BiT: SF Highlights and Recap
May 18, 2015
On February 11-12, 2015, DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO) held a symposium in the San Francisco Bay Area that brought together leading-edge scientists and technologists from start-ups, established companies and academia to look at how advances in engineering and information sciences are driving biology into a new era—one in which biology is technology.
From programmable microbes to human-machine symbiosis, biological technologies are expanding society’s definition of technology and redefining how we interact with and use biology. DARPA sees in this new era enormous opportunities for taking radically new approaches to developing solutions to long-intractable problems.
The two-day gathering featured a diverse roster of speakers that included DARPA leadership and program managers, DARPA-funded researchers, and other thought leaders. DARPA captured video of these sessions:
- Sue Siegel , CEO, GE Healthventures and healthymagination
- Craig Venter , Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute
- George Church , Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director, PersonalGenomes.org
- Saul Griffith , Inventor, Otherlab
- Will Old , University of Colorado at Boulder
- Michael M. Maharbiz , University of California, Berkeley
- Jack D. Newman , Chief Science Officer at Amyris, Inc.
- Karl Deisseroth , Stanford University
- Edward Chang , Neurosurgeon
- Stephen Friend , President, Sage Bionetworks
- Adam Abate , Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco
Additional videos are available on the DARPA YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/darpatv