08:15 am Registration and Breakfast
09:00 am Welcoming introduction
- Fabien Fieschi, Consul General of France in Boston
- Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, MIT
- Florence Lambert, CEO, CEA Liten
09:15 am Massachusetts: energy policy in an innovation-driven state
- Jeremy McDiarmid, Senior Director for Innovation and Industry Support, MassCEC
09:30 am Energy storage for stationary applications (Flow batteries, Fuel cells)
Technology presentations and Q&A
- Michael Aziz, Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Scott Daniels, Battery Expert Group Lead, Schneider Electric
- Tom Jarvi, General Manager, Lockheed Martin Advance Energy Storage
- Marion Perrin, Deputy Director, Business Development, CEA Liten
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 am Open Innovation Meetup: large industrial leaders meet startups and SMEs
Moderator: Chet Lyons, Founder and Principal, Energy Strategies Group (ESG)
Strategic Industrial Partners
Lockheed Martin, Schneider Electric, United Technologies, Airbus, Saint Gobain, Total, Shell
Startups and SMEs
AMBRI, MCPHY, Sinode, Prayon, Boston Power, NAWATechnologies, AllCell, Socomec
12:30 pm Posters session + lunch & networking
Students, faculty members and company researchers are invited to submit posters describing their recent research in the energy storage field. Research areas include batteries, fuel cells, ultra-capacitors, and other energy storage technologies. Posters may address any aspect of the field from basic materials and components research to systems, manufacturing, and reuse.
02:30 pm SAFT Success Story
- Bridget Deveney, Li-Ion Cell Development Manager US, SAFT America, Inc.
03:00 pm Energy storage for mobile applications: Batteries and Fuel Cells, what’s next?
Technology presentations and Q&A
- David Hills, Director, Research & Technology, Airbus Americas
- Laurent Antoni, Head the Division for Electricity and Hydrogen for Transport, CEA Liten
- Florence Fusalba, Program Manager, CEA Liten
- Alexis Grimaud, Associate Researcher, Collège de France
- Henri Van Damme, UMI MIT-CNRS
04:15 pm Coffee Break
04:30 pm Round table: financing innovation in the energy field
Moderator: Tibor Toth, MassCEC, Managing Director of Investments
- Yves-Laurent MAHE, Economic Counselor for Industry and Innovation, French Embassy in the United States
- Murray McCutcheon, Business Development Associate, Harvard University Office of Technology Development
- Adamo Screnci, CEO, McPhy
- Dan Goldman, Co-founder of CEVG and member of the Clean Energy Venture Group
05:45 pm Closing Remarks
- Frédéric Doré, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of France in the United States
06:00 pm Adjourn
08:45 am Registration and Breakfast
09:00 am Welcoming introduction
- Don Sadoway, John F. Elliott Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
09:30 am The challenge of Innovation in the Energy field: Industrial Strategy to get technologies from bench to market
- Mike Perry, United Technologies, Head of the flow battery group at the UTRC
- Pierre Serre-Combe, CEA Ines MYRTE Program Manager in Corsica
- Kavita Ravi, Director of Strategic Analysis, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
10:30 pm Coffee Break
10:45 am Round table: From Bench to Industrial deployment
Moderator: Galen Nelson, Director of Market Development, MassCEC
- Phil Giudice, CEO and President, Ambri Inc.
- Jurgen Weiss, Principal at The Brattle Group
- Fouad Dagher, Director of the Emerging Products and Services, National Grid
- Jeff McAulay, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships, EnerNOC
11:45 am Closing Remarks
- Fabien Fieschi, Consul General of France in Boston
12:00 pm Conclusion & networking