Marina Studart is a biologist holding a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from ETH Zurich, with over 15 years of extensive experience in the biotechnology sector. Passionate about bridging the gap between scientific innovation and commercial applications, Marina has the goal to bring innovative and highest-quality products to the market.

Food Brewer is a Swiss startup having a proprietary technology to cultivate plant cells in closed bioreactors, offering sustainable and cost-effective solutions to produce food ingredients at scale. This technology allows for the production of food biomass throughout the year independent from climate zones and with the highest and consistent quality. Food Brewer’s current portfolio covers brewed cocoa, coffee, sustainable fats, and proteins, possibly extending to other plants and applications. With a strong and specialized team and extensive expertise in plant cellular agriculture, Food Brewer has the goal to enable reliable access to food resources and the enjoyment of food with full pleasure.

Dr. Jamie Allen (PhD) is a researcher and artist, occupied with the infrastructures which sustain life. His work has been exhibited internationally, from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin to the American Museum of Natural History in New York to the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea. He teaches, lectures, and leads workshops widely, engaging with and working to create collaborative contexts that acknowledge how care, attachment, and love are central to knowledge practices like art and research. He likes to make things with his head and hands – investigations into infrastructural and material media, energy, and information systems as public-making projects.

Jamie’s work is concerned with the potential for creative and media practices to ally themselves with global justice and food systems practices, agriculture, and engineering research toward more ecologically and ethically sound ways of feeding the planet.

Dr. Melina Teubner is a Postdoc researcher at the Department of History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Trained as a historian, Teubner works on topics including Latin American food history, especially chicken production and consumption, its global commodity chain, food regimes, and agricultural development in contemporary history. Melina Teubner is one of the Principal Investigators for the research project “Turning Land into Capital. Historical Periods of (Re)Production of Wealth in Latin America from the 19th to the 21st Century,” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2023, she received a Postdoc Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Foundation to study the changes in urban chicken consumption in Mercosul countries since 1990.

Her project investigates the significant increase in chicken consumption in different Mercosul cities. Using historical and ethnographic research, she is trying to understand why people have incorporated chicken into their diets to such an extent and what role global factors, particularly the local chicken industry, have played in changing eating habits.