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Chara Diaz is the Department Manager of Element’s Hopkinton, Massachusetts laboratory, a facility that focuses primarily on EV cell performance testing. She has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with an emphasis on renewable energy from San Jose State University and has worked in many facets of the battery industry from coating and cell building to testing. Chara comes to Element with experience in data analysis for various OEMs ranging from consumer electronics to electric vehicles.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium

Dr. Daniel Abraham conducts research on lithium batteries used in electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and grid energy storage. He has authored over 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals and delivered over 350 technical presentations in popular, academic, and industrial settings. His work enables the development of materials and components that enhance battery performance, life, and safety. Dr. Abraham is also a research advisor and mentor to various undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and junior scientists. He has received awards for “exceptional work in developing the next generation of scientists and engineers.”

• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market

William has been involved in the metals markets since 1986, he runs the research for Fastmarkets battery metals and oversees base and precious metals research. Fastmarkets as a Price Reporting Agency (PRA) provides price discovery on the battery raw materials and Fastmarkets Research aims to provide a clear and focused understanding of the metals markets. Prior to working for Fastmarkets, William worked with Rudolf Wolff & Co Ltd, which was one of the founding members of the London Metal Exchange, where he gained broad insight into all aspects of the metals markets, working in their London, New York and Tokyo offices.

• Global Battery Raw Materials

Philipp Adelhelm is a professor for physical chemistry at Humboldt-University Berlin. His current main interest is research on sustainable batteries. After studying materials science at the University of Stuttgart, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (department of Professor Antionetti / Smarsly, 2005-2007) for his doctoral project. This was followed by a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Utrecht (Professor de Jongh) and then a position as a junior research group leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Professor Janek, 2009-2015). From 2015-2019 he was a professor at the Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has been a professor at the Institute for Chemistry at Humboldt-University since 2019, and heads a joint research group on operando battery analysis at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB).

• TUT10: Sodium-ion Batteries (instructor will be presenting virtually)

Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Alavi is currently a Battery State Estimation Engineer at FCA US LLC since April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK and at Shahid Beheshti University in Iran. From 2009 to 2017, he worked as a researcher at several universities, including the University of Oxford and Duke University. He received B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Iran in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Limerick in Ireland in 2009. His research interest includes the design of condition monitoring and control systems for transportation electrification and neural engineering.

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Dr. Amouzegar is a lead senior researcher at Hydro-QuEbec's Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage (CETEES). He worked as scientist at Hydro-Quebec research institute, IREQ, on the development and scale up of several innovative and patented electrochemical and chemical processes between 1995 and 2001. He worked as VP of Technology at SAM Electron Technologies (a spin-off from the HQ Cerium oxidation electrochemical process applied to the production of vitamin K) as well as Director of R&D and Head of Innovation at Lonza, a multinational pharmaceutical company before joining the CETEES in 2015. He studied pharmacy at the Complutense University in Madrid and completed his Master’s degree and his PhD at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal in electrochemistry (electrocatalysis). He has more than 25 years of experience in R&D, scale up and commercial operation of electrochemical processes. The main focus of his current activities is on the development of lithium batteries materials as well as recycling of lithium batteries.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

I am a Divisional Manager at Piper Maddox, heading up our Battery Storage team with a special focus on battery manufacturing/R&D. I have been fully embedded within this industry for the past 5 years, and have developed a passion for not only the industry, but helping individuals and businesses continue to grow and succeed. Batteries are the future of transportation and a more stable, sustainable grid. It's crucial that we build out a better supply chain- not only of batteries and their materials, but of individuals able to innovate and manufacture them as well.

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Mr. Anstey is the CEO/Founder of GDI. He has over a decade of experience as an entrepreneur, globally commercializing technologies in energy storage and advanced materials. He is a co-inventor on >15 patent filings, and 7 issued patents. He works on technologies that fight climate change, and focuses on the intersection between manufacturing, strategy, and business development. Mr. Anstey is a proponent of open innovation and accelerating technology development through partnerships. 

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium

Zubin Arora is the Global Market Manager at TotalEnergies Fluids in charge of Battery Recycling. He has robust international experience - India, Canada, and France - and an education in Engineering, Economics, and MBA. His career highlights include a pivotal role in Innovation and Development including 2 patents underscoring his innovative contributions to sustainable technology. Notably, one of these patents is Low-carbon Footprint Bio-diluents for Solvent Extraction in Lithium-ion Battery Recycling. 

• Battery Recycling Symposium

Dr. Brian Barnett founded Battery Perspectives, LLC which provides consulting services related to battery technology and battery safety. Dr. Barnett has extensive experience in assessment, development and commercialization of battery technology. He is recognized as both a technical and industry expert related to batteries and an expert in battery safety and has directed a series of successful lab-based, highly multidisciplinary battery technology development programs that resulted in technology licensing or sale.

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Dr. Brian Barnett serves as CTO for Nyobolt and leads the company's US operations. Dr. Barnett has extensive experience in development and commercialization of battery technology. He is recognized as both a technical and industry expert related to batteries and an expert in battery safety and has directed a series of successful lab-based, highly multidisciplinary battery technology development programs that resulted in technology licensing, spin-off or sale.

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium

Mr. Beaty is President of YUNEV LLC, where he consults and advises corporations, government organizations, institutional investors, startups, and other privately held firms. Prior to forming YUNEV, Mr. Beaty held a series of executive, technology and business leadership roles at CALSTART, Eaton Corporation (NYSE: ETN), Woodward Controls (NASDAQ: WWD), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). His innovative career record includes launching and managing advanced powertrain products and businesses in the commercial vehicle industry. Mr. Beaty works on E-Mobility and Smart Mobility programs in the commercial vehicle industry, with a special focus on building a more efficient battery supply chain. Under his leadership, strategic businesses within Eaton, Woodward and SwRI experienced profitable growth resulting from Mr. Beaty’s skills in commercializing new powertrain technologies and building collaborative partnerships with leading global Truck/Bus/Engine OEMs, Tier 1 Suppliers, and Fleet customers.

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Jeremy Bedine is Head of Product, North America for Volvo Energy. He is responsible for the developing the product strategy and implementation of Volvo Group’s energy storage offering in North America. Jeremy has over 15 years of experience developing solutions and leading operations in grid reliability, renewable energy and energy storage. Prior to joining Volvo, Jeremy worked for Tesla, where he played in integral role in developing the roadmap for Tesla’s commercial energy storage service offering. He was responsible for planning service delivery, structuring Long Term Service Agreements with utilities and power producers, and managing contract compliance across Tesla’s global portfolio of commercial energy sites. Jeremy earned a BA in Economics from Brown University and an MS in Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University.

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Lukasz Bednarski is an associate director at IHS Markit. He covers battery materials market with particular focus on lithium, graphite, manganese, cathodes, and anodes materials. Lukasz has worked in the commodity sector spanning physical trading, training, product management, and research. Prior to joining, his interest in battery materials led to the development of an independent industry portal covering the sector. In addition to his degree in economics and business administration from Aalborg University, Lukasz has studied financial topics in China, Russia, Germany, and Liechtenstein. He is the author of popular non-fiction book "Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution.”

• Global Battery Raw Materials

Dr. Ilias Belharouak is a Distinguished Scientist and the Leader of the Battery Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Group in the Energy and Transportation Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee. Dr. Belharouak also serves as a Professor of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Before joining ORNL, he was a Research Director and the Founding Chief Scientist of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Center in Qatar Foundation. He was a Material Scientist and Battery Expert in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Illinois. Dr. Belharouak is currently an Editor of the Elsevier’s Journal of Power Sources. He was recognized with several awards including R&D-100 innovation awards and topical society awards. Dr. Belharouak authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, 30 US Patents and Applications, 5 books, and holds an h-index of 55.

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Dr. Belov has made groundbreaking achievements in the innovation of Li ion battery technology. In particular, advancements in electrolyte materials and battery safety technology. He conducted R&D projects for innovative Li ion battery electrolyte materials at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. 
Dr. Belov holds a Ph.D. in polymer science from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences.

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium

Kimberly recently joined SFA Oxford (UK) as Principal Consultant, specializing in energy transition materials and related commodities and has researched, written/co-written and published numerous major papers and reports on lithium-ion and next-gen battery technologies, alternative fuels, electric vehicles, stationary power storage and the deglobalisation of battery supply chains. Previously, she worked at BMO Capital Markets and developed the firm’s proprietary industry knowledge around energy transition technologies and completed a short term contract for the World Bank to develop battery raw material policy recommendations for the DRC to develop its cobalt industry.

• Global Battery Raw Materials

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• Global Battery Raw Materials

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• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications

JACQUELYN BIRDSALL, SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER Jacquelyn Birdsall is the Senior Engineering Manager of the Fuel Cell Integration Group at Toyota Motor North America Research and Development. The mission of her group is to improve quality of life for all by developing fuel cell solutions to replace gasoline and diesel engines. Prior to joining Toyota in 2012 Birdsall held several roles in the automotive industry. She has over twenty years of experience in hydrogen, including a thirteen-month assignment at the Toyota Motor Corporation Global Headquarters in Japan working on the 2021 Toyota Mirai. In addition to her activities in hydrogen, Birdsall takes personal interest in promoting STEM learning and diversity within the industry. In 2015 she was honored by the Manufacturing Institute as an Emerging Leader and by Automotive News as Rising Star. Birdsall received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University (previously General Motors Institute). LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiebirdsall Twitter: @Jackie_Birdsall

• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Somasekhar (“Soma”) Bobba, is Global Technical Manager, Automotive at SABIC’s Specialties business. He helps OEMs/tiers find and implement innovative thermoplastic solutions for auto applications.

With 16+ years in the industry, Soma has 26 invention disclosures with 17 issued patents and has published multiple articles. He is vice chair of the SAE Polymers & Coatings committee and a session organizer for the SAE World Congress & Exhibition.

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Dr. Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He leads the modeling, control, and systems activities in many biopharmaceutical manufacturing efforts at MIT, including for vaccines, gene therapy, and monoclonal antibodies. Most activities are in automated process development workflows and modeling, design, and control of fully automated modular manufacturing unit operations and end-to-end systems, which are experimentally validated. He has consulted or collaborated with more than 25 companies including Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Biogen, Sanofi, and Amgen. Honors include the AIChE PD2M Award for Outstanding Contribution to QbD for Drug Substance, the AIChE Separation Division Innovation Award, the AIChE Excellence in Process Development Research Award, the Research Collaboration Award from the Council for Chemical Research, and the IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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Mr. Brown began his work with battery technologies developing a solar-electric race car at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering.  Over the last two decades he developed production battery pack systems for four OEMs and was awarded three patents.  Today Mr. Brown is Vice President Global Product Management at Dukosi, bringing revolutionary chip-on-cell BMS products to the market.

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

My primary research interests are in the fields of solid state chemistry and electrochemistry; particularly solid state ionics, which embraces ionically conducting solids and intercalation compounds. I am interested in the fundamental science of ionically conducting solids (ceramic and polymeric materials) and intercalation compounds, in the synthesis of new materials with new properties or combinations of properties, in understanding these properties and in exploring their applications in new devices, especially energy storage devices such as rechargeable lithium batteries. Although ionically conducting solids represent the starting point for much of our research, we have extended our interests well beyond the confines of this subject alone.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

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• TUT8: Sustainability in the Automotive Battery Value Chain

Ratnakumar Bugga (Kumar), is Senior Fellow at Lyten, San Jose, developing lithium-sulfur batteries for EVs. Previously, Dr. Bugga spent  34 years at NASA/JPL as Principal Technologist. researching various advanced battery technologies for planetary missions, e.g., lithium and  lithium-ion batteries high temperature batteries for Venus, low-temperature batteries for Mars, and solid electrolyte batteries. He was the battery lead for the successful Mars Rover missions and supported several NASA missions.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Dr. Mei Cai is the director of Battery Cell Systems Research at General Motors Global R&D Center. She is responsible for technology innovations in advanced battery materials/chemistries for future electric vehicles. Mei has 25 years of industrial R&D experience including extensive experience in novel materials processing for automotive applications. She has managed multi-million-dollar R&D projects in the development of low-cost and durable vehicular energy storage materials and systems. Mei was recognized as the 2021 Women of Color Technologist of the Year and 2018 Asian American Engineer of the Year for her contributions in fundamental research and technology development. She is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications and holds 118 issued US patents.

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Yunhong Che received the B.E. and M.S. degrees in the College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree with the Department of Energy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was a visiting PhD student with the Institute of Civil Engineering at EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA, in 2023. His research interests include battery health estimation and prediction, fault diagnostics, physics-informed machine learning in modeling and prognostics, and smart health management for energy storage systems.

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Dr. Yong Che is the Co-founder and CTO of Enpower Greentech Inc. He earned the master's and doctoral degrees in Electrochemistry from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Dr. Che holds a portfolio of more than 80 patented inventions. With over 20 years of research and leadership experience in the battery industry, spanning Japan, China, and the United States. Dr. Che currently leads the R&D and industrilization activities on the next-Gen batteries, including lithium metal batteries and all-solid-state batteries. 

