On April 14, 2026, Bio-Strategies & Leadership at the Hoover Institution will convene ~300 action-oriented leaders at Stanford for the inaugural Bio Leadership Summit, a one-day event designed to elevate biotechnology culturally and politically, and to speak frankly regarding what biotech leadership looks like across the most important domains of strategic impact.
We are looking for leaders—up and coming or established, with or without a biotechnology background—who have a track record of turning ideas into outcomes to participate. If you would like to nominate yourself of others to participate, please do so below.
Confirmed speakers and moderators for the event include:
Sec. Condoleezza Rice - Director and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution
Lee Lilley - Secretary of Commerce for the State of North Carolina
Emily Leproust - CEO and Co-Founder of Twist Bioscience
Jennifer Cochran - Vice President for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and for Strategic Initiatives, Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University
Matt Pottinger - Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution
Doug Friedman - Founder and CEO of BioMADE
Nadia Schadlow - National Security Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Christina Smolke - CEO & Co-Founder of Antheia
Brian Hie - Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University and Innovation Investigator, Arc Institute
Ezhil Subbian - CEO and Co-Founder of String Bio and Co-Chair for the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Generative Biology
Matt McKnight - General Manager of Biosecurity at Ginkgo Bioworks
Sam Rodriques - CEO and Co-Founder of FutureHouse
Kate Adamala - Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota
Stephen Kotkin - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Keith Wood - CEO and Co-Founder of Light Bio
Manu Prakash - Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University
Drew Endy - Science & Senior Fellow (Courtesy) of Hoover Institution and Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University and Co-Founder and President of biotic (501(c)3)
Steve Quake - Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and of Applied Physics at Stanford University, Past Head of Science for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Alicia Jackson - Director, ARPA-H
Gerald Parker- Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response & Associate Dean for Global One Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall- Former United States Homeland Security Advisor & Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Sam Levin- Co-Founder and CTO of Neion Bio
Grey Frandsen- CEO of Flyttr
Jaime Yassif - Senior Advisor and former Bio Vice President for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
Filippa Lentzos - Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and the NGO Coordinator for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Emily Clise Tully - Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Vice President of National Technology Strategy at In-Q-Tel
Jenny Rooke - Managing Director of Genoa Ventures
Natalie Kuldell - Founder and President of BioBuilder Educational Foundation
And others still to be announced
For questions about the event, please contact Sarah Moront at smoront@stanford.edu.
