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Tim Aanhane joined LeydenJar, the next-gen battery scale-up in The Netherlands, in 2021 and has since then integrated the novel silicon anode in batteries for AI-powered wearables, smartphones and drones. With years of experience in energy generation and storage innovation, he now enables new consumer technology products with the world’s highest energy density batteries, based on pure silicon anodes. Now that LeydenJar is building its first commercial production facility, this reality is right at our doorstep.

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Dr. Daniel Abraham conducts research on lithium batteries used in electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and grid energy storage. He has authored over 185 articles in peer-reviewed journals and delivered over 360 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.”

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Anil Achyuta is the Managing Director of TDK Ventures ($350M AUM) that invests globally in early stage deeptech startups. At TDK Ventures, he has reviewed over 2500 start-ups, invested in thirteen companies, and serves on 5 Boards as a Director or an Observer. Of his 13 investments, Anil has 2 exits, 1 M&A (Origin - 3D printing company) and 1 IPO (GenCell - fuel cell company), 1 unicorn (Ascend Elements - battery upcycling company), 3 are in the “soon-to-be-unicorn” club (>$300M+ in valuation - Autoflight (flying car company), Exo (hand-held medical ultrasound company), Verdagy (green hydrogen company), 4 are at $100M+ valuation and the last 3 are early companies growing rapidly. Anil was voted one of the Rising Stars in 2021 by Venture Capital Journal and was ranked #2 Rising Star in 2021 out of 20,000 corporate venture managers globally, in addition to being voted as one of the Emerging Leaders of 2022, which represents top 0.5% in the industry. Prior to TDK Ventures, Anil held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies including L'Oréal, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Draper. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and received his MBA from the University of Florida - Warrington College of Business. He has authored over 15 peer-reviewed journal publications and holds 5 U.S. patents. Anil’s thought leadership articles can be found on Medium and YouTube https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilachyuta/ https://tdk-ventures.com/cvc-team-serving-entrepreneurs/anil-achyuta/ https://medium.com/@anilachyuta

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

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 Supply Chain for 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).

• TUT1: Na-ion Batteries: Materials and State of the Art

Varnika is a Battery Research Analyst at Rho Motion where her primary focus is on the technical side of electric vehicle, energy stationary storage and battery market analysis. She has a strong research background through her DPhil at University of Oxford. During her time in Oxford, she researched on solid-state batteries with research papers published in high impact journals. Rho Motion, a Benchmark Intelligence Company is headquartered in London.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Dr. Richard Ahlfeld is CEO and Founder of Monolith, a no-code AI platform used by the world's leading automotive, aerospace and industrial engineering teams from Siemens to Rolls-Royce and BMW.

Dr. Ahlfeld holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Data Science from Imperial College. He has received recognition in academia and industry, including being named one of MIT Technology Review's Top 10 Innovators Under 35 and working as a Research Engineer at NASA on the Mars rocket. He was also honored as a 'Rising Star' by Automotive News Europe.

Under his leadership, Monolith secured Series A funding in 2021 and was recognized as one of the UK's top 100 start-ups. The company has been named a Cool Vendor in AI for Automotive by Gartner, featured in Forbes, and won the 'Crash Test Innovation of the Year' award from Automotive Testing Technology International.

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Professor Ahn is a leading scientist in both academia and industry in the field of rheology and materials processing. He pioneered nonlinear rheology and provides a new perspective on materials processing. He has initiated many new research programs at Seoul National University, all centered around introducing rheology and rheometric techniques to industry. He gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress on Rheology in 2016 and received Iljin award from the National Academy of Engineering, Korea in 2018. He served as a vice dean of academic affairs in the college of engineering, the president of the Korean society of rheology, and is the director of the center for nano-structured polymer processing technology and the center for coating materials and processing.

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Kojo Ako-Asare, Managing Director, is a member of Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek that invests in innovative businesses focused on decarbonization solutions that accelerate global efforts towards realizing a healthier planet. He joined Decarbonization Partners in 2022. Kojo has over two decades of transaction experience, including: principal investing, project finance, capital raising, M&A, and real estate development. Prior to joining Decarbonization Partners, Kojo was a Partner at Emerson Collective Ventures (a multi-stage venture firm) where he co-led the organization's Climate Tech investments.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Shaheem Ali serves as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of RecycLiCo Battery Materials, where his profound expertise in Capital Markets and his rich industry experience are instrumental. Renowned for his exceptional operations management skills and financial insight, Shaheem possesses a fervent passion for circular economy practices. Under his visionary leadership, RecycLiCo is at the forefront of innovation in battery material recycling, actively forging a path toward a more sustainable and environmentally-responsible future.

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Dr. Amouzegar is a lead senior researcher at Hydro-Québec'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 école 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.

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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. 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. He is a proponent of accelerating technology with partnerships.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

Rob joined Samsung in 2012 as part of the Open Innovation group for the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). He supported internal technology strategy and external collaboration activities for SAIT until joining Samsung Ventures in 2023. He has experience in energy technologies, batteries, quantum computing, and advanced materials, and has a passion for bringing impactful new technologies to reality. Rob also is a volunteer mentor for the Creative Destruction Lab, which is a non-profit startup program for early science-based companies with the goal of increasing their probability of success and impact. Rob has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT and a BS from NC State University. Prior to joining Samsung, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium and worked for Exponent as a technical consultant in their Thermal Sciences practice.

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Chirranjeevi "Chirru" Gopal is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Mitra Chem, a battery materials start-up that is innovating and commercializing next-generation iron-based cathodes for Li-ion batteries. Chirru leads the product and engineering orgs spanning cathode materials R&D and process development, and machine learning accelerated R&D to scale-up. Prior to founding Mitra Chem, Chirru was at Illumina, building informatics-based approaches to accelerate genomics assays and applications at Illumina, and then at Toyota, using physics-based machine learning and analytics to accelerate battery optimization and manufacturing quality control. Chirru has a PhD from Caltech and a Post-Doc from Stanford University on battery materials and catalysis.

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Cesar Ballester, Business Unit Manager for our ELTRA product line at Verder Scientific Inc, has over 17 years' experience in Elemental Analysis and has a background in Chemistry & Engineering

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I have over 23 years of experience engineering High Tech Racing and EV Battery packs, Beginning with custom lead-acid cells and transitioning to lithium technology as it emerged. My work includes designing the first battery packs to power motorcycles and dragsters to over 200mph in a 1/4mile (1320ft), as well as formula style cars exceeding 200mph. I have developed prototype batteries and components for companies like GM (Volt), Harley Davidson, Buell, and Fuell. My expertise has been featured on popular TV shows, including MythBusters, "Are Electric Vehicles Slow?" episode, Green Wheels, and two episodes of Orange County Choppers (OCC). Currently, I am working in Aerospace industry, designing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for Doroni. We've had numerous successful test fights, gaining attention from several news outlets.

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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.

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Dr. Kevin Barry is a materials physicist with extensive experience in thin film growth and characterization, battery slurry formulation development, and scalable battery electrode manufacturing. He has more than a decade of thin film fabrication and materials characterization experience. Dr. Barry leads research and development efforts for Ateios, having served as the VP of Engineering since February 2023. He has acted as project management lead for battery projects with customers in both the commercial and the defense sectors. Dr. Barry possesses a diverse skill set having received a B.S. in Astrophysics and a B.S. in Physics from Michigan State University, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Florida State University.

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Ray is a Senior Battery Engineer at SpaceX, specializing in the design, production, and operation of batteries for the Starlink satellite program. He joined the company in 2011 after graduating with a Mechanical Engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Yevgen Barsukov is the Algorithm Fellow in the Battery Management group at Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). By applying leading theoretical methods of battery analysis, Barsukov is advancing battery fuel-gauging, health and safety technology used in notebooks, mobile-phones, PDAs, and other portable devices. Prior to joining TI, his research was focused on Impedance Spectroscopy-based testing and modeling of batteries. He co-authored books on impedance spectroscopy and battery power management, in journal publications, has multiple patents, and has presented at numerous international conferences. He was recently elected TI Fellow. Barsukov earned a Ms.C. degree in Organic Chemistry at Kiev National University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Kiel Christian-Albrecht University in 1996.

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Over the past 20 years Brandon Bartling has focused on the research, development and commercialization of batteries and energy storage systems. Brandon’s career began at Energizer Battery focusing on the research and manufacturing of standard alkaline, zinc-air and zinc-silver batteries. After receiving his doctorate in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University he joined General Electric at their Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY where he led teams related to the commercialization of high temperature sodium-nickel batteries for stationary and communication applications. Currently Brandon serves the role of Battery System Architect at 3M where he is leading the research efforts around understanding and developing solutions for automotive lithium-ion battery pack designs.

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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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Mark has over 26 years of experience in metallurgical engineering, study management and sponsorship, as well as flowsheet development and plant design. In addition, he has extensive experience in lithium, battery chemicals, and commercializing processes. He is the study manager and a consultant on the CTR Hell’s Kitchen lithium Project, the ERAMET MHP to Battery Grade Sulphates Process Study, and is deeply involved in CAM studies for NanoOne for both NCM and LFP chemistries. He is also the technical and project sponsor for the LiCycle Battery Recycling Hub Project, and a consulting advisor to the GM/POSCO Ultium CAM Project in Becancour, Quebec.

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Based in Germany, Stefan Bergold has over 15 years of experience in global sales and engineering executive positions. He has served as General Manager and a member of the board of directors. Stefan’s academic background includes a PhD, highlighting his strong foundation in engineering and leadership.

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Kimberly is an independent consultant specializing in energy transition materials and related commodities working with firms such as SFA Oxford and the World Bank. She 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 de-globalisation of battery supply chains. Previously, she worked at BMO Capital Markets and developed the firm’s proprietary industry knowledge around energy transition technologies.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Dan Blondal is the CEO, Director, and Founder of Nano One. Mr. Blondal has 30+ years of experience as a professional engineer, managing high growth technology in a career that has spanned materials handling, medical devices, industrial printing, nuclear fusion and materials science. As Product and Technology Manager at Creo and Kodak, he led strategically vital initiatives valued at $20M annually to leverage software, laser and chemical systems for high-quality printing.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Dr. Shou-Hang Bo is currently a full professor at Global Institute of Future Technology, and an adjunct professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017, Dr. Bo obtained his BS and PhD degrees in Chemistry from Fudan University (2009) and Stony Brook University (2014), respectively. He was a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2014 to 2017. His research interests include solid-state electrolytes, interfaces and imaging of solid-state batteries. In recognition of his scientific contribution to solid-state batteries, Dr. Bo was selected into the Finalists in Energy for the 2017 World Technology Award, and received the Next-Generation Battery Technology Award in 2020.

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Gerrit Bockey is an employee of PEM Motion and a research associate at the PEM of RWTH Aachen University. His research work focuses on the development and optimization of equipment for the production of electrodes for next-generation battery cells. In parallel, he manages the news service provider Battery-News and is mainly responsible for the market analysis as well as the transparent presentation of all information and companies in the Battery Atlas. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at RWTH Aachen University with a focus on product development. Before his studies, he did an apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic.

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Emilie Bodoin is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board at Pure Lithium Corporation, a disruptive Boston based company established in late 2020 with Co-Founder and CSO, world renowned scientist, and MIT Emeritus Professor, Donald R. Sadoway. Pure Lithium is commercializing a next-generation lithium metal vanadium battery entirely sourced and produced in North America. Emilie is an inventor and successful entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in lithium metal electrode and next-generation battery development. Emilie has 12 patents and patent applications. From 2015 to 2018, Emilie worked with Argonne National Laboratory as a Principal Investigator (PI) on a lithium metal R&D project. Additionally, she served as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Emilie is a frequent speaker at worldwide lithium and battery industry events, including the 2023 and 2024 Future Minerals Forum in Ryiadh, Saudi Arabia. Emilie serves as a Director of the Sadoway Labs Foundation, which is funded by Eric Schmidt, founder of Google.

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Mr. Boolish has served as Director of PRBA - The Rechargeable Battery Association, since 2023. Prior to his PRBA work, he held roles for 27 years at Energizer in Research and Development for lithium ion, lithium primary and dry cell battery chemistries, government affairs and standards for battery and chemical products. Mr. Boolish represents PRBA and its members in the United States and internationally on regulatory, legislative, and policy issues associated with the safety manufacturing, handing, transport, storage, and recycling of batteries. Members of PRBA include primary and secondary cell/battery manufacturers; battery recyclers; manufacturers of electronic equipment, medical devices, power tools, automobiles, dangerous good packaging, and outdoor power equipment; and retailers, testing labs, airlines, and dangerous goods consultants. Mr. Boolish can be reached for contact at the methods below: PRBA - The Rechargeable Battery Association 2050 M Street NW Washington, DC 20036 202-719-7170 mboolish@wiley.law

• TUT13: Latest Regulatory and Legislative Developments on the Safe Transport, Storage, Collection & Recycling of Lithium Batteries

Eric is a manufacturing engineering leader and technical expert for Jacobs Engineering. His expertise includes battery cell manufacturing, process engineering, equipment selection, product development, and product commercialization. Demonstrated ability to complete projects on time and on budget. He played key roles in the development and commercialization of over a dozen of new battery cells ranging from solid state lithium metal cells to high power Formula 1 race cars cells while partnering with teams in Europe and Asia.

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Dr. Sean Brahim has a Ph.D. in Bioanalytical Electrochemistry and joined YTC America, Inc. in 2006 as a Senior Research Scientist. During his 18 years at YTC America, Inc., Sean has worked on several nanomaterials-based R&D projects including impedance-based gas sensors, CNT-based conductive touch screen panels, and synthesis of metal-infiltrated carbon nanotubes. He currently manages the Energy Storage Devices Program at YTC America, Inc. working on Yazaki's binder-free electrode technology for supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. Sean has published his research findings in over 25 peer-reviewed scientific journals and holds 13 patents.

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Caroline is the Senior Sales Manager of Battery Technology for BASF Stationary Energy Storage, where she is responsible for finding new projects for the NAS Batteries system and expanding the division’s North American presence. Caroline holds a PhD in Chemistry from North Carolina State University, an MBA from Duke University, and a BS in Chemistry from Salem College. She joined BASF in 2012 and has gained a broad experience through various positions in sales, project management and business development.

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Mary Ann Brown joined Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) in 1992 as a Data Entry Associate. At that time CHI was a start-up company with many roles to fill and explore. She quickly realized that conference production which combined creativity, love of learning, and sharing scientific research was the path for her. Mary Ann’s conference portfolio is varied from biologics to batteries where she is organizes over 15 scientific meetings a year along with being a Team Lead for several Key Events. Mary Ann graduated from Doane College in 1978 with degrees in Biology, Environmental Studies, and Geology.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

Jeff is responsible for all battery development at Microsoft, working with cell and battery pack manufacturers and driving new technology adoption in Microsoft’s various product lines. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked at various large and small battery manufacturers as well as system integrators. Jeff has worked with almost every electro-chemical energy storage medium available; Lithium, Lead-Acid, Flow, Molten Salts, Aqueous Salts. Primarily focused on system level design, including cell architectures, battery management system design for small 3C level systems up to Mega-Watt (MW) scale system integration. Prior to entering the fascinating world of batteries, Jeff worked in the semiconductor world, focusing on CMOS Imagers, Memory, and ASIC design. Jeff holds 50+ patents in analog circuit, memory, imager design, battery, and various processes and methods. Jeff holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho, and Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

John Burgess has worked for Air Liquide/Airgas for the last 33 years and has been involved with multiple industries and provided additional value by optimizing mode of supply for gas delivery. For the last three years, he has focused on the energy transition market and concentrating on the EV supply chain. He has successfully worked with OEMs and startups throughout the EV eco-system and would welcome the opportunity to demonstrate Airgas's experience and knowledge for your company's gas needs.

