Thursday, August 3 | ||
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Registration Open | Foyer |
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Speaker Check-In Open All speakers must check in at the speaker check-in desk and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session | San Francisco |
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM | Keynote Introduction by: Cara Ridenhour – Clarkston Consulting Keynote Presentation Captain Barrington Irving, Founder & CEO – Flying Classroom | Chicago A |
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Concurrent Plenary Session 1 – Biotechnology 10:00 – The Essential Nature of Inactives Lisa Stehno-Bittel, Chief Executive Officer – Likarda 10:20 – Creating the Next Generation of Non-Opioid Pain Therapeutics Ted Price, Ashbel Smith Professor & Director – Center for Advanced Pain Studies, University of Texas at Dallas 10:40 – Three For One: How a Single, Innovative Peptide Sequence Drives Three Distinct Nanoparticle Delivery Systems Michael Coe, Chief Scientific Officer – Phoreus Technology, Inc 11:00 – Hacking through the jungle of real world data Mark Hoffman, Chief Research Information Officer – Children’s Mercy Kansas City 11:20 – Molecular Pathogenesis and Therapeutics Zach McAdams, Graduate Research Assistant – University of Missouri, Columbia 11:40 – Creating Patient Ready Products for a Remedy Ready World Amanda Burkardt, Chief Executive Officer – PHIOGEN All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago A |
10:00 AM – 11:40 AM | Concurrent Plenary Session 2 – Engineering Session powered by
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10:00 – Digital Transformation: The Evolution of the Design & Construction Industry into a new Era Alex Belkofer, Senior VDC Director – McCarthy Building Companies 10:20 – Planning for Success: A facility programming and conceptual design case study Molly Oller, Director of Process Architecture – GBA 10:40 – Next Generation Robotics and Their Commercial Applications Ben Linder, President – BAAM.Tech 11:00 – BNIM: Designs for a Better World Steve McDowell, President & Chief Executive Officer – BNIM 11:20 – New Trends and Technologies in Food and Pharma Roy Johnson, Client Account Manager – Black & Veatch All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire C |
10:00 AM – 11:40 AM | Concurrent Plenary Session 3 – Economic Development 10:00 – Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Trent Armbrust – EnterpriseKC 10:20 – Unleashing Innovation: Building a Startup Studio within a Private Company Megan Brandt, Director – Maple Studios Hank Norem, Chief Executive Officer – Ramco Innovations 10:40 – Coalitions are Essential Maria Thacker-Goethe, Founding Chief Executive Officer – Center for Global Health Innovation 11:00 – Economic Development Steven Anthony, Executive Director of Business Development – Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri 11:20 – Why KC is a Top Design City Jonathan Knecht, Senior Vice President – KC Global Design, KCADC Tabitha Darko, NOMA, LEED GA, Project Architect – Multistudio All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire A |
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM | Networking Lunch & Keynote Keynote Presentation Nancy Mwirotsi, Founder & Executive Director – Pi515 All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago A |
2:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 1 – Digital Technology Session powered by 2:15 – Intellectual Property Concerns at the Intersection of Bioscience and Digital Technology Michael Annis, Partner – Husch Blackwell 2:30 – How Can Generative AI Unlock Creativity, Innovation and Opportunity? What Do You Need to Know! Doug Hohulin, Chapter President – VRARA KC 2:45 – Innovations in care delivery for pediatrics Chelsea Johnson, MD, Founder/ Physician Executive – Concierge Pediatrics LLC 3:00 – KC Tech Specs Kara Lowe, Present & Chief Executive Officer – KC Tech Council 3:15 – Leveraging Software Solutions for Start-ups, Midsized, and Large Companies Brandon Clough, Chief Revenue Officer – PSC Biotech and PSC Software 3:30 – Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Innovation is the DNA of Digital Tech Anita Newton, Chief Innovation Officer – CommunityAmerica Credit Union 3:45 – Your New AI Coworker George Brooks, Founder & Chief Executive Officer – Crema 4:00- Artificial Intelligence: Revolutionizing the Bioscience Industry Stephanie Pasas-Farmer PhD, President and Founder – Ariadne Software LLC All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire A |
2:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 2 – Disease & Development 2:15 – Oxidative stress and DNA damage modulate craniofacial phenotype variability Sharien Fitriasari, PhD Student – Stowers Institute 2:30 – Sex-Dependent Differential Role of Estrogen Receptors, α and β, in Muscle-Bone Crosstalk Nuria Lara Castillo, PhD, Senior Research Associate – University of Missouri Kansas City 2:45 – Bruno1 regulates cytoskeletal dynamics directing myofibril assembly and sarcomere growth in developing muscle Maria L. Spletter , Ph.D., Assistant Professor – University of Missouri Kansas City 3:00 – A novel superfamily of bridge-like lipid transfer proteins Sarah Neuman, Staff Scientist – School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin- Madison 3:15 – Modeling The Tumor Microenvironment In Pediatric Solid Tumors Diana Acevedo, Postdoctoral Research Associate – St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital 3:30 – Characterization of the neflE396K mouse model for Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2E (CMT2E) therapeutic development Dennis Ossie Perez-Lopez, Ph.D. Student, University of Missouri-Columbia 3:45 – Gene Co-expression and Machine Learning Approaches to Compare SARS-CoV-2 Infected Tissues In Humans Sahil Sethi, Ph.D. Student – University of Nebraska Medical Center 4:00 – Assessment of candidate genes involved in the difference of flowering time between two genotypes of sesame Enzo Unzain Moreno, Master’s Student – Kansas State University All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago C |
2:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 3 – Tools & Technology 2:15 – Bridging Food Informatics With Bioinformatics Using KARMA Hande Kucuk McGinty, Assistant Professor – Kansas State University 2:30 – Total Chemical Synthesis of Trem-2 Ecto Domain Gayani Wijegunawardena, Ph.D. Candidate, Wichita State University 2:45 – Developing clinically relevant contrived donor controls for validating assays measuring antigen restricted T cell responses utilizing IFNγ ELISpot and flow cytometry assays Jordyn Westergaard, Research Scientist- Viracor Eurofins 3:00 – It Is Time To Take A Leap Forward In Digital PCR Technology With Roche’s Digital LightCycler System Dustin Masser, PhD., Senior Field Applications Scientist – Roche Diagnostics 3:15 – Bio-Blocks: THE Bio-Factory for Generating Bio-Mimetic Microenvironments for Discovery Scott Leigh, Chief Revenue Officer – Ronawk Inc. 3:30 – Adopting Industry 4.0 to Scale ATMP Manufacturing Ryan Thompson, Senior Specialist, Industry 4.0 – CRB 3:45 – Biofabrication of affordable grafts for tissue repair and their potential clinical applications to combat microbial resistance Dhoolappa Melinamani, M. MVSc., Ph.D., INSA Visiting Fellow 4:00 – To Be Announced Dr. Kirthi Kumar Kutumbaka, Scientific Manager for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Molecular Assays – Eurofins Viracor Biopharma All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire C |
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM | Start-Up Pitch Competition Session 1 – Agriculture & Food Technology
Session powered by & Availyst Mandy Poston EkkBaz Enam Marinas Bio A. Sally Davis Smoodi Morgan Abraham TeOra Celine Mashkoor All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire B |
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Start-Up Pitch Competition Session 2 – Health & Therapeutics Aruna Revolution Health, Inc Rashmi Prakash Love Lifesciences Nick Love, MD, MBA nSight Surgical Nathaniel Smith PHIOGEN Amanda Burkardt Vivifi Medical Tushar Sharma All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire B |
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM | Start-Up Pitch Contest Session 3 – Digital Health Card.io Destin George Bell Doktorconnect Dr. Joseph Olowr Endless Health Cooper J Galvin, PhD maro Kenzie Butera Davis Xcellent Life Inc. Victor L. Brown All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire B |
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Poster and Exhibitor Session 1 | Exhibit B |
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Awards Dinner & Keynote Introduced by: Crissa Cook, Hovey Williams LLP Gut check: Feeding both the pet and its microbiome for optimal health Jennifer Radosevich, Worldwide Director, Research and Innovation – Hill’s Pet Nutrition All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago A |
Friday, August 4 | ||
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Registration Open | Foyer |
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Speaker Ready Room Open All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Registration |
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Keynote Presentation NSF Engine Development Award: Advancing biosecurity, biodefense, and biomanufacturing in Kansas and Missouri Beth Montelone, Ph.D, Senior Associate Vice President of Research – Kansas State University Rebecca Robinson, President & CEO – K-State Innovation Partners All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago A |
9:00 AM – 10:40 AM | Concurrent Plenary Session 4 – Digital Technology
