TWB^® Start-Up Day

Programme

For this 4th edition, TWB® START-UP DAY “Industrial biotechnology: What are we up to?” aims to gather more than 250 start-uppers, investors, actors in industrial biotechnology for incredible talks around two major themes:

• Circular bioeconomy
• Data & Artificial intelligence

February 2, 2021

1:30 – 4:00 PM CET

	1:30 – 1:40 PM CET Welcoming introduction Olivier Rolland, Managing director – TWB
	1:40 – 2:00 PM CET Opening keynote Sarah Reisinger, Senior Vice President Research Operations – Firmenich
	2:00 – 3:00 PM CET “Biotech & circularity” Session Short introduction from an investment perspective by Sofinnova. Philippe Lavielle, CEO & Chairman of the Board – Fermentalg Mateus Lopes, Global Manager of Innovation in Renewable Technologies – Braskem Christophe Luguel, Head of International Affairs – IAR, the Bioeconomy Cluster Stéphane Roussel, Venture Partner – European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
	3:00 – 4:00 PM CET “Fast track it!” Pitch Contest (TWB Award 2021) 5 start-ups have been pre-selected: BioEB (FR) – Dutch DNA (NL) – Lantana Bio (FR) – XTREM BIOTECH (ES) – Zymvol Biomodeling (ES)

February 3, 2021

1:30 – 4:30 PM CET

	1:30 – 2:30 PM CET “Go for it!” Pitch Contest (TWB Award 2021) 5 entrepreneurship projects have been pre-selected
	2:30 – 3:30 PM CET “Data & Artificial intelligence” Session Short introduction from an IP perspective by Plasseraud IP. Timothy Gardner, Founder / CEO – Riffyn Ghjuvan Grimaud, Co-Founder / CEO – Biomathematica Thomas Schiex, Senior Scientist in AI & Computational Biology – INRAE Joël Sirois, Founder-President / CEO – BioIntelligence Technologies
	3:30 – 4:00 PM CET Start-up story keynote Sean Simpson, Co-Founder/CSO – Lanzatech
	4:00 – 4:30 PM CET Closing session & TWB Awards 2021