The ARPA-E Energy Innovation
Summit (The Summit) is an annual
conference and technology showcase that brings together experts from
different technical disciplines and professional communities to think
about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. Now in its
thirteenth year, the Summit offers a unique, three-day program aimed at
moving transformational energy technologies out of the lab and into the
market.
The summit is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention
Center, National Harbor, Maryland.
Agenda: Day One
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Three
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks & Keynote Address
Evelyn Wang, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
(ARPA‑E)
10:15 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Fireside Chat
Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy , U.S. Department of
Energy
Dr. Shreya Dave, Chief Executive Officer , Via Separations
Dr. Leah Ellis, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Sublime Systems
Joe Zhou, Chief Executive Officer, Quidnet Energy
10:50 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Fireside Chat
Don Graves, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce
David Turk, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy
11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.
Keynote Address
Ernest J. Moniz, MIT Cecil and Ida Green
Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Post-Tenure
11:35 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.
Fireside Chat
Arati Prabhakar, Director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Dr. David M. Hart, Professor of Public Policy, Schar School of Policy
and Government, George Mason University
11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Keynote Address
Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Government Agency Networking Program (GANP)
The Government Agency Networking Program (GANP) at the annual
ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit provides an
opportunity to meet with representatives from federal government
agencies to discuss research interests, funding solicitations, grants,
and other potential partnership opportunities.
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fast Pitch: Batteries & Storage
Dr. Peter de Bock, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Halle Cheeseman, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Julia Greenwald, Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
(ARPA-E)
Dr. Jack Lewnard, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Laurent Pilon, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Lab to Impact: Maximizing Success with Technology Licensing Offices
In this panel, we will delve into best practices for how and when to
engage with Technology Licensing Offices, and what common pitfalls to
avoid. We will hear from a diversity of stakeholders representing an
inventor, investor, lawyer, and licensing office, who will share their
successes and failures – drawing from decades of experience. Whether you
are looking to spin out a startup or license a technology, this panel
will help provide practical takeaways on how to maximize success and
impact.
Dr. Christina Chang, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
Dylan Adams, Patent Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine
Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang, Co-Founder, Form Energy, Sublime Systems, Desktop
Metal, 24M Technologies and A123 Systems
Deirdre Zammit, Associate Director, Licensing,
MIT Technology Licensing Office
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy Given the Recent Achievement of
Ignition at the National Ignition Facility
This panel will address the following questions about the prospects for
inertial fusion energy (IFE): Can lasers be made efficient enough to
enable a commercial IFE power plant? Can
targets be made inexpensively and at scale? Are the physics challenges
going from indirect drive (as is done on the National Ignition Facility)
to direct drive (or another concept) tractable?
Dr. Tammy Ma, Lead, Intertial Fusion Energy Initiative, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Kramer Akli, Program Manager, DOE Office
of Science
Dr. Carly Anderson, Principal, Prelude Ventures
Dr. Susana Reyes, VP of Chamber and Plant Design, Xcimer Energy
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fast Pitch: Industrial Processes
Dr. Katharine Greco, Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
(ARPA-E)
Dr. Jonathan Melville, Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
(ARPA-E)
Dr. James Seaba, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Douglas Wicks, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Olga Blum Spahn, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Decarbonizing the “Bus Stop” of the Future: Innovations in Urban
Transportation
As cities strive to reduce carbon emissions and improve urban
transportation, defining the “bus stop” of the future, and with it, the
necessary technology innovations and infrastructure, is becoming
increasingly important. In high population density areas, where large
metro systems are not available, the energy implications of the shift
towards electrified and on-demand mobility options must be considered.
Ride-hailing services currently optimize for pick-up proximity, but what
does the equivalent approach for passenger transit look like in these
situations and what role does energy efficiency need to play when the
most convenient option is continued reliance on privately owned,
personally driven cars? How does the increase in car sales during the
pandemic further factor into future solutions? This thought-provoking
panel will explore the disruptive innovations and flexible options that
can address the energy consumption of future modes of urban
transportation and tackle the question of how to ensure equity for all.