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Dr. Busbee is Co-Founder and CEO of Xerion Advanced Battery Corp, an emerging growth company that has developed and is commercializing advanced lithium-ion batteries utilizing a new, electroplating manufacturing process. This process enables the use of lower purity starting precursor materials, thus widening the scope of available raw materials and the regions from which they come. Previously, he served for 20 years in AFRL, as Program Manager of Nanotechnology and a Research Leader of the Materials Process Design Group. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Allen James Cadreau is a proud member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and has 12 years of experience in the energy sector. With a strong background in risk mitigation, planning, design management, constructability, and execution, Mr. Cadreau has experience leading engineering and construction teams in the design and implementation of utility scale electrical infrastructure programs and projects. This includes the delivery of over 280+ Substation Infrastructure projects totaling over $600M in electrical substation, new builds and infrastructure replacement and upgrades including substation, transmission and distribution interconnections, distributed energy resources (DER), and over $500M and 260MW of Advanced Energy Storage and Microgrid Projects. Mr. Cadreau’s diligent approach to owner’s representation has helped his clients make the financial and technical decisions required to meet and exceed their energy security and resiliency needs. As the Vice President of Engineering for Indian Energy, Mr. Cadreau is responsible for leading the engineering, development, design, testing and implementation teams in the delivery of Indian Energy’s commercial and utility scale energy project pipeline.

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Jessica L. Cadreau is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and has ten years of experience in the energy sector. She is an electrical engineer at Indian Energy (IE) as the VP of Asset Management and an owner of Maada’oozh, which is Indian Energy’s Distribution company. Jessica is helping develop Indian Energy’s microgrid controls platform, which will be integrated on both the Viejas Enterprise Microgrid (VEM) and the Rapid Integration Certification Unit (RICU). Jessica is the Project Manager for the RICU as well as an assistant to our Electrical Engineer of Record for the designs of VEM, RICU, and other projects IE is working on. She utilizes her experience in the industry to support IE’s development of microgrid solutions and implementation of advanced energy storage, management, measurement, and verification for commercial and military facilities. Jessica also provides Monitoring Based Continuous Commissioning (MBCCx) integration support for tribal Nation’s and the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Xiao Cai is the founder, technology and engineering leader for Stropower Technologies. Started as researcher of power electronics at PolyU of Hongkong, his expertise includes electrical and power technologies, traction power battery evaluation and electrical-propelled vehicle systems. He was then enterprise mentor and specially hired experts by Xi'an Jiaotong University from 2018. Stropower technologies was founded in 1996 and began to focus on power technology development, later in 2009 it fully turned to measurement and test technologies for key composites of electrical-propelled vehicles, such as lithium-ion batteries, BMS and MCU. Stropower has now become a leading manufacturer and solution provider for EV and battery tests in China and growing markets.

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Ian is passionate about mathematics, computing, batteries and climate protection. He’s excited by an electrified future but frustrated by the barriers imposed by current battery technologies. In response, he began researching lithium-ion batteries at Imperial College London in 2015. In 2019 he graduated with a PhD in the topic, deep expertise of physics-based battery models and experience consulting to a range of industries on vehicle-electrification. Today, he merges his passions at Breathe, where he and his team are working to overcome those barriers. In his role as Breathe's CEO, Ian is responsible for Breathe’s corporate vision, strategic direction, company operations and commercial project delivery.

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Dr. Natalia Cañas boasts a distinguished career in battery technology, spanning from material-level research to the integration of batteries in electric vehicles. She currently leads the Battery, Energy Management & Testing team at Daimler Buses. Before this role, she was a Battery Expert and Project Leader in HV-Battery development at Daimler Buses. Dr. Cañas also contributed to the pre-development of high-energy battery cells for electric vehicles in an international battery joint venture. Earlier in her career, she served as a Scientific Associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where she conducted research on post-lithium-ion batteries and managed projects in metal-sulfur battery development.

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Dr. çapraz is an Associate Professor of Chemical, Biochemical, & Environmental Engineering at University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research focuses on electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices, in situ chemo-mechanical characterization techniques, and advanced materials. His research group is investigating chemical and mechanical failure modes in all-solid-state batteries, Li-air batteries, alkali metal-ion batteries, and pseudocapacitors. His research has been supported by various agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Binational Science Foundation, NASA, Air Force, and Lee Wentz Foundation. He received prestigious NSF CAREER award and BSF Young Investigator Start-up award.

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Dr. Halle Cheeseman has been working in the battery business for over 30 years. From the growth of Alkaline in Europe in the 1980’s, to the emergence of Lithium Ion in the 1990s, to the avalanche of interest in every possible Electrochemical storage system that has dominated the first two decades of this century. After senior leadership positions in the battery industry, Dr. Cheeseman is now a Program Director for the Advanced Research Program Agency for the US Department of Energy (ARPA-E) and is based in Washington DC. Dr. Halle Cheeseman has a BSc with honors and a PhD in Chemistry & Materials Science from the University of Nottingham.

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Kyunghyun Choi is a Professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Jeju National University, Republic of Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Professor Choi specializes in nano coating processes, with a particular focus on atomic and molecular layer deposition technology. With extensive experience in both academia and industry, Professor Choi previously served as a senior researcher at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. Currently, he contributes his expertise as a scientific advisor for CoatingSolution4U Ltd., a leading company in coating technology. Among his notable achievements, Professor Choi developed an advanced atmosphere spatial ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) system, which has been instrumental in the production of OLED displays and battery technologies. His work continues to drive innovation in the field of nano coatings, impacting both research and industrial applications.

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Will Chueh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University, Department of Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He leads a group of more than thirty researchers pursuing the following missions: (1) understand reactions and transport involving ions and electrons, and (2) decarbonize various energy transformation pathways. He received his BS in applied physics, and his MS and PhD in materials science from Caltech. Prior to joining Stanford in 2012, he was a Distinguished Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. Chueh has received numerous honors, including the David A. Shirley Award (2023), Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2022), MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2018), Volkswagen/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry (2016), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2016), Sloan Research Fellowship (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Solid State Ionics Young Scientist Award (2013), and Caltech Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Energy (2012)). In 2012, he was named as one of the “Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35” by MIT’s Technology Review. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including ACS Nano and Energy & Environmental Science, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Ionics.

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Dalton Conlon is the Business Development Manager for e-Mobility at Henkel Corporation North America, where he drives growth by leading market strategy, business development, and account management efforts. With 8 years of experience at Henkel, Dalton has held various roles, contributing to the company’s success in multiple capacities. He is passionate about clean energy, advancing innovative products, and ensuring battery safety. Dalton earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University.

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Lane is a research engineer working in Cockeysville, MD with a focus on sulfide solid-state batteries. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from University of Maryland, College Park. While studying at university, he was involved in undergraduate research focused on chemo-mechanical coupling of thin-film solid-state batteries.

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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.

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Brian Cunningham is a Senior Technical Project Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office which leads Research and Development (R&D) projects aimed to improve the fuel economy of the United States’ fleet of vehicles. Within the DOE, Brian manages the VTO’s SBIR/STTR portfolio, the Energy Storage Team’s Advanced Intermetallic Anode research portfolio and various battery development efforts related to energy storage fast charging. Brian is the co-chair of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium’s Technical Advisory Committee and was a founding member of the DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Assistant Management Board. He recently won the Assistant Secretary’s Outstanding Impact Award for his contribution to DOE’s ground breaking Extreme Fast Charging R&D Gap Assessment and Research Roadmap.

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Jeff Dahn obtained his BSc from Dalhousie University (1978) and his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1982. Dahn then worked at NRC (Canada) ('82-'85) and at Moli Energy ('85-'90) before taking up a faculty position at Simon Fraser University in 1990. He returned to Dalhousie in 1996. At Moli, he did pioneering work on lithium-ion batteries. Dahn was appointed as the NSERC/3M Canada Industrial Research Chair in Materials for Advanced Batteries at Dalhousie University in 1996, a position that he held until 2016. In 2016, Dahn began a research partnership with Tesla as the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair, which will continue until 2026. Dahn’s research has been recognized by numerous awards, including a Governor General’s Innovation Award (2016) and the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal in Science and Engineering (2017), Canada’s top science prize. He is the only person to have been awarded both awards thus far. Dahn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Cameron Dales is co-founder of sodium-ion grid storage company, Peak Energy. Most recently, Cam was an operating partner at Eclipse Ventures where he focused on technology investments in the $8T industrial economy. Previously, Cam was CCO of lithium-ion battery company, Enovix, where he was responsible for commercial strategy and operations. He navigated the company from lab start-up through successful public listing and built a $1.5B sales funnel including strategic relationships with all six worldwide “mega-cap” technology companies. Prior to Enovix, Cam served as VP/GM for Symyx Technologies, a $150M revenue public company that developed high throughput robotic tools for the discovery of advanced materials for the world’s leading energy and materials companies. He started his career at Lockheed, where he developed spaceflight qualified hardware for several spacecraft including the first commercial high resolution imaging satellite. Cam holds engineering degrees from Cornell and Stanford and is an inventor on 103 patents.

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Ihsan, Chief Application Engineer at Hioki USA, brings extensive engineering expertise to his role. With over two decades of experience, he previously spent eight years as a Semiconductor Test Engineer II at Maxim Integrated and thirteen years as an Applications Engineer at DFW Test Inc. He holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

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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.

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Mike is a sector lead focused on energy, buildings, and cities in Wellington Private Climate Investing. He manages the firm’s private-company investment activity in companies developing climate solutions within energy, buildings, and cities, working closely with portfolio managers, global industry analysts, and other global research resources within the firm to identify and pursue investments. As the climate innovation effort continues to grow, he will help build the team, develop investment talent, and further integrate Wellington’s research capabilities into this emerging business. Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2021, Mike was a founding partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (“SIP”, 2019 - 2021), where he led all aspects of the investment process for companies and projects in the infrastructure technology space, with a focus on investments in the energy transition and the built environment. SIP is a spin-off of Alphabet’s cities-of-the-future arm, Sidewalk Labs, where he worked (2017 - 2019) as associate director, investments. In this role, he led venture investments and incubations in the energy, water, waste, and mobility sectors. He was also previously a vice president in the Energy Markets Division of Macquarie Group (2014 - 2017), investing directly in the energy and power sectors. Mike began financing energy companies as a project finance analyst at HSH Nordbank (2008 - 2009), then as an investment associate at Nereus Capital (2009 - 2013). He began his career as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Investment Bank (2007 - 2008). Mike holds a BA in philosophy and economics from Brown University (2007).

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Timothy DeBastos is Head of LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. Tech Center., (LGESMI), the North American subsidiary of LG Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, he has overall responsibility for strategic direction, engineering, and business development. Prior to joining LGESMI, DeBastos worked at Rivian on HV Battery Electromechanical Design. Prior to that, he was chief engineer for high voltage pack and modules at LG Energy Solution. The majority of his over 20-year professional career was spent at Ford Motor Company, where he worked through various propulsion roles with increasing responsibility. He focused on EV commercial vehicles, integration, and implementation. Mr. DeBastos received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University and his Master of Business Administration from University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

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Deng Zhe, the founder of TOPSOUND, holds a Ph.D. and studied under Professor Huang Yunhui, a disciple of Professor John B. Goodenough. With over a decade of focus on acoustic detection and testing technologies in the battery field, he completed the development of the first prototype in Jeff Dahn's laboratory. He pioneered the field of battery ultrasonic detection and commercialized it. He authored the world's first paper on battery ultrasonic imaging published in Joule and holds nearly 40 patents in multiple countries, including the United States and Japan.

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Damien Despinoy is the co-founder and CEO of Volexion. A seasoned Chemical Engineer with an INSEAD MBA, Damien has 20+ years of experience in scaling-up innovations in Energy and Materials. Prior to joining Volexion, Damien led the design, construction, commissioning of multiple large infrastructure projects in the Energy Industry. He later held leadership positions for Management Consulting Firm McKinsey and Company and Venture Capital firm Earth Foundry.

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Jeffrey E. Dick received a B.S. in Chemistry from Ball State University (2013) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin (2017), where he studied under Prof. Allen J. Bard. In 2018, Jeffrey began his independent career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now the Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. Jeffrey's research group is broadly interested in fundamental and applied electrochemistry, believing that developing new measurement tools can elucidate new truths of nature.

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Emily Dickens, the Chief Commercial Officer at Octet Scientific, brings to the table a diverse background in battery research with work in iron flow, lithium sulfur, and most recently, zinc-based batteries. Her multifaceted experience position her as a prominent driving force behind Octet's innovative electrolyte additive solutions for energy storage. Emily's leadership at Octet has played a pivotal role in steering product development for the company's pioneering electrolyte additive products. Her expertise extends across product development, market analysis, and the cultivation of client relationships, resulting in the establishment of over 30 successful partnerships. With a robust background in business and a Master's in Engineering and Management, Emily bridges the gap between technical and commercial aspects, providing a unique perspective into the zinc battery industry and offering valuable insights into Octet's transformative contributions to this dynamic industry.

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Jian (JD) Dong achieved his PhD in Materials of Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, focused on negative materials in lithium ion chemistry. During his three years postdoc in Georgia Tech, he worked on the lithium ion chemistry and all kinds of fuel cells. In 2006, he worked as a development scientist in NanoDynamic, and developed a very high powered and reliable tubular solid oxide fuel cell. Since 2010, he worked in Saft America Inc. for the development and manufacturing of lithium ion cells. Now he is a leading scientist in the racing related cells development and manufacturing. With his effort, the high powerful racing related cell and battery has become one of the major businesses in Saft.

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Matthieu Dubarry (PhD, Electrochemistry & Solid State Science, University of Nantes), has over 15 years of experience in renewable energy, with an emphasis in the area of lithium-ion batteries. Following his PhD on the synthesis and characterization of materials for lithium batteries, Dr. Dubarry joined the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a postdoctoral fellow in 2005 to work on the analysis of the usage of a fleet of electric vehicles. He was later appointed a faculty position in 2010 with a focus on battery testing, modeling and simulation. While working for HNEI, Dr. Dubarry pioneered the use of new techniques for the non-destructive analysis of the degradation of Li-ion cells and developed numerous software tools facilitating the prognosis of Li-ion battery degradation both at the single cell and the battery pack level. Current projects include the evaluation of grid scale Li-ion battery energy storage systems; the evaluation of the impact of vehicle-to-grid strategies on electric vehicle battery pack degradation; and the testing of emerging battery technologies for grid-connected and transportation applications.

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Hieu led the development of Dry Battery Electrode (DBE) manufacturing process at Maxwell Technologies beginning in 2011. He served as the Director of Electrode Engineering at Tesla for 4 years after its acquisition in 2019, driving scaling efforts leading to the commercialization of DBE. Currently, he is the Chief Manufacturing Officer at AM Batteries leading the development and commercialization of Powder-to-Electrode coating process and equipment for low-cost lithium-ion battery manufacturing.

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Rod Eggert is a research professor at Colorado School of Mines, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. Since 2013, he also has been deputy director of the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, a research consortium of universities, national labs and companies funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate innovation that will help assure supply chains for energy materials.

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Dr. Bonne Eggleston leads a global team developing, scaling, and producing Tesla's 4680 cells and battery materials. He led the effort to scale the dry electrode technology from lab scale to mass production, and founded the team that developed Tesla's tabless 4680 architecture. Prior to Tesla, he worked at two solar cell start-ups building technology and factories across four continents.

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Grant Ehrlich, PhD supports technology-based companies in the development and implementation of effective intellectual property (IP) strategies. He has drafted and prosecuted patents and has prepared non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate opinions in fields spanning batteries, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, electrolysis, metallurgy, nanotechnology, displays, sensors, medical devices, metallurgy, magnetic and magnetocaloric materials, ceramics, water treatment, heating systems, lubricants, detergents, coatings, and phosphors. Grant has contributed to multiple IPR petitions directed to lithium-ion battery technology. In addition, Grant has significant licensing experience and has prepared and negotiated domestic and international patent license agreements, technology transfer agreements, and material transfer agreements. Grant’s law practice draws on his engineering experience Yardney Technical Products (now EaglePicher) and United Technologies Corporation (now RTX), as well as his PhD in chemistry.

