Powering Progress, Changing the Climate

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November 10

Time

8:30 AM PT

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In-Person

Location

Seattle, WA

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Innovation

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A symposium on innovative technologies, strategies, and partnerships to accelerate a scalable and equitable clean energy future in Washington and beyond. The program focuses on deploying transformative clean energy technologies and policies for the public good, forging cross-sector alliances, and renewing leadership commitment to clean energy innovation. Agenda topics include battery innovation; materials discovery; life science lessons; solar and high-throughput materials science; battery research; sustainable funding; and an emerging leaders panel. Discussions address advanced manufacturing for energy devices, nanomaterials, computational chemistry and physics, autonomous laboratories for energy materials research, climate investing and philanthropy, energy innovation policy, and federal and state energy policy alignment. Named participants include University of Washington President Robert J. Jones; former Washington Governor Jay Inslee; Ernest J. Moniz, President and CEO of the EFI Foundation and former U.S. Secretary of Energy; David Baker, Director of the Institute for Protein Design and Davis Endowed Professor at UW; Yi Cui, Fortinet Founders Professor and Sustainability Accelerator Director at Stanford University; Chad Mirkin, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Rathmann Professor at Northwestern University; Esther Takeuchi, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Tonio Buonassisi, Vice President of Sustainable Energy at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology.

Speakers(22)

Robert J. Jones

President, University of Washington

David S. Ginger

CEI Chief Scientist and B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair, University of Washington; PNNL Lab Fellow

Daniel T. Schwartz

CEI Director and Boeing-Sutter Professor, University of Washington

Jay Inslee

Former Governor of Washington

Ernest J. Moniz

President and CEO, EFI Foundation; former U.S. Secretary of Energy

Sally Jewell

UW EarthLab Advisory Council Chair; former U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Yi Cui

Fortinet Founders Professor and Sustainability Accelerator Director, Stanford University

J. Devin MacKenzie

Washington Clean Energy Testbeds Technical Director and Washington Research Foundation Professor of Clean Energy, University of Washington

Dane deQuilettes

Assistant Professor, Princeton University; Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Optigon

Devon Mortensen

Co-founder and CEO, easyXAFS

Matt Murbach

Senior Data Engineer, Cell Manufacturing Analytics, Tesla

Sarah Palguta

Federal Policy and Program Alignment Manager, Washington State Department of Commerce

Chad Mirkin

International Institute for Nanotechnology Director and Rathmann Professor, Northwestern University

Brandi Cossairt

Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Endowed Professor, University of Washington

David Baker

Institute for Protein Design Director and Davis Endowed Professor, University of Washington

Xiaosong Li

Larry R. Dalton Endowed Chair and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Washington; PNNL Lab Fellow

Tonio Buonassisi

Vice President of Sustainable Energy, Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM)

Lilo D. Pozzo

Boeing-Roundhill Professor, University of Washington

Esther Takeuchi

SUNY Distinguished Professor and Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment, Stony Brook University; Brookhaven National Laboratory

Corie Cobb

Washington Research Foundation Innovation Professor in Clean Energy, University of Washington

Jonah Goldman

Founder, North Cascades Strategies

Rogers Weed

COO, 4Quadrant Networks; former WA Commerce Director

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