Executive Director Tom McKeag moderated a panel “Harnessing Biology for Novel Manufacturing” at the ARPA-E Innovation Summit in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2017. Participating in the panel were Dr. Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor, Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , Mr. Gavin McIntyre, co-founder and CTO of Evocative, and Mr. Prasad Boradker, professor of design at Arizona State University, director of InnovationSpace and co-director of the Biomimicry Center at ASU. Dr. Joesph Rollin coordinated the event in anticipation of an open call for proposals in 2018.