emerging area of food tech. Her work is focused on supporting food entrepreneurs and connecting them with key resources to grow their startups. She has both industry and academic experience in food and tech, with a long-term focus on uniting both sectors and using design and technology to improve our food system. Lauren studied nutrition and food science at the University of Vermont, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree and attended Tufts University where she received her Master of Science degree in food policy and nutrition.

Fredric Abramson, Ph.D., Founder, Digital Nutrition, LLC Dr. Abramson began his career in the entertainment industry, and then in retail sales of records and appliances. He wrote his first computer program in 1965, and finished his Ph.D. in human genetics and population planning in

1972 at the University of Michigan. After three years of teaching at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, he was a Sloan Fellow in the MIT Sloan School of Business. He came to the DC area in 1977 and worked on national program and policy review of alcohol and alcoholism programs for the secretary of HEW. Formerly he had a management consulting business. He graduated from the American University Washington College of Law. He is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, teaching business and finance. Dr. Abramson advises nonprofits and has served on nonprofit boards. He founded several 501c3’s. In 2013, he launched a film documentary project to chronicle how Ronald Reagan interacted with people in his everyday activities.

Dr. Alain C. Briançon, Co-founder/CEO, Kitchology Inc. Dr. Briançon is an entrepreneur and innovator with 25 plus years of expertise in mobile spaces. Alain is the co-founder of Kitchology Inc., a Maryland based startup that combines technology with the power of community

curation to deliver the right food experience to families with specific dietary needs. He is the President and CEO of Horizon Analog, a Kansas based startup that developed a technology that turns the electrical wiring within the home into a giant sensor capable of monitoring all of the electrical devices and appliances. Previously, Alain was the Chief Technology Officer of NTERA, a material science startup developing printed electronics displays. Before, he was the CTO of InterDigital Communications; he served as a vice president at Motorola and also served in executive and technology roles at Pagenet, BellSouth and GTE Spacenet. Alain has served on the board of Ampex and advised/advising many startups on strategy and intellectual property including Bulogics, Airsense Wireless, MobileAware, and IPtronics.

Alain holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT. He has 40 issued patents and more than 55 patent applications.

Gabe Blanchet, Co-founder/CEO Grove Lab Gabe Blanchet is the co-founder and CEO of Grove Labs. Gabe earned an S.B. in mechanical engineering from MIT, where he worked on research projects at both the MIT Media Lab and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Gabe was inspired to found Grove Labs with

his best friend Jamie Byron when Jamie hacked together an aquaponic system in their fraternity room.

Grove Labs successfully raised $2 million in seedling funding in the summer of 2014, and is now focused on the Boston Early Adopter Program, in which the Grove team will work closely with 50 Boston locals with Groves in their homes to refine and perfect the experience.

Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight, PepsiCo Manoj Fenelon is the director of Foresight for the Global Beverage Group at PepsiCo. Manoj grew up in the south of India and holds a M.A. in communication science, University of Connecticut, and a

M.M.S. in business management studies, from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science. He has spent the last decade being professionally curious about people, what they buy, and why.

Larry Gilbertson, Ph.D., Cambridge Site Lead, Biotechnology, Monsanto Company Dr. Larry Gilbertson joined Monsanto in 1995. During his almost 20 years with the company, he has led multiple projects in the biotechnology organization, including plant

transformation, gene expression, gene suppression, vector technology, and high throughput protein optimization. His scientific achievements at Monsanto have led to over 26 patents and 11 scientific publications. Larry has been a Monsanto Fellow since 2004, and is the recipient of the 2015 Monsanto Science and Technology Career Award. Larry is currently the site lead for the Monsanto Biotechnology Site in Cambridge, MA. He has acted as a manager for several collaborations between Monsanto and startup companies in the biotechnology area. Larry received a B.S. degree in biology from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Oregon.

Caleb Harper, Research Scientist, Project Manager, City Science, MIT Media Lab Caleb Harper is the founder of the CityFARM research group within the City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. He leads the antidisciplinary group of engineers,

architects, urban planners, economists, and plant scientists in the exploration and development of high performance urban agricultural systems. His current work is focused in the areas of building integrated, and control environment agriculture, actuated sensing, control automation and data-driven resource and energy optimization.

