Annual Conference: May 2022

Agenda

WELCOME

Presentation by Yi Cui, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University; Fortinet Founders Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
Presentation by Will Chueh, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Faculty Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative

Panel 1: Circular Economy / Supply Chain

Presentation by Will Tarpeh, (Moderator), Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Panel Discussion by:
Yuan Gao, Board Director, Lithium Americas Corporation
Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, Vice President Research Inorganic Materials and Synthesis, Associate Director CARA - California Research Alliance by BASF
Vivas Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder, Mitra Chem
Steven Cai, CTO, Gotion

Panel 2: Charging for Mobility

Presentation by Yi Cui, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University

Panel Discussion by:
Will Chueh (Moderator), Associate Professor, Stanford University, Faculty Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative
Jim Cushing, General Manager, Energy Storage Solutions, Applied Materials
Madhur Boloor, Manager, Carbon Neutral Program at Toyota Research Institute
Heino Sommer, Director of Development, Cellforce Group
Ionel Stefan, Chief Technology Officer, Amprius

Panel 3: Long Duration Storage

Presentation by Arun Majumdar, (Moderator), Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor, Stanford University

Panel Discussion by:
Dan Reicher, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for Environment
Clyde Loutan, Principal of Renewable Energy Integration, CAISO
Mateo Jaramillo, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Form Energy
Andrew Ponec, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Antora Energy
Fong Wan, Senior Vice President of Energy Policy & Procurement, PG&E
Clyde Loutan, Principal of Renewable Energy Integration, CAISO

Stanford Headline Research Panel

SLAC, Johanna Nelson Weker
Yi Cui Group (Fang Liu)
Bao Research Group (Zhiao Yu)
Simona Onori Group (Muhammad Aadil Khan)
Will Tarpeh Group (Sam Bunke)
Chueh Group (Grace Busse)

Energy Storage Start-ups

Noon Energy - Ultra low-cost carbon battery for long-duration storage (LDS), Chris Graves, Founder & CEO
Blue Current - Elastic composite solid-state battery, Ben Eiref, CEO
Aionics - AI/ML for discovering new materials, Austin Sendek, Co-Founder and CEO
EnerVenue - Ni-Hydrogen battery for LDS, Brad Dore, Senior Director of Marketing
Anthro Energy- Novel safe polymer electrolyte, Joe Papp, CTO
Posh Robotics - Universal, scalable, and safe battery packs renewal, Wesley Zheng, Founder and CEO
Renewell - Gravitational LDS, Kemp Gregory, Co-Founder and CEO

Fireside Chat

Drew Baglino, Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering, Tesla
Yi Cui, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University; Fortinet Founders Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
Will Chueh, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Faculty Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative