Keynote Speakers
Jennifer Granholm
Secretary of Energy for the U.S. Department of Energy
Kayla Barron
NASA Astronaut (speaking from the International Space Station)
Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors
Sally Benson
Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Bill Foster
U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 11th District in the U.S. House of Representatives
David Hochschild
Chair of the California Energy Commission
Danny Kennedy
CEO of New Energy Nexus
Alex Padilla
Senator (CA) in the U.S. Senate
Tony Reames
Senior Advisor on Energy Justice in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
Geri Richmond
Under Secretary of Science and Innovation at the U.S. Department of Energy
Mike Witherell
Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Speakers
Noël Bakhtian
Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Diana Bauer
Deputy Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office at the U.S. Department of Energy
Christian Belady
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer of CO+I (Cloud Operation & Innovation) Advanced Development at Microsoft
Adam Berry
Professional Staff Member at U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Doug Black
Grid Integration Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Julie Blunden
Board Chair for New Energy Nexus Catalyst, Board Member for New Energy Nexus Ventures, & Advisory Board Member at Plus Power
Ben Bollinger
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Malta
Hanna Breunig
Deputy Head of the Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Joe Bryan
Chief Sustainability Officer for the U.S. Department of Defense
Gerbrand Ceder
Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Samsung Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley
Erin Childs
Director at Strategen
Sergio Coronado
Senior Vice-President of Future Innovation, New Business Development, and Licensing at Duracell
Yi Cui
Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University & Professor in Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
John Curtis
U.S. Representative for Utah’s 3rd District & Co-Chair of the Energy Storage Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives
Ilka von Dalwigk
Policy Manager at InnoEnergy and European Battery Alliance
Claus Daniel
Senior Fellow for Sustainability at Carrier Global Corporation
Paul Denholm
Senior Energy Analyst with the Grid Planning and Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Lab
Faith Dukes
Director of K-12 Programs at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
William (Bill) Edrich
Global Head of Commercial & Industrial at Sunamp
Robert H. Edwards Jr.
Director of Outreach and Business Development for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office
Sameera Fazili
Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council
Nina French
Technical Director of the Energy Portfolio at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit
Jignasa Gadani
Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Innovation at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Eduardo Garcia
CA Assembly Member District 56 & Chair of the Select Committee on California’s Lithium Economy
Ben Gilbert
Program Lead for Discovery Geosciences and Geochemistry at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Monica Gorman
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing in the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration
James Greenberger
Executive Director of NAATBatt International
Miguel Heleno
Energy & Environmental Policy Research Scientist for the Grid Integration Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Clifford Ho
Senior Scientist in the Climate Change Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories
Delphine Hou
Director of California Regulatory Affairs at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
David Howell
Director of the Vehicle Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy
Eric Hsieh
Grid Systems and Components Director in the Office of Electricity at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) & Co-Lead of the DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge and Long Duration Storage Earthshot
Lady Idos
Senior Advisor for Justice, Equity, Diversity, Belonging, and Inclusion at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
Haresh Kamath
Director of Energy Storage and DER Integration at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Sumanjeet Kaur
Thermal Energy Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Thomas Kirchstetter
Director of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division and Cyclotron Road Director (Interim) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Kimberly Lavoie
Director General for the Policy and Economics Branch of the Lands and Minerals Sector at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Adrienne Little
Vice President of Systems Engineering at Antora Energy
Shirley Meng
Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at Argonne National Lab and Professor of Molecular Engineering at University of Chicago
Glen Merfeld
Chief Technology Officer for Albemarle’s Lithium Business
Celina Mikolajczak
Chief Manufacturing Officer at QuantumScape
Charlotte Mitchell
Chair of the North Carolina Utilities Commission
Landon Mossburg
President of Northvolt America
Ram Narayanamurthy
Program Director for the Emerging Technologies Team in the Department of Energy Building Technologies Office
Rachael Nealer
Interim Deputy Director for the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation at the
U.S. Department of Energy
Ruby Nguyen
Project Lead at the Critical Materials Institute and Group Lead of System Dynamics & Modeling at Idaho National Lab
Prabhakar Patil
Former CEO at LG Chem Power
Silvia Paz
Chair of California’s Lithium Valley Commission & Executive Director of Alianza Coachella Valley
Kristin Persson
