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An invitation to my people:
Technologists who follow the All-In Pod and find the Science Corner with David Friedberg their favorite part of the show; we decided to bring you a whole Science Day.
Entrepreneurs, Scientists, Researchers and Investors who fell down the rabbit whole when they heard about the stagnation of progress since 1970 in the world of atoms; we need more of you. Especially if that inspired you to start, a company, a community, research or investing firm dedicated to solving hard problems in deep tech. Jason Crawford has written some interesting essays on Roots of Progress.
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Schedule
We are hosting four amazing content sessions with incredible luminary guests.
➡️ Check-Ins, Lunch & Networking
1:30pm - 2:30pm
This is a simple one. Meet each other and feed yourself for a content marathon!
➡️ Future of Genome Editing
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Trevor Martin, Cofounder & CEO of Mammoth Biosciences (valued at $1 billion) will be doing a 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A with moderator and audience.
Mammoth Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on leveraging its proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop long-term curative therapies, as well as other applications such as decentralized precision diagnostics.
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Check-Ins, Networking & Lunch
2:30pm - 3:30pm: Future of Genome Editing with Trevor Martin (Cofounder & CEO, Mammoth Biosciences)
3:45pm - 4:30pm: Exploding Stars & The Expanding Universe; Leading & Executing Innovation Projects
➡️ Exploding Stars & The Expanding Universe: Leading & Executing Innovative Projects
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Alex Filippenko will be doing a 45 minute presentation on the proven theory of the expanding universe, the significance of the breakthrough and how it relates to entrepreneurship.
Alex is a Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley. His accomplishments, documented in more than 1070 research papers, have been recognized by several major prizes, including a share of both the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2007) and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015)
➡️ Fireside Chat
4:30pm - 5:15pm
A conversation with David Friedberg about learnings from building and selling a deep tech company for $1.1 billion.
David is our favorite bestie from the All-In podcast. He sold his last The Climate Corporation for $1.1 billion to Monsanto in 2013 and made it the first unicorn in the emerging agricultural technology space. He now runs his investment firm The Production Board, focused on life sciences, food & agriculture and energy.
➡️ Panel with David Friedberg & Alex Filippenko
This is going to be a fun one. They are both astrophysicists, Alex was David's teacher back at Cal.
We will talk about how David has used science to fund companies, how an astro major gives him a different lens.
Can dark energy from the space be harnessed and used on Earth? We debate what is currently physically possible.
Asteroid mining - what is possible right now? What have we built to deflect an extinction by an asteroid?
Dyson spheres - what are these and who is currently trying to maximize solar energy, how can it be done?
And more.
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Science corner becomes science day at the inaugural Building Atoms Summit. We believe a band of technologists inspired to solve hard problems in the world of atoms will move the world forward. We need more of you.