Session powered by 9:00 – Empowering Human-Machine Synergy in Agriculture: The Role of IoT Jonathan Ruiz, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder – EB Systems 9:20 – How Digital Health Can Positively Impact Patient/Provider Experience In Disease Of Lesser Prevalence Rebecca MacKinnon, CEO & Founder – 5th Dimension Strategies LLC & SoulFIRE Health, a product group of 5th Dimension, Consultant, Angel Investor 9:40 – Importance of Patient Driven Digital Health Solutions Chris Jones, Founder – Match Rite Care 10:00 – Applying AI to Society’s Biggest Health Challenges Craig Mason, CO-Founder & Chief Executive Officer – Raise Health Innovations 10:20 – Cell Therapy Manufacturing Simulation Phillip Lyman Ph.D., Director of Process Modeling – Arcadis DPS Group All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago A |
9:20 AM – 10:40 AM | Concurrent Plenary Session 5 – Ag & Animal Tech 9:20 – Overcoming Hurdles in Mass Production of dsRNA for Next-gen Agricultural Pest Control Anil Kumar, BioManufacturing lead – RNAissance Ag/TechAccel 9:40 – Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative Blake Bextine, Sr. Advisor, Commercial Strategy – DARPA 10:00 – One Health, One World, One NBAF but Many Biting Insects Transmitting Arboviruses Dr. William (Bill) Wilson, Research Microbiologist, Senior Science Advisor – National Bio & Agro-defense Facility 10:20 – Next generation sequencing tools for exploring the microbiome in companion animals Dayakar V. Badri, Principal Scientist, Science & Technology Center – Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire A |
9:20 AM – 10:40 AM | Concurrent Plenary Session 6 – Business 9:20 – From Non-Expert to Industry Leader: The Power of Dreaming Big and Embracing Interdisciplinary Innovation Naveen Jain, Founder & Chief Executive Officer – Viome 9:40 – Who Owns Intellectual Property Created by A.I.? Thomas Luebbering, Partner – Hovey Williams 10:00 – Advancing Corporate Engagement and Supplier Diversity within the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Michael Carmona, Senior Director – KCSource Link 10:20 – Start at the Beginning: Creating a Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain Strategy Elizabeth McGuire, MBA/MSL, Consulting Director of supply Chain – Clarkston Consulting All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago C |
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | Industry of Impact Lunch Sessions – Biotechnology 11:15 – Hill’s Pet Nutrition: Transforming Lives through Innovation Jennifer Radosevich, Worldwide Director, Research and Innovation – Hill’s Pet Nutrition 11:30 – Work/Life at Eurofins-Viracor: A Career of Exceptional Solutions for Life Enhancing Thomas (TJ) Beadnell, Phd, Sr. Scientific Manager, R&D – Eurofins Viracor 11:45 – Developing Kansas Talent To Make A Global Impact Valerie Welter, Site Quality Lead – McPherson Eric Lundstrom, Site Training Lead – Pfizer 12:00 – Advancing Science and Your Career at KCAS Julie Dean, Chief People Officer – KCAS All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire C |
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | Industry of Impact Lunch Sessions – Engineering Session powered by 11:00 – IPS – Delivering innovative, life-saving projects with Passion Karen Ninemire, Lead Recruiter – Central, Mid-Atlantic IPS 11:20 – Why Choose Topeka? Great Grows Here! Trina Goss, Director of Business & Talent Initiatives – Go Topeka Rhett Flood, FORGE Executive Director – Go Topeka 11:40 – Design with Excellence, Build the Extraordinary. Join the Experience at CRB! Kelsey Strobel, Lead Recruitment – CRB All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire B |
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | Defense & Public Health Medical Countermeasures: Overview, Challenges, and Future Perspectives Session powered by Panelists Luca Popescu, DVM, PhD, Capability Manager – MRI Global Cathrine Olguin, MS, BSN, RN, Lieutenant Commander – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Allen Duplantier, PhD, Principal Consultant – Latham BioPharm Group Ryan Kane, Senior Director of Government Affairs & Business Development – NightHawk Biosciences, Inc. Panel Moderator DJ Rezac PhD, Associate Director – Latham BioPharm Group All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire A |
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | Entrepreneur Luncheon – Invitation Only Welcoming remarks from Sanjiv Gaitonde, Senior Director R&D Tax Credits – ADP | Chicago C |
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 4 – Drugs & Pharmacology 1:00 – Utilizing aptamer technology for the development of anti-cancer reagents Brian Thomas, MD-Ph.D Candidate – University Of Missouri School of Medicine 1:15 – Discovery of Anti-PDL1 Small Peptides for Cancer Immunotherapy and Imaging Kun Cheng, Ph.D. FAAPS, Curator’s Distinguished Professor – University of Missouri – Kansas City 1:30 – Developing a Microbial-based Immunotherapy Against Pancreatic Cancer Yves Chiswili Chabu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor – University of Missouri 1:45 – Characterization of ABC transporter genes in Toxocara canis using RNA-Seq Theresa A. Quintana, MPH – Kansas State University 2:00 – Metabolomic Analysis and Biomarker Discovery for Methamphetamine Use Disorder Leslie Brian Essel, MS Cell and Molecular Biology – University of Missouri-Kansas City 2:15 – Treats to Treat: Chewing the Way to Better Animal Health Delaney Bouska, Development Scientist – Argenta Research Kansas 2:30 – Leveraging molecular genetics in neurodegenerative diseases to develop novel therapeutics Christian L. Lorson, Phd, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Veterinary Medicine – Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire C |