Caleb has recently launched the OpenAG project together with strategic partners from industry, government, and academia to develop the world's first open source “food tech” research collective for the creation of the global agricultural data commons.

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In addition to his role at MIT, Caleb is a consultant to multiple international development agencies on high-density, low-income urban housing projects and has worked professionally on development projects in the high-tech space including data centers, healthcare, and fabrication facilities.

Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program Karl F. Koster is the executive director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. The Office of Corporate Relations at MIT includes the Industrial Liaison Program, which celebrated 60 years of service to the Institute and its corporate partners in 2008. In that capacity, he and his staff work with the senior

administrative and faculty leadership of MIT in developing and implementing strategies for enhancing corporate involvement with the Institute. Mr. Koster has been involved with faculty leaders in identifying and designing a number of major international programs for MIT. Many of these programs focus on institutional development and are characterized by the establishment of strong, international, programmatic linkages between universities, industry, and governments.

Mr. Koster graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in geology and economics in 1974, and received an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1980. At the Sloan School he concentrated in international business management and the management of technological innovation. Prior to returning to MIT, Mr. Koster worked as a management consultant for seven years in Europe, Latin America, and the United States on projects for private and public sector organizations.

Jan Schnorr, Chief Technology Officer, C2Sense Jan was a postdoctoral associate in the Swager laboratory in the MIT Department of Chemistry, where he completed his Ph.D. During this time, he worked on functionalized carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube-based chemical sensors. He has published 13 peer-reviewed papers with a

total of 230 citations. He is also co-inventor on five patents and patent applications including C2Sense's ethylene sensing and rapid prototyping technology.

Timothy M. Swager, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at MIT and the Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation In this latter role, Professor Swager works with the Center’s executive director to define the Center’s strategy for fostering innovation, assists with the

commercialization of MIT technologies, and plays a key role in the grant selection process. He also serves as the Center’s liaison to the MIT academic community, and senior leadership, sitting on faculty and academic committees.

Following Professor Swager’s postdoctoral appointment at MIT, he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, returning to MIT in 1996 as a professor of chemistry, and serving as the head of the department of chemistry from 2005-2010.

Professor Swager’s research interests are in design, synthesis, and study of organic-based electronic, sensory, high-strength and liquid crystalline materials. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and more than 50 patents, issued and pending.

He is the founder of four companies (DyNuPol, Iptyx, PolyJoule, and C2Sense) and has served on a number of corporate and government boards.

He received a B.S. from Montana State University in 1983 and a Ph.D., from the California Institute of Technology in 1988.

Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative, MIT Industrial Liaison Program Trond heads up the Startup Initiative at MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), facilitating productive relationships between industry and MIT’s

startup ecosystem. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Trond is a serial entrepreneur with Scandinavian roots and is currently the founder of Yegii, Inc., the insight network, and managing director of Tautec Consulting.

Trond is a leading expert on technology development across industries such as IT, Energy, and Healthcare. His knowledge spans entrepreneurship, strategy frameworks, policymaking, action learning, virtual teamwork, knowledge management, standardization, and e-government. He wrote the book Leadership From Below (2008). Trond speaks six languages and is a frequent public speaker on business, technology, and wine. Trond was a strategy/business development executive at Oracle Corp. (2008-12) and a policymaker in the EU (2004-8) where he built the ePractice.eu web platform with 120,000 members. He has worked with multinational companies, with mid-caps and startups in Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Norway, the UK, and the U.S.

Trond holds an M.A. in sociology and a Ph.D. in sociological technology and policy studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Omer Yilmaz Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT Gastrointestinal Pathologist and Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Omar Yilmaz is an assistant professor of Biology at MIT and gastrointestinal pathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, where he performed his thesis work under the guidance of Professor Sean Morrison. He also spent two years as a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor David M. Sabatini, a member of the Whitehead and Koch Institutes.