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Battery Storage Expert | Li-ion Battery & Hybrid Storage Systems Ph.D. | Dr.-Ing. | Battery Technical Center [BATEC], Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany | in cooperation with Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE), University of Waterloo (UW), Canada. Battery expert, with more than ten years of industrial and applied research professional experience. Daimler Truck - Program Manager Battery & H2 Fuel Cell [TQ]. Holding an M.Sc.-Eng. degree in renewable energy and B.Sc.-Eng. degree in electrical engineering. Main career focus and expertise in battery storage (Li-ion) (hybrid batteries) and its applications focusing on: off-grid & decentralized systems, and Electro-Mobility.

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Jordan Elkins is a seasoned leader in recruiting and talent acquisition, known for her expertise in building high-performing teams in the technology and manufacturing sectors. With a career that spans over a decade, Jordan has played a pivotal role in shaping the workforce of some of the most innovative companies in the world. Jordan began her journey at Tesla, where she spent three years at the company’s first Gigafactory. There, she was instrumental in recruiting top talent to support the ambitious goal of revolutionizing battery manufacturing. Her ability to identify and attract skilled professionals helped lay the foundation for the factory's success in scaling production. Following her time at Tesla, Jordan transitioned to Google, where she contributed for four years to the Maps Monetization and Google Earth teams. Most recently, Jordan served as a key recruitment leader at Northvolt, a pioneer in sustainable battery manufacturing. Over two years, she focused on building a diverse and skilled workforce that aligns with Northvolt’s commitment to sustainability and innovation. Her strategic vision and collaborative approach have made her a sought-after expert in talent acquisition, particularly in the battery and renewable energy sectors. Jordan is passionate about fostering inclusive hiring practices and mentoring the next generation of talent acquisition professionals. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing with her daughter and traveling.

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Stan is a founding member of PulseForge/NovaCentrix/Nanotechnologies going back to the year 2000, when the team originally was focused on nanomaterial synthesis and applications. During this time he has led market and application growth in electronics, biomed, and semiconductor applications. To date, millions of people have been directly and positively impacted through use and applications of their photonic curing tools and conductive inks in wound care, and printed and flexible electronics. Greater than 600 million consumer devices have been produced using PulseForge tools in factories around the world. He is currently wrapping up his second term as elected chair of the OE-A, the leading international association for printed and large-area flexible electronics with over 200 member organizations. He has a masters degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, and a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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Thomas holds his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Thomas joined Fike in 2007 as a Test Engineer in the Test & Analysis Laboratory, and currently serves as the Principal Engineer for Test and Validation Engineering, with primary responsibility over activities at the Fike Remote Testing Facility. Current research initiatives include test method development, flame propagation in industrial scale pipeline systems, isolation system development, explosion protection of mills and dust collection systems, and combustion fundamentals. Thomas supports new product development efforts through concept development, experimental validation of new designs, and development of application guidelines. Data acquisition, system control, and test system automation are also among Thomas’ primary activities at Fike.

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Hosam K. Fathy is currently a Mechanical Engineering Professor at The University of Maryland, College Park, where he conducts research on the optimal control of energy systems, with a focus on battery management systems.

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T. Joseph Fisher, IIICEO & Co - Founder, Lithium WerksT. Joseph (Joe) Fisher, III, is a proven global leader and international business executive with a track record of success in small and large companies. Fisher was a senior executive with Energizer Holdings for over thirty years, turning around several country units with international assignments in Argentina, South Africa, and Southern Europe, as well as serving as the General Manager & Vice President of the Global Carbon Products group, the Global Miniature Battery Group and Energizer Power Systems. He also served as CEO of Contour Energy Systems, a lithium battery spinout from Caltech, CEO and President of Valence Technologies, and then served as Interim President - Industrial, and Vice President Global Business Development for A123 Systems. He co-founded Lithium Werks in 2017 and led the leveraged buyouts of the A123 Systems Industrial division and Valence Technologies in 2018. Today, Lithium Werks is one of the world’s fastest growing producers and sellers of anodes, cathodes, cells and battery packs, with a focus on Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) solutions. He has been active in the battery industry working with technology startups, raw material companies and turnaround situations through his JCF International, LLC consulting business, and also served on the Board of Directors of several battery companies in the past. He holds a BS in Industrial Management degree from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Marshall University.

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Dr. Fitzhugh is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Adden Energy, a Harvard University spin-off commercializing new solid-state battery technology. He earned his PhD in Applied Physics from Professor Xin Li’s group at Harvard University’s John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. During his graduate work, he was a co-inventor of the technology later licensed by Adden Energy, which focuses on critical market segments ranging from electric vehicles and power tools to consumer electronics. Before joining Adden Energy, Dr. Fitzhugh was an Entrepreneurial Fellow in the DOE’s Innovation Crossroads program housed at Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Dr. Prima Francis did her PhD in Chemistry at Mangalore University, India. She has been working as a senior scientist at Golden Gate Battery for over a year and leads the electrode research at the company. She has 16 peer-reviewed journal publications and 1 patent to her credit.

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Eric Frederickson serves as Managing Director of Operations for Call2Recycle where he is responsible for the development and enhancement of the organization’s operations, supply chain, and downstream recycling network. This includes optimizing performance and efficiencies while upholding the organization’s commitment to safety standards and compliance obligations. With over 20 years of experience in highly regulated logistics at some of the nation’s top transportation firms, Eric’s focus is on helping organizations develop scalable pathways for a circular economy.

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Professor Martin Freer joined the Faraday Institution as CEO in September 2024. Professor Freer is a nuclear physicist. Between 2015 and 2024 he served as the Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute (BEI) at the University of Birmingham, a pan-discipline research centre with research activities from hydrogen, energy storage and battery technologies, through to nuclear energy, which is focused on creating technology and guiding policy that will shape future energy solutions. He also served as Director of the Energy Research Accelerator (which comprises eight internationally renowned Midlands universities that are part of the Midlands Innovation partnership, together with the British Geological Survey) delivering a £200m programme to accelerate university research into regional, national and international impact linked to 1,400 researchers. Previously, Martin was Director of the Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research, which he established in 2010. He oversaw the development of the BEI and helped establish Energy Capital (a regional energy partnership for the West Midlands that brings the public and private sectors together to deliver place-based energy solutions). He also co-led the establishment of the joint University of Birmingham-Fraunhofer Germany research platform, the development of the Birmingham Energy Innovation Hub, and the co-development of Tyseley Energy Park in Birmingham. In 2015 Professor Freer co-led the BEI Commission “Doing Cold Smarter” chaired by Lord Teverson. From 2012 he led or co led a number of Birmingham Policy Commission reports including “Future of Nuclear Energy in the UK” and “Pathways for Local Heat Delivery” and he has championed the establishment of a National Centre for the Decarbonisation of Heat. Professor Freer also co-led the Policy Commission with Sir David King, which saw the creation of Energy Innovation Zone in the West Midlands. His main research area is the study of the structure of light nuclei, using nuclear reactions. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize, Humboldt Foundation, in 2004 and the Rutherford Medal from the Institute of Physics in 2010.

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I've been working in the lithium battery world for over 20 years, and am currently a battery specialist at TotalEnergies, with particular expertise in immersion cooling solutions.

- I completed my thesis on the synthesis of new positive electrode materials in Amiens in 2007.

- Then, I was in charge of traction battery development at Stellantis until 2014, followed by a stint as project manager at Exide Technologie, before joining TotalEnergies in 2020 to support the development of immersion-cooled lithium batteries.

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Dr. Stephen Glazier is the Director, Technology at NOVONIX Battery Technology Solutions in Nova Scotia, Canada. He oversees and collaborates on R&D programs which span the entire lithium-ion cell development space, including NOVONIX’s own materials, customer and co-development projects, and battery data products. Prior to NOVONIX, Stephen completed his MSc and PhD at Dalhousie University, working under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Dahn, researching degradation mechanisms, cathode material synthesis, and electrolyte development.

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Dr. Tobias Glossmann is a Principal Engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D North America and works on battery research from material level to vehicle integration for more than 20 years. He is engaged in community education as an officer of the Detroit section of the Electrochemical Society. His current research interests include Li-metal batteries and interfaces in batteries and electrochemical sensors.

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Rio is an accomplished project manager and analyst with 20 years' experience in the petroleum industry. She has worked in various roles for EPCM firms, manufacturing, and distributors. She is responsible for the leading Worley Consulting Insights Global Battery Anode Materials Study. The group specializes in the petroleum coke market helping clients in multiple industries around the globe with data, insights, and strategies in this market.

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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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Eric Gratz, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Ascend Elements, Inc., a Westborough, Mass.-based battery recycling and engineered materials company. He served as CEO of Battery Resourcers from 2016 to 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Boston University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the lab of Prof. Yan Wang. Working closely with Prof. Wang, Eric co-developed the innovative cathode synthesis technology that has grown into Ascend Elements’ Hydro-to-Cathode™ direct precursor synthesis technology. Eric frequently speaks at EV battery industry events and he serves on the technology committee of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Li-Bridge public-private program.

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Denise Gray is former President of LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. Tech Center, the North American subsidiary of LG Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she leads a team of more than 150 people who provide electrification solutions to the transportation industry. Denise holds several board of director positions, including, LG Energy Solution Michigan, Inc., Tenneco Automotive, the Original Equipment Supplier Association (OESA), the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Washington DC, and CN, a world-class transportation leader and trade-enabler. Prior to her current position, Denise held positions in Austria, California, and a more than 30- year professional career at General Motors, where she spearheaded efforts in vehicle electrical and powertrain systems controls and software.

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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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Oliver is the global Subject Matter Expert for Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion at Stellantis where he is responsible for the energy storage and fuel cell systems technology roadmaps and architecture. He is a member of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium Technical Advisory Committee, and chairs several additional committees, including manufacturing, 12V Stop Start and 48V Mild Hybrid batteries. He holds both a BS and a Master’s Degree in Materials Science, for the University of Toronto. Oliver has over 25 years’ experience in the advanced energy storage industry. He currently holds over 10 patents, and more than 20 publications.

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Jerry Hallmark is VP of Applications Engineering, working with customers to design Enovix high energy density cells into a variety of product applications. Hallmark has 30+ years of experience in consumer electronics and is listed as an inventor on 30+ patents related to various energy technologies. Enovix is a global high performance battery company utilizing 100% active Silicon to provide the next generation of high energy rechargeable Li-ion batteries.

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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 MÜnster 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. Troy Hayes has over 19 years of experience in Li-ion battery failure analysis and manufacturing, investigating thousands of battery failures of batteries of all shapes and sizes ranging from implantable medical devices to grid scale storage prior to joining Tesla. He is now serving as the Director of Quality for Tesla’s 4680 battery program, where Tesla is leading the efforts to produce fully dry electrode-based Li-ion batteries.

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Steve He has been working at the nexus of materials science and battery development at Tesla since 2016. He is currently an engineering manager at Tesla for cell product development, focusing on designing and developing the 4680 form factor and dry electrode technologies. Steve holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Caltech (2010) and an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford (2015).

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Katherine He is an investor at TDK Ventures, spearheading extensive research and landscape development in energy-storage materials and battery technologies. With a broad spectrum of expertise, she delves into battery startups developing next-gen battery materials, advanced manufacturing, recycling and mining, and electrification solutions across various applications. Katherine plays a pivotal role in supporting investments in AM Batteries, Ascend Elements, Novalith, and Peak Energy. Prior to TDK Ventures, she was a senior battery engineer at Nanoramic focusing on high energy density lithium-ion battery materials and electrode processing. Before that, Katherine led several research projects funded by DOE and NSF to commercialize lab scale innovations. Katherine holds a Ph.D. in materials science, boasts 12 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and is the Managing Editor and co-founder of the Volta Foundation, the world's largest community of battery professionals.

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Dexter is an engagement manager in our Southern California office, and co-leads the Firm's work across the electrification value chain in North America while serving clients across the firm’s Automotive & Assembly, Advanced Industries, and Chemicals Practices. He also specializes in our manufacturing and supply chain as well as capital excellence practices. Having served both disruptors and industry leaders in electric vehicles (EV), battery technology, and advanced electronics, Dexter brings first-hand experience in manufacturing and supply chain, CAPEX, and product costing and has served clients across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

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Jeff Helm is a seasoned business development and sales professional with a robust 12 years in the battery sector; Jeff has progressively taken on increasing responsibilities, demonstrating his dedication and proficiency in the field. His career is marked by a successful track record of leading over a dozen product-to-market campaigns, from early R&D development to full commercialization. His work spans the material, cell, and battery pack levels, showcasing his comprehensive understanding of the entire battery value chain.

He earned his engineering degree from Michigan State University. He later completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Walsh College, equipping him with a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen.

Jeff's contributions have been pivotal in advancing battery technology, and his insights continue to drive innovation within the industry. His commitment to excellence and his strategic approach makes him a respected leader in the field of energy storage solutions.

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Ms. Allison Hinckley serves as a Senior Principal at Overture Ventures, a climate tech fund that helps startups win government support and navigate regulatory complexity. Prior to joining Overture, Allison was the climate tech and materials lead at F-Prime/Fine Structure Ventures, a deep tech fund backed by FMR LLC, the parent of Fidelity Investments. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford, where her research focused on next-generation electronic materials and electrochemical and thermoelectric devices. Before FSV, she founded and ran a deep tech consultancy, helping early-stage startups with thermal and electrical systems design and materials selection to accelerate their time to market. She also holds an M.Phil. in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise from the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates-Cambridge Scholar and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT.

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April, 2003: Joined Sanyo Co. Ltd. June, 2016: Field Application Eng. Manager of Panasonic Europe (Munich, Germany) June, 2022: Returned to Panasonic Energy (HQ, JPN) April, 2024: Business Development Manager of Moblility Business Division, Panasonic Energy

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Dr. Hirschmugl is co-founder, and CEO of COnovate, and is co-inventor of the patented COphiteTM materials, based on the world’s first known form of solid carbon monoxide at room temperature and pressure. Discovered at nanograms in unique microscopes owned by COnovate’s co-founders, the COnovate team has successfully scaled COphite materials trillion-fold, producing anodes that address weaknesses of LTO, Si and Graphite, offering an easily adoptable option to improve battery performance and safety. Hirschmugl leads the company, is professor emerita of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an expert in condensed matter physics, Fellow of AVS, and has generated and managed $5M in funding.

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Dave Howell is the Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) with responsibility for the Department’s $400 million advanced vehicle R&D portfolio. He has over 35 years of experience planning and executing complex, multi-disciplined R&D activities that includes hybrid and electric vehicle R&D, advanced battery research and manufacturing, and advanced structural materials research. Dave serves as DOE’s representative to the United States Advanced Battery Consortium Management Committee, the Executive Committee for the Battery500 Research Consortium, and various international and inter-government forums. He is the Chair of the recently chartered Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB). FCAB brings Federal agencies having a stake in establishing a domestic supply of lithium batteries together to accelerate the development of a robust secure domestic industrial base and ecosystem for advanced batteries.

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I’ve been in the firefighter world for over 40 years, including Fire Brigade in Ireland. I’ve worked in complex industries including power, maritime, military, aviation and hospitals. A MiFE in Fire Science, Operations, Safety and Management. Currently I work with large corporations on Lithium Ion Battery de-energising BESS, fire suppression and on-site battery de-commissioning. EHSI are an International organisation which is a leader in this field.

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Mr. Luke Hu co-founded Electroder, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer focuses on battery cell design and development. He is currently focusing on building the company's global business and advising Electroder's clients in planning and executing electrode and cell assembly development projects. Mr. Hu has been leading his team completing various cell R&D projects, developing advanced design tools, and building new cell development process. Under his leadership, Electroder joined the Global Battery Alliance as its first member focusing on battery design and development in 2022. Before co-founding Electroder, Mr. Hu had a decade of experience in manufacturing and technology and held a variety of management roles globally. Mr. Hu graduated with an MBA degree from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree of engineering from Beijing University of Technology.

• TUT14: Virtual Analysis of Cell Aging and Cell Behaviors for the Selection and Development of Long-Life Cells

Erik Huemiller, PhD, is a Senior Researcher in the Materials and Manufacturing Systems Research lab at General Motors R&D. His work focuses on testing and quality systems applied to battery cell manufacturing for automotive applications. Prior to that, his work focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in the manufacture of mechanically ruled X-Ray diffraction grating for synchrotron light sources. Erik earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Global Battery Manufacturing Production

Iola is the Research Manager at Rho Motion working on electric vehicle, energy stationary storage and battery market analysis, as well as modelling energy and commodity demand associated with the energy transition, and has been with the company since its inception. Rho Motion, headquartered in London, offers the most comprehensive and well-informed forecasts and analysis for the energy transition.

• Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Erez Ichilov is a New York City based Critical Minerals expert. He is a seasoned mining, metals and physical commodities executive - former Managing Director of Traxys Projects and Traxys Battery Holdings, Former Executive director at Pallinghurst-Traxys Battery Materials and former Deputy CEO of the Nickel group Cunico Resources N.V, director - both Executive and NED in listed and private companies for upstream and for Mining Tech, advisor and investor, with a legal and financial background. As of 2024, he is acting through his newly formed Cedrus Arbor LLC.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Viktor Irle has a M.Sc. in Management & Economics of Innovation from Chalmers University of Technology, where he learnt analyzing emerging markets and market disruptions from new innovations. Being passionate about automobiles and especially electric engines and clean technology, EV-volumes.com is the natural outcome of his set of skills. Viktor is convinced the future automotive history is both electric and autonomous.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications
• TUT15: Global EV Market Demand: In-Depth Insights, Future Projections & the Impact on the Battery Supply Chain

Jessica Islas is the senior director of operations at Sion Power Corporation, a leading developer of high-energy lithium-metal rechargeable battery technology. She brings more than 20 years of multidisciplinary experience in the aerospace and defense industry. Her roles have included five years in emerging technologies engineering at Raytheon Missile Systems, 12 years in leadership roles in supply chain and compliance at Raytheon Missile Systems, and four years in government contracts, supply chain strategy across three platforms, ERP implementation, financial and operations management, and supplier quality engineering at Armtec Defense Technologies. Islas served in the United States Navy and is an Operation Enduring Freedom /Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) combat veteran. For five years, she was a command investigator and military police agent for ComSixthFleet in Naples, Italy. She holds an MBA in organizational leadership from Grand Canyon University and a Bachelor of Science in business administration with a focus on marketing and economics from the University of Phoenix. She has also completed legal and executive studies at Georgetown University and University of Maryland University College.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Rakesh Krishnamoorthy Iyer is Energy Systems Analyst in the Systems Assessment Center at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Rakesh works on life cycle analysis (LCA) of critical materials to understand the environmental impacts of their entire production life cycle (from mining to final material production) as a function of material supply chains. His LCA work informs Argonne's R&D GREET model-a leading LCA model used by academicians, companies, and researchers. Rakesh has also conducted detailed LCA and impact analysis of technologies that employ such critical materials, including batteries, electrolyzers, and freight trucks. Rakesh's educational background comprises a Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering from Clemson University and an integrated masters' in metallurgy and materials sciences from IIT Madras in India.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Sam Jaffe is the principal at 1019 Technologies. He has been in the battery industry for two decades as an analyst, a consultant, and an executive. He was previously the 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.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing

Kyle James, Business Unit Manager for our Retsch product line at Verder Scientific Inc, with extensive experience in sample preparation & particle size reduction for 18 years

• Battery Recycling

Dr. Meng Jiang is a staff researcher at GM R&D and the chair of the technical advisory committee at USABC. She received her Ph.D in chemistry from Stony Brook University and has 20 years of experience in lithium ion battery research and development.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Ibrahim Jilani has been with UL Solutions for over 18 years and serves as the Global Director & Industry Leader for Consumer Technology. His role includes leading and developing UL in new technology and innovation for AR/VR/MR equipment, Audio/Video, Batteries, Consumer Electronics, Consumer/Commercial Robots, Data Centers, Electronic Controls, Information Technology, Laser/LED, Micromobility, & Printed Circuits. Mr. Jilani serves UL’s mission and the market’s needs by addressing global industry matters, such as mitigating risk through product evaluation, testing and certification. He represents UL in a variety of industry trade groups and a key contact for manufacturers, regulators, retailers and other product safety and regulatory stakeholders within the United States as well as around the world. Ibrahim is a six-time winner of UL’s Mark of Excellence award given to UL employees who have addressed global industry challenges. He has a master’s degree in computer engineering from University of Illinois and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

Jeff Johnson has nearly 25 years of investment, entrepreneurship and corporate experience across climate and technology. Jeff is a General Partner at the global multi-stage investment firm B Capital where he leads the firm’s growing climate investment team. He most recently served as a Managing Director at Temasek leading the sustainable investing team for the global investment firm. Prior to Temasek, Jeff ran a boutique advisory business focused on scaling of sustainable businesses. He also co-founded and was on the Board of Xpansiv, the world's leading provider of market infrastructure for environmental commodities. Jeff worked in innovation business development at ABB between 2012 to 2014, leading growth initiatives for new sustainable products and services. Earlier in his career, he held several leadership and business development roles at various companies, including Better Place, Vendavo, and Intel Corporation. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from University of Florida and a Master of Science in Engineering Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

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• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

Mr. Hirokazu Kamine is a Battery Specialist at the Corporate Research & Development of Asahi Kasei Corporation, a diversified chemical company. He has studied chemistry at Kobe University in Japan and obtained his MSc in the field of conductive polymers. He started working for Hitachi Maxell in 2009, where he was in charge of developing lithium-ion batteries for mobile IT, home energy management system (HEMS), and 12 V batteries. Since 2017 he has focused his career on developing materials for advanced lithium-ion batteries in Asahi Kasei. Mr. Hirokazu Kamine is now responsible for developing advanced electrolyte.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

In 2007, Genyo Kaneko joined Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (Maxell, Ltd.), as a member of Design of Primary batteries. From 2016 to 2017, he was transferred to the development department, engaged in the design and development of Lithium-free Safety button-type rechargeable batteries, and improve their pretreatment process. Since 2022, he joined Maxell Corporation of America, as a Chief Engineer, Energy Products Division OEM Battery Group.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

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• Battery Recycling

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.

• TUT10: Li-ion Cell Design and Manufacturing

Brandon Kelly is the Vice President of Cell at Peak Energy, where he leads the development and scaling of advanced battery technologies. With a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a specialization in energy storage from Colorado State University, Brandon has extensive experience in battery material science, characterization, and product development. Prior to joining Peak Energy, he played a key role at Solid Power, where he spearheaded multi-million-dollar efforts to scale solid-state battery production for automotive applications. Brandon’s work is driven by a passion for building effective development teams and a deep understanding of battery technologies. His expertise includes launching new products, managing large-scale projects, and fostering collaborative, innovative work environments to accelerate the development of hard tech solutions.

• Grid-Scale Energy Storage

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.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Dong-Su Kim is the CEO and board member of LG Technology Ventures. He has over twenty-five years of investment, strategy, planning, and technology experience. As the founding CEO, Dong-Su established the fund structure, hired key people, and initiated investment operations. Under his guidance, LG Technology Ventures manages over $400 million of fund assets and invests in early-stage information technology, automotive, manufacturing, life-sciences, energy, and advanced materials companies. Portfolio companies include AmazeVR, Lygos, May Mobility, and Ridecell. Previously, Dong-Su was Vice President and GM of Samsung Ventures America where he managed offices in Menlo Park, Boston, London, and Tel Aviv. He has led the investment of over thirty companies in diverse sectors including semiconductors (Soft Machines, Verisilicon, Wave Computing), equipment (DCG Systems, IMS, Reno Subsystems), materials (Nanosys, NexPlanar, Voltaix), and storage systems (Pure Storage). Prior to joining Samsung Ventures, he was a Director at Asia Evolution, an investment bank in Korea covering mid-market financing, private placement, and M&As. Before that, he was a Director at the Technology Strategy Office of Samsung Electronics. As the CTO’s staff, he was responsible for strategic venture investments and technology alliances. He also worked in technology planning for Samsung’s Telecom R&D center, responsible for discovering new research topics. Dong-Su started his professional career as a Technical Leader at Samsung Fiber Optics Business Unit in development of fiber optic components. His past Board Director appointments include Datera, Digital Specialty Chemicals, Femtometrix, Inpria, Reno Subsystems, SBA Materials, SVXR, D2S, DCG Systems (acquired by FEI), NexPlanar (acquired by Cabot), Voltaix (acquired by Air Liquide), Panasas, and Pixtronix (acquired by Qualcomm). Dong-Su also served on the Investment Advisory Committee for Sierra Ventures. Dong-Su has earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and a B.S. with Honors in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Bricks Capital Management is a private equity firm focused primarily on electrification and battery industry leaders in North America. The Bricks team harnesses the core values learned from direct battery industry experiences and the best practices working in leading financial institutions. Hansol Kim is a co-founder and a managing partner of Bricks Capital Management. Prior to Bricks, Hansol spent most of his career in the battery and electrification sector working at leading companies such as Apple, LG Energy Solution, and VW's Electrify America. Hansol focuses on identifying growth opportunities and necessary partnerships in the commercialization of key battery technologies. He combines his extensive network, wealth of industry experiences, and a creative mindset to support high-potential technologies into production.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

SaeWon Kim has been part of the battery cell engineering team at Lucid Motors since 2023. She leads battery lifetime research, focusing on the development of the next-generation full-size SUV, ‘Gravity.’ She is passionate about using data-driven approaches to create insightful battery testing methods. SaeWon holds a BE in Education of Chemical Engineering and a ME in Advanced Energy Materials Engineering from Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. Her PhD research explored the structural evolution of amorphous cathode materials in aqueous zinc-ion batteries, using in operando X-ray diffraction and pair distribution function methods to reveal how electrolyte additives extend battery lifespan.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Sarah King brings over seven years of strategic leadership and expertise in clean energy policy, government affairs, and regulatory engagement. She has spearheaded sustainability programs, advocated for crucial policies and regulations, and built influential partnerships to drive legislative and regulatory progress. Sarah has held senior policy and sustainability program management roles spanning EV charging and fleet energy delivery startups, local governments, and environmental organizations. At United, Sarah focuses on engaging with public utility commissions, RTOs/ISOs, governors, and state regulators, providing them with the knowledge and resources needed to advance the clean energy transition.

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

Marc Kolb is a Partner and Associate Director in the San Francisco office of Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He is one of the firm’s lead experts in renewable power, power storage, and distributed energy resources. He has helped clients across the value chain, from OEMs, system integrators, project developers, EPCs, off-takers, and investors evaluate market entry, acquisition, and business model decisions. Prior to BCG, Marc worked with Tesla, Sunrun, Pacific Gas and Electric, and the California Public Utilities Commission, on topics ranging from regulatory strategy, resource planning, wholesale marketing, and retail pricing.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

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).

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing
• TUT8: Cell & Pack Design

Dr. Rajan Kumar is a distinguished nanoengineering expert with a degree. in polymer-particle composites from the top Nanoengineering programs in the country at UC San Diego and SUNY Albany. He has successfully led several multi-million-dollar projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, ARPA-E, and Fortune 500 companies. His doctoral thesis focused on developing advanced thin films for energy harvesting, storage, and sensors. As the founder of multiple deep-tech startups, including Glauconix and the world’s first printed stretchable battery company, Dr. Kumar has consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation.

As the CEO of Ateios Systems, the industry leader in solvent-free electrode manufacturing, Dr. Kumar has established a groundbreaking model that enabled Ateios to become the first battery startup to ship production-grade batteries with under $3M in venture capital funding. Under his leadership, the company has secured over $4M in grants from the NSF, DOE, and DOD. Dr. Kumar’s visionary approach has earned him recognition from prestigious platforms such as Forbes Next 1000 and the DOE LEEP program through Innovation Crossroads.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

Emmanuel Lagarrigue (New York) joined KKR in 2022. He leads the firm's global investments in climate. Mr. Lagarrigue has a wealth of experience in sustainability, the energy transition and the transformation of large businesses. Prior to joining KKR, he was one of the founding partners of BeyondNetZero, a General Atlantic fund focusing on growth equity opportunities in decarbonization technologies. Previously, Mr. Lagarrigue was an Executive Committee member at Schneider Electric, holding the positions of Chief Strategy, Chief Sustainability and Chief Innovation Officer. Also at Schneider Electric, he held several P&L and general management positions in Europe, South America, Asia and the United States over 20 years. Mr. Lagarrigue serves on the board of JBT Corporation and is the Chairman of the board of trustees of Menorca Preservation, an NGO dedicated to environmental causes in the Balearic Islands.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Recognized for more than 25 years of developing and commercializing lithium-ion batteries, Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud is Founder and CEO of Cadenza Innovation, a growth-stage company transforming energy storage for grid, EV, commercial and industrial, and urban battery deployments. Previously, Dr. Lampe-Onnerud was Founder, CEO, and International Chairman of Boston-Power, a battery company providing products to the consumer electronics, transportation, and other end markets. Earlier in her career, Dr. Lampe-Onnerud held executive positions with Bridgewater Associates and Arthur D. Little, where she led the world’s largest non-captive battery lab. A two-time World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and former co-chair of its Global Future Councils, Dr. Lampe-Onnerud is a co-chair of Li-Bridge, a public-private alliance convened by the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate the creation of a robust domestic manufacturing base and supply chain for lithium-based batteries. She is also a former board director with the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology (NY-BEST) Consortium, a coalition working to build a vibrant, world-class, advanced battery and energy storage sector in New York State. Dr. Lampe-Onnerud holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Uppsala University, Sweden, conducted post-doctoral work at MIT and currently sits on MIT’s Chemistry Department Visiting Committee.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics
• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization
• Global Battery Manufacturing Production
• Battery Engineering
• Battery Recycling
• Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Hang Kuen Lau is Segment Marketing Manager at Waters - TA Instruments focusing on Battery market. TA Instruments, a division of Waters Corporation, is the leading manufacturer of analytical instruments for thermal analysis, rheology and microcalorimetry. We provide advanced analytical characterization solutions for battery researchers and manufacturers to develop higher performing and safer battery technology. Hang joined TA Instruments in 2018 as Applications Engineer supporting the thermal product lines and joined New Market Development Scientific lead focusing on Battery market development. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Delaware and B.S./M.S. from Drexel University.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

Dr. Reik Laubenstein is Senior Engineer at IAV’s battery group in North America. He graduated from Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin in 2018 with a PhD thesis in inorganic chemistry. Subsequently, Dr. Laubenstein started at IAV’s Material Science Lab in Berlin, Germany, working on module and cell testing and simulation. Additionally, he was involved in developing abusive testing capabilities for thermal propagation studies. Since May 2023, Dr. Laubenstein has been part of the high-voltage battery system team at IAV Automotive Engineering Inc. in Michigan.

• Battery Engineering

With a background in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, Bob serves as an Account Manager and Battery Application Engineer at AES. Before joining AES, Bob worked as an engineer designing and facilitating the manufacture of mechanical assemblies for the defense, semiconductor, and tech industries. Bob focuses on helping companies procure chambers and battery fixtures that will accommodate their specific testing requirements and improve the efficiency of their testing operation.

• Battery Safety

Niclas is a forward-thinking and goal-oriented co-founder with extensive experience in corporate finance, consulting, and mobility industry. He has a proven track record of building and leading his previous company BAVERTIS into a profitable bootstrapped company with 15 employees, serving as CEO.

He possesses a diverse skill set, including mediating skills to bridge the gap between business and deep tech, and is also a passionate public speaker. He holds two master’s degrees in management and leadership and is a trained and active reserve officer with the rank of captain.