Director of the Molecular Foundry and the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Amol Phadke
Staff Scientist in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Mary Ann Piette
Director of the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Natalie Popovich
Justice40 Fellow for the U.S.Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity & Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Karthick Ramakrishnan
Director of the Center for Social Innovation & Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at University of California, Riverside
Prakash Rao
Research Scientist for the Buildings and Industrial Applications Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Costa Samaras
Principal Assistant Director for Energy and OSTP Chief Advisor for Energy Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Kelly Sarber
CEO of the Strategic Management Group & Board Member for NY-BEST
Joshua Simmons
President and Founder of Prosper Sustainably
Julia Souder
Executive Director of the Long Duration Energy Storage Association of California
C. Anna Spurlock
Energy and Environmental Policy Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Justice40 Fellow for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
Mark Takano
U.S. Representative for California’s 41st District & Co-Chair of the Energy Storage Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives
Esther Takeuchi
Chief Scientist & Chair of the Interdisciplinary Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory and SUNY Distinguished Professor and the William & Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University
Kelsey Tamborrino
Energy Reporter at POLITICO
Bethel Tarekegne
Energy Justice Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Lab
Tim Tetreault
Energy and Water Program Manager for the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program at the U.S. Department of Defense & Integrated Applications Center Senior Project Lead at National Renewable Energy Lab
Richard Wang
Founder and CEO, Cuberg at Northvolt
Jonathan Weisgall
Vice President for Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Michael Whittaker
Director of the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center (LiRRIC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Daryl Wilson
Executive Director of the Hydrogen Council
Ryan Wiser
Senior Advisor to the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Senior Scientist at the Office of Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy
Jason Woods
Senior Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Facilitators
Thomas Autrey
Staff Scientist in the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Lab
Shannon Ciston
Director of the User Program at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Vijay Dhar
Program Management Encore Fellow: Strategy and Quality at New Energy Nexus
Alex Grant
Principal at Jade Cove Partners
Gregory J. Halder
Innovation and Commercialization Manager at Argonne National Lab
Brett A. Helms
Staff Scientist, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Jens Hummelshøj
Senior Manager in the Energy & Materials division at Toyota Research Institute
Anubhav Jain
Chemist Staff Scientist/Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Gao Liu
Leader: Applied Energy Materials Group, Chemist Senior Scientist/Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Amy Marschilok
Energy Storage Division Manager at Brookhaven National Laboratory & Co-Director of the Institute for Electrochemically Stored Energy at Stony Brook University
Travis McLing
Research Scientist and Carbon Storage Lead for Idaho National Lab and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies
Johanna Nelson Weker
Lead Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
David Okawa
VP of Products at Redwood Materials
Curtis M. Oldenburg
Senior Scientist and Editor in Chief of Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab – Rehired Retiree
Todd Pray
Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer and Head of the Strategic Partnerships Office at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Steve Sloop
President and Founder, OnTo Technology
Kevin Stone
Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Lab
Tony van Buuren
Deputy Associate Director for S&T in the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Alecia Ward
Program and Business Development Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Adam Weber
Leader of the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Co-Director of DOE’s Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium (M2FCT) & Deputy Director of the DOE HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium
Andrew Westover
Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab
Pitchfest Finalists
Antonio Baclig
CEO at Inlyte Energy
Bor-Rong (Hypo) Chen
Staff Scientist at Idaho National Lab
Jason Cotrell
Founder and CEO at RCAM Technologies
Ryan Klabunde
CEO at Cryostone
Nian Liu
Assistant Professor at School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech
David Mackanic
CEO at Anthro Energy
Brian McCarthy
Senior Scientist at EC Power
Jan Naidu
CEO & Co-Founder at ReVolt Battery Technology Corporation
Kathryn Otte
Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Lab
Dula Parkinson
Deputy for Photon Science Operations at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Manas Pathak
Co-founder and CEO at EarthEn
William Taggart
Consulting Engineer at Taggart Engineering
Andrew Tanner
VP of Growth & Strategy at Yotta Energy
Dani Ushizima
Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Alex Zorniger
Vice President of Business Development at Power to Hydrogen
Summit Organizers
Noël Bakhtian
Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Margaret Dick
Chief of Staff at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Evren Essner
Head of Protocol at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Marianne Fives
Administrator of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center