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Dr. Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor in NanoEngineering and Program of Chemical Engineering at UC San Diego. Chen has received the NASA’s 2018 Early Career Faculty Award, the LG Chem Global Battery Innovation Contest (BIC) Award in 2018, and the 2018 ACF PRF New Investigator Award. He has been selected as a Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation and as a participant of 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE), National Academy of Engineering. He has been also recognized as a 2018 Emerging Investigator of Journal of Materials Chemistry C., Chem. Comm. Emerging Investigator of 2020 and Nanoscale Emerging Investigator of 2021. He has been working on Li-ion battery materials for >10 years, including battery chemistries for extreme temperatures, high energy cathodes, silicon/Li anodes, solid-state batteries and battery recycling. He has published >100 journal papers and holds 10 patents.

• Battery Recycling Symposium

Evelyn has more than 8 years working experience in market research and consulting services. During her service in SMM, she has built strong industry knowledge on Lithium Battery Recycling Sector and related Carbon Footprint insight. Evelyn has built strong consulting experience in both strategic planning and tactic landing, served many fortune 500, global leading players, top Chinese industry companies in market opportunity assessment, new project landing strategy, competitor benchmark, market entry strategy, and supply chain strategy.

• Battery Recycling Symposium

Steven is Co-Founder CEO of ReJoule, an advanced battery diagnostics startup in Southern California. ReJoule is commercializing its patent pending technology, which can grade a battery in minutes rather than hours. Steven was a Standards Technical Panel member on UL1974, the process certification standard for evaluating repurposed batteries. Steven has also been a Power Design Engineer at L-3 Communications, Power Paragon, where he designed and tested military-grade power systems for Navy surface ships and submarines. Steven received a Masters of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto with a specialization in power electronics for automotive battery systems.

• TUT6: Science & Economics for Second-Life Batteries

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• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market

Jason Croy received his PhD in physics from the University of Central Florida where his work focused on the electronic, vibrational, and catalytic properties of mono- and bi-metallic nanoparticle systems. In 2010, Jason joined the Electrochemical Energy Storage Theme at Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago, IL. His work at Argonne focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of high-energy, lithium-ion electrode materials. Dr. Croy is currently the Group Leader of the Materials Research Group at Argonne National Laboratory and the principal investigator of the Department of Energy’s Deep-Dive consortium on “Earth-abundant Cathode Active Materials” (EaCAM) consisting of ~70 scientists and engineers across 6 national laboratories.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium

Dr. Cui is the Fortinet Founders Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Energy Science & Engineering. He is the Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford. He studies the fundamentals of nanomaterials and their applications in batteries, catalysts, wearables, carbon capture, mineral extraction and environmental technology. Cui attended the University of Science and Technology of China for a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He then pursued a PhD in physical chemistry with Charles Lieber at Harvard University, where he worked on silicon nanowires and developed highly sensitive nanoscale sensors. After completing his PhD in 2002, Cui went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Paul Alivisatos. Cui joined the Stanford faculty in 2005. He has published approximately 550 research papers and has an outstanding H-index impact score of 249 (Google Scholar). In 2014, he was ranked #1 in materials science by Thomson Reuters’ “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” In 2022, Cui was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Materials Research Society, Electrochemical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an associate editor of Nano Letters. He is a co-director of the Battery 500 Consortium, and co-director of Stanford’s StorageX Initiative. His selected awards include the Global Energy Prize (2021), U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Award (2020), MRS Medal (2020), and Blavatnik National Laureate (2017). He has founded five companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius (NYSE: AMPX), 4C Air, EEnotech, EnerVenue and LifeLabs Design Inc.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Battery algorithm engineer and data scientist with 6+ years of research and industry experience in Li-ion battery modeling, SOX estimation algorithms design, implementation, and validation for reliability purposes, aiming to apply mathematical modeling, statistical and machine learning, simulation, and control skills to modern BMS SW in EV, eVTOL, and consumer electronics fields; Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering.

• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications

Eric C. Darcy, PhD, has spent his 36-year career at NASA in the areas of battery design, verification, and safety assessments for the rigors of manned spacecraft applications. As Battery Technical Discipline Lead at NASA-JSC, his main objective has been the development of safe, while high-performing, battery systems with a deep focus on understanding, preventing, and mitigating latent defects that could lead to catastrophic cell internal short circuits.

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Since joining the Core States team, Anthony De Vito has brought great enthusiasm to our sustainable energy programs. An avid educator on clean transportation, he takes every opportunity to share his extensive knowledge with colleagues and clients. Anthony’s expertise includes strategic planning, financial analysis, and site auditing for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) and Hydrogen Fueling Stations (HFS). His service-first management approach to providing engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solutions to ZEV programs spans a vast range of markets such as existing and developing fleets for offices, corporations, public parking, medical, retail, hospitality, and multi-unit dwellings. For more information click here: https://www.core-states.com/about-us/anthony-devito/

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium

Shmuel De-Leon, Founder and CEO of Shmuel De-Leon Energy Ltd., is a leading international expert in the business of energy storage. Prior to founding the company, for over 21 years, Shmuel held various positions as an energy storage, electronic engineering, and quality control team manager. Shmuel holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and an M.B.A. in Quality Control and Reliability Engineering from the Technion Institute in Haifa, as well as an Electronic Technician's diploma.

• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications
• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium
• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market
• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium
• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing
• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium
• Battery Recycling Symposium
• Global Battery Raw Materials
• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium
• TUT12: Managing & Understanding the Risks of Li-ion Battery Safety
• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Stefan Debruyne joined SQM in 2005 as Asia-Pacific Sales Director, Lithium and Iodine, where he witnessed firsthand the lithium-ion battery production boom in Asia and the emerging electrification of transportation in China. In his present role as Business Development Director, he is focusing on the engagement with the automotive battery value chain and its stakeholders. Prior to joining SQM in 2005, he held a variety of international commercial roles at different listed companies. He has earned a Business Engineering degree from University of Leuven and an executive MBA from Vlerick Business School. He currently works for SQM as Director of Business Development.

• TUT8: Sustainability in the Automotive Battery Value Chain
• Global Battery Raw Materials

Matt Denlinger is a research engineer at Ford Motor Company’s recently announced Ford Ion Park. He has been working in Lithium-ion battery research since 2009, including 9 years at Ford. During this time, he has focused on battery materials development, safety characterization, and cell design. His current role is centralized on the evaluation and development of next-generation cell technologies for full electric vehicles. Matt also serves as the Technical Advisory Committee Lead for Ford within the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC).

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium
• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market
• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium
• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium
• Battery Recycling Symposium
• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Nathaniel Dick joined the EDPNC (Economic Development Partnership) in November of 2020, bringing with him his knowledge and expertise of the Chinese market. As part of the Business Development team, Nathaniel cultivates business for North Carolina in the North American and Greater China market. Nathaniel is a member of the North Carolina Economic Development Association, a member of the Wake County Economic Development FDI Advisory Committee, as well as serves as the President of the RTP Chapter of the Carolinas Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

Jim earned a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. He has over 25 years’ experience selling electronic test and measurement systems and currently works as a Business Development Manager for Keysight’s electric vehicle powertrain test solutions out of the Automotive Customer Center in Novi, Michigan, USA.

• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market

Dr. Austin Dulaney is the Head of Machine Learning and Data Science at Liminal Insights Inc., a battery manufacturing inspection and intelligence company. At Liminal, Austin is responsible for leading the modeling and data analytics product roadmap for their battery inspection systems. Austin holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from UT Austin and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Caltech. 

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium

Dr. El-Kady is a prominent UCLA scientist known for his contributions to the field of nanotechnology and energy storage. He has made significant advancements in developing new materials and technologies for various applications, including batteries and supercapacitors, electronic devices, medical and healthcare devices, nanogenerators, solar cells and hydrogen cars. El-Kady's exceptional expertise positions him among the top 1% researchers in chemistry and materials science & engineering.

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium

Huazhen Fang is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas, where he joined in 2014 and has led the Information & Smart Systems Laboratory. He received his Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Eng. from the University of California, San Diego in 2014. Prior to that, he received his M.Sc. and B.Eng. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 2009, and Northwestern Polytechnic University, China in 2006, respectively. His research interests lie at the intersections of control theory and machine learning for battery energy storage. He has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2009.

• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications

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• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications

Max Feinauer studied physics at the University of Ulm and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, graduating in 2021. He then joined the Post-Mortem and Aging Mechanisms group of Thomas Waldmann and Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ulm as a research associate. His work focuses on temperature dependent aging mechanisms of Li-ion batteries, such as Li plating and SEI growth, with a special focus on safety testing.

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Alan Ferguson is the Commercial VP for the Americas region at Li-Cycle. In this role, Alan is responsible for establishing partnerships for the supply of battery materials into Li-Cycle facilities and for the marketing of the materials recovered from Li-Cycle processes. Prior to joining Li-Cycle, Alan worked in the electronics recycling and semiconductor industries. Alan holds degrees in both electrical engineering and economics from the University of Waterloo.

• Battery Recycling Symposium

Michael Fetcenko became Executive Chairman for Sion Power in April 2019, after retiring from BASF after 38 years. He was President of Ovonic Battery Company, the inventor of NiMH batteries, when acquired by BASF in 2012. He became Managing Director of BASF Battery Materials, North America, before taking on Director of Global Licensing responsibilities. He is an inventor with over 70 patents and 100 publications in the NiMH and Li-ion field. He is an expert in patents and licensing, with over 40 NiMH licenses, and leads the successful Argonne National Laboratory NCM patent enforcement and licensing effort, which resulted in 14 licenses and sub-licenses. He has led R&D, scale-up, and commercialization, and has had P&L responsibilities. His inventions are used in all NiMH batteries for consumer, stationary, and hybrid vehicle applications, such as the iconic Toyota Prius with over 30 million vehicles on the road. He has served on the Board of Directors and Technical Steering Committee for Sion Power since 2012, a leader in advanced ultra-high energy lithium battery systems, including protected metallic lithium anodes for Li-Ion batteries.

• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

Donal Finegan is a senior scientist at the US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His work focuses on understanding degradation and failure mechanisms of Li-ion batteries and taking steps to improve the performance and safety of cells and battery systems. Through his research, Donal pioneered the application of high-speed X-ray imaging to visualize rapid dynamic mechanisms that occur within Li-ion cells as they undergo thermal runaway. He collaborates extensively with the NASA Johnson Space Center on developing a Fractional Thermal Runaway Calorimeter (FTRC) and compiling data for the Battery Failure Databank, the largest open-source database on thermal runaway data from Li-ion cells. He received his B.Eng in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin (UCD) and a Ph.D in Advanced Diagnostics of Batteries from University College London (UCL).

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Professor Alejandro A. Franco is Full Professor at the UniversitE de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France). He is also Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the leader of the Theory Open Platform at the ALISTORE European Research Institute. He won an ERC consolidator grant for his project ARTISTIC on the digitalization of battery manufacturing processes based on multiscale modeling and artificial intelligence. He also won an ERC Proof of Concept grant for his project SMARTISTIC on the assistance of battery manufacturers using digital technologies. He is/was involved in multiple projects dealing with the use of digitalization to assist battery R&D (e.g. EU PULSELION, EU BIG MAP, EU HELIS, EU POROUS4APP, and bilateral projects between Professor Franco's group and industry). He is the Chairman of the Expert Group “Digitalization, Measurement Methods and Quality” in the LiPLANET battery manufacturing network and he won the French Prize for Pedagogy Innovation 2019 for his use of virtual reality to teach battery sciences. He is the author of more than 140 scientific articles and of more than 120 invited lectures in international conferences.

• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

Advised clients on both short- and long-term growth strategy while bridge-making between Asian-USA/European companies as a management consultant for more than 10 years. Expertise Area: Business strategy, Transformation, Cross border M&A, Business Due Diligence, Alliance advisory & PMI (Post Merger Integration). Industries: Chemical / materials and automotive / auto-parts / aerospace industries including lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle.

• Battery Recycling Symposium

Juan Carlos Galdamez Director of Customer Programs and Operations Juan Carlos Galdamez serves as the Director of Customer Programs and Operations for Plug Power’s NextGen Solutions, where he spearheads the incubation and development of innovative NextGen Hydrogen applications. Previously Mr. Galdamez led the Mobility Product Management efforts at Plug steering the creation of a comprehensive product roadmap for fuel cell products spanning on-road, off-road, and in-air segments. Prior to Joining Plug, Mr. Galdamez served as the Head of Program Management for the Americas at Inmarsat. He led efforts to develop and bring to market satellite in-flight connectivity solutions. In this capacity, he led the seamless delivery and deployment of the company's inaugural direct-to-consumer connectivity solution in Latin America. Prior to his time at Inmarsat, Mr. Galdamez excelled in various leadership roles within the Automotive, Aviation, and Chemical sensing industries. Mr. Galdamez earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, he also earned a Masters in electrical engineering from USC and his MBA from UCLA.

• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

A world-renowned inventor, Dr. Yuan Gao has over 25 years of experience in the complete supply chain of lithium-ion battery industry, from lithium extraction to batteries. One of his inventions, the Ti/Mg technology, enables high voltage lithium-ion batteries and is being practiced today in a vast majority of lithium-ion batteries for small portable electronics such as smart phones and tablets. Dr Yuan Gao joined Pulead Technology in May 2014 and had served as its President and CEO until Sept 2019 and currently he is Vice Chairman of the board. Concurrently he is serving on the Board of Directors of Lithium Americas Corporation. Previously Dr Gao served as a Corporate Vice President at Molycorp (USA), and a Global Marketing Director and Technology Manager, as well as other management positions at FMC Corporation (USA). Dr. Gao received his BSc from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his PhD in Physics from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He received his postdoc training from Professor Jeff Dahn’s lab at Simon Fraser University. He has also received Executive Education from The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in the USA.