• Battery Engineering

Andrew has advised many leading OEMs and Oil & Gas companies on how to react to the rapid growth in Li-ion battery deployment, both in electric vehicles and energy storage systems. This includes advice on contract structures, commercial terms and direct investment into the sector. He has over 20 years of experience in the metals, mining, and chemicals industry as an analyst and consultant, and has held roles as Head of Forecasts & Consulting at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, Director at Wood Mackenzie, and Associate Director and Senior Commodities Analyst at VTB Capital. Supply Chain Insights maintains industry-wide models and forecasts, providing both data and advisory solutions to those involved in and looking to invest in the battery sector. This includes input to Lenders Market Reports, Due Diligence Projects, and Feasibility Studies. He holds a MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Dr. Bin Li is a Senior Scientist and Energy Storage R&D Lead for transportation and grid at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Li has a joint faculty appointment with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Li was strategically hired by ORNL to develop long-duration energy storage (e.g, zinc battery and flow battery) and all solid state batteries. Li is internationally recognized in the field of energy storage, including stationary and transportation energy storage, spanning from discovering new materials and developing novel technologies for Li metal batteries (Li-S and Li-NMC), redox flow batteries (including electrolytes, membrane and electrodes) and zinc ion battery, to understanding failure modes for batteries impact life and performance and thus rationally designing pouch cells or kw-class stacks with improved battery performances. As the PI, Li was leading several DOE EERE-VTO battery projects and OE projects as well as internal projects. He has published more than 80 journal articles (H-index: 51) in high-impact journals, such as Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Nature Nanotechnology, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Energy Letters and so on, holds over 15 patents in the field of energy storage and conversion (6 Pending; 10 Grant; 1 License), and is an active symposium/workshop organizer and member of professional scientific societies. Li received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2010, followed by Postdoctoral Fellowships at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2010-2011) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (2011-2013). Li was promoted to Staff Scientist at PNNL in 2014 and then joined Idaho National Laboratory in 2019.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Chen Liao is a Chemist in the Chemical and Science Engineering division at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research area focuses on the development of electrolyte and electrode materials to enable the high energy density, high power energy storage systems for transportation and grid applications. To reach that goal, she designs and synthesizes electrolytes and additives and study the complex interfacial behavior with both cathodes and anodes to improve the overall performance. Currently She is a co-PI of the ESRA (DOE BES Energy Hub) and multiple other DOE VTO projects. She has served as team lead of electrolyte for consortiums for both fundamental and applied science in energy storage. She has a total of 90+ papers published in high impact journals, with her as corresponding or first authors in journal such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Energy Lett, A and Adv. Energy Mater, JES, and many others.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

Victor Lifton is a Technical Director for Evonik Corporation in Piscataway, NJ, where he is responsible for supporting the use of novel metal oxides additives in Li-ion battery manufacturing, amongst other industrial applications. He has been with Evonik Corporation for 13 years and prior to that he worked for a start-up in the LiB space and at Bell Laboratories developing microelectronic and energy storage devices. He has a Ph.D. degree from Stevens Institutes of Technology in Materials Science.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Dr. Jin-Myoung Lim is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at ACT-ion Battery Technologies. ACT-ion, a battery cathode active materials (CAMs) technology and manufacturing company based in Dallas, TX, was incubated within Hunt Energy Enterprises, the corporate venture arm of Hunt Energy. Utilizing a high-throughput continuous manufacturing process that generates lower waste and emissions, ACT-ion produces high-performance and low-cost single crystal (SC) CAMs. Prior to his current roles, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Dr. Feng Lin is a Professor of Chemistry, and the Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. He is also jointly appointed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and affiliated with the Macromolecules Innovation Institute at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2016, Dr. Lin worked at QuantumScape Corporation as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, and at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Lin’s awards and recognitions include Rising Star in Technology Award, Startup Builder, ECS Battery Division Early Career Award, SLAC Spicer Young Investigator, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Journal of Materials Chemistry Emerging Investigator, RCSA Scialog Fellow, ACS-PRF Doctoral New Investigator, Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award, National Science Foundation CAREER award, John C. Schug Faculty Research Award, and many Scientific Highlights by national laboratories and DOE. He is a co-founder of Fermi Energy, Inc.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Dr. Timothy Lin is the founder/CTO of Solid Energies Inc (www.solidenergies.com), which started its business in 2017, with a focus on the research, manufacturing, and commercialization of new-generation solid-state batteries. Dr. Lin is a veteran scientist and entrepreneur in developing and commercializing new generation renewable/clean energy technologies for over 20 years, having founded 3 companies including SEI and Bioenno Tech. Since 2009, his team has received more than 20 grants from federal agencies including DoE/DoD/NASA, and has collaborated with several major EV/defense companies for the technical commercialization related to all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries (ASSB). Recently, his team received grants from (1) the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish initial commercial manufacturing of ASSB directed toward mass production for potential applications in renewable energy and electric vehicles, and (2) ARPA-E to develop and manufacture a new-generation of solid-state Li-air battery for applications in electrified transportations.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

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• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Dr. Chen Ling graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology and joined Toyota Motor North America in 2011. As the senior principal scientist, he is currently leading the materials simulation and informatics team to support Toyota’s research and development of cutting-edge technologies for the next generation of mobility. His research interests lie in applying artificial intelligence in combination with materials experimentation and simulation to solve energy-related challenges, including materials and device design for batteries, fuel cells, water electrolysis and CO2 reduction. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and holds more than 35 patents.

• Battery Engineering

Dr. Lin Liu received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 2011, and subsequently spent one and a half years as a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before joining The University of Kansas in 2013. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on the development of new theoretical models to predict both the electrochemical performance and the reliability of energy conversion and storage devices, such as solid-state fuel cells and Lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Liu and his students are also developing new fabrication techniques to synthesize materials and cell components. He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed research articles. Dr. Liu also has industrial experience at General Motors and The Stanley Works. Currently, the research in Dr. Liu’s group has been supported by NSF, NASA, and the Kansas Board of Regents.

• Battery Safety

Tongchao Liu is currently an assistant chemist in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD degree from Peking University. His research interests are focused on the interface of electrochemistry, cathode materials, and materials characterization, in particular, concentration gradient cathode design and fundamental understanding of failure chemistries through in situ synchrotron-based X-ray techniques. He is currently serving as editor in the high-impact journals of Nano Energy and Materials Today Energy.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

Dr. Gao Liu is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader of the Applied Energy Materials Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Liu has over 20 years of experience in developing materials and system engineering for electrical energy storage. Liu’s research combines synthetic chemistry, composite engineering and electrochemistry to solve interdisciplinary problems in energy generation, storage and usage. The Dr. Liu’s lab uses advanced diagnostics to understand fundamental and critical issues in energy systems, and synthetic techniques to develop new materials that improve overall system performance. Dr. Liu pioneered the multifunctional conductive polymer adhesive research. Dr. Liu’s electrode binder research contributes to the fundamental understanding of behaviors of the polymeric binder in the composite electrode, and leads to rational design of functional electrode binders for new storage chemistries. Dr. Liu’s ongoing research in energy storage covers electrode binders, silicon, sulfur and lithium metal materials, electrode engineering, electrolytes and additives, and solid-state conductors. Besides energy storage research, Dr. Liu also performs materials and engineering research in building resiliency, circular economy, and advanced manufacturing. Dr. Liu has over 190 peer-reviewed publications and over 30 granted patents.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

Annie Liu is a seasoned executive, having spent 20+ years in building and leading teams across stages from product incubation to rapid growth and scale-up in mature markets. Annie was the Executive Director at Ford (Model E). Prior to her role at Ford, Annie forged and managed Tesla’s multi-billion-dollar strategic partnerships and sourcing portfolios that support Tesla’s Energy and Battery business units including Battery, Battery Raw Material, Energy Storage, Solar and Solar Glass, including raw materials sourcing efforts such as lithium for battery cells. Earlier in her career, she held various leading manufacturing and procurement roles at Microsoft launching advanced technology products. Annie is a co-founder of Alto Group Inc, a trusted advisor and counsellor to many of the world’s influential businesses in the EV value chain. Annie is also currently a Non-Executive Director with ASX Listed Vulcan Energy Limited, and a Non-Executive Director with ASX Listed Alpha HPA Limited.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Dr. Haodong Liu is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tyfast. He is also Activate Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Before Tyfast, he was Project Scientist at UCSD’s Center for Memory and Recording Research. He is an expert in a variety of the electrochemical systems, from design, synthesis, processing, and characterization of advanced electrode materials for LIB and novel electrolytes for Li-metal batteries. He published more than 120 papers with more than 10,000 citations and 7 patents. He is the co-inventor of the disordered rocksalt lithium vanadium oxide anode material, the core technology of Tyfast.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

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• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

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.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing
• TUT4: In-Depth Analysis of the Chinese xEV Battery Industry

David Mackanic is the CEO and co-founder of Anthro Energy. David received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He is listed on Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT’s 35 Innovators under 35 for his work on polymer electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. David has authored over 20 academic papers with over 4,500 citations total. David has served as CEO of Anthro from inception through recent milestones including raising a $20M Series A and obtaining UN 38.3 certification of cells containing Anthro technology.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Todd Mackintosh is the Battery Systems Engineering Technical Lead for General Motors with nearly 30 years working in the battery industry. Todd has held various engineering positions covering manufacturing, product development, standards and regulations. Todd currently chairs the SAE Battery Transportation & Storage Committee, is a member of SAE G-27 ‘Lithium Battery Packaging Standard’ committee, UN informal working group on lithium batteries and serves on The Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) Board of Directors. Todd has been appointed by the US Dept. of Transportation to represent US auto manufacturers on its Lithium Battery Air Safety Advisory Committee and elected as an SAE Fellow. Todd has 12 patents / trade secrets, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Miami University and a Masters of Energy Systems Engineering from University of Michigan.

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Driving the future of electric mobility, one innovation at a time. I am a seasoned technology and product leader with a passion for blending cutting-edge technology with user-centric design. As a key player at Lucid Motors, I spearhead the development of sustainable and advanced charging solutions that empower EV drivers. Previously at Ford Motor Company, I led the Public Charging and Energy Services products, delivering innovative solutions for seamless public charging and reduced carbon emissions and cost of ownership with grid-friendly charge management solutions. My expertise in data-driven product development and user experience design enables me to create intuitive and efficient EV experiences that delight customers and drive industry change.

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

Dr. Masias is a Cell Technology Research Supervisor in Ford Motor Company's Battery Cell Research Department and has worked on the research and development of lithium batteries since 2002. His past research has focused on battery materials, analysis, and safety, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), and various universities. His current research focus is on solid-state lithium metal batteries, with an emphasis on the mechanical, safety, and life properties of lithium metal. Dr. Masias is a member of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) Technical Advisory Committee. He holds engineering degrees from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Lead expert in battery cell production, process design, process integration and production readiness for Gigafactory across the globe. Has over 25 years of experience in research and development, validation, verification and manufacturing across several technologies, including battery cell, high voltage battery pack systems, automotive, and e-mobility.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Naoki Matsumura is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, responsible for battery algorithm development in charging and CPU turbo-boost, and new battery chemistry enabling for mobile devices, datacenters, and Internet-Of-Things (IOT) devices. He is frequently invited to international conferences to speak on battery topics such as machine-learning/deep-learning based battery charging algorithm. He also teaches batteries and AI (machine learning and deep learning) at San Jose State University as an adjunct faculty, where he also serves as a Materials Engineering Industry Advisory Council member. Prior to that, he held battery research and development roles at Panasonic Corporation. He earned his MS in Energy Science from Kyoto University and holds many patents. He is the author of "Practical Battery Design and Control", a peer-reviewed battery book published from Artech House in Feb.'23.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

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.

• Battery Recycling
• Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Laura McCalla is a senior principal battery scientist within the research and technology organization of Medtronic Energy and Component Center. There, she leads and works on a wide variety of rechargeable battery projects for medical devices. She has over 12 years of experience in lithium-ion batteries, and received her PhD in Physics at Dalhousie University, where she developed the methodology of using isothermal microcalorimetry to study parasitic reactions in lithium-ion batteries.

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Rory McNulty is currently completing his PhD in degradation of state-of-the-art high nickel NMC lithium-ion batteries and next-generation technologies. He works with Benchmark Mineral Intelligence as a senior next-generation battery supply chain analyst, mapping technology roadmaps and forecasting raw material supply chains of disruptive technologies.

• TUT7: Understanding the Future of Battery Cell Cost & Assessing the Economic Feasibility of Emerging Technologies
• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Tracy B. McKibben is an international energy and environmental technology expert with 20+ years of experience in the energy sector. For more than 15 years she has focused on innovation that drives environmental impact in the areas of alternative and renewable energy, clean technology, water, infrastructure, and sustainability management. Tracy is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The MAC Group of companies, garnering over two decades of experience advising and investing in climate-conscious energy and infrastructure solutions across a global platform. As an investor and entrepreneur, Tracy has also acquired, constructed, and financed over 1GW of global renewable energy assets and invested in and developed innovative water, waste, and energy storage technologies. Her expertise in sustainable investing is anchored in extensive transactional experience ranging from mergers and acquisitions, business development, valuation and deal structuring, financial strategy, sustainability metrics, and public policy analysis.

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• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization
• Global Battery Manufacturing Production
• Battery Engineering
• Battery Recycling
• Grid-Scale Energy Storage

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).

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Xiangbo (Henry) Meng is currently an Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR, USA). Prior to joining University of Arkansas in 2016, Meng was a Postdoctoral Fellow at both Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Since 2009, Meng has been focusing on addressing interfacial issues of various battery systems using atomic and molecular layer deposition.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

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.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Celina Mikolajczak is the Chief Battery Technology Officer at Lyten, prior to that, Celina was the Chief Manufacturing Officer at QuantumScape, responsible for bringing QuantumScape's technology to mass production. Previously, Celina was a member of the board of directors at QuantumScape and the Vice President of Engineering and Battery Technology at Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA), which produces Li-ion cells for Tesla at the Gigafactory near Reno, NV. Celina has 20 years of experience in the battery industry which includes filling a variety of roles ranging from developing safety tests and failure analysis techniques, leading cell quality activities, conducting cell materials development, developing battery regulatory frameworks, and leading design of li-ion battery packs at Exponent, Tesla, and Uber.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization
• Next-Generation Battery Research

Ines Miller is leading the team of battery cells for P3 automotive in the field of E-Mobility. She has been involved in numerous projects with automotive OEMs, suppliers, chemical industry and investment banks mostly covering topics of Li-ion and Next-Gen batteries. Within P3 she is an expert for E-Mobility with focus on Li-ion and all-solid-state cells including technology and cost assessments. Before working for P3, Ines has gained her Master’s degree in Business Chemistry at the University of Ulm.

• Global Battery Manufacturing Production

Kaylan works on the GM Energy team focusing on delivering the best customer experience for all customer charging use cases with a primary focus on public charging. She has experience ranging from crafting deals with partners to ensuring smooth charger operations to financial modeling and more. Before joining GM, Kaylan worked in the utility space at Exelon where she was a part of some key projects. She holds a degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield in Finance.

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

Rajendra Mishra is a highly experienced Instrumentation Engineer with over 30+ years of global expertise in analytical instrumentation utilizing x-ray and neutron activation techniques. Proven success in developing and implementing automated solutions to address complex challenges for a wide range of industries. challenges for a wide range of industries.

• Battery Recycling

Born and raised in France, Eric moved to the United States after completing his studies to work on innovative ceramic composites at Saint-Gobain's Massachusetts R&D center. Developing a keen interest in climate technologies, he subsequently joined Tesla as a Global Supply Manager, leading the battery anode material sourcing team for two years. In his final role at Tesla, Eric managed electrode design programs for the in-house 4680 manufacturing division. While at Tesla, he recognized significant and largely unaddressed quality concerns in the battery and EV industries, prompting him to co-found Glimpse. Eric holds an MSc in Quantum Physics from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Jorge Mora is the Operations Manager and South America Representative for the International Lithium Association (ILiA). He began his career at Southern Peru, one of the world’s largest copper producers. After completing his master’s studies, Jorge joined the economic regulator of the water industry in Scotland and later the International Marine Ingredients Organisation (IFFO), where he became Operations Director. Jorge holds an Industrial Engineering from the University of Lima and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

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.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications

Since 2015, Victoria has served as a Conference Producer for Cambridge Enertech, with primary responsibilities for scientific conference program development within energy market sectors, with conferences based in the United States and Europe. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Battery Safety

Gordon Munns is a Distinguished Scientist at Medtronic Energy and Component Center. He joined MECC in August 2006. Since 2017 he has led the Energy Sub-Systems R&T group in the Energy Systems R&T organization focusing on external battery pack design and battery management systems. His interests include putting the latest implantable device innovations into the hands of therapy researchers, wireless energy transfer for medical devices, material properties of ceramics and semiconductors, and safe, highly reliable batteries. Gordon earned a B. A. degree in physics from the University of Northern Iowa, the M. S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois U-C, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in electrical engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, an author/coauthor of 59 refereed papers/presentations, and inventor/co-inventor of 47 issued US patents.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

Since joining Cambridge EnerTech as Associate Conference Producer in March 2024, Ian has spearheaded the production of new conference programs dedicated to addressing the global bottleneck in electric vehicle fast charging and infrastructure. Prior to joining Cambridge EnerTech, Ian conducted mathematical research in physical oceanography before foraying into K-12 education for gifted and talented mathematics students. Ian enjoys engaging others in their fields of expertise and staying current on latest trends and developments in the battery, electric vehicle, and charging infrastructure space.

