Healthcare & Medical

8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology

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8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026 ran Sep 22–24, 2026 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago - Magnificent Mile in Chicago, United States. It is a Healthcare & Medical conference. ConferenceGrid lists 16 speakers and 3 sponsors. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jun 24, 2026 · dates verified May 4, 2026

The Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology (CIB) conference spotlights best practices, lessons learned, and technology innovations for accelerating commercial production of bio-based products and building the circular bioeconomy. This is the premier conference focused on scale-up and commercialization of new products in the synthetic biology, fermentation,…

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16Speakers
3Sponsors
0Sessions
19Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at 8th, in alphabetical order.

Ajikumar Parayil
Founder & CEO · Manus
Emile Redant
CEO & Co-founder · Zymofix
Erin Marasco
Senior Director - Global Biology R&D · Cargill
Hamed Heidari
CEO & Co-founder · C+UP
Huimin Zhao
Steven L. Miller Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jim Stutelberg
Chief Executive Officer · Primient
Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia
Head of Corporate Biotechnology · Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Kathy Fortmann
CEO · Amyris
Keith Tyo
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering · Northwestern University
Kelly Hill
Principal Scientist, Program Leader · Corteva Agriscience
Kent Roberson
Sr. Director, Government Relations · Plant Based Products Council
Kirsten Parratt
Biomedical Engineer · NIST
Kristy Hawkins
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer · Antheia, Inc.
Michael Frodyma
Chief Product and Manufacturing Officer · NewLeaf Symbiotics
Sonia Hammache
Technology Manager · DOE - Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office (AFFO)
Todd Pray
Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AIChE Journal
Biotechnology Progress
Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI)

Quick answers

When is 8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026?
8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026 ran Sep 22–24, 2026 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago - Magnificent Mile in Chicago, United States.
Where is 8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026 held?
8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026 was held at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago - Magnificent Mile in Chicago, United States.
Who is speaking at 8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 16 speakers, including Ajikumar Parayil (Founder & CEO, Manus), Emile Redant (CEO & Co-founder, Zymofix) and Erin Marasco (Senior Director - Global Biology R&D, Cargill).
Who sponsors 8th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 3 sponsors: AIChE Journal, Biotechnology Progress and Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI).
Company intelligence

An audience of 19 companies, parsed from the program.

Nineteen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
16Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

69% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite850%
  • Director / Head of319%
  • Manager / Lead16%
  • Engineer · IC16%
  • Research / Science16%
  • Other roles213%

Of 16 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AIChE JournalSponsor-
2Biotechnology ProgressSponsor-
3Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI)Sponsor-
4Amyris1
5Antheia, Inc.1
6Cargill1
7Corteva Agriscience1
8CUP1
9DOE - Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office (AFFO)1
10Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)1
11Manus1
12NewLeaf Symbiotics1
13NIST1
14Northwestern University1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified3
100% of 3