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 5 – Engineering
Session powered by 1:00 – Key Considerations for a cGMP Commercial manufacturing Facility Eric Quarnstrom, Department Manager, Process Engineering – Arcadis DPS Group 1:15 – ROI of Material Compatibility – Can bio-decontamination chemistries impede your production process? Elizabeth McQuade, Biocontainment Specialist – CURIS System 1:30 – Your most valuable design tool: Simulations Niranjan Kulkarni, Sr. Director, Consulting Services – CRB 1:45 – Validation of UV/SGM for Destruction of PFAS in concentrated liquid waste Megan Hart, Associate Professor & UV/SGM Co-inventor – University of Missouri Kansas City 2:00 – BSL-2 Containment in GMP Manufacturing Komal Hatti, Director, Architectural Specialist – IPS All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire B |
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 6 – Health 1:00 – Elucidating the Metal-Dependent Antimalarial Mechanism of Doxycycline in the Plasmodium Apicoplast Shai-anne Nalder, Ph.D. Candidate – University of Utah 1:15 – Can Prostate Cancer and hyperplasia be reversed? And the challenges of commercializing a disruptive solution Tushar Sharma, CEO – Vivifi Medical 1:30 – AskSAMIE: Creating equity in aging in place through tech Dr. Brandy Archie, Founder – AskSAMIE 1:45 Veterinary Health Research Centers, Real World Data Rob Hunter, MS, Ph.D., Chief Scientific and Regulatory Officer – Veterinary Health Research Centers 2:00 – Solving the Problem of “Irreversible” Septic Shock Using Phospholipid Nanoparticles Cuthbert O Simpkins II, M.D., Founder and Chief Innovation Officer – Vivacelle Bio, Inc. All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago C |
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Topic – Workshop (KSU) Join this workshop to learn more about the region’s NSF Engines Development Award. Be part of the conversation as connections are created and to determine how you can partner to accelerate our local innovation ecosystems development. | Empire A |
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM | Women in Tech – Panel Discussion Panel Moderator Crissa Seymour Cook, Patent Attorney, Partner – Hovey Williams LLP Panelists Rebecca MacKinnon, CEO & Founder – 5th Dimension Strategies Diana Acevedo, Postdoctoral Research Associate – St. Jude Amanda Burkhart, Chief Executive Officer – PHIOGEN Theresa Quintana, PhD Student – Kansas State University | Empire A |
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Concurrent Platform Session 7 – Agriculture & Animal Tech 1:00 – Exploring the latest advancements in precision agriculture with John Deere Tim Deinert, Sprayer Marketing Manager – John Deere 1:15 – Towards managing and preserving irrigation resources under novel climate risks in the Eastern Kansas River Basin Ikenna Onyekwelu, Doctor of Philosophy in Biological and Agricultural Engineering – Kansas State University 1:30 – Least Cost Ration For Dairy Using The Microsoft Excel Solver Add-in Adetola Lamidi, Research Assistant – Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Chicago C |
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Cyber Security Today – Panel Discussion Powered by: Brush Creek Panel Moderator Kevin Jantsch, Associate Advisor – Brush Creek Partners Panelists Kayleigh Schuler, Attorney – Polsinelli Emily Short, National Director of Cyber Product – Baldwin Risk Partner Blake Bryant, Program Director of Practice – KU Edwards Campus Matthew Mangels, Director of Information Security – Moonshot Solutions All speakers must check in at the speaker ready room and upload their talk 4 hours in advance of their session. | Empire B |
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Poster and Exhibitor Session 2 | |
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Closing Networking Reception | |
Saturday, August 5 | ||
4:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Night Market | Crown Center Square |
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Social Cinema | Hill’s Pet Nutrition Stage |
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Emmaline Twist | Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Stage |
5:00 PM – 5:45 PM | Harbour | Hill’s Pet Nutrition Stage |
5:45 PM – 6:30 PM | Young Mister | Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Stage |
6:30 PM – 7:15 PM | MellowPhobia | Hill’s Pet Nutrition Stage |
7:15 PM – 7:45 PM | Cory Philips | Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Stage |
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM | Mike Main & The Branches | Hill’s Pet Nutrition Stage |
8:30 PM – 9:15 PM | Dante Elephante | Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Stage |
9:15 PM – 10:15 PM | Colony House | Hill’s Pet Nutrition Stage |