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Katharina is the Account Development Specialist for the Battery Vertical at Siemens Digital Industries division. She is responsible for the growth of the Siemens’ Battery Vertical in the USA working closely with domestic battery project owners, regional stakeholders, and various business units at Siemens. Katharina has 10+ years’ experience in the battery and worked on commercialization of a variety of technologies ranging from the direct lithium extraction (DLE ) to dry battery electrode (DBE) process for sustainable battery manufacturing. In addition to her role at Siemens, Katharina is the industry advisor to the US DOE "Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize" and a Co-chair of the “Electrode Materials Committee” at NAATBatt. Katharina holds a doctorate degree in Materials Science for the University of Bonn, Germany.

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Kevin L. Gering, PhD (INL) PhD Chem. Eng., University Oklahoma - 1989 (electrolyte theory). Kevin has been involved in battery testing and R&D for nearly 20 years while at INL. Dr. Gering is an established expert in the field of state-of-the-art molecular-based electrolyte models for electrochemical systems (Advanced Electrolyte Model, AEM), and has developed novel performance and lifecycle (aging) models for lithium-ion battery systems covering mechanistic aspects of kinetic limitations and performance loss over battery life (CellSage). AEM generates more than 100 property metrics with each simulation, giving genomic-level information for electrolyte characterization. CellSage simulations perform mechanism-wise analyses of battery aging while accounting for multiple concurrent stress factors that can change over the timeline. Kevin is well qualified to speak on issues of electrolyte transport, characterization, screening, and optimization for lithium-ion systems, wherein particular areas of expertise are highly concentrated electrolytes and low-temperature battery performance. During AEM development, Kevin has achieved milestones in formulating mathematics and new modeling techniques that capture properties that were previously very difficult to model over wide ranges of temperature and salt concentration, such as colligative permittivity, conductivity, diffusivity, viscosity, surface tension, ion desolvation energy and kinetics, double-layer composition and properties, comprehensive ion speciation, osmotic pressure, preferential ion solvation, and many others. Kevin is currently contributing to the DOE program eXtreme Fast Charge Cell Evaluation of Lithium-ion Batteries (XCEL), and is involved in integrating CellSage architecture and outcomes within a machine learning (ML) program under DOE-VTO. Dr. Gering has a diverse background in modeling complex systems, where other previous work covered developing a methane hydrates marine basin model, a dynamic passive aeration compost model, blast wave calculations, transport model for pulsed catalytic reactors, and others. He actively collaborates within DOE labs, universities, and the private sector, and is an advocate of domestic intellectual property, having several patents issued and pending, and under license. AEM and CellSage tools have seen increased licensing, speaking to the growing impact of INL to meet industrial needs.

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Academically trained as an electrical engineer at Northwestern University, my career began in the field of electro-optics instrumentation and my formative years as a design engineer were spent developing aircraft sensors and controls. My technical leadership career journey started by leveraging my optoelectronics and high reliability circuit design skills into the field of manufacturing robotics. Manufacturing robotics led me to battery operated automated guided vehicles, which led me to remote controlled military robots, which led me to on-highway light electric vehicles, and ultimately to on-highway commercial vehicles. Throughout this journey I've worked with batteries, starting with Ni-Cd's for AGV's in 1990's, progressing through NiMH's in the 2000's, and Li-ion in beginning in 2006. I now lead battery technology development for Cummins' New Power Business Unit.

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Tobias Glossmann has more than 18 years of experience in battery R&D at Mercedes-Benz. He holds advanced degrees in Electronics/Mechatronics engineering from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences and in Chemistry from Oakland University and he is pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Sciences. Over the years he has gained experience in a broad spectrum of issues that included high voltage system design, thermal management, battery controls, materials evaluation and system integration. His current responsibilities include battery research collaborations and development projects. His current research interests are interfaces in batteries and electrochemical sensors and advanced battery materials.

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Rohan Gokhale is the Applied Technology Manager for the Rechargeable Battery Materials Division of Umicore in North America. He has a strong background in materials science and electrochemistry. Rohan earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry (National Chemical Laboratory, India) working on novel ways to synthesize carbon materials for use in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Subsequently, he contributed to the development of carbon based Pt-free electrocatalysts for achieving cost reduction in fuel cells, at the University of New Mexico. Before joining Umicore, he was a Research Scientist at the Nissan Tech Center of North America, working on solid state battery research program for next generation EVs. He has 20+ high impact publications and 3 awarded US patents to his credit.

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Mr. Goldman is a 20+ year veteran of the Medium-Duty and Heavy-Duty Zero Emissions and Hybrid Fleet Vehicle Industry. Mr. Goldman has spent the past 22+ year developing Medium and Heavy Duty Buses and Truck working as an engineer, product manager and business development executive at many successful startups such as ISE, Proterra and TransPower. Joshua has experience with Battery Electric, hybrid and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrains and vehicles and vehicles ranging from class 3 to class 8. Joshua is a proud father of two, an environmentalist and outdoor enthusiast.

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Leslie has worked for CARB for 16 years and is currently managing incentive programs and working on heavy duty ZEV infrastructure efforts. She is overseeing numerous projects involving on-road demonstration and pilot deployments of fuel cell trucks, fuel cell and battery electric transit buses, high-capacity hydrogen fueling stations and depot charging. Leslie is also overseeing administration of $150 million in Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust funding for Zero-Emission Class 8 trucks and low-NOx trucks and freight equipment. Leslie previously worked with CARB’s Advanced Clean Cars group focusing on automotive hydrogen fueling and charging infrastructure. She has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Resources Engineering from Humboldt State University and 31 years working in the public and private sectors.

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Dr. Eric Gratz, Co-founder and CTO of Battery Resourcers, is a former Assistant Research Professor at the Metal Processing Institute at WPI, has expertise in recycling, battery materials and extractive metallurgy. Dr. Gratz is responsible for the technical development of novel recycling processes at Battery Resourcers. He served as the CEO of Battery Resoucers from 2016 to 2020 where he grew Battery Resourcers from a 300sq ft lab to a fully vertically integrated pilot plant providing shredding through cathode production services of spent lithium ion batteries and battery materials. He has been working on lithium ion battery recycling since 2012 and is recognized as a global technical leader in the space.

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Tom Gregory received his BS in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1978 and his MS in 1979, specializing in electrochemical engineering. His 34-year career at Dow Chemical encompassed a variety of R&D roles including development and scale-up of production technology for organic, inorganic, polymer, and ceramic materials. He led pioneering rechargeable magnesium battery R&D and engaged in development of novel lithium ion battery and fuel cell-related technologies. Tom is currently a consultant specializing in chemical process analysis, design, and scale-up and electrochemical energy generation and storage. He is active in both AIChE and The Electrochemical Society and frequently serves on proposal review panels for the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy. He is the inventor or co-inventor on 16 U.S. and 42 foreign patents and has published or presented 25 papers in scientific journals and conferences.

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Since finishing my master's degree in mechanical engineering, I have been working as a research associate at the Institute of Joining and Welding Technology at the TU Braunschweig for 2 years now. There I participate in the BatteryLabFactory (BLB). The BLB is a leading research center for battery processing in Europe. In this context, I mainly deal with the process steps of contacting and separation.

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Arturo Gutierrez received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. His thesis focused on the development and characterization of unique cathode materials for energy storage using low-temperature synthesis techniques. In 2014 he joined Argonne National Laboratory and continued his work focused on the development of cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. Dr. Gutierrez is currently the Principal Scientist at 6K Energy.  

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Dr. Habibi is the founder of EECOMOBILITY Inc., a Canadian start-up out of McMaster University. EECOMOBLTY specializes in AI software and has developed unique products for rapid characterization and production line testing of battery cells, modules, and pack. Dr. Habibi is also a Tier I Canada Research Chair and a full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University. He is the founder and the Director of the Centre for Mechatronics and Hybrid Technologies (CMHT). CHMT has created one of the most advanced and best-equipped automotive research laboratories in Canada and internationally specializing in battery characterization, testing, prognostics, and diagnostics. CMHT researchers have collaborated with industrial partners to design and commercialize unique test equipment that are sold internationally and have created unique testing and characterization capabilities. CMHT currently supports a number of large projects as well as being a resource to automotive companies and start-ups. Dr. Habibi is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME).

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Michael Harenbrock holds the position of Principal Expert, Electric Mobility at MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, a global leader in filtration solutions for the automotive industry. After receiving his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from WWU Munster in 1994, he worked in the chemical-pharmaceutical industry before joining MANN+HUMMEL in 1998 as Manager Materials Development Filter. Further positions in the company included Manager, Advanced Development Filtration Transportation and Manager, Advanced Development Electric Mobility & Fuel Cells. He has worked on fuel cell and battery projects since 2010. Through market and technology monitoring, he identifies the need for new innovative filtration solutions for Electric Mobility, and coordinates their related activities worldwide. International networking and collaboration in industry organizations are essential parts of his work. His passion is for Clean Transport - helping to protect man and environment from transport-related emissions.

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Dr. Hayes focuses on battery design, manufacturing, and failure analysis. He has extensive experience in root cause analyses of battery failures, as well as conducting on-site technical manufacturing line evaluations. He assists clients by conducting design reviews of cells and packs to evaluate the potential for safety issues or field failures, in addition to evaluating vendors to help ensure they have the capability to produce batteries with required quality and safety.

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Daniel Higgs, Ph.D. is the Director of Revenue at Iontra Inc, where he is driving rapid adoption of Iontra’s groundbreaking battery charging technology with multinational OEMs in various markets. Before joining Iontra, Daniel was the Director of Product Marketing at Forge Nano where he launched 3 products, sold over $15M, and developed a global distributor network. He is a named inventor on multiple patents and has presented at >40 international conferences.  

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Ken Hoffman is a Senior Expert for McKinsey’s Basic Materials Institute (BMI). Ken is a thought leader on future trends for base and precious metals as well as iron ore and EV materials. He has for many years been a leading watcher of Chinese trends. He also Co- leads the Firm’s global EV battery material research group, and is a member of the Firm’s global future mobility practice. He has co-written articles on the future of EV materials, especially papers on nickel, cobalt and lithium. Prior to McKinsey, Ken was the global head of metals and mining research for Bloomberg Intelligence. Mr. Hoffman began his career at Prudential Securities, covering base and precious metals as well as the global steel industry, and headed Prudential’s global steel research team for five years. Mr. Hoffman has been widely sought after for his engaging talks about industry trends, speaking at the MB EV battery materials conference, Lithium Supply Conference, China Mining Congress for the past 4 years, Natural Resources Forum. He is a regular speaker on Bloomberg TV, Kitco, and BNN Canada. A CFA charter holder, Mr. Hoffman holds a BS in finance from Syracuse University and an MBA from Duke University.

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David Howey is a Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford where he leads a group researching modelling and control of energy storage systems, with a particular focus on Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid/off-grid storage, funded by Faraday Institution, EPSRC, EU and industry. He received an MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and a PhD from Imperial College London in 2010. He is also co-founder of Brill Power Ltd., a company spun-out of his lab in 2016 focused on advanced battery management systems. Website: https://howey.eng.ox.ac.uk

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Dr. Hsin-Da Huang is the Senior Manager of R&D Division at HCM Co., Ltd. He leads a team of researchers in developing olivine-structured LMFP cathode material. Dr. Huang has over 10 years of R&D experience in cathode materials and Lithium-ion batteries. He collaborates extensively with the Energy Storage Materials and Technologies Division of ITRI in TAIWAN on developing LMFP/NMC cells with a dual-layer electrode structure.

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Joined Freyr in May, 2021. He is VP Battery Material Supply Business and mainly in charge of Supplier Relations and Business Development with material manufactures. Before joining Freyr, he had been in a position of Executive General Manager of Industrial Technology unit in Yano Research Institute, and lead a dozens of market research and consulting projects as to LiB industries such as material, cell, application, process, reuse/recycling and etc. He was also in a position of Seoul Branch Office Manager and has broaden battery related networks mainly in Asia. During his previous position, he had joined this event several times as a speaker. He has acquired MBA of Tsukuba University in 2007.

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Virginia Klausmeier is the President and CEO of Sylvatex, Inc., a venture backed climate tech company that she founded in 2012. With her background in chemistry and engineering, Virginia has been leading technical and business teams for the last 15 years. She is currently an active collaborator at the national labs, reviewer for scientific awards and grants, and advising climate tech and minority led organizations. She is a fellow of All Raise and Unreasonable Group, as well as a member of Alliance of CEOs, Astia, and E2. Virginia attended University of Oregon earning her B.S. in Chemistry/Economics, M.S. in Engineering, and Executive Program at Singularity University.

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Keisuke Ishikawa received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan, in 2013 and 2015, respectively., Since 2015, he has been with Toyota Central R&D Labs, Inc., Nagakute, Japan. His research interests include wireless communication systems for power converter circuits and sustainable battery systems, including battery diagnosing technologies.