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

Kabir Nadkarni serves as CALSTART’s Industry Assessment Specialist. As part of the Strategic Initiatives portfolio, his work is focused on identifying systemic barriers facing the zero-emission transportation sector and stewarding scalable solutions in partnership with CALSTART’s member companies. Prior to joining CALSTART, Kabir served as a Project Manager & Graduate Consultant for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, where he developed financial models to assess the investment outlook of the EV charging sector. Kabir holds a Master of Public Administration in Energy & Environment from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from the University of Alberta.

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• Battery Engineering

Nathan Niese is a Managing Director and Partner based in the Chicago office of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He currently serves as BCG’s global lead for the electric vehicle and energy storage topics, supporting clients topics on strategic endeavors related to green growth and new business builds. Nathan earned his PhD in engineering from the University of Michigan.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Dr. Hailong Ning is the Co-founder and CEO of VTA Technology. He has 15 years of experience in the battery industry, from battery materials, cell development to large-scale battery manufacturing. Prior to founding VTA, he served as VP of Battery Engineering at NIO and General Manager of Battery Engineering at Panasonic Energy of North America respectively, where he had direct experiences of building gigafactories in both the US and China. He obtained his Ph.D degree in Materials Sciences & Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

• Global Battery Manufacturing Production

Jeff Norris, the visionary CEO and founder of Paraclete Energy, leverages over two decades of experience in renewable energy storage. With advanced degrees from Duke University and USC, Jeff’s expertise is well-recognized in the industry. His accolades include the prestigious E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award. Jeff has a proven history of securing substantial financing and forging strategic partnerships. Notably, he guided a previous venture from concept to a NASDAQ IPO, delivering a phenomenal 106:1 return. His dedication to innovation continues to drive Paraclete Energy towards pioneering advancements in energy technology. Jeff is passionate about:

• God, family, and the legacy he lives 24/7 and leaves for them.

• Taking on the near-impossible with a great team and exceeding expectations for all stakeholders.

• Launching disruptive technologies and driving innovation in the energy sector.

• Serving others and contributing to economic development in developing countries.

• New ventures, start-ups, technology, and commercialization.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing

Dr. Nowak studied Chemistry at the University of MÜnster 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 MÜnster 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.

• Battery Recycling

With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Joe Nowikowski has a diverse background in electrical engineering, construction, and management. He has B.S. degrees in Mining Engineering and Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA. He is a registered professional engineer in 35 states, a Certified Fire Investigator, a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator, and a Certified Vehicle Fire Investigator. He has investigated fatalities and injuries related to electrical energy. Mr. Nowikowski has investigated a numerous lithium battery failures related to power tools, e-cigarettes, e-bicycles, hobby toys, vehicle jump start battery packs, as well as residential and utility scale battery systems. He has spoken twice at the international lithium battery conference in Washington, D.C., and has presented at multiple local and regional conferences on various electrical topics. He also has significant experience in cases involving residential and commercial wiring, appliance failures, electrical components for aquariums and terrariums, service entrance systems (SES), portable generators, neon signs and lighting, variable frequency drives, high-end home automation systems, lighting systems, alarm systems, cellular tower fire, and lightning strikes. His work also includes experience in construction defect claims, standard of care for electrical contractors, and a variety of industrial, commercial, and residential fires as well as vehicle fire investigations for recreational vehicles (RVs), boats, farm equipment, forklifts, tractor-trailer, and passenger vehicles.

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Joe O'Connor is the Director of ESS Solutions at Nuvation Energy with over a decade of experience in renewable energy product development. He holds two solar energy patents and authored the best-selling book 'Off Grid Solar.' Joe has expertise in solar energy, battery manufacturing, and energy storage systems, and he assists organizations in developing advanced battery solutions. He holds a master's in Manufacturing Engineering from NYU.

• Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Candace O'Melia works as an EV Policy and Market Development Strategist on the Global Public Policy team to accelerate GM's transition to an all-electric future. She focuses on influencing the regulatory landscape, developing policy positions and strategic action plans to advance EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and innovative technologies in support of transportation electrification. Candace was recognized as one of "35 under 35" rising stars in the U.S. electric vehicle industry by Business Insider for her work at GM focused on expanding access to EV charging.

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

Michael O'Brian is the Fire Chief for the Brighton Area Fire Authority (Brighton, MI) and serves on the board of directors for the International Association of Fire Chiefs. Chief O'Brian has served on multiple code development committees including serving as the Chair of the International Code Council Fire Code Action Committee. Chief O'Brian is the Chair of the IAFC Workgroup on lithium ion batteries which is working to develop a tool kit for fire department response, public education, and codes and standards.

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Gregory Offer is Professor in Electrochemical Engineering, Imperial College London and leads the Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group in Mechanical Engineering. Professor Offer’s research is at the interface between the science and engineering of electrochemical devices. Having trained as an electrochemist before moving to engineering, his research portfolio focuses on understanding the limits of operation, degradation mechanisms and failure modes of batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells in real world applications, and the impacts and consequences on system design, integration and control. He has published >100 peer reviewed journal papers, patents, technical reports and books. Greg is also a co-founder of four battery related start-ups, Cognition Energy Ltd, Breathe Battery Technologies Ltd, Galvanic Energy Ltd, and About:Energy Ltd. Greg has also worked previously as a management consultant and a government advisor.

• Battery Engineering

Alexander Onz is heading the position as Technical Program Manager for Delfort´s IonPort Separators. In this role, he oversees all technical and product-related topics and acts as the key point of contact for customers. Before taking on this position, Alexander led Delfort's entire Technical Sales for the Tobacco Division as Head of Technical Customer Service for several years. He has a background in both technical and legal fields, along with extensive expertise in the specialty paper industry.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing

Mike Pagel is a Senior Consultant with HazMat Safety Consulting. As a dangerous goods consultant, Mike partners with clients to improve their hazmat transportation programs. This includes creating customized training courses, conducting on-site storage and transportation compliance audits, general consulting support, assistance with Special Permits & Approvals, and developing company SOPs. Mike supports a range of clients with DG compliance, including producers of medical devices, eCommerce operations, cosmetics suppliers, 3PLs & carriers, electric vehicle makers, packaging manufacturers, and consumer electronics companies. Mike started in the industry in 2012 at PHMSA’s Hazardous Materials Information Center (HMIC) at DOT HQ in Washington, DC. For two years, Mike supported the HMIC by answering thousands of questions on PHMSA’s Hazardous Materials Regulations. In this role, Mike worked directly with PHMSA Rulemaking, Approvals & Permits, and Technical staff.

• Battery Safety

Sebastien Patoux is a chemical engineer, involved in battery technologies for more than 25 years. He defended a PhD on Battery Materials in 2003, before joining the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for a post doctorate. He is working for CEA, a French Research and Technology Organization (RTO), since 2005. He has been leading various battery groups for 18 years. His battery department is involved in materials synthesis to pack design and system assembly.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

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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Dr. Stefan Permien is the CEO and co-founder of UniverCell GmbH, a german cell and electrode production company focusing on special application markets. With a background in chemistry from the University of Kiel and a PhD focused on lithium-ion battery materials, Dr. Permien is a recognized expert in the battery industry. He also holds an MBA, which has complemented his technical expertise with strong business acumen. Before founding UniverCell in 2019, Dr. Permien served as Chief Technology Officer at Customcells Itzehoe. His ambition to scale beyond research and into full-scale battery production led him to create UniverCell. Today, the company aims to push the boundaries of battery technology and contribute to Europe's growing energy storage market, with a focus on sustainability and innovative energy solutions. UniverCell is scaling up production at its Flintbek facility, targeting significant growth in Europe's battery sector, which is expected to see rapid expansion in the coming years.

• Global Battery Manufacturing Production

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.

• Battery Safety
• TUT11: Li-ion Battery Safety & Thermal Runaway

Kirstyn Petras is a Senior Price Reporter at Fastmarkets, where she covers nonferrous recycled materials including aluminum and copper scrap and black mass, as well as reporting of battery materials and battery recycling markets. Prior to joining Fastmarkets in 2021, she covered petrochemical and uranium markets and previously worked writing news briefs for MGOs and MNCs.

• Battery Recycling

Wilhelm Pfleging is head of the group Laser Materials Processing at the Institute of Applied Materials (IAM-AWP) which is part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received his Master and Ph.D. 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 30 years of experience in laser technology and material science. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, books and conference reports (h-index 32). He is member of scientific and programme committees in several international conferences (e.g., LAMP, CLEO, ICALEO, MRS, SPIE Photonics West, SPIE Photonics Europe) with focus on laser processing 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. His research is focused on the development of laser-assisted processes, analytics (electrochemical analytics, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy) and manufacturing of advanced lithium-ion batteries and related energy storage materials (3D Battery). Furthermore, he is Professor at university (KIT) for “Laser Technology” and “Laser-assisted methods and their application for energy storage materials."

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

Anusha Pillay is a Product Manager at Siemens Electrical Products. She is responsible for managing product development cycles of EV fast chargers from ideation to launch. She is extensively involved with requirements evaluation, prototyping, testing and working with UL. Anusha's background prior to joining E-mobility was in Low Voltage Motor Control center manufacturing. She has a master's in Power Systems Engineering from NC State University and an MBA in Strategy & Leadership from Kenan Flagler School of Business, UNC Chapel Hill.

• Fast Charging & Infrastructure

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.

• Battery Engineering

Dr. Sebastian Pohlmann is CTO at UP Catalyst, a 5 year old start-up company from Estonia. He has held multiple positions in the energy storage industry, including Vice President Business Development at Skeleton Technologies. He received his Ph.D. from the MEET battery research centre in MÜnster in 2014 and has authored and co-authored >15 publications and patents in the field of energy storage.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Travis Pollard is a computational chemist in the Battery Science Branch at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, Maryland. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 2017 and joined ARL as a postdoctoral researcher that same year. He transitioned to Federal civilian service in 2020. His primary role in the Army is in supporting collaborative efforts with ARL and academic researchers, providing critical insights from molecular modeling into electrolyte properties ranging from structure and transport to predictions of reactivity and decomposition pathways. While happy to support efforts in a multitude of chemistries, Dr. Pollard is most excited to contribute to projects targeting cheap and safe battery chemistries. His work was recognized by the Army in 2022, where he was awarded the Department of the Army Civilian Service Commendation Medal for his contributions to the development of aqueous Zn-ion batteries.

• Next-Generation Battery Research

Bryant Polzin has worked at Argonne National Laboratory for the past 10 years in research and development of lithium ion batteries for transportation applications. His focus has been on materials evaluation and the scale up of batteries from coin cell level to xx3450/xx6395 pouch cells and 18650 can cell level. He has established the Electrode Library which consists of industrial quality capacity matched anodes and cathodes that are distributed to Universities, Industry and National Laboratories all over the world for research purposes. He has number of publications covering different aspects of lithium ion battery development and performance. For the past 2 years, Bryant has been the Deputy Director of the ReCell Center for Advanced Battery Recycling. The ReCell Center is a DOE funded program that is aimed at making the recycling of lithium ion batteries profitable. It is a collaboration between National Laboratories, Universities, and Industry. The center is currently working in four areas: Direct Cathode Recycling, Other Materials Recovery, Design for Sustainability, Modeling and Analysis. As Deputy Director along with 2 other executive committee members, we are responsible for overseeing the research, setting up the physical location of the Center and work with Industry to move technologies from the lab to them. Prior to coming to Argonne National Laboratory, Bryant has spent 10 years work in industry. He has spent 5 years working at a start-up company that manufactured sapphire for LED production. He also worked at a machine tool manufacture as a process engineer developing manufacturing processes for a number of different industries and on different materials. He holds a M.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering and a B.S. from Iowa State University in Ceramic Engineering.

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omasz Poznar, Ph.D. joined the Ascend Elements in 2021. He has diverse battery industry experience in multiple functional areas, including strategic planning, products and new business development. He came to Ascend Elements from A123 Systems, where he was responsible for corporate strategy and business development. His previous experience includes various executive roles and years of lithium-ion battery and vehicle electrification experience with EnerDel, Delco Remy and Volvo. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland.

• Battery Recycling

Drew Prekop is a Director in Baird’s Global Industrial Investment Banking Group and is a senior member of Baird’s Vehicle Technology & Mobility practice. View our recent Vehicle Technology & Mobility transactions. Since joining Baird in 2010, Drew has participated in numerous M&A and capital markets financing transactions involving sponsor-owned, privately held and publicly traded companies. Prior to joining Baird, Drew worked as an Analyst in the Private Debt & Equity group at Northwestern Mutual Capital. Drew graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a bachelor’s degree in finance, investment & banking, and received his MBA with distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan where he was a Baird Scholar.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

As a Global Key Account Manager at EV Volumes, I leverage my background in automotive data and sales to drive strategic partnerships and deliver value to key clients. With a deep understanding of the evolving automotive landscape, particularly in the electric vehicle sector, I am dedicated to providing insights and solutions that empower my clients to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market.

• TUT15: Global EV Market Demand: In-Depth Insights, Future Projections & the Impact on the Battery Supply Chain

Rob Privette is responsible for Umicore 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 US Fuel Cell Development Director at Ovonic Energy Conversion Devices and Umicore Fuel Cells, respectively.

• High-Performance Battery Manufacturing

Jason has been a part of the Product Integrity team at Ring for the past year, where he drives safety and reliability requirements across multiple battery technologies and product categories. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Managing Engineer at the consulting firm Exponent. There, his project portfolio included a variety of failure analysis and reliability testing of consumer and industrial electronics. Jason holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University.

• Battery Power for Consumer Electronics

David Rausch joined Phoenix Controls in 2006 and is currently the business development manager for the Healthcare, Research, and High Purity Manufacturing Markets. He has been involved in many aspects of product management, product design and project design of specialty mechanical devices and controls within the Healthcare and Research industry for over 20 years. As an active member and distinguished speaker of ASHRAE, he has held executive positions in TC 9.10 (Lab Systems) and was a past Chair for TC 2.2 (Plant and Animal). He now is an associate member of TC 9.6 (Healthcare) and TC 9.11 (Clean Rooms) and speaks at numerous critical environment conferences throughout the year. He has a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at Old Dominion University and an Associate's degree in Applied Science / Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Morrisville, NY

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Vallabha Rao Rikka is a Research Scientist-IV at the Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI) of Underwriters Laboratories in the USA. Renowned for his expertise in developing safe and efficient fast-charging techniques for lithium-ion batteries, Vallabha's work has been instrumental in advancing battery technology in the electric vehicle (EV) sector. His innovative contributions extend beyond traditional battery technologies, embracing the evolving realm of green energy solutions. Formerly a scientist at ARCI Chennai's Centre for Advanced Energy Materials (CAEM), Vallabha has a rich history in electric vehicle and energy storage applications. His proficiency extends to in-situ and ex-situ operando characterization of battery interfaces. Over the past decade, his work has focused on innovating rapid formation methods for solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layers in lithium-ion batteries. This innovation, reducing cell formation time by 75% and patented in India (Indian patent No. 202011052906), is a testament to his contributions to the field. Vallabha is also the architect behind a cutting-edge fast-charging protocol, which stands as one of the safest and most efficient charging methods, capable of fully charging batteries in merely 15 minutes, significantly easing range anxiety for EV users. Vallabha Rao Rikka's comprehensive expertise and innovative vision make him a pivotal figure in battery technology and green energy, contributing significantly to pursuing a sustainable and carbon-neutral future.

