| Co-Founder and CEO, Ecovative | | http://www.zwc.ca/archive/2020/speakers/Eben Bayer | Co-Founder and CEO, Ecovative | | | | <div class="ExternalClass7572709688E54C5CB01D4916528B6ABF"><p>Eben Bayer, Co-Founder of Ecovative Design, leads the biomaterials company to grow
high performance, premium, award-winning products that are safe, healthy, and
certified sustainable. Bayer, who grew up working on his family’s Vermont farm, is a
pioneer in leveraging mycelium—"nature's glue”—in Mushroom® Materials to drive
sustainable innovation in the industrial sector. Eben uses biology to solve important
environmental challenges by leading Ecovative to grow safe and healthy new
materials as well as envisioning creative ways to use natural technology at industrial
scales and in consumer applications. Eben shares his vision for a future powered by
biology around the world, including presentations at TED Global, PopTech, and Davos.
Eben has led Ecovative to be widely recognized including as a World Economic Forum
Tech Pioneer, a U.S.EPA Environmental Quality Award winner, and Buckminster Fuller
Institute socially responsible design designee. Bayer is the primary inventor on more
than 10 patents published in over 30 countries. In addition to overseeing the
emergence of a new materials science at Ecovative, and promoting a more circular
economy, Bayer is realizing his vision of building and operating an off- grid home and
farm, while also exploring other creative uses of biology.</p></div> | http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/SpeakersPhotos/EbenBayer.jpg, Eben Bayer | GP0|#61614abe-17f4-4e47-ac56-442b1939d535;L0|#061614abe-17f4-4e47-ac56-442b1939d535|Eben Bayer;GTSet|#c31bcefc-bba8-4775-8a91-82f54b19d6e1;GPP|#d4606ea2-a17f-44c9-8c88-c038bb814434 | | Eben | Bayer |