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Nicolas Jackel finished his PhD in 2018 at the Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany with the focus on structure and properties of Supercapacitor and Lithium-Ion Battery electrodes. He continued at FEV as a System Engineer for battery-electric vehicles using the methods of Model-Based System Engineering. Since 2021 he works as the battery expert for Knorr-Bremse in the eCubator, an incubator focussing on the electrification of commercial vehicles.

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Sam Jaffe is the vice president of battery solutions at E Source. He has been in the battery industry for two decades as an analyst, a consultant and an executive. He previously was founder and managing director of Cairn ERA, a company acquired by E Source in 2021. Prior to that he worked at Navigant and before that at IDC Energy Insights. He was also the founder and CEO of Panea Energy and Cygnus Energy. He is the author of two books, Jewish Wisdom for Business Success and The New Korea and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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Jurgen Janek has a chair for Physical Chemistry at Justus Liebig University in Giessen (JLU), is director of the JLU Center for Materials Research and Scientific Director of the BELLA lab at KIT, Karlsruhe. He was visiting professor at Seoul National University (South Korea), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and D´Aix-Marseille (France), and he was awarded with an honorary doctorate from TU Delft (Netherlands). He holds numerous patents, has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and got numerous awards. His research interests focus on the physical chemistry of inorganic solids, solid state ionics, and reactivity, specifically on the properties of mixed ionic-electronic conductors, defect chemistry of ionic materials, kinetics of solid-state reactions, and solid-solid interfaces. In recent years, his research is focused strongly to the chemistry of battery materials, solid electrolytes, and solid-state batteries and operando studies of batteries. He is scientific coordinator of the German Cluster of Competence for Solid State Batteries FESTBATT funded by BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education and Research) and member of the DFG Cluster of Excellence POLIS at Ulm/Karlsruhe.

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Dr. Judy Jeevarajan is the Vice President and Executive Director for the Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at UL Research Institutes (ULRI). With more than 27 years of experience in the area of batteries and a primary focus on the lithium-ion chemistry, she specializes in battery safety research, including safety trends in aged lithium-ion cells and modules, thermal runaway propagation in lithium battery systems, characterizing fire and fire suppressants for lithium-ion batteries, and consumer battery safety. Dr. Jeevarajan serves in the Technical Working Group for standards organizations such as UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/Society of Aerospace Engineers (SAE), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and American National Standards Institute (ANSI). From 1998 until 2003, Dr. Jeevarajan worked for Lockheed Martin Space Operations at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. In 2003, she started her work as a NASA civil servant, serving as the Group Lead for Battery Safety and Advanced Technology. Dr. Jeevarajan has several awards to her credit, including the noteworthy NASA Exceptional Service Medal and NASA-NESC Engineering Excellence Award. She has been an active advocate of battery safety at meetings and conferences. She has also authored or co-authored several book chapters, including the “Battery Safety” chapter in Elsevier’s publication titled “Safety Design for Space Systems” in March 2009 (first edition) and July 2023 (second edition), and the “Managing of Risk by Manufacturers of Consumer Equipment” chapter in Elsevier’s “Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications” in September 2018. She continues to contribute to many journal publications and articles. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry (Electrochemistry) from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (1995) and holds a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame (1991).

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Paul has led various technology-driven companies from their inception to public offerings and co-managed an early-stage venture capital fund. After working as an attorney at the largest law firm in Silicon Valley, Paul established Duke University's second venture capital-backed biotech company. He holds an MBA from Northwestern and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. Most recently, he served as Of Counsel at MBF, Paraclete's law firm.

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Nicholas M. Josefik is a Project Manager/Principal Investigator in the Energy Branch, Facilities Division, at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, IL. He is the fuel cell and distributed generation team lead, studying the performance of all types of fuel cells, hydrogen generation, electrolysis, and hydrogen storage technology in the military environment. Nick is the ERDC technical lead on the H2@Rescue emergency vehicle project. His research also includes harvesting hydrogen from wastewater to turn wastewater into an asset. He also leads research investigating building energy conservation and developing energy audit methodologies for the DoD.

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James Kaschmitter is the CEO of SpectraPower, which he founded in 2002. SpectraPower operates a battery research facility in Livermore, CA that performs contract energy storage research, consulting and expert witness services for government, private companies, law firms, startups and investors. Jim has founded, or co-founded, several companies in the energy storage field. He began research in Li-ion batteries in 1989 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He was co-founder and CEO of PolyStor Corporation starting in 1993. PolyStor is the only U.S. company to have commercially manufactured in high volume in the U.S. all form factors of lithium-ion cells, including cylindrical, prismatic and polymer. In 1997 Jim founded PowerStor Corporation to commercialize the carbon aerogel supercapacitor that he co-invented at LLNL. PowerStor supercapacitors are now manufactured and sold in high volume by Eaton Bussman. He founded UltraCell in 2002, which successfully developed the world’s first reformed methanol micro fuel cell. UltraCell’s micro fuel cells are currently manufactured and sold by Brentronics and are deployed with U.S military and intelligence units, and are in use in combat in the Middle East. Jim holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has a bachelor’s degree in the Physics Honors Program from the University of Utah. He holds more than 20 patents in the alternative energy field. He owns, maintains and operates an experimental aircraft and holds instrument and multi-engine ratings.

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Dr. Jonas Keil is Tech Lead Battery Analytics at TWAICE. Before TWAICE, he was a Research Associate at the Institute for Electrical Energy Storage Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany. During studies, he focused on physicochemical aging modeling and side reaction characterization of linear and nonlinear aging phenomena. Jonas graduated as Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 2013 with a particular focus on energy storage technology.

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Dr. Kelly examines the sustainability of energy and transportation systems as a research engineer at Argonne National Laboratory. His recent studies have considered the environmental implications of battery electric vehicle adoption and the supply chain variance associated with the production of lithium-ion batteries in different regions of the world. This work found that there are significant opportunities to reduce various pollutant emissions associated with battery production through locational variation. His work has also characterized breakeven substitution ratios for material substitution in vehicle light weighting efforts. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Kurt Kelty is the VP of Automotive at Sila Nanotechnologies, a battery materials company that enables lighter, higher energy density lithium-ion batteries for mass adoption of electric vehicles, longer-lasting portable electronics, and broader use of renewable power sources. Kelty brings more than 25 years of experience in the battery industry, including 11 years at Tesla, where he most recently served as Senior Director of Battery Technology. There he was responsible for leading numerous key initiatives, including setting the company’s battery cell usage strategy, delivering the batteries implemented in the Roadster, Model S/X and Model 3, and leading partnerships and material sourcing efforts at the Gigafactory, among many others. Prior to Tesla, Kelty was Director of Business Development at Panasonic, where he founded the U.S. battery R&D lab. Kelty holds a BA in Biology from Swarthmore College and a Master of Science from Stanford.

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After the studies of mechanical engineering with the focus on automotive engineering as well as automation and control theory at the Technical University in Vienna, Dr. Nikolaus Keuth did his PhD in automation and control with the focus on data driven modelling in 2004, at the Technical University in Vienna. Since 2005, he is working at AVL List GmbH in different roles starting from project manager, product manager, department manager for data analysis and modeling products. Currently, Dr. Nikolaus is product manager for data analytics products in the area of battery, cell development in the automotive market.

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Dr. Chisu Kim is a director of research and strategy of the Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage (CEETSE) at Hydro-Quebec, where she leads the development of next-generation battery technologies. She has over 25 years of experience in the battery field, with combined expertise in fundamental research and battery manufacturing. She has been working on battery R&D projects at Hydro-Quebec since 2012 and was responsible for multiple collaboration programs with industrial partners and national laboratories. Prior to joining Hydro-Quebec, she worked for the battery industry for 12 years developing commercial lithium-ion batteries for various applications ranging from IT devices to electric vehicles. She obtained her Ph.D in electrochemistry from Seoul National University in 2000.

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Soo pursued his PhD in materials science at Northwestern and postdoctoral research at MIT, specializing in battery design and advanced materials development. Before pursuing PhD, he worked at Samsung to develop Li-ion battery cathode and as a national lab staff scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Before joining Rivian, Soo also worked at Bosch Corporate Research, led the materials design of top 10 future products. Soo joined Rivian 2 years ago, and currently responsible for LIB EV cell design team at Rivian. Soo has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and 100+ patent applications.

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Otto Kivi is working as a Senior Business Development Specialist at Stora Enso, focusing on company’s bio-based anode material Lignode. He has over 20 years of experience in commercializing new innovations, sales and business development. Stora Enso is a leading Global biomaterial company from Scandinavia, operations in 50 countries and turnover around 12 billion EUR.

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Dr. Raimund Koerver is the Director of Innovation of Factorial Energy, a solid-state battery cell manufacturing company based in Woburn, Massachusetts. Prior to Factorial Energy, Raimund worked as a specialist for solid-state batteries at BMW’s Battery Cell Competence Center in Munich. Raimund earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry with focus on sulfide solid-state batteries from Justus-Liebig University in Giessen under Prof. Jurgen Janek and holds several patents in advanced battery technology. 

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Mr. Konecky brings over 20 years of xEV experience to his work, having worked on multiple complex designs for battery system development, charging system integration, and high-voltage powertrain integration. He is skilled in new product design and development, product testing, product safety, integration of multiple sub-systems for vehicles, new product launches and has expanded his skillset beyond batteries into power electronics. His experience in batteries includes multiple technologies (Li-ion, NiMH, UltraCapacitors, Lead-Acid). Mr. Konecky has worked for multiple OEM and Tier 1 battery suppliers (GM, Fisker, Byton, Cobasys, EnerDel, Lockheed Martin) and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) and MS from Purdue (IUPUI - Indianapolis, IN).

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Undergraduate Mathematics and Engineering from Queen's University, MSc Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) from Queen's University, NDT Engineer at InspecTech since January 2022.

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Since finishing my Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, I have been working as a research associate at the Institute for Joining and Welding at the TU Braunschweig in the department of Fiber Composites and Electromobility for 3 years now. In the BatteryLabFactory (BLB), one of the leading research facilities for battery processing in Europe, I am investigating the development and application of innovative drying processes for lithium-ion battery electrodes.

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As General Counsel of Global Legal & Strategy of the largest manufacturer of EV ad ESS batteries in the world, John is tasked with providing supply chain solutions to the manufacture and assembly of LFP and MNC cells. Previously, he oversaw global investments and acquisitions for the biggest logistics player in Asia, which culminated in the USD 2.3 Billion acquisition of Kerry Logistics in 2022 and will culminate on its IPO in 2023. Qualified to practice law in four jurisdictions, he started his career at a magic circle firm and progressed to the position of General Counsel at a Forbes 50 MNC, where he project managed the building of many iconic buildings across the globe. He has also held cross-functional and P&L leadership positions having served as CEO & Board member to a NYSE listed MNCs and start-ups.

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Dr. Joshua Lamb is currently serving as a Special Scientific Advisor for Power and Energy with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He is on assignment from Sandia National Laboratories where he primarily led the energy storage safety program. Dr. Lamb earned his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering in 2008 and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2002 from the University of Nevada. Since joining Sandia in 2011, Joshua’s research interests include advanced techniques for determining the stability of lithium-ion batteries and the development of advanced battery abuse and safety tests.

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Dr. Eli Leland is a Voltaiq co-founder and serves as the company’s Chief Technical Officer. Prior to Voltaiq, Eli worked at the CUNY Energy Institute as lead engineer on an ARPA-E energy storage and power conversion research project. Before CUNY, Dr. Leland worked at Trilogy Software, where he successfully deployed large-scale enterprise software systems to Fortune 500 companies. He was a Mirzayan Policy Fellow in Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Academies in Washington, DC. Eli has an MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton.

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Michael Lewis is a Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Electromechanics with over 25 years of experience in advanced research and technology development focusing on alternative fuels and renewable energy for transportation and stationary power applications, including hydrogen power and energy systems. His team has developed, built, and tested fuel cell hybrid vehicles ranging from small utility trucks, to transit buses, to medium and heavy duty trucks. Beyond vehicles, his team has also investigated materials based hydrogen generation technologies, alternative storage vessel designs, and the use of linear motor driven compressors and expanders for hydrogen fueling. Mr. Lewis is currently leading UT’s efforts on the DOE H2@Scale in Texas award that will demonstrate renewable pathways for hydrogen production and enable cost effective hydrogen for transportation and industrial applications. In addition, this project will also study the opportunities for a hydrogen energy economy in Texas and the Gulf Coast region. With this research, his team aims to advance alternative fuels and energy technologies and collaborate with industrial partners to accelerate their adoption and commercialization.

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Dr. Ping Liu is Professor of Nanoengineering and Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) at University of California, San Diego. His research interests include lithium metal batteries, solid state batteries, and battery safety. Previously, Dr. Liu has led research programs in electrochemical conversion and storage as a staff member at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and as a manager at HRL Laboratories. Dr. Liu also served as a Program Director at Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) where he drove the development of robust energy storage and thermal management technologies. Websites: http://liugroup.ucsd.edu; http://spec.ucsd.edu

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After receiving his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University, Ryan joined EC Power as the Lead Battery Engineer. He has studied and developed thermally modulated cells since their inception and public release and has authored/co-authored 6 peer-reviewed publications relating to their functionality and applications. He currently serves as EC Power's head of product development, organizing efforts to commercialize EC Power's 30x intracell heating technology.