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Tony is a Partner with the International Trade & Investment Group for ArentFox Schiff. He leads the firm’s Electric Mobility Practice and serves as co-leader for the Energy & Clean Tech Industry Group. His comprehensive understanding of the global supply chain and US trade rules, including free trade programs (e.g., USMCA) and special U.S. tariffs (e.g., Section 301 and Section 232), translate into an important resource for clients engaged in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of electric vehicles (EVs), from critical minerals and battery components to the finished vehicle and charging station infrastructure.

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Ms. Rodriguez is a Research Engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at SwRI. She has a broad range of experience including hardware engineering, software development, firmware, penetration testing, and embedded systems. She provides technical and project leadership to the Cyber-Physical Systems section by leveraging her background in computer engineering. She primarily supports projects related to automotive and fast charging cybersecurity. Currently her work focuses on securing the EV charging ecosystem. Ms. Rodriguez has been an asset to projects by leveraging her expertise on topics including penetration tests and TARAs for EVs and charging stations (Level 2, DCFC).

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Tom RÜther studied Renewable Energies (B.Eng.) at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany, and at the Universidade Federal do Ceara in Fortaleza, Brazil. He received his M.Sc. from the University of Bayreuth in 2020 and is currently a PhD student at the Bavarian Centre for Battery Technology under the supervision of Michael A. Danzer. Since 2024 he is a Lecturer at the Chair of Electrical Energy Systems at the University of Bayreuth. His research focuses on the electrical characterization of lithium-ion batteries at cell and pack levels using techniques such as electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and the distribution of relaxation times analysis. In 2023 he won the Best of Show poster award at the International Battery Seminar. In 2024 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he studied the interpretation of electrochemical impedances in the group of Gregory Plett and Scott Trimboli.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Aaggrim Sabharwal is a seasoned supply chain leader with a demonstrated history of managing complex hardware operations. Currently serving as a Senior Group Manager - Global Supply Chain at Google, Aaggrim leads teams responsible for the supply chain of various hardware products, including Pixel phones, Nest Google Home, Fitbit watches, and AR/VR products. His expertise lies in core technologies such as batteries, chargers, and various input devices. Prior to Google, Aaggrim held key roles at Schlumberger and Apple, where he honed his skills in strategic sourcing and supply chain management. Aaggrim holds a Master's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a Certified Subsea Engineer.

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Apurba Sakti is an advisor with the energy storage data science team at Albemarle Corporation. Prior to Albemarle, Apurba spent multiple years in academia at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative (MITEI), where he was a principal investigator, and a co-lead of the future energy systems center’s (FESC’s) thrust area on energy storage and low-carbon fuels. Apurba has experience working with the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) in Washington D.C., and with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zagreb, Croatia. Apurba earned his PhD in engineering and public policy (EPP) from Carnegie Mellon University. For more, see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurbasakti

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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. He is 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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Anna Schleifer is a researcher in the Grid Planning and Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where she works in long-term modeling of the U.S. power system. Anna's research focuses on the role of utility-scale storage and hybrid energy systems in grids with high shares of variable renewable electricity generation. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin and her B.S. at Clemson University, both in mechanical engineering.

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Dean Schmidt has been working in emerging energy markets for more than 20 years. His current role at Hitachi High-Tech America, Inc, is establishing and managing partnerships within the complete supply chain for today and future battery manufacturing.

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Dr. Stephanie Shaw is a Technical Executive and Program Manager at EPRI (previously the Electric Power Research Institute). She develops strategic research directions, provides technical insight and manages a portfolio of work on the environmental impacts of energy storage and renewable generation, deep decarbonization strategies and emerging energy technologies. These topics cover air, water, and health impacts; life cycle assessment; and sustainability aspects. Dr. Shaw also leads the Circular Economy for Energy Technologies Interest Group, which facilitates recycles, reuse and circular economy principles for solar photovoltaics, wind turbine blades, battery energy storage and other technologies. Dr. Shaw received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, and a Doctorate in atmospheric chemistry, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Salman Sheikh, PE, PMP, is Energy Management Portfolio Director in Infrastructure & New Energy Solutions at Honeywell International, with over 11 years of experience in technology commercialization, storage systems, utilities, and storage systems software. He honed his product development and battery systems engineering skills at Honeywell, Fluence, and Ford Motor Company. His education includes earning a B.S. and M.S. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at University of Michigan, successively. His certifications include an MBSE in Architecture and Systems Engineering from M.I.T, a Battery MBA from Battery Associates, Certified Innovation Leader from AIPMM, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. He is committed to leading the energy transition for a better future.

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Salman Sheikh, PE, PMP, is Energy Management Portfolio Director in Infrastructure & New Energy Solutions at Honeywell International, with over 11 years of experience in technology commercialization, storage systems, utilities, and storage systems software. He honed his product development and battery systems engineering skills at Honeywell, Fluence, and Ford Motor Company. His education includes earning a B.S. and M.S. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at University of Michigan, successively. His certifications include an MBSE in Architecture and Systems Engineering from M.I.T, a Battery MBA from Battery Associates, Certified Innovation Leader from AIPMM, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. He is committed to leading the energy transition for a better future.

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Lie Shi has been the CEO of AM Batteries since July 2023. Prior, Shi served as President of Celgard, a world-renowned battery separator company that invented and commercialized a solvent-free process to produce microporous membranes for lithium-ion batteries. Over his twenty-six-year stint at the company, he worked his way from technical manager, leading its lithium battery material development, to Vice President of R&D, to Chief Technology Officer, to Chief Operations Officer, and ultimately, ascending to President. He also served as the Global Head of Separator Business Development for Asahi Kasei Corporation, Celgard’s parent company. Shi received his B.S. in Physics from Kyoto University, Japan, M.S. in Physics from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina - Charlotte.

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• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

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Dr. Tal Sholklapper has an extensive record of success as a cleantech engineer and entrepreneur. Prior to founding Voltaiq, he worked as the lead engineer on a DOE ARPA-E funded project at the CUNY Energy Institute, developing an ultra low-cost grid-scale battery. Before joining CUNY, Dr. Sholklapper co-founded Point Source Power, a low cost fuel-cell startup based on technology he developed while at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, where he also did his graduate work in Materials Science and Engineering. As a Materials Postdoctoral Fellow at LBNL, he successfully led the transfer of lab-scale technology to industry partners.

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Shazan Siddiqi is a Senior 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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Kunal Sinha is the Global Head of Recycling at Glencore, and based in the firm’s New York office. In this role, he oversees a global business that recovers critical metals, such a Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, and (expected in the near term) Lithium, as well as precious and platinum group metals, from post-consumer and post-manufacturing “resources” such as electronics, lithium ion batteries, end of life automotives, etc. Specific to lithium ion batteries, he is responsible for Glencore’s effort in accelerating circularity of critical minerals, by enabling recycling and refining as well as second life and end of life solutions for our customers. He also serves as a non-executive director of Li Cycle, a leading lithium ion battery recycler. He started with Glencore in Baar in 2012 in the Copper team, and subsequently served as the CEO of NorFalco, Glencore’s Sulfuric Acid marketing subsidiary - another sustainability focused business for the group, before taking over the Recycling business. Prior to joining Glencore, Kunal worked for 6 years in Management Consulting at ZS Associates. He holds an MBA from the London Business School, an M.S. in Systems Engineering (Robotics) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

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.

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• Battery Recycling
• TUT12: Recycling Market & Methods

Graduated in 2009 from Lake Superior State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and in 2014 from University of Texas - Arlington with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering with a focus on surface coatings development and characterization. Began working for Linde Advanced Material Technologies in 2018 for the R&D team working on the development of Linde AMT’s EXOGARD™ high velocity coating system with a particular focus on hard chrome replacement and the development of coatings for the Lithium-ion battery manufacturing industry.

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Ionel Stefan joined Amprius in 2009 as a Senior Scientist, initially to lead electrochemistry for silicon nanowire anode-based lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Stefan now leads Amprius' development of silicon nanowire electrochemistry, cell technology - including material design, cell design and engineering - and product development. At Amprius, he has served as Principal Investigator on multiple projects, including NASA, Army, DOE and USABC-funded research and development efforts. Dr. Stefan received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University (2002) with research activities focused on the development of new materials and devices for energy production and storage.

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Josh Stiling is an Investment Director at Anzu Partners with a focus on investing at the intersection of material science, electrification, and manufacturing technologies. Since joining Anzu in 2021, Josh has led and supported investments for several companies in Anzu's portfolio, including investments in AM Batteries, South 8 Technologies, e-Zinc, Xendee, and XGS Energy. Prior to Anzu and following undergrad, he competed professionally in the sport of water polo in Australia (Perth) and Spain (Barcelona) for two years before continuing on to work for an R&D industrial materials start-up in San Jose for 4 years. At Lyten, he served as a senior engineer in materials development and worked on applications such as batteries, super-capacitors, conductive inks and an IoT sensing platform for explosive materials. At Anzu he is supporting several portfolio companies, while also conducting diligence and sourcing new technologies in the industrial materials and energy space. He holds two degrees from UCSD, an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and an MBA.

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Since joining Cambridge EnerTech in Feb 2024, Sarah has worked within the recycling, mining and mineral processing areas of the battery value chain. She has industry experience in power supply and conversion for clean energy applications, Li-ion battery cathode research, oil and gas and mineral processing. Sarah holds a PhD in Materials Science & Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and a BEng in Mineral Engineering from the University of Leeds.

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Stanislav (Stas) Stoliarov is a Professor of Fire Protection Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include the subjects of material flammability, fire dynamics, and fire suppression and mitigation. Stoliarov specializes in research techniques that combine experiments and numerical modeling to gain insight into the behavior of complex physical systems. His contributions include the development of several experimental and modeling techniques for the analysis of pyrolysis and combustion of polymer-based materials including Microscale Combustion Calorimetry, which became an ASTM standard. Stoliarov also made significant contributions to understanding dynamics of lithium ion battery fires and ignition of building materials by firebrands generated in wildland fires. Stoliarov authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 150 conference presentations and proceedings. He is a recipient of multiple awards including the NSF CAREER. Stoliarov is a member or co-chair of several key committees of the International Association of Fire Safety Science, an active participant in the flame retardants research community, and an editorial board member of several leading fire safety journals.

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Dr. Dee Strand is Chief Scientific Officer 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 Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervision of Professor John Schrag. Her Ph.D. research focused on rheology and birefringence of polymeric solutions.

• Advances in Automotive Battery Applications
• TUT9: Improving the Energy Density of Batteries with Silicon-Based Anodes

Andy Stummer started at BYK-Gardner, USA in a technical sales role covering the mid-Atlantic area in 2006. In 2018 he was promoted to Business Line Manager for Dispersion followed by Director of Sales for Dispersion in 2024. He is the technical resource and main sales contact for VMA-Getzmann products for North America and manages the BYK-Gardner Dispersion Applications Lab at BYK in Wallingford Connecticut since 2019.

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Johan Sundqvist is the vice president of sales at COMSOL for the automotive sector in North America. He joined COMSOL in 2000 and received his MSc in chemical engineering from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

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Altmin is a leading battery materials manufacturer specializing in cathode and anode production. Currently, we are India’s leading producer of Carbon-coated Lithium Iron Phosphate, a battery-active material used in the manufacturing of Lithium-ion cells for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS). We are dedicated to creating a robust supply chain that meets the global energy needs of the future, by ensuring an uninterrupted supply chain to the existing and upcoming industries from our partnered mines in South America assuring consistency in quality and pricing.

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Rajesh Swaminathan is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, with over two decades of experience assisting and investing in deep tech startups. He manages many of the firm’s investments across renewables generation, storage, hydrogen, industrial decarbonization, plastics, foodtech, healthcare and advanced manufacturing. Previously, Rajesh was the head of Applied Ventures LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, where he managed a portfolio of 85 deep tech startups globally and two deep-tech funds in Korea and Taiwan. He led investments and helped build companies with strong exits, including Enphase Energy, Solid Energy, Rockley, Infinite Power Solutions, Adaptive3D, Tango, Inpria, PlayNitride and Norsk Ti. Rajesh was recognized amongst the top 100 global CVCs on the Global Corporate Venture (GCV) Powerlist. Earlier, he worked at Third Point Ventures and at Lucent’s Bell Labs, where he drove technical assessments and partnerships for several optical, MEMS, and RF device startups, and also led DFR programs for the successful deployment of Lucent’s 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s systems. While pursuing his MBA at Harvard Business School, he worked on Deutsche Bank’s cleantech banking team and worked with KV on companies in solar and water. Previously, Rajesh earned a master of science degree from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, where he was awarded the Shankar Dayal Sharma (President of India) Medal for overall excellence.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Dana Swan, Business Development Manager, at Arkema Inc. responsible for the development of Arkema’s Kynar® PVDF product in Lithium Ion Batteries. Previously, she held the position of Business/Technical Development Manager and Lead Scientist for the Elium® Composite resin. Dana has 25 years of experience in R&D, Plant Support, Technical Service and Business Development at Arkema. During that time, she was instrumental in the development of new technologies on projects spanning a variety of markets and Arkema business units including projects in the paint and coatings, solvent and catalyst fields as well as composites. Originally from the Pittsburgh area, she received her Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry from Allegheny College and her Master’s in Chemistry from the University of Virginia.

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• Battery Safety

Dr. Darren H. S. Tan is the CEO and co-founder of UNIGRID Battery, a spin-out startup from the Sustainable Power & Energy Center at University of California, San Diego. Darren obtained his PhD from UC San Diego's Chemical Engineering department. He is currently leading the UNIGRID team in commercializing next generation advanced sodium ion batteries for the emerging e-mobility and stationary storage markets.

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Dr. Tan received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1992. He joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as faculty member in 1996 till 2014. He then invited to join Chang Gung University, Taiwan and set up a research Center on Reliability Sciences and Technologies in Taiwan and acts as Center Director. He is Professor in Electronic Department of Chang Gung University, Honorary Chair Professor in Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan. He has published 400+ International Journal and Conference papers and giving 30+ keynote talks and 100+ invited talks in International Conferences and several tutorials in International Conferences. He holds 21 patents and 1 copyright on reliability software. He has written 14 books and book chapters in the field of reliability. He is an Editor of Scientific Report, Nature Publishing Group, an Editor of IEEE TDMR, Series Editor of SpringerBrief in Reliability, Editor of MDPI Applied Research, and Editor of Journal of Frontier of thin film. He is a member of the advisory panel of Elsevier Publishing Group. He is also in the Session Chair of IEEE EDS Reliability Physics 2025 and the committee of IEEE EDS Master and Ph.D fellowship selection. He is also named as top 2% scientists in the world according to Stanford University research in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and received life achievement award of the top 0.15% world scientists (1960-2022) according to Stanford University, USA. He is a past chair of IEEE Singapore Section, senior member of IEEE and ASQ, Distinguish Lecturer of IEEE Electronic Device Society on reliability, Founding Chair of IEEE Nanotechnology Chapter - Singapore Section, Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Singapore, and Fellow of Singapore Quality Institute, Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden. He is the General Chair of ANQ Congress 2014. He is the first individual recipient of Ishikawa-Kano Quality Award in Singapore in 2014. His research areas are reliability for materials, devices (including LiB) and systems. His work on LiB reliability began in 2010 while he was in NTU, involved in TUM Create project.

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Jonathan Tan is co-founder and CEO of Coreshell Technologies. He is a chemical engineer turned business development leader who worked in the polymer membrane industry before starting Coreshell. He spent the past decade taking projects from R&D to full commercialization and is drawing on that experience to lead the commercialization efforts of Coreshell's battery materials innovation.