Dr. Robert Hampshire, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research &
Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation
Benjamin de la Peña, Chief Executive Officer, Shared-Use Mobility
Center
Carolyn Gonot, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer, Santa Clara
Valley Transportation Authority
Gabe Klein, Executive Director, U.S. Joint Office of Energy and
Transportation
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Beyond VC: Alternative Funding Sources for Startups
Panelists from a range of non-dilutive (federal, state and non-profit)
and “less-dilutive” (venture debt, in various structures) funding
sources will discuss how energy- and climate-tech startups can navigate
non-traditional funding sources to best support their companies’ growth
plans.
Hilary Flynn, Managing Director, Investments, Massachusetts Clean Energy
Center
Jackie Logan, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Raise Green
Max Tuttman, Principal, The Ad Hoc Group
Jonah Wagner, Chief Strategist, Department of Energy Loan Program Office
National Harbor 10
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Tech Demo: Advanced Operation & Maintenance Techniques implemented in
the Xe-100 Plant Digital Twin to reduce Fixed O&M Cost
X-energy is an Advanced Reactor design company and an awardee of the
ARPA-E GEMINA
Program. The main objective of the GEMINA
Program is to demonstrate how Digital Twins can reduce Fixed Operations
& Maintenance (O&M) costs for the Advanced Reactors (i.e. the Xe-100).
X-energy’s 3D Immersive Digital Twin Experience demonstrates the
integration between the physics-based Xe-100 Simulator and a 3D virtual
representation of the Xe-100 plant. Users can walk through and interact
with the Virtual Reality (VR) model as if it were the real Xe-100 plant.
During the design phases of the Xe-100, the 3D model is being used for
iterative design reviews to incorporate feedback, optimize layouts, and
inform future work. During the operation phase of the Xe-100, the 3D
model will be used for training of plant staff, particularly Maintenance
crews. Combined with X-DATAâ„¢, X-energy’s Digital Twin product, the 3D
Immersive Environment supports the implementation of “Central
Maintenance” concepts that will ultimately lead to a safer, more
reliable, and more economic nuclear plant for the 21st century.
5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Tech Demo: Low-cost non-destructive plant root phenotyping
Tomographic Electrical Rhizosphere Imager (TERI) is a technology aiming
to make plant root phenotyping easier and faster. Root digging, washing,
photographing, counting, and analysis have been the standard practice
for field scale root phenotyping for a very long time. This is a process
that is low throughput and very time and labor consuming.
TERI aims to disrupt this practice to
significantly accelerate plant root phenotyping at field scales to help
accelerate the development of new root-superior plant varieties that are
more resource efficient and climate resilient.
TERI technology is based on the dialectic
properties and behavior of plant root systems and can work under almost
any type of soil, moisture, and plant species conditions. The
lightweight of the hardware system and the user-friendly software
interface make the system very easy to use by anyone without the
technical background.
6:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Tech Demo: Basin-SCAN: Basin Scale Continuous oil and gas emissions
mitigAtion Network
Founded in 2018 through the ARPA-E
MONITOR program, LongPath Technologies is the
“5G” of methane measurement and abatement, providing a proven and
standardized approach across the value chain. Our specialized laser
systems detect, locate and quantify site-level emissions across 20+
square mile regions with a single laser tower, and the continuous
emissions monitoring networks provide actionable real-time alerts and
quantitative emission rates to oil and gas operators. LongPath’s
innovative regional-scale solution provides continuous, reliable data at
the lowest cost to the customer.
7:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Tech Demo: Pilot Production for Commercial Sampling of Rare-Earth-Free
Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets
Niron Magnetics has developed the first powerful permanent magnets free
of rare earths and other critical materials. Niron’s Iron Nitride-based
Clean Earth Magnet® technology makes use of globally available commodity
raw material inputs. As an ARPA-E
SCALEUP awardee, Niron is expanding its pilot
production to support commercial design partnerships, including those
with GM, Volvo Cars, Western Digital, Tymphany Audio, and Premium Sound
Solutions.
Department of Energy
Maryland
03/22/2023 at 10:00AM
