As the need for climate-positive food production grows, we are proud to introduce the Agoro Carbon Alliance. Watch the global launch event that was live-streamed on June 8, 2021 to learn how the Agoro Carbon Alliance is supporting decarbonizing the global food value chain.

Panel Discussion 2 in the NSF Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) - Pandemic Readiness for Emerging Pathogens (PREP) Workshop.

What do ants have to do with self-driving cars? How might the giant monkey frog of the Amazon help to solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance? Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Founder and Chairman of SpaceTime Ventures, explains why the Amazon basin holds the key to unlocking a bio-economic revolution potentially worth trillions of dollars – and explores the three challenges that must be overcome.

Blockchain technology can do more than underpin crypto-currencies—it could help save the Amazon rainforest by stopping so called “biopirates” from plundering its biological riches. If it works, more money could be made by preserving the rainforest than cutting it down.

Autonomous vehicles controlled by software based on swarming ants, and blood pressure drugs informed by snake venom, are just two examples presented by Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Chairman of Space Time Ventures in Brazil, of how nature in the Amazon has inspired technology.