STEER Commercialization Forum Agenda

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Agenda

8:00–8:30 ­­­­­– Registration & Breakfast

8:30-8:35 - Welcoming Remarks & Agenda Overview
Jimmy Chen, Managing Director, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy

8:35-8:45 - STEER Overview & Acknowledgements
Will Chueh, Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Professor, Stanford University; Co-PI, STEER

8:45-8:55 - Piloting a New Forum Concept
Sally Benson, Professor, Stanford University; Former Energy Division Director & Chief Strategist, White House OSTP; Co-PI, STEER

8:55-9:40 - How quickly can sodium-ion learn?
Paper overview, takeaways, and outstanding questions
Adrian Yao, Founder & Team Lead, STEER

9:40-10:25 - Feedback Discussion from Formal Respondents
Adrian Yao, Founder & Team Lead, STEER
Karan Bhuwalka, Staff Scientist, STEER

10:20-10:40 - Break

Panel I: Minerals & Materials Supply Chain

10:40-10:55 - Pre-Panel Context
Martin Stuermer, Researcher, International Monetary Fund

10:55-11:00: Panelist Intros
Moderator, Karan Bhuwalka, Staff Scientist, STEER

11:00-12:00 - Panel Discussion - Digging into the minerals price floor 
Viably scaling critical minerals supply chains

Todd Malan, Chief External Affairs Officer & Head of Climate Strategy, Talon Metals
Carl Thoemmes, Business Development, Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials
Annie Liu, Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer, Mangrove Lithium
Mike Kobler, Founding CEO, American Lithium Corp.; Advisor Project Development, Luna Lithium
 

12:00-1:00 Networking Lunch

Panel II: Manufacturing & Learnings

1:00-1:15 - Pre-Panel Context
Andrew Wang, Co-founder & CEO, Standard Potential

1:15-1:20 - Panelist Intros
Moderator, Adrian Yao, Founder & Team Lead, STEER

1:20-2:20 - Panel Discussion - Critically evaluating manufacturing drop-incompatibility
Learning from those that are doing

Andreas Fischer, Vice President, Global Innovation Scouting Battery Materials, BASF
Kenzo Nagai, Li-ion industry veteran, Ex-Apple/Tesla/Northvolt
Simon Lux, Director, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB
Colin Wessells, Founder & CEO, Natron Energy

2:20-2:30 - Break

Panel III: Systems, Applications & Chemistry

2:30-2:45 - Pre-Panel Context
Matt Stock, Product Director, New Technology, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

2:45-2:50 - Panelist Intros
Moderator, Will Chueh, Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Professor, Stanford University; Co-PI, STEER

2:50-3:50 - Panel Discussion - Coupling chemistry and commercialization
Finding product-market fit from materials to systems

Vineet Mehta, Director, Battery, Powertrain, Tesla Motors
Landon Mossburg, Founder & CEO, Peak Energy
Darren Tan, Founder & CEO, Unigrid
Thomas (TJ) Winter, VP, New Customer Solutions, Fluence Energy

3:50-4:00 - Break

4:00-4:30 - Fireside Chat with Tien Duong - The parallels and peculiarities of the Na-ion vs. Li-ion story three decades apart
Tien Duong, Chief Battery Engineer, Vehicles Technology Office
Moderator, Sally Benson, Professor, Stanford University; Former Energy Division Director & Chief Strategist, White House OSTP; Co-PI, STEER
Moderator, Yi Cui, Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Stanford University

4:30-4:40 - Overview of DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge
Tracie Owens, Research Advisor, Commercialization, Scale-Up & Climate Technologies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

4:40-4:50 - Closing Remarks
Will Chueh, Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Professor, Stanford University; Co-PI, STEER

4:50-6:00 - Reception & Mixer