Speakers

Dr. Rishita Changede turns high‑impact biotech into low‑stress farming. A PhD from NUS with 800+ citations, she was set for a spotless research career—until a trip home to India showed her farms, barns, ponds drowning in needles, toxic inputs and debt. She thought: “We had all this science locked up in journals while farmers were losing everything to problems we could solve.”

Combining her deep scientific expertise with an Executive MBA, she founded Teora in 2020 to turn complex biology into simple, farm-ready solutions. Teora's proprietary platform SOLAQ™, uses advanced biotechnology to turn nature's own power houses— “Peptides and microbes” into feed‑ready and spray‑ready biologics any farmer can use to slash disease, accelerate growth, and protect food—without harming the farmed species, their profitability, consumers or the planet's health. 

Under Rishita’s hands‑on leadership the company has won the Liveability Challenge, reached UN SDG finals, won many awards and delivered 90 % survival in aquaculture where 30 % was normal. Scientist, vegetarian, farm‑boot regular, she measures success not in awards but in farmers' smiles, people's health and in doing good for the planet. 

As Teora expands globally—from Asian shrimp ponds to global croplands, from poultry farms to pet food—Rishita remains anchored to her philosophy : Science is only as good as the lives it improves.  By remembering that “behind every formula is a farmer. Behind every harvest is a family. Behind every innovation is a choice—to serve or to sell.”  Teora will always choose to serve.