Canadian Alt Protein Symposium Agenda

8am-8:45am: Registration & Breakfast by Bunner's Vegan Bakery!

8:45am- 9am: Welcome

Welcome by UofT Alternative Protein Project (APP) Organizers

9am-9:30am: Keynote Speaker Introducing Alternative Proteins

• Bruce Friedrich: Founder of the Good Food Institute 

9:30am - 10:15am: Panel on Cultivated Meat & Seafood Development 

Moderator: Dr. Laura Riley (Ontario Genomics): Director, Sector Innovation and Programs

• Dr. Rakesh Sahu (McMaster University): Omics guided technologies for scalable production of cell-cultivated meat 
• Dr. Nathan Vo (Wilfrid Laurier University): Cell line development and multi-omic profiling for cultivated seafood 
• Dr. Cameron Semper (University of Calgary): Affordable, species specific, recombinant growth factor production for cultivated meat

10:15am-10:45am: Halfway Morning Break

10:45am-11:15am: Keynote Speaker Introducing Biomaterials For Cultivated Meat 

• Dr. Ning Xiang (University of Alberta): Assistant Professor of cellular agriculture

11:15am-11:45am:  Panel on Developing Sustainable Biomaterials for Agriculture 

• Dr. Christian Euler (University of Waterloo): Center for Innovative Recycling and Circular Economy
• Dr. Kevin De France (Queen's University): Unlocking canola meal- from waste biomass to wonderful biomaterials

11:45am- 12:45pm: Lunch Courtesy of Odd Burger

12:45pm-1:15pm: Keynote Speaker Introducing Scale up Biomanufacturing

• Jonas Elliott Gerson (PnuVax): From large scale vaccine development to scaling up cultivated meat
  

1:15pm-1:45pm: Keynote Speaker Introducing the Policy & Societal Impact of Alternative Proteins

• Dr. Lenore Newman (University of Fraser Valley): Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute

1:45pm-2:15pm: Keynote Speaker Introducing Alternative Proteins and Geopolitics

• Lasse Bruun (United Nations Foundation): Director of Climate and Food
  

2:15pm- 3:00pm : Food Sampling Afternoon Break sponsored by Sausage Party

3:00pm- 3:45pm: Industry Pitches 

• Dr. Emily Farrar, Co-founder of Genuine Taste 
• Dr. Chantal Michel, Co-founder of Alterna Technologies'
• James McInnes, Co-founder of Odd Burger 
• Rebecca Palmer, CMO of Terra Bioindustries
  
• Emily De Beus: CEO of Sausage Party

3:45pm- 4:15pm: Panel on The Canadian Alternative Protein Ecosystem

Moderated by Dr. Yadira Tejeda-Saldana: Cellular Agriculture Canada

• Geoffry Burt (Consecon Foundation): Accelerating the Protein Transition
• Dr. Elaine Corbett (Ontario Genomics): An $18.8 Billion Opportunity in Precision Fermentation and Cultivated Foods 

4:15pm-5pm: Panel on Student Activation For Accelerating Alternative Proteins

Moderator: Rikard Saqe

• Bruce Friedrich (Good Food Institute): 80+ Chapters of the Alternative Protein Project
• Miranda Stahn (New Harvest): 10 years of New Harvest’s Fellowship 
• Eric Sirvinskas (Plant Futures): 80+ Chapters of Plant Futures
• Navin Durbhakula (Food4Thought): Harvard student, CEO of largest student run future food conference 

5:00 - 5:15 pm: Wrap-up