I'm back from last week's Built with Biology conference.

Here's a few key takeaways from people I saw on stage and spoke to.

I was lucky enough to attend this year's Ginkgo Ferment Summit at the end of October 2021. Because of the pandemic, this was the first time in two years that Ginkgo Bioworks held the event. Here are a few learnings.

Bilbao, the capital of Spain’s Basque country, sits in a river valley surrounded by green mountains. Dominated by the Frank Gehry-designed metal-clad Guggenheim, the city was the site of this year’s first-ever Food4Future conference.

I spent the last several weeks on the road. I'm happy to be home.

At all those events, I reconnected with friends. Met new people. And I was exposed to a ton of information.

If you're like me, you'll make a point of attending conferences to advance your career, expand your network, and build your business.

I have to admit that when I first started going to conferences, I didn't really have a plan or a strategy. But the more I was exposed to people who are smarter than I am, I realized I should have a plan.

Are you attending SynBioBeta for the first time?

Congratulations!

SynBioBeta is one of the most exciting events of the year bringing together the founders, investors, thinkers and people who are changing the world with synthetic biology. The conference is one of the only places where you can see the future of biology by being around the people who are already creating and living it.

Messaginglab CEO and WHAT'S YOUR BIO-STRATEGY? PREPARING YOUR BUSINESS FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY co-author, Karl Schmieder, will be hosting a panel at Ginkgo Bioworks on Monday, May 6th in Boston.

I just got back from this year’s SynBioBeta conference in San Francisco. It was the most well-attended, most exciting SBBSF so far. I ran two well-attended panels: