Cassandra Padbury

Cassandra identifies opportunities and realises the value of ideas. With over 20 years in R&D and deeptech consulting, she delivers impact by foreseeing change and navigating emerging technology. Working across FMCG, healthcare, energy and industrial sectors she leads projects to enable her clients to meet their strategic ambitions. As a Fellow on the World Economic Forum's flagship initiative to accelerate the global transition to a bio-based economy she works with leaders from government, business, academia, research organisations and civil society to align on collective actions to embrace engineering biology as a key commercial technology Passionate about being part of a global team of engineers, scientists, designers and consultants helping some of the worldâ€™s leading organisations and most ambitious start-ups to realise their technology-based aspirations.

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Capgemini

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Wednesday

May 07

Making It Happen: Accelerating the Global Bioeconomy:

4:30 PM

5:15 PM

This panel will bring together leaders across industry, public sector and the community to examine the systemic barriers slowing the bioeconomy’s growth and ask, “What best practices are we seeing to unlock progress?” Despite breakthroughs in synbio—including recent our findings showing 96% of businesses are advancing biosolutions—progress remains stalled by discovery costs, scaling challenges, regulatory uncertainty, and investment bottlenecks. Join this session to understand how these challenges are being overcome to ensure synbio moves from future predictions to large-scale impact. The discussion will focus on tangible actions to accelerate this transition and realize the full economic promise of the bioeconomy.