2026 Expert Speaker Faculty

Take a look at the esteemed speaker faculty that presented at the CDD & AI for Biologics Summit.

Leading Pharma Pacesetters
Techbio Torchbearers & Biotech Innovators
Pioneering Academics & Research Institutes
Partners

Leading Pharma Pacesetters

Christopher Negron

Principal Research Scientist II
AbbVie
Jinchao Yang - Speaker

Jinchao Yang

Engineer, Technology II
AbbVie

Ramakrishnan Natesan

Principal Data Scientist
Amgen

Alexander Horspool

Associate Director - Innovation, Biotherapeutics Discovery
Boehringer Ingelheim

Jonathan Gilbert

Senior Director, Ecosystem Growth – TuneLab
Eli Lilly

Nandhini Rajagopal

Principal Scientist, Computational Biophysics
Genentech

Pranav Khade

Scientist, Computational Biologics Design
Gilead Sciences

Rizki Mardian

Principal Scientist, Protein Design and Informatics
GSK

Lindsay Hammack

Associate Principal Scientist
Merck

Arup Mondal

Expert II Data Science
Novartis

Jiayi Cox

Associate Director - AI/ML Biologics
Takeda

Richard Taylor

Director, CADD
UCB

Techbio Torchbearers & Biotech Innovators

Frank Teets

Head, Computational Science
AI Proteins

Stefania Evoli

Application Scientist
Insilico Medicine

Noam Katz

Director, ML & ISR Site Lead
Insitro

David Longo

Chief Executive Officer
Ordaos Bio

Gábor Oroszlán

Senior Manager, Miniprotein Platform
VRG Therapeutics

Pioneering Academics & Research Institutes

Curtis Walton

Director - Automation & Process Optimization
Institute for Protein Innovation

Fanglei Xue

Post-Doctorate, Baker Lab
University of Washington

Partners

Ryan Peckner

Forward Deployed Scientist
Chai Discovery

Anna Chase

Senior Business Development Executive
Converge Bio

Ammar Arsiwala

Director - Antibody Production & Characterization
Ginkgo Bioworks Inc.

Rich Cohen

Senior Director, Datapoints Antibody Product Management
Ginkgo Datapoints

Seth Ritter

Senior Biological Engineer 2, AI/ML
Ginkgo Datapoints
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