Kimberly Kupiecki is a keynote speaker, sustainability expert, and working mother of three. Kupiecki was voted the Top 100 People to Watch in 2023 by Twin Cities Business Magazine, and has held prominent leadership roles in sustainability, communications, and engineering for over two decades.

She serves on the board of Great River Greening and the advisory board of the Brave Blue World Foundation and is a member of the Minnesota Women’s Economic Roundtable. She holds patents in Adaptive Temperature Controls and has been published within the clean technology industry.

Kupiecki is currently the senior director of business development at Ginkgo Bioworks. Prior to Ginkgo, she was the director and global leader of sustainability, advocacy, and communications for Dupont Water Solutions. She earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and Master of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business.