Bio-Inspired Innovation Unleashed

January 23, 2018 14:30

What if the DNA of all life on Earth was entered into a database we could mine for new medicines, fuels and other breakthroughs? Learn how efforts to sequence all known plants and animals in the next decade are laying the foundation for a new wave of innovation.

Join the conversation: Ask your questions live on www.wef.ch/betazone.

This session will be livestreamed on TopLink and the Forum website.

Speakers:

Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio

Chairman, Space Time Ventures

Corinna E. Lathan

Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, AnthroTronix Inc.

Harris Lewin

Professor of Evolution and Ecology and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair, University of California, Davis