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Mr. Lu graduated from Department of Business Administration in National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, and continued to acquire an MBA degree from National Sun Yat-sen University. His first job concerned with the optical film in China for two years, then came back Taiwan to serve Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as an analyst in Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center (ISTI) until now. As a certified industrial analyst of the biggest think-tank in Taiwan, he is responsible for the research about Taiwan battery-related industry, including material, cell, pack and related applications. Not only handling the official government statistics about Taiwan battery industry, sometimes he also plays a role to provide consulting suggestions for Taiwan government and firms. From 2010 to June 2020, he served as the secretary-general of the Taiwan Battery Association.

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Dr. Jessica Durham Macholz is a Materials Scientist in the Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). She received her PhD in Chemistry from Stony Brook University in 2016 and joined Argonne as a postdoc in 2017. Jessica is part of the Materials Recycling R&D group working in the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF). She is a lead investigator in DOE’s ReCell Center for advanced battery recycling where she investigates safe and cost-effective recycling processes for lithium-ion batteries, specifically with respect to cell pre-processing, cathode/anode separation, cathode/cathode separation, extraction of critical materials from waste streams, and investigating the effect of impurities in recycled material. Jessica’s research currently focuses on developing and validating recycling technologies and conducting process R&D and scale-up of materials through collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories.

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As the Sr. Director of Engineering & Technology at Forum Mobility, Steven has deep knowledge in renewable energy and power technologies throughout the engineering lifecycle from manufacturing, to development, and construction. With 15 years of solar and battery experience, Steven has focused on the reliable deployment of new energy technologies at scale. At Amec Foster Wheeler, he leveraged his US solar manufacturing experience to establish programs ensuring the quality and reliability of millions of solar panels for the construction of multiple utility-scale projects. After Wood’s acquisition of Amec, Steven helped establish its Project Development Engineering consulting team in the US, providing engineering services to a global client base on over 10 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy projects annually, serving customers at all stages from early-stage development to commissioning. Steven is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and was a television guest on the show Mythbusters.

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Fabrizio Martini is an expert in energy storage technologies and has 12 years of prior experience in business and development in the ultracapacitor field. Before co-founding Electra in 2015, he was the Project Manager of several government-funded SBIRs for the DOE, DOD, and NASA managing over $10M. He has contributed to the accomplishment of six world records related to ultracapacitor technology and was in charge of the commercialization of the first-of-its-kind, high-temperature ultracapacitor for oil and gas and geothermal applications. Mr. Martini was the point of contact for several companies in the aerospace and defense field for the integration of ultracapacitor systems in their applications and he served as Principal Investigator of NASA SBIR program. He is author of 14 patents related to energy storage technologies.

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Yasaman Masoudi is the Lead BMS algorithms Engineer at FCA US LLC, where she is leading the development and validation of battery state estimation (SOx) algorithms. Prior to this role, she worked on thermal and climate control systems simulation and controls. She has a MSc in systems design engineering from University of Waterloo, and a BSc in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of technology.

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Dr. Mayyas is assistant professor of industrial and system engineering. He joined Khalifa University in fall 2018. Before that Dr. Mayyas worked as a clean energy systems analyst at the national renewable energy laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. He is currently involved in R&D activities for composite materials, design and manufacturing of fuel cells, water electrolysis, and li-ion batteries. Dr. Mayyas got his Msc and a Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering from Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. After graduation in 2012, Dr. Mayyas worked as a research fellow in the University of California-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he worked with a team of senior researchers on developing a techno-economic analysis for stationary fuel cells. Dr. Mayyas also got his MBA in managing for sustainability from the University of Colorado in 2018. Dr. Mayyas has authored and co-authored more than 75 journal publications and technical reports.

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Sandro Mazzini is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, boasting expertise that spans both the technical and commercial aspects of the field. Currently, he serves as the Chief Commercial Officer at Summit Nanotech, a leading DLE (Direct Lithium Extraction) company. Summit Nanotech is known for its groundbreaking patented technology, which facilitates the extraction of lithium from brine resources. Notably, this process is engineered to preserve aquifer integrity by allowing the remaining brine to be reinjected into the reservoir. Sandro's diverse skill set encompasses catalyst research, process technology design, operations and maintenance, technical sales, marketing, and the commercialization of existing and new technologies. Fluent in both English and Spanish, he has been a champion of relationship-focused, diagnostic, and value-driven business development initiatives on nearly every continent. Sandro holds a degree in chemical engineering from Illinois Tech in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to his academic achievements, he has completed certification programs at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Dr. Mark McArthur is the Director of R&D at NOVONIX Battery Technology Solutions. He and his team’s focus are discovering and developing useful materials and production methods for the energy storage ecosystem. Dr. McArthur has led the NOVONIX Cathode Materials team in their development and scale-up of its patent-pending all-dry, zero-waste cathode synthesis process, which is expected to significantly reduce the costs and environmental impact of nickel-based cathode synthesis.  

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I am the Divisional Manager of E-Mobility at Piper Maddox and lead a team of recruiters focused on supporting any business innovating the future of transportation and mobility. We support any business who is advancing the future of the way people and products move around the world. We have deep expertise recruiting across all business functions within the space, including battery engineering, which is one of the most in-demand skillsets currently. As a result, we have developed an expansive network of individuals working on relevant technologies, which has allowed us to access the best talent and deliver premier market insight to our clients.

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Professor Y. Shirley Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a postdoc research fellow and became a research scientist at MIT. Shirley currently holds the Zable Endowed Chair Professor in Energy Technologies and is Professor of NanoEngineering and Materials Science, University of California San Diego (UCSD). She is the founding Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (2015-2020) and was named as inaugural director of the Institute of Materials Discovery and Design. Professor Meng received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2011, UCSD Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Award in 2013, C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society (2016), International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI) Inaugural Young Career Award (2018), American Chemical Society ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award (2018), a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award (2018), International Battery Associations Research Award (2019) and Royal Chemical Society Faraday’s Medal (2020). She is the author and co-author of more than 225 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapter and 5 issued patents. Professor Meng serves on the executive committee for battery division at the Electrochemical Society and she is the Editor-in-Chief for MRS Energy & Sustainability. She is an elected fellow of the Electrochemical Society (FECS) and fellow of the Materials Research Society (FMRS).

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Michael Metzger is the Herzberg-Dahn Chair and Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University (since 2021). Metzger developed new methods to study the lifetime and aging of lithium-ion batteries at the Technical University of Munich in close collaboration with BASF and BMW (2013-2017). As a senior research engineer for Robert Bosch (2017-2020) in Sunnyvale, California, Metzger focused on solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries, and fuel cells. Most notably, Metzger co-developed on-line electrochemical mass spectrometry, an ultra-sensitive gas analysis technique that allows detection of small quantities of unwanted gases to diagnose battery cells (2015). Metzger also realized the first ever two-compartment battery test cell separating the positive and negative electrode through an edge-sealed solid lithium-ion conductor to study crosstalk phenomena (2016). The combination of both techniques led to the discovery of oxygen release from nickel-rich layered oxide cathode materials by Metzger and colleagues (2017). At Dalhousie University, Metzger leads a diverse group of young researchers that work on advanced lithium- and sodium-ion batteries. He is one of three principal investigators in the Dalhousie-Tesla research partnership on long-lived, high-energy density, and low-cost batteries for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage. This is the only academic research partnership of Tesla worldwide.

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Chris Mi is a fellow of IEEE and SAE, a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Director of the US DOE-funded GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation at San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA. He was previously a professor at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, from 2001 to 2015. He received his BS and MS degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, and his PhD degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, all in electrical engineering. Previously he was an electrical engineer with General Electric Canada, Inc. He also served as the CTO of 1Power Solutions and EV Safe Charge Inc. Dr. Mi is the recipient of the “Distinguished Teaching Award” and “Distinguished Research Award” of the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He is a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Region 4 “Outstanding Engineer Award,” “IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Outstanding Professional Award,” and the “SAE Environmental Excellence in Transportation (E2T) Award.” He received three Best Paper Awards from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and two Power Electronics Prize Letter Awards. In 2019, he received the IEEE Power Electronics Emerging Technology Award. In 2022, he was named Albert W. Johnson Lecturer and Distinguished Professor of San Diego State University, the highest honor given to any SDSU faculty, and only one award is given each year. He served as an editor, editor-in-chief, area editor, and editor of over 20 journals and special issues of IEEE Transactions, He has served as the general chair or program chair of over 20 conferences. He has published more than 350 journal and conference papers, owns 20+ issued and pending patents, and delivered over 200 keynote speeches worldwide.

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Andrew Miller holds the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Ltd (Benchmark), a London-based market intelligence, consultancy and price reporting agency specializing in energy transition supply chains. Andrew oversees Benchmark's supply chain research and analysis, which stretches from long-term forecasting of supply, demand, costs, and pricing, through to sustainability assessments and bespoke advisory projects for a cross section of industry and regulatory stakeholders. At Benchmark, Andrew regularly presents to leading market participants, government bodies and industry forums, while also travelling to active mines, processing plants and manufacturing hubs across the world. He leads a global team of analysts and consultants and has advised some of the world’s leading institutional investors, auto OEMs, battery producers and mining companies. Prior to Benchmark, Andrew held a number of analyst positions across commodity research and finance, after graduating with a first-class honours degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia, UK.

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Broad battery value chain expertise, capturing end-to-end mining development and automotive electric vehicle strategic purchasing. Commercial experience defining supplier evaluation and contractual negotiation process for Volkswagen AG’s in-house Power Co. battery critical mineral procurement, as a specialist in lithium and manganese. Responsible for value chain integration, procurement, and cost reduction analysis, delivering =€3bn contract value. Prior equity appraisal and capital raise support for public London-listed battery and high-tech metals and mining companies.

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Dipl.-Ing. Gero Mimberg is a project lead in the thermal systems group at Kautex Textron, a global tier-1 supplier for plastic fuel tanks, clear vision systems (CVS), and other automotive systems. The thermal systems group at Kautex contributes thermal solutions to the Kautex development of novel HV battery housings out of thermoplastic composite materials for the era of electromobility. Gero studied in Germany and the US and holds a Diploma in mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing. equivalent to M.Sc.) from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Afterward, he worked as a research engineer at the Institute for Automotive Engineering, pursuing his PhD on the utilization of a vehicle’s traction battery as thermal storage to reduce climate-related driving range variation and published several papers on the topics of battery system development, battery thermal management, and battery system testing.

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Born in Bavaria and raised in Uruguay, Frederik has been working for BMW's R&D Battery team as a cell project manager since 2017. After completing his PhD in solid-state and semiconductor physics in Cambridge UK, Frederik has worked in a broad range of novel technologies, ranging from Solar cells, OLEDs, AR-head-up displays and now batteries. He has co-developed the next-generation of BMW’s Batteries for the "neue Klasse", optimizing the cell with regards to performance, cost as well as ease of pack-integration and manufacturability. As part of BMW's Solid-State Battery team, he worked on the evaluation of the potential and maturity of solid-state batteries for automotive applications. He now works at BMW's technology office in Mountain view as senior battery technology engineer, where he develops and manages research projects with national partners from industry and academia.

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Arwed Niestroj is responsible for customer success functions and program management at Sakuu. While growing the company from its early days he has been General Manager Battery Business Unit and Sakuu’s Chief Operating Officer from 2019. Sakuu is reinventing large-scale, sustainable battery technology and manufacturing. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of Predii and HyPoint for several years. In 2018 he was responsible for the global innovation hubs and digital transformation of ZF Friedrichshafen AG globally, driving the company’s innovation and transformation efforts and chairman of the board of subsidiary companies. From December 2014 to 2017 Arwed Niestroj was CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA) in California, comprising all R&D activities of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in North America, ranging from technology research, digital technologies, self-driving cars, electric powertrain engineering, testing, software design to vehicle design and new mobility business models. In November 2011 Arwed Niestroj was founding CEO of the Daimler-Bosch joint venture EM-motive GmbH in Germany- developing and manufacturing electric motors for vehicle powertrains - that he ramped up until end of 2014 as Managing Director.

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Dr. Nowak studied Chemistry at the University of Munster and got his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. After his doctorate, he joined the working group of Professor Winter at the MEET Battery Research Center at the University of Munster in 2009 as a postdoctoral researcher, where he established the Analytical department. From 2010-12, he was the Head of the Analytics and Recycling competence areas, and since 2012, he has held a position at the MEET Battery Research Center as Head of the Analytics and Environment division, which mainly focuses on electrolyte aging, transition metal migration and surface investigations, recycling and second life, as well as toxicological investigations.

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One of the world’s proven leaders in the innovation and manufacturing of electric motors, Sue has nine years of accomplishments at General Electric, acting as CCO and the CEO of GE’s Small Industrial Motors Division, overseeing the division’s North American and International markets - ultimately building the division into a 160 million enterprise.

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Dr. Park leads Enevate’s R&D efforts. He is an expert in battery and surface/bulk chemistries, and novel battery manufacturing techniques. Ben has authored 45+ talks/publications, and has 100+ patents issued/filed. He holds a doctorate in mechanical & aerospace engineering from UC Irvine, MSEE from Purdue University, BSEE from Seoul National University.