• Lithium-ion Battery Development & Commercialization

Tanvir R. Tanim is an R&D engineer and the group lead for the Energy Storage Technology Group in the Energy Storage and Advanced Transportation Department at the Idaho National Laboratory. His research focuses on enabling next-generation high-energy and power lithium-ion batteries, developing advanced algorithms for reliable life estimation, and expanding and/or verifying advanced diagnostics and prognostics of these high energy and power batteries for electric vehicle applications. Between 2014 and 2021, he authored or co-authored 25 peer-reviewed scientific articles and patents. Tanim can be reached by email at tanvir.tanim@inl.gov

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Kyle Teamey joins RA Capital as a Managing Partner, Planetary Health. Kyle's primary responsibility at RA is to lead investments in private companies that are developing innovative solutions to address climate change and environmental sustainability. Prior to joining RA, Kyle was a Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), where he led investments and served on company boards that span the utilities, energy storage, chemicals, agriculture, automotive, recycling, and consumer products sectors. Prior to BEV, Kyle was a Principal at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the CIA and US Intelligence Community, where he invested in early stage manufacturing, materials, energy, computing, and defense companies. Kyle was also the CEO and co-founder of Liquid Light, developer of a proprietary process to make major chemicals from CO2, which was sold to Avantium in 2016. Kyle also recently retired as a Colonel in the US Army Reserve after 24 years of service. He holds a BA in Environmental Engineering from Dartmouth College (1998), an MA in International Finance and Energy Policy from John Hopkins University (2008), an MS in Materials Science from Columbia University (2012), and a Masters of Strategic Studies from the Army War College (2020).

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Dr. Venkataraman Thangadurai is a full professor and Chair in Energy at the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom. He is the inaugural Faraday Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He is elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Royal Society of Canada, and the Electrochemical Society (USA). He has published more than 260 peer-reviewed papers in journals (H-index of 69). He has received the Keith Laidler Award from the Canadian Chemical Society (CSC) in 2016 and Research Excellence Award in Materials Chemistry from CSC in 2021. Dr. Thangadurai is founder of two start-ups based on his lithium-ion electrolytes research. His current research activities include the discovery of novel solid-state electrolytes and electrodes for advanced batteries and fuel cells.

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• TUT5: Solid-State Batteries

Carl Thoemmes is Business Development Director at Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials where he focuses on advancing Orbia's scale up of electrolyte materials including Custom Electrolyte, LiPF6, OS3®, and Koflyte®. With extensive experience from end-use battery applications all the way up to cell raw materials, Carl is focused on advancing the domestic supply chain supporting electrolytes and electrolyte raw materials.

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Casey Jones is a research assistant and PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics representing Dr. Vikas Tomar and the Interfacial Multiphysics Laboratory at Purdue University. He is a six-year veteran of the US Navy, where he worked as a nuclear electronics technician aboard a fast-attack submarine stationed in Pearl Harbor. He obtained his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Dr. Tremolet de Villers is a principal researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado (USA). He has physics and spectroscopy expertise in organic and hybrid-organic photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems, i.e., Li-ion batteries, and the scale up of these technologies. In his battery research, he has developed in-situ spectroscopic methods to study solid-electrolyte interfaces and electrolyte solvation structure in silicon anodes and next-gen high-nickel/low-cobalt cathodes for rechargeable cells. He has also implemented ultrafast laser patterning of battery electrodes for enhanced performance. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining NREL in 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

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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.

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As the Chief Technology Officer at Inventus Power, Chris Turner leads the strategic development of technology for a wide range of battery applications and markets. With 30 years of experience in the battery industry, he has hands-on knowledge of many battery technologies, including lithium ion, lithium polymer, nickel metal hydride, nickel hydrogen, and rechargeable zinc air. Chris contributes to the industry as an inventor, author, and speaker at major global battery conferences, and is on the Board of Directors of NAATBatt and The Battery Show conference.

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Prachi J. Vakharia works in Washington DC, USA at the intersection of innovation, financing and technology deployment in the transportation sector. Prachi was recently asked to join the founding team of ARPA-I, a new agency, modelled after DARPA, to fund moonshots in the transportation sector. Previously, she worked at Amazon where she worked with ports, airports and road agencies to design and enable the adoption of new technologies and digital infrastructure. She also worked with the MBTA leading innovative IoT-based projects to further station access; in clean transportation, where she brought in by AES Next, the venture arm of energy firm AES, to invest in electric mobility.

• Battery Venture, Innovation & Partnering

Dr. Benny Varghese is a research engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory working on EV Charging Infrastructure. He leads the Diagnostics Task Force within the ChargeX Consortium, funded by the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to improve EV charging experience. In his current role, he is working to improve the reliability of public DC fast charging infrastructure and remove roadblocks to EV adoption. His areas of expertise include testing, design, and development of EV charging infrastructure. Areas of research interest include cyber-physical security of chargers and anomaly detection. Benny has a PhD from Utah State University, where he developed static and dynamic wireless charging solutions for electric vehicles.

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Shaun joined the company in October, 2016 and was appointed CEO & MD in February, 2017. Prior to joining Syrah, Shaun was at BHP for 20 years in a variety of executive roles, with extensive international, commercial, and operational experience across a range of commodities including copper and base metals, uranium, and thermal and metallurgical coal. Shaun has extensive general management and cross-functional leadership experience, focused on the integration of commercial, operations, and supply chain excellence, with a particular interest in China’s growth and impact on the evolution of commodity and industrial markets.

• Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials

Scott Walbrun is a principal venture capital investor at BMW i Ventures, the independent venture capital fund managed on behalf of BMW Group based in Silicon Valley, where he focuses on Series A & B investments around the future of mobility, energy, artificial intelligence. In this capacity, Scott has served on the board of eight companies. He also serves as a mentor and workshop leader for hundreds of startups through various accelerator programs across the country. Prior to joining BMW i Ventures, Scott provided M&A and capital markets advisory as a member of Jefferies’ Technology Investment Banking team. Scott joined Jefferies after completing his MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. While completing his MBA, he worked at Kinzie Capital Partners evaluating private equity investments, as well as at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation supporting the commercialization of science-based and deep tech companies. Prior to business school, Scott managed Strategic Finance and FP&A at Truck Hero (a TA Associates portfolio company) and began his career in Fiat Chrysler’s Finance Leadership Development Program.

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Dr. Matthew Wang graduated from Peking University with a Materials Science major in 2010. He has over 14 years of working experience in the Lithium-ion battery industry. At Amionx, his R&D focus is to make safer batteries by using SafeCore as a current interrupter and limiter to mitigate thermal runaway. He leads an internal team to develop next generation safety technologies and he also oversees external technical programs with international customers and partners.

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Dr. John Warner is a well-recognized figure in the battery industry. He is an authority on EV batteries, an experienced sales, business development, strategic marketing, and product management executive with more than 35 years of combined automotive and battery industry experience and author of three successful books on EV batteries. Today he serves as one of the co-founders and Chief Customer Officer for American Battery Solutions, a lithium-ion battery pack manufacturer based in Michigan and Ohio where he is focused in on- and off-road mobility battery development. He is Founder and President of Warner Energy Consulting LLC. Previously, he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Ener1, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for XALT Energy, Director of Sales & Marketing for Magna Steyr Battery Systems NA, Director of Product Management at Boston-Power, and nearly 20 years in the auto industry, much of that with General Motors where he served in a wide variety of leadership roles. Dr. Warner published his first book “The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design” in 2015 with a second edition published in May 2024. His second book, “Lithium-Ion Chemistries: A Primer” was published in 2019. His books focus on simplifying the complex topics around battery chemistries making it easily understandable by a wide audience for both entry level engineers and all non-engineering professionals.

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Libby Wayman is a Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an investor-led fund created to accelerate the transition to clean energy and a decarbonized economy. Prior to BEV, Libby led clean technology development at GE where she served as the Global Director of Innovation for GE’s Ecomagination strategy, where GE invested over $10B in clean technology and generated over $200B in revenue. Libby also served as the Director of the US Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative, where she formulated clean energy manufacturing tax credits (48C), and established new research programs and institutes for advanced manufacturing for clean energy technologies. Libby began her career in entrepreneurship and technology development, including research and development in solar at SunPower and Alion Energy. Libby holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she co-founded the MIT Energy & Climate Club. Libby also co-teaches the MIT & Harvard Climate & Energy Ventures course.

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Dr. Erica Wiener is a Physical Scientist at the U.S. Department of Transportation, within the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. In her role, she leads and coordinates research projects to improve the safe transportation of hazardous materials essential to everyone’s daily lives. Dr. Wiener is a Class of 2022 Presidential Management Fellowship Alumna, part of a distinguished Federal program established to recruit and develop future government leaders. As a Fellow, she provided thought leadership towards research program directions and critical project management in her role at PHMSA. She also served as a Deputy Director for Sustainability at the White House Council on Environmental Quality during her Fellowship. Prior to her service in government, she received a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus on Sustainable Water Development at the University of Iowa. Her research investigated fungal removal of emerging contaminants found in stormwater, with the goal of finding sustainable solutions to stormwater management.

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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.

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Dr. Michal Wolkin is a board member, investor, physicist with a focus on energy storage and climate tech. She has two decades of experience in venture investments, technology evaluation, and innovation. Michal is the former Director of GM Ventures' Battery & Electrification Fund, she is serving on the boards of public and private companies. With a Ph.D. in Materials & Physics, she has driven disruptive technologies at 3M, PARC, and NASA. Michal is also a part-time professor heading a new master’s degree program in Sustainability Management at Reichman University focusing on entrepreneurship and sustainability.

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Dr. Wozniak completed his undergraduate training at MIT and graduate work at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he stayed on as an Assistant Research Professor until 1995. For the past 25 years he has worked for Energizer Power Systems, Compaq/HP and Microsoft prior to forming his own consulting business in 2014. As the President of Energy Storage and Power Consulting, he works closely with key battery cell and pack manufacturers as well as Fortune 500 OEMs manufacturing everything from consumer electronics, EVs , ESS and battery backup systems. Dr. Wozniak’s focus has been on developing quality manufacturing practices and commercialization of promising battery technologies.

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Subject Matter Expert for stationary energy storage, including lithium-ion battery technology, system design/applications, performance, warranty and performance contracting and market trends.

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Kevin Wujcik serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Blue Current, leading the development of the company's fully dry solid-state battery utilizing silicon-active materials. Before joining Blue Current, Kevin worked on the research team at Ford Motor Company, concentrating on battery materials and fuel cell systems research and development. His contributions include being named in over 12 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 9 patents. Kevin earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, with a thesis centered around lithium-sulfur batteries containing solid polymer electrolytes. Additionally, he holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University, where he contributed to the advancement of novel fuel cell electrode microstructures.

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I completed my Master's degree (M.Sc.) in Karlsruhe university (KIT) on chemical engineering in 2021. Afterwards, I worked for about 1 year at the electrotechnical institute (KIT) as research associate on modelling and optimizing the BMS software of a stationary redox-flow-battery. Since 2022 I'm working at Daimler Buses as software development engineer for the BMS of the high voltage batteries in electric buses. Focus is battery modelling and developing SoX algorithms. In parallel, I'm also doing my PhD at KIT (ITIV) under supervision of Prof. Sax in development of aging state estimation under realistic field conditions.

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Dr. Jun Xu currently is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD), and Director of Vehicle and Energy Safety Laboratory (VESL). Prior to his join at UD, Dr. Xu worked at UNC Charlotte as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (tenured) from 2018-2023. Dr. Xu was appointed as the founding Director of the NC Battery Complexity, Autonomous Vehicle and Electrification (BATT CAVE) Research Center at UNC Charlotte. He obtained his PhD at Columbia University in 2014 (major in Environmental Engineering and Engineering mechanics). His research expertise sits in the electrochemo-mechanics-thermal coupled modeling and characterization of battery safety and advanced design and understanding of structures upon dynamic loading. So far, Dr. Xu and his students/postdocs have published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal papers, with citation of 5,900+, H-index=44.

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Dr. Yan Yao is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston. His research bridges electrochemistry with materials design and synthesis, with a focus on next-generation beyond lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Yao has published over 150 research papers and delivered more than 180 invited lectures. He holds 12 issued U.S. patents and has co-founded two start-ups. He serves as the Principal Investigator for several core battery programs, including the Battery500 Consortium, the Vehicle Technology Office’s Battery Materials Research program, three ARPA-E projects and as Deputy Thrust Lead of the Basic Energy Science’s Battery Innovation Hub. He has received numerous awards, including the Texas Academic Leadership Academy Fellow (2023), Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of Houston (2022), Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate Analytics (2021), Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage (2017), and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2013). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and a senior member of both the National Academy of Inventors and the IEEE.

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Gleb Yushin is a Co-Founder & CTO of Sila Nanotechnologies and serves as a Professor of Materials Science at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Editor-in-Chief for Materials Today. Gleb has co-authored over 170 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 patents. For his contributions to the development of energy storage materials, Gleb has received numerous awards and was recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientific minds by the Electrochemical Society. Gleb holds BS and MS degrees in Physics from Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Materials Science from North Carolina State University.

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Karim Zaghib earned his MSc (1987) and PhD (1990) in electrochemistry at the Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble, France. His Habilitation à diriger la recherche in physics was conferred by the Université de Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (2002). Dr. Zaghib has played a determining role in research on lithium-ion batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles for over 30 years. As Director of Research at Hydro-Québec for 28 years, Dr. Zaghib oversaw its development of materials for lithium-ion batteries and led it to become the world’s first company to commercialize lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes. Dr. Zaghib was also one of the pioneers of the first photo-battery with two electrodes, and of megawatt-hours (MWh) high-capacity energy storage based on LFP/graphite, and he has made enormous contributions to the electrochemistry of ionic liquids for lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Zaghib is currently Director of the Collaborative Centres on Energy and its Transition (C2ET) at Concordia University, which aims to become the benchmark for the design and industrialization of energy systems based on renewable energy. Its mission is to design integrated systems based on electrochemical devices, new generations of batteries, and hydrogen production, in order to bring those systems equitably and affordably to market. Dr. Zaghib is also CEO of Concordia’s $123M CFREF program, Volt-Age, where his focus is on attaining net-zero electrification of transport both in urban environments and, in partnership with the Indigenous Clean Energy consortium, in northern, remote, and Indigenous communities across Canada. Dr. Zaghib’s leadership in battery development and electrochromics is undisputed globally. He is a co-author of 420 scientific publications (h-index 91, >28000 citations) and co-inventor on 973 patents for over 200 inventions associated with 63 licenses. He was Chair of the 15th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, the premier international conference on lithium battery science and technology, in 2010, as well as of the first International Conference on Olivines for Rechargeable Batteries in 2014. Most recently, Dr. Zaghib was named Chair of the 23rd International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, to be held in 2026, and was the driving force behind the successful bid to host the meeting in Montreal. His field-transforming research and innovation have also earned him numerous awards and distinctions. A Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and recipient of its Battery Technology Division Award (2013), Dr. Zaghib is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the only person ever to have received both the Research Award (2010) and the Technology Award (2017) of the International Battery Association. Among many other honours, he is the recipient of the Prix du Québec Lionel-Boulet (2019), the highest distinction for industrial and applied research and development awarded by the Government of Québec, and the Kalev-Pugi Award of the Society of Chemical Industry Canada (2022). Named a “Personality of the Year” by the magazine L’actualité in 2023, Dr. Zaghib is most recently the recipient of the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society.

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John is the CTO/CSO of Polypore International (Celgard)/Asahi Kasei. He received IBA (International Battery Association) Technology Award 2024 for his invention of Ceramic Coated Separator and Outstanding Contribution in Understanding of Internal Shorts Events of Li-ion Cells that lead the broad application of Ceramic Coated Separator (CCS). This technology has made a significant contribution to the evolution of humanity (SVP/CTO Panasonic). He is recognized as the leading authority on lithium-ion battery safety and separators. Through IEEE, he leads in establishing lithium-ion battery industry standards (P1625, P1725). John pioneered the Sulfide SSE with ~ 40 papers (1984-1991). He has chaired and/or organized more than 60 international conferences and delivered more than 120 invited keynote or plenary speeches at various international conferences. John has published more than 300 patents, papers, and books. John received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also attended Sloan School of MIT.

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As a solution architect, Bob is responsible for Keysight’s battery testing solutions roadmap. During his 38 years with HP, Agilent, and now Keysight, Bob has held several roles in the company’s marketing and R&D organizations. He has also managed Agilent’s power supply test systems business and wireless power business. Bob holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

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