Initiative Launch: October 2019

Agenda

Thursday, October 17, 2019
8:30am	Welcome by Kathryn Moler, Vice Provost and Dean of Research; Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics
8:45am	Introduction & Overview of Stanford StorageX Initiative William Chueh, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative Yi Cui, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative
9:15am	SESSION I: Basic Science of Emerging Technologies Keynote presentation followed by moderated panel discussion: Yi Cui, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative Evan Reed, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Tim Holme, CTO, QuantumScape Moderator: Friedrich Prinz, Leonardo Professor in the School of Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
10:30am	Break
10:50am	In Conversation with Honorable George Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy Moderated by: Yi Cui, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative
11:20am	SESSION II: Challenges to Scaling-up High Energy Density Batteries Keynote presentations: Hartmann Leube, Senior Vice President, New Technologies, BASF Kang Sun, CEO & Chairman, Amprius Moderated panel discussion: Hartmann Leube, Senior Vice President, New Technologies, BASF Kang Sun, CEO & Chairman, Amprius Khalil Amine, Argonne Distinguished Fellow; Manager, Advanced Battery Technology Team; Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Wenjuan Liu Mattis, CTO, Microvast Moderator: William Chueh, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative
12:30pm	Lunch and poster session
2:00pm	SESSION III: Reimagining Packs & Systems: Sensing, Control and Prediction Keynote presentations: Fu-Kuo Chang, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics Amanda Simpson, Vice President of Research & Technology, Airbus Americas Ulrich Maehr, Team Manager, Volkswagen AG Moderated panel discussion: Fu-Kuo Chang, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics Amanda Simpson, Vice President of Research & Technology, Airbus Americas Chengyin Yuan, CEO of Beijing New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center Company Ulrich Maehr, Team Manager, Volkswagen AG Moderator: Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Provostial Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
3:15pm	Break
3:45pm	SESSION IV: Circular Economy of Batteries Keynote Presentations followed by moderated panel discussion: Sally Benson, Professor, Energy Resources Engineering; Co-Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Steve Comello, Lead, Energy Business Innovations Focus Area, Stanford Graduate School of Business Abraham Anapolsky, Manager, Accelerated Materials Design & Discovery, Toyota Research Institute Moderator: William Gent, Scientist, Materials Science & Engineering
5:00pm	Closing remarks by Yi Cui, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative
5:20pm	Networking Reception

Additional resources:

StorageX Introduction & Overview (60.51 MB)