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Dr. Manan Pathak is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of BattGenie Inc., working on software algorithms for Battery Management Systems (BMS). He obtained his B.Tech. from IIT Bombay in Chemical Engineering in 2010. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington in Chemical Engineering in 2017, during which he worked on Model-based Battery Management Systems (BMS) for Lithium-ion Batteries. During his PhD, he published 14 peer-reviewed publications and filed 4 patents. He was also a founding member and a chair of outreach activities of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) University of Washington (UW) Student Chapter. He is also an Advisor of the DOE project led by PNNL working on developing battery testing standards for second-life battery applications.

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Dr. Chintan Pathak is the Co-Founder and CPO of BattGenie. He earned his PhD with data science specialization from the University of Washington where he worked on developing a decision support system to find the optimal locations of charging stations for electric vehicles for the state of WA. He has over 15 years of experience on software engineering and embedded systems. At BattGenie, he is in-charge of interfacing with customers to understand their requirements and developing BattGenie's AI & data strategy.

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With over twelve years in the lithium industry, Ashish Patki leads business development and market intelligence at Livent. Livent’s portfolio of performance lithium compounds have applications in energy storage, polymers, aerospace alloys, and automotive and industrial greases. Ashish previously worked in biofuels and solar industries in engineering and commercial roles. Ashish holds a BS, chemical engineering from University of Pune, India, and MBA from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. He lives in Charlotte.

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Cam Peebles first whet his teeth on batteries at The University of Texas at Austin during his PhD. He then went to Argonne National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow and investigated electrolytes, cathode materials, and diagnostic methods for lithium-ion batteries. After a couple years in Illinois he moved to San Diego to work at Wildcat Discovery Technologies as a lead scientist and then at Rivian Automotive as a Staff Cell Engineer. He has been the battery technical manager at Alkegen since late 2022.

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Barry is President of Perlmutter & Idea Development LLC. He has over 39 years of technical engineering and business marketing experience in the field of solid-liquid separation including filtration, centrifugation, process drying, mixing and recycling. His strong professional skills focus on process solutions, innovation strategy, market expansion and business development. Barry has published and presented worldwide on applications in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and energy/environmental industries and has been responsible for introducing many European technologies into the Americas marketplace. His two books, published by Elsevier, Amsterdam, "Handbook of Solid-Liquid Filtration" and "Integration & Optimization of Unit Operations" are used worldwide for process guidance.

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After receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA, Ahmad has been working at NREL on energy efficient technologies including electrified vehicles. Until 2017, Ahmad was the Manager of the Energy Storage Group researching science and engineering of high energy anodes and cathodes, battery thermal management, 3D electrochemical-thermal modeling, safety and thermal runaway modeling, battery second use, techno-economic analysis of batteries for EVs; he led the Computer-Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries for Department of Energy (DOE).Between 2016 and 2018 he was detailed at the DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) as technical advisor to the Battery program supporting battery processing, extreme fast charging and recycling. He was the Administrator for the first Phase of the DOE Battery Recycling Prize.Currently, Ahmad is pursuing energy storage business development activities for NREL and supports VTO with battery processing, manufacturing, solid electrolyte, and low-cobalt cathode projects.

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Wilhelm Pfleging is head of the group Laser Materials Processing at the Institute of Applied Materi-als (IAM-AWP) which is part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received his Master (09/1993) and Ph.D. (01/1997) at the Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology (RWTH Aachen, Germany) in the field of pulsed laser deposition, laser micromachining, and electron spectroscopy. He has more than 27 years of experience in laser technology and material science. He has pub-lished over 160 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, books and conference reports (h-index 25). He is member of scientific and programme committees in several international conferences (e.g., IEEE 3M-NANO, CLEO, ICALEO, MRS, SPIE Photonics West) with focus on laser pro-cessing and energy storage materials. He has six patents granted. At KIT, he initiates and manages several industrial and academic collaborative research and development projects with emphasis on functional surfaces and energy storage systems. Since 2008 his research is focused on the devel-opment of laser-assisted processes, analytics (electrochemical analytics, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy) and manufacturing of advanced lithium-ion batteries and related energy storage ma-terials (3D Battery). Furthermore, he is Senior Lecturer (Priv.-Doz.) at university (KIT) for “Laser Technology” and “Laser-assisted methods and their application for energy storage materials”.

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Christophe has built up considerable expertise in the area of batteries. He joined AVICENNE 26 years ago and spent 3 years in Japan analyzing the Japanese electronic, mobile & battery market. Christophe has acquired extensive experience in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial studies for the battery and power management fields. He developed the Battery market analysis for AVICENNE, which serves more than 220 customers worldwide. Christophe has published several annual surveys such as "The Rechargeable Battery Market". He is also the founder & chairman of Batteries - an international industry conference held in France since 1999. He is now Director at AVICENNE ENERGY. Globally, he has been involved in more than 300 projects for 200+ customers in the Battery value chain. Before joining AVICENNE, Christophe held a key position in FRANCE TELECOM's innovation division. He has a degree in Chemistry & an MBA in Innovation Management from Paris IX Dauphine. His mother tongue is French, and he speaks fluent English.

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Professor Plett received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. Since then, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. His research focuses on control-systems theory as applied to the management of high-capacity battery systems, such as found in hybrid and electric vehicles. Current research efforts include: physics-based reduced-order modeling of ideal lithium-ion dynamics; system identification of physics-based model parameters using only current-voltage input-output data; physics-based reduced-order modeling of degradation mechanisms in electrochemical cells; estimation of cell internal state and degradation state; state-of-charge, state-of-health and state-of-life estimation; power and energy prediction; and battery pack fast charging.

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Dr. Sebastian Pohlmann is the Vice President of Automotive and Business Development at Skeleton Technologies. He has been working on ultracapacitor technology for over 10 years and obtained his PhD from the University of Munster, Germany, and has so far authored and co-authored 9 publications on ultracapacitor technology. During his time at Skeleton Technologies, Dr. Pohlmann and his team have developed the highest energy density ultracapacitors to date, and today Dr. Pohlmann leads automotive sales and business development at Skeleton Technologies.

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Matthias Preindl received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Padova (summa cum laude, 2008), the M.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich (2010), and the PhD degree from the University of Padova (2014), in electrical engineering. He is an Associate Professor at Columbia University, USA. Prior to joining Columbia in 2016, he was an R&D Engineer of Power Electronics and Drives at Leitwind AG (2010-2012), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at McMaster University, Canada (2014-2015). Dr. Preindl serves as Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and was the general chair of 2022 IEEE/AIAA ITEC+EATS. He is a Fellow of IET, Senior Member of IEEE, recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2017), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics best paper award (2019), and made the list of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards (2022). His research interests include the design and control of motor drives, power electronics, and batteries for transportation electrification and renewable energy.

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Rob Privette is responsible for Rechargeable Battery Material business development in North America. He has extensive experience developing and commercializing new products in the battery and fuel-cell industries. He earned his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has completed MBA coursework. Before rejoining Umicore in 2018, he was Vice President of Energy Markets at XG Sciences where he created and grew the company’s Energy Materials business targeting silicon/graphene anode materials and graphene-conductive additives for lithium-ion batteries. Prior to that, he was Product Development Director and U.S. Fuel Cell Development Director at Ovonic Energy Conversion Devices and Umicore Fuel Cells, respectively.

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From 2002 - 2008, Wenzel Prochazka studied Mechanical Engineering for Mechatronics at the University of Graz in Austria and the Institute of Applied Sciences in Rouen, France. During his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Graz (Prof Sommitsch, TuGraz; Prof Winter, Meet Munster) from 2009 - 2013, he investigated aging mechanisms of lithium-ion cells for electrochemical aging modelling. Since 2007 he worked for vehicle thermal management at AVL. In 2010, he joined AVL’s Global Battery Competence Team. In 2013, he switched to his current position of Senior Product Manager for Battery Systems, responsible for global Business Development and Battery Strategy.

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Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Sun is mainly engaged in the research and development of high-efficiency metal recovery and short-range high-value resource recovery of electronic waste.

• Published more than 110 SCI papers in Green Chemistry, Environmental Science & Technology and other journals.

• More than 60 Chinese patents and 2 international patents for related technologies.

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I am a Computational Researcher with more than a decade of experience. I started with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, followed by a Masters in Applied Mechanics from IIT Madras. Following a short stint in GE India, I pursued my PhD at the University of Michigan, where I worked on multi-scale electronic structure calculations to study defects in metals. I got trained in high-throughput DFT computations during my Post-doc at UCSD, where I studied various electrochemical systems, including all-solid-state batteries. After my post-doc in UCSD, I worked at NASA Ames Research Center as a contracted Materials Researcher on Li-O2 electrochemistry. In 2021, I joined Nissan, and worked on establishing a Materials Informatics team in its SV site.

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After starting his career in research science, Max joined Wood Mackenzie's Battery & Raw Materials Service to analyse global trends and supply-demand forecasts for Li-ion batteries and their raw materials.

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Tobias Robben is a dedicated researcher and engineer with a strong focus on battery cell technology. Since 2021, he has been working as a Research Associate, specializing in the optimization of formation strategies and early quality determination through EIS for lithium-ion battery cells. Tobias’ expertise lies in understanding the intricacies of battery cell finalization strategies, which he has explored in several projects during his time at the Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components, RWTH Aachen. Tobias’ academic journey began in 2014 when he embarked on his studies in mechanical engineering, earning his Bachelor of Science degree. He continued his education and pursued a Master's degree in automotive engineering, which he successfully completed in 2021. Throughout his career, Tobias has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing the field of battery cell technology. His research projects and contributions have been instrumental in developing strategies for optimizing battery formation processes and ensuring early quality determination.

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Dr. Rustomji earned his PhD from UCSD for his original work on developing South 8’s Liquefied Gas Electrolyte technology. Prior to earning his PhD, he worked with several companies developing products ranging from electrochemical capacitors, batteries, and space electronics. He has successfully led fundraising activities and teams on multiple projects including several federal, state, and industry grants and contracts and is author of several issued and pending patents and scientific publications.

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Shruti Sahu is a Project Manager at YUNEV LLC. She began as an analyst intern at the start of 2021 and has been vital in developing YUNEV’s Weekly News Report and database services. Shruti is driven by a passion to help companies bridge the gap between innovation and implementation to achieve their vision. Her prior professional experience includes positions at PwC and Bluespring Wealth Partners (subsidiary of Kestra Financial), where she worked as a member of the M&A deals, consulting, and business development teams. Shruti earned a BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin. During this time, Shruti served in various leadership positions in UT’s premier entrepreneurship agencies, equipping the next generation of women leaders and supporting student entrepreneurs through community engagements. She also competed across the nation, receiving awards in real estate and representing her University in its first sales competition. Shruti has given two TEDx Talks and is an active member of Toastmasters International.

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Dr. Gerald Sammer, Principal Business Development Manager at AVL, received a M.Sc. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering as well as a PhD in Economics. 20+ years of experience in automotive technology with focus on testing solutions. Since 1999, member of the Technical Steering Committee in the automotive standardization body ASAM.

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Mike has significant energy storage materials value chain understanding with an emphasis on lithium-ion batteries and systems with 13 years of market knowledge and relationships. Successful program leadership experience with significant business growth in ventures and existing businesses with a proven track record leading mergers and acquisition teams to enter the lithium-ion battery materials market. He joined AVICENNE in May of 2016 as a Senior Advisor. Since joining the AVICENNE team, Mike has been leading the US AVICENNE activity working with many clients holding strategy workshops, validation of growth opportunities, helping clients establish their growth plans in energy storage, and establishing M&A targets/diligence. Before joining AVICENNE, Mike had a very long career with DuPont, his most recent role was the Global Marketing Director - Energy Storage Venture where he developed significant understanding and insights for the energy storage materials market, device manufacturing, and systems while leading global marketing and customer interface efforts to establish programs to enter the $20B energy storage materials market. Executed strategic and market planning for opportunity evaluation, research, choices, and M&A activity for entry into rapidly growing new market. He has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Delaware and is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and Electrochemical Society.

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2011 Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Technical University Munich, specialized in fuel cell and battery electrochemistry. 2011 Scientist in R&D Mercedes Benz passenger car fuel cells. 2015 Heraeus New Business Fuel Cell, lab responsible and innovation manager. 2022 Daimler Truck (Detroit Diesel Corporation) Battery cell innovation lead.

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Dr. Schrooten brings over 20 years of technical and business leadership experience to his role as Vice President of Technology for Anovion. He is responsible for the Technology Center of Excellence that includes product and process research and development, customer technical support, and laboratory operations. Dr. Schrooten will oversee a team of researchers and engineers to develop proprietary manufacturing methodologies in Anovion’s full-scale battery laboratory.

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Thomas Schuldt is an Engagement Manager in the San Francisco office. His work has been mostly on electric vehicles, battery materials, battery recycling, circular economy and a range of other sustainability-related studies in Europe, North America and Asia focusing on highly strategic as well as hands-on operational projects. Thomas holds a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University in New York City, and a double Bachelor of International Business from ESB Business School in Reutlingen (Germany) and Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.

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Thomas has 20+ years of professional work experience in high-tech industrial equipment, from around the globe (Asia, Europe, North America). He held various managerial roles in Sales and General Management for industry leading companies in Leak Testing, Automation and Robotics, as well as Laser Technology.

