Re: Fw: Fwd: VLAB Weekly: Meat the Future: Startups Disrupting the Food Chain

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Is this where pleather comes from?

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:54:32 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:52 PM, jk Kandaswamy <http://www.gmail.com/~jkandaswamy> 
 > wrote:
 > >J. Kandaswamy
 > >http://www.gmail.com/~jkandaswamy
 > >USA
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 > >Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM
 > >Subject: VLAB Weekly: Meat the Future: Startups Disrupting the Food Chain
 > >To: Jagadisan <http://www.gmail.com/~jkandaswamy>
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 > >Feb Event: Food Tech  
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 > >Where's the Beef? Biotech Startups Disrupting the Food Chain 
 > >
 > >Sampling animal-free proteins of the future 
 > >
 > >LOCATION:
 > >Stanford University
 > >Graduate School of Business, Cemex Auditorium
 > >655 Knight Way
 > >Stanford, CA 
 > >
 > >Tuesday, February 18, 2014 
 > >
 > >6:00pm â?? 7:00pm: Registration & Reception
 > >7:00pm - 8:30pm: Panel Discussion including Q&A Session 
 > >
 > >Click here to buy tickets 
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 > >With recent advances in tissue engineering and plant protein research,
 > 				startups and food technologists are now engineering meat and
 > 				other animal products to meet rising levels of global consumption. 
 > >
 > >Join us on Tuesday, February 18th to sample some of these products and to 
 > >discover
 > 				how innovations in the biotech industry are disrupting conventional methods 
 > 				of food
 > 				production. Find out if these technologies will provide a more sustainable 
 > 				food
 > 				supply, reduce our carbon footprint, and steer us away from our carnivorous 
 > 				habits. 
 > >
 > >Questions to be addressed by the panel include: 
 > >- Will startups like Modern Meadow, Inc and Beyond Meat be able to capture a 
 > >large chunk of the $6 trillion food industry?
 > >- What role will big companies play? Innovation or commercialization?
 > >- Will they reduce GHG emissions and our overall carbon footprint?
 > >- What makes a food technology startup fundable?
 > >
 > >Moderator
 > >Stacy Feld, Partner at Physic Ventures 
 > >
 > >Panelists 
 > >Dr. Andras Forgacs, Founder and CEO, Modern Meadow, Inc 
 > >Ethan, Founder and CEO, Beyond Meat 
 > >Rob Leclerc, Ph.D., CEO, AgFunder 
 > >
 > >Demo Companies
 > >Six Food Insects | KuliKuli | Soylent | Exo | 
 > >
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