Britte Bouchaut is a researcher and lecturer at Delft University of Technology. Her research interest lies in the ethics of biotechnology and chemistry, and how we can work towards safer and more sustainable industries e.g. by means of Safe-by-Design and Responsible Research and Innovation. Britte was trained as a chemical analyst (BSc.) and studied Innovation Sciences (MSc.) at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD degree (cum laude) at the Biotechnology & Society group at TU Delft, researching how we can learn what uncertain risks and uncertainties associated with emerging biotechnologies entail, in a safe and responsible way ( T-TRIPP project). Currently, she is involved in the EU H2020 WATER MINING project as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft.

Amy te Plate-Church joined The Center for Food Integrity in 2015, with a mission to help build trust and develop market acceptance for new innovation and modern food production and farming practices. Prior to CFI, Amy worked nearly 20 years with a cattle breeding cooperative working in traditional genetic selection, genomic selection and adoption of new breeding strategies. Today, Amy works with businesses and farm groups to create and carry out trust-building communication strategies related to sustainability, animal welfare, adoption of gene editing and acceptance of modern agricultural practices. In her work with the CFI Coalition for Responsible Use of Gene Editing in Agriculture, Amy led an analysis of research around consumer perceptions of gene editing and biotechnology, and she has facilitated sessions on technology acceptance for animal and crop producers, U.S. and global regulatory officials, plant breeders, researchers and other audiences. Amy was raised on an Iowa dairy farm and is a graduate of Iowa State University, where she earned degrees Ag Journalism and Animal Science.

María Luz Zapiola is the Scientific Affairs Manager at ArgenBio, Argentina. She is passionate about communicating challenging concepts in an easy language. She is in charge of the technical content developed for publications, web pages and social networks of ArgenBio and topics related to Biotechnology in Infoalimentos. She is responsible of the “train the trainers program” of ArgenBio, training 1000-1200 trainers per year. María Luz also teaches seminars and classes within graduate programs. Together with ArgenBio´s Communications department, she generates materials to answer concerns of different publics regarding biotechnology, agricultural systems, agrochemicals and glyphosate, among others. These resources are then used in role-playing workshops with communicators and influencers regarding answering difficult questions. Also, she actively participates in the IRM (Insect Resistance Management) program, which generates and communicates management recommendations or the technologies. María Luz is and Agronomist from the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), with a Master of Science (specialization in crop ecophysiology) and a PhD (specialization in crop science and genetics) from Oregon State University (OSU), USA. As a complement to her vast teaching and research activities at UCA and OSU, she also worked in technology development in the private sector, both in crop protection and agronomic systems and sustainability.

Dr. Meng Wang is the Transparency Lead at Bayer Crop Science, responsible for building public trust and societal technology acceptance by creating transparency and promoting science-based dialogue. She has a Ph.D. in Vision Science from University of Houston and an MBA from Webster University. After doing research as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wang joined Bayer in 2005 and has had various leadership roles in Crop Science Research and Development, particularly in regulatory strategy and operations. Passionate about developing people and promoting diversity and inclusion at the workplace, she served as the Chair of Bayer Regulatory Science Mentoring Program and the President of Bayer Asian Society in America, St. Louis Chapter.