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Andrew Sics is an Executive Key Account Manager, Battery Platform at Solvay. With a bachelor's degree in plastics engineering from Ferris State University, he has close to 20 years industry experience in the automotive, smart device and semiconductor markets. Of his10 years at Solvay in business development, the last 5 years have been focused on battery applications at OEM’s and major tier and cell suppliers. 

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Shazan Siddiqi is a Technology Analyst at IDTechEx working primarily on Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage. His background lies in the automotive industry after working in the corporate strategy and advanced manufacturing teams at Tata Motors on the company’s industry 4.0 plans. Shazan has developed technology benchmarking, implementation, and road mapping skills over the years to help assess opportunities and add value to organisations. Shazan is a regular contributor to various media outlets, providing insights and opinions from his research. Shazan holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering with first-class honours from the University of Manchester. As part of his role At IDTechEx, he leads the company’s coverage on the electric vehicle charging infrastructure, micro-mobility markets, and most recently the sodium-ion battery space.

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Brian Sisk is CTO of Sepion Technologies, developer of innovative materials including size-selective coated separators and electrolyte systems for automotive and other applications where excellent fast charge and cycle life are paramount. Before joining Sepion, Brian was Senior Director of Energy Storage Systems for Rivian, where he developed the battery systems for the company's award-winning R1T truck, R1S SUV, and Electric Delivery Van. Brian also served as Vice President of Cell Product Development at A123 Systems where he launched NMC and LFP batteries with extreme charge rates for EV, mild-hybrid, and 12V applications. Brian has a PhD in Chemistry from California Institute of Technology.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Steve Sloop has pioneered comprehensive methods to improve safety and efficiency in recycling lithium-ion batteries and materials. These include deactivation of lithium-ion batteries to eliminate hazards in transportation and storage; electrolyte extraction; electrode harvesting and separation; and cathode-healing™, which is a direct method to reintroduce lithium, structure, and performance to scrap electrodes.

• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications
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Wei Song joined Clarios in 2011 as a battery design engineer. During her tenure, she has held roles of increasing responsibility in Customer Engineering, Product Engineering, Commercial and currently serves as a Director Global Core Products Strategy. Wei won 2023 Automotive News Rising Star award. Wei’s current role is responsible for product strategy and bringing new products into the market to drive business growth and profitability. She leads the team and drives collaboration with multiple facets within the organization and with external customers to execute bringing new products into the market. Prior to joining Clarios, Wei worked at Toyota Technical Center for advanced R&D activities since 2008. Wei holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Master’s degree in Natural Resources Sciences & Management from University of Minnesota.

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium

Jacob S. Spendelow performs research on electrochemical technology related to energy and the environment. He received his BS/MS from Case Western Reserve University in 2002/2003, and his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, where he conducted research on electrocatalysis and fuel cells. He subsequently joined LANL as a Director's postdoctoral fellow in 2006 and has been a staff member since 2008. His research activities include work on catalysts and electrode structures for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and other electrochemical applications.

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Venkat Srinivasan is a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (LBNL), the Director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) and Deputy Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR, the battery “Hub”). His research interest is in developing next-generation batteries for use in vehicle and stationary applications.

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Chady Stephan holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from UniversitE de MontrEal. He joined PerkinElmer as an Inorganic Field Application Scientist and since then occupied various roles inside of the organization. He currently leads a team of end market managers and applications scientist focusing on core capabilities and value proposition within focused end markets. He is a thought leader in elemental analysis with over 40 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

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Dr. Dee Strand is a Senior Scientist at Wildcat Discovery Technologies. Dr. Strand has over twenty years of experience in materials research, development, and commercialization, primarily in the areas of energy storage and electronic applications. Prior to joining Wildcat in 2013, Dr. Strand served as a Research Fellow at Dow Chemical, where she was the technical lead in Dow Energy Materials, as well as the Principal Investigator on external research programs with universities and national labs on battery materials. Dr. Strand also has extensive experience in patent analysis and technical due diligence of new technologies. Dr. Strand completed her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervision of Professor John Schrag. Her PhD research focused on rheology and birefringence of polymeric solutions. Dr. Strand also holds a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from North Dakota State University.

• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market
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Mark Strauss is passionate about developing and commercializing electrohydrometallugical strategies for circular supplies of critical resources. As a post-doctoral fellow at Idaho National Lab, he developed recycling strategies for the processing of waste lithium batteries into saleable lithium, copper, manganese cobalt and nickel products. His PhD research investigated hydrometallurgical strategies for recycling fluorescent lights. He is commercializing new sustainable recycling operations at Aqua Metals.

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Charles Stuyck obtained his Master of Science degree (MSc), in Energy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in 2009 and a Master in General Management one year later. In 2010 he joined Umicore. He completed several operations assignments within Electro-Optic Materials business unit, in Belgium and US. In 2014 he became Sales and Business Developments Manager within the Battery Recycling unit. In 2020 he moved to a Senior R&D Program Manager role for Rechargeable Battery Material Business Unit, leading large scale innovation programs across the cathode material value chain. Since June 2022, he is appointed Business Director for the Battery Recycling Business Unit, in charge of global supply, sales and business development, strategic roadmapping & partnerships.

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Mark Szendro is Director, BASF Battery Materials, North America and CEO of BASF Toda America LLC. Mark joined BASF in 1995. He had roles with increasing responsibilities and extensive experiences especially in automotive industry, e.g. Technical Sales, Marketing Consultancy, Business Management and Pricing Strategies. Mark earned his Executive MBA from IPADE Business School in Mexico City. He also has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

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Dr. Venkataraman Thangadurai is full professor of chemistry at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom. He received his BSc from Sacred Heart College in Tirupattur, India in 1989 and his MSc from Muthurangam Government Arts College in Vellore, India in 1991. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1999 and did his PDF at the University of Kiel, Germany. He received a prestigious PDF fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany. Dr. Thangadurai received his Habilitation degree from the University of Kiel in 2004 and started his independent career in Calgary in 2005. He received the prestigious Keith Laidler Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) in 2016 for his outstanding contributions to physical chemistry. His current research activities include discovery of novel ceramic membranes and mixed ion and electron conductors for all-solid-state batteries, solid oxide cells, and electrochemical gas sensors.

• TUT5: Solid-State Batteries

Carl Thoemmes is currently Business Development for Battery Materials at Koura. As a global leader in fluorine and fluorinated products, Koura are currently scaling up domestic manufacturing in The United States of America for LiPF6, PVDF, Fluorinated Electrolyte Additives and Solvents, and Custom Electrolytes. Prior to that, Carl was the Vice President of Global Sales for Silatronix, a company that developes unique high-performance organosilicon electrolyte materials for use in Li-Ion batteries. Silatronix was acquired by Koura in November, 2021 and now serves as the Battery Material Center of Excellence for Koura's braoder battery material development efforts globally. 

• Advanced Automotive Battery Conference

As CEO and co-founder of Smartville, Dr. Antoni Tong leads the technology development and commercialization of its low-cost and scalable second-life battery energy storage solution. He has extensive expertise in lithium battery management, control, and their integration with the utility grid, distributed renewable resources, and electrified transportation. Prior to Smartville, He worked as a research scientist at UC San Diego and served as principal investigator for the energy storage integration lab.

• TUT6: Science & Economics for Second-Life Batteries

Loraine Torres-Castro is the battery safety lead for vehicle electrification and grid energy storage at Sandia National Labs. The research that Loraine oversees focuses on evaluating batteries well outside of manufacturer recommended specifications and the severity of any catastrophic thermal runaway. In the Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory, her efforts are focused on understanding the mechanisms that lead to energy storage system safety incidents, and developing mitigation strategies for single-cell and system failures. Loraine has innovated abuse testing by targeting problems using a predictive approach (early detection for intervention) to eliminate failure rather than reacting to it. Her work has led to developments in advanced abuse testing, including a fundamental understanding of cell failure, to facilitate the design of safer energy storage systems. Her expertise and commitment to safety science have led to multiple cross-collaborations among sponsoring organizations, including the Department of Energy (Office of Electricity, the Vehicle Technologies Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), Department of Transportation, and NASA. On behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office, she authored and maintains the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) Battery Abuse Testing Manual, widely used by car manufacturers to evaluate new technologies. Loraine is also a member of the USABC, for which she provides technical advice and recommendations.

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Professor Trimboli’s research focuses on development of control strategies for the management of high-capacity battery systems such as found in electric vehicles. He is currently involved in multiple projects where he leads investigation on battery modeling and the application of model-predictive control to improve the performance and extend the lifetime of lithium ion battery cells. Other research efforts include: reduced-order modeling methods, modeling of lithium-ion degradation mechanisms, empirical and physics-based modeling of lithium-ion battery thermal properties, as well as predictive methods for power estimation.

• TUT14: BMS & Charging
• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Anurodh Tripathi is a Business Development manager at Parker LORD. Previously, he was Sr Scientist in Advanced Technology group within Parker LORD, where he focused on developing next generation solutions for thermal management applications. Prior to joining LORD, he completed his PhDs in both Chemical Engineering and Biomaterials from North Carolina State University, USA.

• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market

Genis Turon completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He then joined an early-stage battery start-up developing silicon-based anode materials. 5 years later, he moved to Toyota Motor Europe in Belgium, to work on lithium-ion batteries and fuel cell manufacturing. In 2020, he was transferred to Toyota Motor North America to join the Heavy-Duty fuel cell program, making important contributions to the systems integration and evaluation activities. His work has resulted in 10 patents.

• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Dr. Ulderico Ulissi is a manager in technology assessment and system analysis at 21C Lab, part of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL). Before, he worked in consulting and market research. He held technical roles as Battery Research Engineer at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (technical lead for energy storage technologies, AMIEO region) and as Senior Scientist at OXIS Energy ltd. (technical manager and team lead, cell design of pre-A-Sample Li-S batteries). He was awarded his doctorate (chemistry) in 2017 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and holds both BSc and MSc (industrial chemistry) from Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy). He authored several scientific publications, five patents and one book on energy storage technologies.

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium
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• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium
• Battery Recycling Symposium
• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Daniela (Dani) Ushizima, PhD is a Staff Scientist @Applied Math and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she leads the CAMERA ML Team, focusing on computer vision and natural language processing projects. She's also worked as an Affiliated Faculty & Data Scientist for the Bakar Institute at UCSF and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, UC Berkeley.

• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications

Dr. Anna Vanderbruggen is a mineral processing engineer who earned her degree from Ecole Nationale SupErieure de GEologie (ENSG) in France, and completed the EMerald Erasmus Mundus Masters program, focusing on georesources engineering. After working with primary resources, she shifted her focus to secondary materials in 2018 with lithium-ion battery recycling, creating her own research project with a main focus on graphite recovery. Her passion and dedication to this research field led her to pursue a PhD at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg and Aalto University, where she successfully defended her dissertation in 2022. Her innovative method on graphite recycling from used lithium-ion batteries earned her the EIT Change Award 2022. Currently, Anna Vanderbruggen is a post-doctoral researcher at the GeoRessources laboratory at the University of Lorraine in France, continuing her work on battery recycling.

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Herminso Villarraga-Gomez is an X-ray Quality Solutions Manager at ZEISS. He specializes in industrial applications of dimensional metrology, 3D X-ray imaging/microscopy, computed tomography, and nondestructive evaluation. He holds a PhD in Optical Science and Engineering (University of North Carolina at Charlotte). He is the author of more than 50 peer-review articles & conference papers (+one book chapter and one book translation). He is a member of several professional associations promoting the advancement of engineering and applied physics. His current interests include contributing to the quality control industry and advancing novel technologies such as additive manufacturing and the emergent new energy/battery materials.

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Gabrielle Vuylsteke is a Research Engineer in Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company. Her work focuses on electrified vehicle features and applying machine learning/artificial intelligence to high-voltage battery systems. She is part of a broader team delivering battery management and modeling solutions. She previously worked on projects at Ford including the 2020 F-150 launch, controls for the Mach-E, and advanced high voltage battery controls research. She is interested in developing customer-centric improvements to electrified vehicles and the broader sustainability context of electrified vehicles

• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Pradeep Vyawahare is an Energy Systems Analyst in the Energy Systems and Infrastructure Analysis (ESIA) Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on the life cycle analysis of hydrogen production, e-fuel production, assessment of hydrogen blending in NG infrastructure, and techno-economic analysis of hydrogen delivery. He leads the development of hydrogen pathways in Argonne’s GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies) model. He also supports the development of GREET-H2 Module. Dr. Vyawahare has co-authored numerous articles in the domain of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA), and the specialized field of adsorption. Further adding to his scientific credentials, Dr. Vyawahare holds a patent for a multicomponent gas adsorption model, showcasing its significance in the practical application of gas-mixtures separations. Dr. Vyawahare’s contributions have been acknowledged through prestigious accolades such as Argonne’s 2022 & 2023 Impact Argonne Award and the Department of Energy’s 2023 Hydrogen Program R&D award. His academic qualifications include an MS and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University.

