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Workshop Recordings

Edited public clips from the May 8, 2026 cultivated meat cost workshop, plus links to the highlights digest and summary notes.

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What is here: the public parts of Session 1 and Session 3, edited into shorter clips with title/stinger polish. Session 2 was off-record and is summarized only at a high level on the Summary page.

For a faster route through the substance, start with the Highlights Digest. It groups the strongest notes around gene editing, hydrolysates, growth factors, and animal welfare funding implications.

Session 1

S1-01 11:35

Intro and framing

Public opening, focal question framing, and the workshop method.

S1-02 23:23

Technical foundations discussion

Cells, gene editing, media assumptions, and cost structure.

S1-03 15:27

Hydrolysates presentation

Aleksandra Fuchs on hydrolysate-based media substitution and cost implications.

S1-04 13:11

Media and scale discussion

Growth factors, hydrolysates, cell-density metrics, and scale-up constraints.

S1-05 4:20

Beliefs walkthrough and wrap

How the beliefs questions connect to the model and workshop synthesis.

Session 3 public portion

S3-01 07:04

Intro and recap

Recap and synthesis framing for the public portion of Session 3.

S3-01B 1:41

Academia-industry excerpt

David Reinstein and Claire Bomkamp on the limits of academic analysis, open science, and industry learning.

S3-02 8:41

Funding debate part 1

Public versus private research constraints and funding priorities.

S3-03 10:12

Investment and social return

Public capital, philanthropic capital, and social-return framing.

S3-03B 5:39

Taste theme splice

A focused clip on sensory quality and taste in cultivated-meat development.

S3-04 10:27

Bridge to synthesis

Final debate segment before structured synthesis prompts.

S3-05 5:59

Synthesis setup

Transition into the structured synthesis and reflection prompts.

S3-06 11:14

Beliefs and synthesis discussion

Belief updates, synthesis prompts, and remaining uncertainty.

S3-07 06:53

Next steps and wrap

Follow-up proposals, collaboration directions, and closing discussion.

Pre-workshop preparation videos

These older Zoom walkthroughs were prepared before the workshop and remain useful for context, but the edited workshop recordings above are the current public video set.