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  • Hands-on scenario planning: droughts, port closures, ingredient shortages.
  • Participants map vulnerabilities in their own supply chains.
  • Tools for building contingency playbooks.

*Lunch to be served during session

  • Lessons from moving regenerative practices beyond demonstration projects.
  • Financing and policy levers that unlock widespread adoption, including the role of soil carbon credits as a funding mechanism.
  • How to accelerate uptake without losing integrity, ensuring outcomes remain high-quality and verifiable.

Author:

Roberta McDonald

Director of Programme
Agreena

Roberta McDonald is a Sustainable Agriculture Leader with over a decade of experience enhancing sustainability in agriculture. As Director of Program at Agreena in Copenhagen, she leads the science, standards and data quality teams in the development of certified carbon farming solutions. Her background includes roles at Devenish and Aurivo Dairy Co-op in Ireland, focusing on innovative solutions and farmer-led initiatives. With a Nuffield scholarship, PhD in Agricultural Sciences and a strong connection to her dairy farm upbringing, Roberta is dedicated to empowering farmers and advancing sustainable food systems.

Roberta McDonald

Director of Programme
Agreena

Roberta McDonald is a Sustainable Agriculture Leader with over a decade of experience enhancing sustainability in agriculture. As Director of Program at Agreena in Copenhagen, she leads the science, standards and data quality teams in the development of certified carbon farming solutions. Her background includes roles at Devenish and Aurivo Dairy Co-op in Ireland, focusing on innovative solutions and farmer-led initiatives. With a Nuffield scholarship, PhD in Agricultural Sciences and a strong connection to her dairy farm upbringing, Roberta is dedicated to empowering farmers and advancing sustainable food systems.

  • How sanctions, trade restrictions, or export bans impact access to critical ingredients.
  • Mapping vulnerabilities in agriculture, natural and synthetic ingredient supply chains.
  • Strategies for diversifying sourcing regions and suppliers.
 

Patrick Grady

CEO
TetraScience

Patrick serves as co-founder, chairman, and CEO of TetraScience. Prior to TetraScience, Patrick spent three decades building, backing, and scaling market-defining companies and technology stacks within the high-performance computing, SaaS, cloud, and AI markets.

Patrick was the founder, CEO, and CTO of the first intelligent agent company of the Internet era, built one of the world’s first three SaaS companies, the first enterprise SaaS business, one of the first ten global technology unicorns, and the first AI unicorn.

Patrick Grady

CEO
TetraScience

Patrick Grady

CEO
TetraScience

Patrick serves as co-founder, chairman, and CEO of TetraScience. Prior to TetraScience, Patrick spent three decades building, backing, and scaling market-defining companies and technology stacks within the high-performance computing, SaaS, cloud, and AI markets.

Patrick was the founder, CEO, and CTO of the first intelligent agent company of the Internet era, built one of the world’s first three SaaS companies, the first enterprise SaaS business, one of the first ten global technology unicorns, and the first AI unicorn.

To deliver these AI agents to market, Patrick played a well-documented role in pioneering and/or commercializing several enabling technologies, including web services, SOA, and multi-tenancy, which now undergird the trillion-dollar cloud market.

 Recognized as a leading innovator by numerous publications and peer groups over the years, Patrick was a recipient of the 2006 Fast Company award, given to the top 50 people in the world most likely to change the way we live and work for his seminal efforts in personal agent AI.

 

Lydia Gushgari, PhD

Chief of Staff
SPOC Biosciences

Lydia Gushgari, PhD

Chief of Staff
SPOC Biosciences

Lydia Gushgari, PhD

Chief of Staff
SPOC Biosciences
 

Jim Villa

Global Head, Research Strategy & Operations
Takeda

Jim Villa

Global Head, Research Strategy & Operations
Takeda

Jim Villa

Global Head, Research Strategy & Operations
Takeda
 

Zhaoqian Su

AI Scientist
Takeda

Zhaoqian Su

AI Scientist
Takeda

Zhaoqian Su

AI Scientist
Takeda

Author:

Melissa Landon

Head, Commercial & Business Development, AI & Automation
MilliporeSigma

Dr. Melissa (“Mel”) Landon leads Commercial and Business Development for AI and Automation at Millipore Sigma, the Life Science business of Merck KGaA. With 20 years of experience of building cutting edge platforms across pharma and tech, Mel’s current work focuses on scaling intelligent automation and AI solutions that bridge scientific innovation with commercial value. She brings to this role a cross-disciplinary background spanning life sciences, technology partnerships, and enterprise transformation. Prior to joining MilliporeSigma, Melissa served as Chief Strategy Officer at Cyclica, an AI-enabled tech bio company (acquired by Recursion in 2023). Melissa completed her PhD in Bioinformatics at Boston University and performed postdoctoral studies in biochemistry and X-ray crystallography at Brandeis University. 

Melissa Landon

Head, Commercial & Business Development, AI & Automation
MilliporeSigma

Dr. Melissa (“Mel”) Landon leads Commercial and Business Development for AI and Automation at Millipore Sigma, the Life Science business of Merck KGaA. With 20 years of experience of building cutting edge platforms across pharma and tech, Mel’s current work focuses on scaling intelligent automation and AI solutions that bridge scientific innovation with commercial value. She brings to this role a cross-disciplinary background spanning life sciences, technology partnerships, and enterprise transformation. Prior to joining MilliporeSigma, Melissa served as Chief Strategy Officer at Cyclica, an AI-enabled tech bio company (acquired by Recursion in 2023). Melissa completed her PhD in Bioinformatics at Boston University and performed postdoctoral studies in biochemistry and X-ray crystallography at Brandeis University.