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Dr. Michael Wang is a Distinguished Fellow and director of the Systems Assessment Center, Energy Systems Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Wang leads the ongoing development of Argonne’s GREET software model for life cycle analysis of vehicle technologies and transportation fuels. The GREET model and his research results have been used by regulatory agencies such as the California Air Resources Board, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop automotive fuel regulations. In addition to his work in the U.S., Dr. Wang has collaborated with government agencies, automotive companies, energy companies, universities and research institutions in Asia and Europe. Dr. Wang is a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a member of the Transportation Energy Committee of the Transportation Research Board. He served on the boards of NGOs, companies, and Chinese automotive research organizations, and is on the editorial boards of four international journals. Dr. Wang has over 270 publications in the areas of transportation energy and environment effects. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Science from University of California at Davis and a B.S. in Agricultural Meteorology from the China Agricultural University, Beijing.

• TUT8: Sustainability in the Automotive Battery Value Chain

Keven Wang is the co-founder & CEO of UnitX, a robotics company automating visual inspection in factories. Keven previously led the desktop software team at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce for $390M). Keven graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BSE in Computer Science from University of Michigan.

• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

Dr. Conghua “CH” Wang is the co-founder and CTO of TreadStone. He leads the technology development and commercialization of the corrosion resistant metal plate technology for fuel cell, battery and electrolyzer applications in last 10 years. Dr. Wang has extensive experiences in electrochemistry devices, advanced materials design and processing, corrosion protection, thin film materials, and has contributed his experiences in a variety of energy related technology developments, including PEM fuel cells, electrolyzers, solid oxide fuel cells, batteries, gas separation membranes. Before started TreadStone, Dr. Wang worked at Sarnoff Corporation as the technical leader in fuel cell technology development. Before jointed Sarnoff, he worked at University of Pennsylvania as a research associate. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China. Dr. Wang is a member of American Electrochemical Society, has over 20 publications and 10 US patents and patent applications.

• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

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• Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications Symposium

Jay is a material scientist and physicist with over 25 years of technical, business, and academic experience. His career has been focused on understanding and developing electrochemical materials and systems with a focus on lithium-ion batteries, energy policy, and innovation theory. He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Materials Science and Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy departments, holds the Trustee Chair in Energy, and is currently on academic leave (after serving as the director of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation for 6 years). Whitacre developed a novel aqueous battery chemistry that was manufactured and sold by Aquion Energy, a company he founded in 2008 that produced and shipped over 30 MWh of energy storage worldwide. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked as a battery technologist, system engineer, and mission cognizant engineer. Jay holds a BA in Physics from Oberlin College as well as a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Manuel has a passion for innovation and international collaborations, with areas of technical expertise that include batteries, materials science, and nanotechnology. Working in the lithium-ion battery industry, Manuel has gained extensive experience in lithium-ion battery R&D and technology commercialization, while being instrumental in taking technology from lab scale to pilot production ready. As Head of the Energy Division at AnteoTech his work is focused on enabling high silicon content anodes leading the development of the AnteoTech’s silicon anode program. With a Master of Engineering in Materials and a Master of Business in Entrepreneurship, Manuel is skilled at leading technology development as well as commercialization activities and has participated in several successful substantial capital raises. Previously, Manuel led and pioneered the development of super lightweight, metallized-polymer, current collector technology, for lithium-ion batteries and next generation lithium metal anodes.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

James Wilcox, PhD, leads Enovix Mobility. In this capacity, he oversees the team’s efforts to expand into the EV marketplace and adapt and develop Enovix’s battery technology to meet EV specifications and technical demands. Dr. Wilcox joined Enovix in 2008 as part of the core engineering team that developed the company’s proprietary stacked cell architecture. From 2008-2017, Dr. Wilcox held technical roles at Enovix and served as the company’s principal R&D scientist and test engineering manager from 2011 to 2017. After a brief stint with Apple from 2017-2018 for a Special Projects Group, he returned to Enovix to lead business development strategy. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in Materials Science and Engineering and completed his graduate student research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium
• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

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Martin Winter holds a professorship for “Materials Science, Energy and Electrochemistry” at Muenster University, Germany. He is a Director of the MEET Battery Research Center at Muenster University and of the Helmholtz-Institute Muenster (HI MS) “Ionics in Energy Storage”, a branch of Forschungszentrum Julich. Martin Winter is the spokesperson of German Battery Research. He holds several president and chairmen positions in scientific societies and is the recipient of more than 50 awards and recognitions.

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Since 2014, Craig has served as Executive Director of Conferences for Cambridge Enertech, with primary responsibilities for scientific conference organization and program development within energy market sectors with conferences based in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Previously to joining CII, from its inception in 1998, Craig was the Founder and President of the Knowledge Foundation, a scientific conference and publishing company until it was acquired by CII in 2014. Additionally, Craig was a Director at IBC USA (now Informa), and has previous experience in conference development, publishing and techincal marketing.

• EV Technology for Heavy-Duty Applications Symposium
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• Battery Recycling Symposium
• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

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• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

Dr. Kevin N. Wood is a Sr. Solutions Engineer and Electrochemistry Expert for Voltaiq. He is also currently an adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University. Before joining Voltaiq Dr. Wood was both a Professor and CTO managing over $7.5 Million dollars of battery related government and industry sponsored research projects since 2018. He has 5 Patents in the energy storage space and 25 peer reviewed journal publications focused on electrochemical data analysis. His technological advances in characterization and electrochemical analysis have been highlighted by the National Academy of Engineering, PBS, and the Discovery channel. In 2018 his advances were awarded impact paper of the year by Nature Publishing for Future Lithium-based Batteries. In 2021 Dr. Wood gave a TEDx talk on “The Coming Battery Revolution”.

• TUT11: Battery Intelligence - Part 1
• TUT15: Battery Intelligence - Part 2

Tsing Bosch(zhuhai)Technology Co., LTD.founder.  Tsinghua University material processing engineering major Doctor of engineering, professor-level senior engineer, Beijing Science and technology star, Beijing excellenceShow talent.

Mainly engaged in new energy lithium battery safety testing and quality evaluation, and material non-destructive testing and non-destructive (NDT&NDE), advanced manufacturing technology NDT&NDE, online automatic testing and quality intelligent diagnosis and control research.

• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

Kang Xu is an MRS Fellow, ECS Fellow, and an emeritus ARL Fellow. After retiring from the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) with 26 years in federal service, he joined SES AI in August, 2023, and serves as its Chief Scientist. Kang is one of the world leading researchers in electrolyte materials and interfacial science. He has published more than 350 papers in this field, with an h-index of 118, and has been recognized with many awards for the discovery of new electrolyte materials as well as understanding of the fundamental mechanisms. Among his publications, he is best known for the two comprehensive reviews on electrolytes published at Chemical Reviews in 2004 and 2014, respectively, and the book “Electrolytes, Interfaces and Interphases: Fundamentals and Applications in Batteries”, which have been regarded as desk top references by the researchers in the field.Kang Xu is an MRS Fellow, ECS Fellow, and an emeritus ARL Fellow. After retiring from the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) with 26 years in federal service, he joined SES AI in August, 2023, and serves as its Chief Scientist. Kang is one of the world leading researchers in electrolyte materials and interfacial science. He has published more than 350 papers in this field, with an h-index of 118, and has been recognized with many awards for the discovery of new electrolyte materials as well as understanding of the fundamental mechanisms. Among his publications, he is best known for the two comprehensive reviews on electrolytes published at Chemical Reviews in 2004 and 2014, respectively, and the book “Electrolytes, Interfaces and Interphases: Fundamentals and Applications in Batteries”, which have been regarded as desk top references by the researchers in the field.

• Battery Chemistries for Automotive Applications Symposium

Dr. Yan is a research scientist at Princeton University in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering departments, where his research is mainly focused on energy conversion, fuels, and batteries. He is also a founder of Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) and a co-inventor of the direct recycling of lithium batteries technology based on LPAS (low-temperature plasma-assisted separation). He has published over 30+ high-impact publications and 40+ conference presentations in the energy field. He is a leading expert in physical chemistry and battery materials. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In business, he has administered and operated a serial enterprise since 2014. Dr. Yan has combined his two passions of science and business by founding and leading PNE.

• Battery Recycling Symposium

Chavonne Yee is a Business Leader in the transformation to an Electrified world. In her current role as Director, Standards and Regulations for Honeywell, Chavonne is focused on championing increased battery safety for electric vehicles and all applications powered by lithium-ion batteries. Her career has included work in Sweden, China and Italy in addition to all of the continental United States.  She has an MBA from Southern Methodist University, M.S Eng. from the University of California, Berkeley and B.S Eng. from M.I.T.

• xEV Battery Technology, Application, and Market

Yeong Yoo with MSc in ceramic engineering has led many Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC), Hydrogen Storage, and Energy Storage (ES)-related projects as a project leader and Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). He has over 30 years experience in a variety of ES components and its integrated systems, including Ni-Zn/Ni-MH/Li-ion/Li-polymer batteries for portable and electric vehicle (EV) applications at Samsung in Korea and SOFC, hydrogen storage, abuse testing of Li-ion EV batteries, performance validation of ES system, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technologies, SOH diagnostics, and Repurposed BESS at NRC. He has published over 50 journal and conference proceedings papers with over 700 citations and filed 2 US patents, 7 US provisional patents, and 17 Korean patents.

• Battery Intelligence for Automotive Applications

Alice Yu is the Senior Analyst of Metals and Mining Research at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Alice launched the Lithium and Cobalt monthly report in June 2020, focusing on demand from the plug-in vehicles segment. She is now responsible for publishing a 5-year forecast on the lithium and cobalt markets. Alice has specialized in battery metals research for the past five years, she is currently based in Beijing, having also worked in Hong Kong and London as a metals and mining consultant.

• Global Battery Raw Materials

Professor Zenyuk holds a B.S. (2008) in mechanical engineering from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned M.S. (2011) and Ph.D. (2013) in mechanical engineering. Her graduate work focused on fundamental understanding of electric double layers in electrochemical energy-conversion systems. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Electrochemical Technologies Group, Zenyuk joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tufts University in 2015. In July 2018 she joined Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Irvine, where she is also a Director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center. At UC Irvine, Zenyuk’s group works on enabling energy solutions by researching low-temperature hydrogen fuel-cells, Li-metal batteries and electrolyzers. Zenyuk works on design strategy encompassing novel materials, diagnostic tools and device-level testing. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2017), Interpore society Fraunhofer Award for Young Researchers (2017), Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage (2017-2019), Electrochemical Society (ECS) Toyota Young Investigator Award (2018), UCI Samueli School of Engineering Early Career Faculty Excellence in Research Award (2019) and ECS Energy Technology Division Srinivasan Young Investigator Award (2021), UCI Beal Applied Innovations Early Career Innovator of the Year (2021), UCI Samueli School of Engineering Mid Career Faculty Excellence in Research Award (2022). Prof. Zenyuk published over 80 journal publications and delivered more than 100 invited presentations on topics of energy conversion and storage.

• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

John is recognized as the leading authority on lithium-ion battery safety and separators. He is a leader in establishing lithium-ion battery industry standards (P1625, P1725, and CTIA) through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has chaired and/or organized more than 60 international conferences and delivered more than 60 invited keynote or plenary speeches at various international conferences. John has published more than 110 patents, papers, and books, including the first ceramic coating separator patent (US 6, 432, 586) and some of the most cited papers (Chem. Reviews, 2004 and Li-ion safety papers 2006-now). Dr. Zhang received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai University. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrochemistry from Shandong University, and a Ph.D. in Material Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also completed additional Post Doctorate studies in Nuclear Interactions.

• Advances in Production & Automation for Global Battery Manufacturing

As a Senior Industrial Scientist of the Industry Services group at Canadian Light Source (CLS), Jigang Zhou contributes extensive advanced materials characterization experience with the renewable energy industry. Through collaboration with fellow scientists and industrial clients, he has achieved a high level of notoriety in pioneering applications of advanced X-ray characterizations among the battery and fuel cell community. Prior to joining the CLS, Jigang completed his PhD at Western University (Canada) with a focus on electrochemistry, nanaomaterials and spectroscopy. An electrochemical engineer by training, he completed his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in electrochemical engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (China). Following his Master’s degree, Jigang gained valuable experience working as a research scientist in the electrochemistry industry in China. His move to Canada and experiences at Western University led him to the discovery of synchrotron applications to the renewable energy sector. Jigang continues his affiliation with Western University as an adjunct professor. With a total citation of 15000 in last six years, Jigang is the recipient of highly cited researcher by Web of Science (2019,2020). Jigang’s publications can be found through https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GvT3fGQAAAAJ&hl=en.

• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Tomasz Zukowski started his professional career as a Business Development Manager at Brenntag in 2014, moving on to become an Area Sales Manager at Cabot Corporation in 2017. In 2019, he founded PTL Mercury Solutions GmbH, focusing on sustainability and key account management. In May 2022, he co-founded Wonderchar Inc., a Texas-based startup specializing in carbon dioxide removal and sustainability. Most recently, in September 2023, he joined E-Lyte Innovations GmbH as a Key Account Manager.

• Global Battery Raw Materials

Larisa von Riewel holds a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D in Theoretical Physics from university of Tubingen. Her areas of expertise are heat transfer mechanisms, interaction of radiation with matter and computational physics and chemistry focusing on industrial applications.

She has 24 years of theoretical and practical experience in academic and industry research and holds 30 patents and numerous scientifical publications in renowned international journals.

Currently, she leads the innovation and research activities for the global team promoting photonic solutions along the battery value chain.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing Symposium