G-dcast founder Sarah Lefton uses modern media and technology (apps, animation, and more) to create Jewish educational resources.

Bay Area culture is about disruption and extreme innovation, affecting all aspects of our lives, including the food we eat. Learn about how innovators are imagining how we might eat in the future, with panelists Megan Miller, Bitty Foods (cricket flour foods); Ben Rupert, Real Vegan Cheese (dairy-free cheese); Barb Stuckey, Mattson (new food & beverage products); and journalist Anne Schukat (contributor, The Economist) moderating.

Megan Miller is cofounder of Bitty Foods, a San Francisco-based company that makes delicious, healthy foods with cricket flour. The name might be Bitty, but their mission is huge. The company aims to alleviate stress on the global food system by introducing edible insects as a sustainable protein source to help feed billions of people. Megan’s food innovation work has received accolades in publications including the New York Times, Elle, Vogue, Men’s Health and Outside Magazine, and Bitty Foods was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies of 2014.

Ben Rupert is a volunteer with the Real Vegan Cheese biohacking project and an animal rights activist. He is also a PhD chemist who has worked on various renewable energy, energy storage, and nuclear non-proliferation technologies. He currently works on non-flammalbe lithium-ion batteries in his day job.

Anne Schukat is a contributor to The Economist'sTechnology Quarterly, writing about clean tech, energy and bioscience. Her work has also appeared in Fortune, Fodor's Travel Guides, and other publications. When she is not on assignment she loves traveling the world, exploring nature, and the cultural and artistic treasures of humankind.

Barb Stuckey has been at Mattson since 1997, and is currently Chief Innovation Officer at the country’s largest independent developer of foods and beverages for the chain restaurant and retail foods industries. Barb is known as a taste, food trend, innovation, consumer insights, and product development expert.

Gallery chats associated with NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Technology are short lunchtime talks with notable speakers about the art in the exhibition.

Jim Campbell pushes the boundaries of visual comprehension with his LED projections. He discusses the science behind his process.

Gallery chats associated with NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Technology are short lunchtime talks with notable speakers about the art in the exhibition.

Artist Micah Elizabeth Scott discusses her sculpture in NEAT. Scott explores the boundaries between technology, society, and creative expression, using her unique perspective to illuminate what makes us human. Scott's work applies new media techniques with a careful eye to the details of how the underlying technologies work. She often creates new technologies for a particular project, and prefers not just using the technology to tell a story but making the technology itself and our relationship to it part of the story.