Laurent Bretaudeau
Jason Gill
Dr Minmin Yen
Dr. Yen is a 2018 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 and a microbiologist with a global health and program management background. Since co-founding PhagePro, Dr. Yen has received numerous awards and won several startup competitions recognizing her innovative leadership in global health, such as the ASTMH Innovations Pitch Competition and LaunchBio's The Big Pitch. She has been selected for several fellowships, including the MassNextGen Fellowship for women-led early-stage life science businesses, The Capital Network Female Founder Fellowship, and the Henri Termeer Legacy Program. An advocate for DEI in both biotech and global health communities, Dr. Yen strives to center the voices and the needs of the most marginalized.
Danish Malik
Deepak Dutt
Kevin Pasquinelli
Kevin M. Pasquinelli, is an intellectual property attorney at Robins Kaplan, LLP with more than 20 years of experience working in the technology industry, before becoming an attorney. His professional background incorporates a wide range of technologies and products, including artificial intelligence/machine learning, digital hardware, video servers, medical devices, system software, software development practices, telecommunications, enterprise software, customer relationship management software, and network management software. He has represented clients ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500 companies in numerous patent, trade secret, copyright, licensing, and trademark disputes. Before becoming an attorney, Kevin served in a variety of technology and management roles at a multinational information technology company and took on similar roles in a number of Silicon Valley startups, taking one public. Kevin can be reached at [email protected], 650.784.4025.
Ken Granville
Sean Batir
Sean is on a mission to help humanity transcend its physical and cognitive limitations. His professional experience lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, software, and biotechnology, with over a decade of experience working with neural systems. Sean has been involved in the submission of over a dozen patents and academic conference submissions that range from the formation and enhancement of mammalian memory, to modular jewelry that enabled remote biometric monitoring. His previous work cofounding two smaller startups that respectively designed and sought to build biometric, modular jewelry and augmented reality contact lenses. He was involved in assessing the commercial viability of emerging technologies and inventions through the MIT Technology Licensing Office and the Columbia Technology Ventures. Currently, Sean works at BMW’s Research and Engineering division, where he both develops software that enables artificial intelligence, and engages in strategic partnerships with industrial and academic clients to build proof-of-concept prototypes for corporate adoption. Some of his most recent work spans collaborative robotics, augmented reality for improved manufacturing and knowledge sharing, next generation infrastructure connectivity, the virtualization of work-stations, enhancing robotic performance in virtual environments, and developing novel approaches for coordinated control of IoT devices. Sean graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He also completed study at both the Imperial College of London, where he earned a Master’s of Research in Bioengineering with a specialization in neural processing algorithms, and the University of Oxford Said Business School.. Following this, Mr. Batir enrolled in a Ph.D. program studying Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, and is currently on leave of absence to work at the interdisciplinary crossroads of IoT, AI, and swarm intelligence.
