Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit

The Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit, organized by Hanson Wade, is a premier high-level industry summit dedicated to scaling cultivated meat and seafood production technologies toward cost parity and commercial viability. The 2025 edition in Boston united 150+ leaders from cellular agriculture biotech startups, food technology innovators, major food corporations, ingredient suppliers, institutional investors, and government regulators to tackle critical challenges in cell culture optimization, bioprocess engineering, downstream processing, product quality standards, and regulatory strategy. Participants include Chief Scientific Officers, Chief Technology Officers, and Vice Presidents of Research and Development addressing technical hurdles in culture media costs, bioreactor design, and scalable production systems. The summit emphasizes candid problem-solving, strategic partnerships, and scientific rigor essential to building a viable cultivated protein sector that decarbonizes global food systems and achieves climate impact.