Artificial intelligence is skyrocketing – increasing the speed of work, raising productivity and providing new tools to help manufacturers scale their products safely and efficiently. There are few industries that stand to benefit from this revolution like the life sciences, where patient health and quality of life depends on the speedy delivery of breakthrough vaccines, therapies and cures.

As the world becomes more digital, companies are looking for ways to incorporate tools like artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics, and robotics into their daily processes, and the life sciences industry is following suit. In the fourth edition of the Horizons: Life Sciences report, data collected from more than 500 industry professionals reveals that most companies are budgeting for AI, yet remain behind in fully integrating Industry 4.0 technologies.

We are joined on this episode by CRBers Ryan Thompson, Senior Specialist of Industry 4.0; Niranjan Kulkarni, PhD, Senior Director of Consulting; and Peter Walters, Fellow, Advanced Therapies. They address the risks of adopting Industry 4.0 technologies, how those tools can be useful in producing treatments efficiently, and what tools and strategies are worth applying today.

For a deeper dive into the industry’s embrace of Industry 4.0, download your copy of the 2023 Horizons: Life Sciences report.

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CRB’s team of experts surveyed 150 professionals in the alternative protein industry to understand the critical trends driving this market. Product rollout timing, contractor partnerships, facility scale-up, and sustainability decisions are currently affecting companies in this space. This CRB Horizons Podcast episode provides another perspective on the data; an industry leader gives her take on our findings.

Brittany Sambol, Vice President of Operations at Wildtype, Brittany Sambol is the Vice President of Operations at Wildtype, an organization that grows sushi-grade salmon from the cultivated cells of healthy fish. Based on her operations experience in the food and beverage industry, and now the alternative proteins space, Brittany is uniquely positioned to contextualize our report data with personal experience. She shares her views on four of the topics captured in the Horizons report:

Brittany discusses this with Sebastian Bohn, Sub-Market Leader of Alternative Proteins, a main contributor to this Horizons report.

Data from the 2023 Horizons: Alternative Proteins report shows that alternative protein manufacturers see the benefits of sustainability but lack a plan. 

Why sustainability? Traditional meat production has negative environmental impacts, and consumers are concerned. Alternative protein manufacturers recognize this opportunity and are motivated to produce a more humane and less resource-intensive product. Illustrating this is the fact that more than half of the companies we surveyed have sustainability budgets; what’s surprising, though, is that many companies don’t have goals or plans around sustainability. 

In this episode, CRBers Sebastian Bohn, Sub-Market Leader of Alternative Proteins; Tony Moses, Ph.D., Director of Product Innovation and Fellow; Jason Robertson, Vice President of Food and Beverage; Aaron Kilstofte, Industrial Food and Beverage Team Mechanical Engineer; and Maya Dehart, Energy and Sustainability Specialist talk about additional challenges beyond goal setting and planning that keep companies from pursuing sustainability as well as their advice for getting started despite these challenges. 

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Links referenced in the episode:

“Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds”

“Climate change: Do I need to stop eating meat?”

“Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds”

The survey conducted for CRB’s 2023 Horizons: Alternative Proteins report comes with three big trends for the industry. In this episode, we’re joined by CRBers Sebastian Bohn, Sub-Market Leader of Alternative Proteins; Tony Moses, Ph.D., Director of Product Innovation and Fellow; and Jason Robertson, Vice President of Food and Beverage.

Download your copy of the 2023 Horizons: Alternative Proteins report.

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This podcast is an extension of CRB’s Horizons reports. CRB’s Horizons reports are published biannually and built on the survey results of hundreds of industry leaders in the life sciences and food and beverage industries. We bring you the trends each season with new report findings, so you can determine what they mean for your business.

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