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Lightning Talk

Terry Adams, Assistant Vice President for Intellectual Asset Management, Nestle (MIT ILP Member)

Mr. Adams has spent his entire career in the consumer products industry developing products in dozens of different product categories for countries all over the world. He now has responsibility for the operational and

support functions of the Intellectual Asset Management Department at Nestle’s office in Vevey, Switzerland. Mr. Adams received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from Howard University.

Christina Agapakis, Ph.D., Creative Director, Ginkgo Bioworks Christina is creative director at Ginkgo Bioworks (http://ginkgobioworks.com/), an organism design company that is bringing biology to industries from flavor and

fragrance to nutrition and health. She received her Ph.D. in synthetic biology from Harvard University and was a L'Oréal For Women in Science postdoctoral fellow at UCLA.

Aleem Ahmed, Co-founder & CEO, Love Grain Aleem first got the inspiration for Love Grain while he was working with Ethiopia's Agricultural Transformation Agency to improve the productivity of teff farmers. He is a third year M.P.A and M.B.A student at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is a

fellow with the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Aleem holds a B.A. in political science from Haverford College.

Ricky Ashenfelter, Co-founder, Spoiler Alert Ricky Ashenfelter is an M.B.A. Candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a co-founder of Spoiler Alert, a food tech solution to help businesses manage surplus food and organic waste. Started while at MIT, Spoiler Alert creates an online marketplace and SaaS model for finding

more optimal outcomes for wasted food. Visit www.foodspoileralert.com @MySpoilerAlert. Ricky holds a B.S.B.A. in finance, management and environmental studies from Georgetown University and will be graduating from MIT Sloan in June 2015.

Kris Bronner, Co-creator, UNREAL Brands Kris is a freshman at MIT and also a co-founder of UNREAL™ Brands, a mission-based company dedicated to proving that junk food, a leading contributor to the diabetes and obesity epidemic, can be "unjunked." Last year,

UNREAL launched with five reinvented versions of America's favorite candies with zero junk and up to 4 percent less sugar, but with the same great taste. The WSJ compared UNREAL's innovation to Apple's and Ford's. He loves science, technology, and food, and passionately believes that entrepreneurship is the medium through which change is most influentially applied.

John Helferich, Ph.D., Candidate, MIT John is a Ph.D. Candidate at MIT in the engineering systems division. His dissertation research is making use of concepts from behavioral economics and social psychology to understand how managers make food safety decisions and how we can modify feedback systems to help make better

decisions. He has 28 years of industry experience with Mars, Inc., Ocean Spray Cranberries, and Procter & Gamble. John ran R&D in North America for Mars for 10 years, from 1995 to 2005.

Sheel Shah, Senior Project Manager, Dimagi Sheel is passionate about international development and interested in exploring the role that technology can play within the space. He is a project manager based out of India, doing whatever is necessary to keep projects moving

forward. He brings a wide range of experience to Dimagi – he has spent time working at Microsoft as a program manager, hospitals in Canada working on prostate and lung cancer research, and the manufacturing and telecommunication industries in business and technical roles. He holds a degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Katherine Shamraj, Founder and CEO, Sproot/Foodium Consultant-turned-entrepreneur with passionate interests in food, technology, and systems thinking, Katherine is a triple bottom line strategist who seeks opportunities to nudge human behavior in ways that catalyze systemic change. Her current ventures, Sproot and

Foodium, make eating good food fun and easy for people in schools and offices. She received her M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management.

Craig Slavtcheff, VP Global Science and Technology, Campbell Soup Company Craig Slavtcheff joined Campbell as Vice President-Science and Technology, Global Research and Development, in November 2012. He drives Campbell's mid- and long-term innovation agenda across three global

categories: healthy beverages, baked snacks, and Soup and Simple Meals, as well as supporting go-to-market from a Nutrition and Regulatory standpoint. Craig’s organization is comprised of 7 teams: Next Generation Ingredient Technology, Transformational Packaging, Process Science, Flavor Science, Regulatory Affairs, Health & Nutrition, and Analytical Sciences. His team identifies areas of science relevant to the Campbell business based on consumer insights and macro-trends, and builds and executes against a 3-5 year innovation funnel. Craig earned his B.S. degree, in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut.