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 | Day
Two | Day
Three
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Energy and the Blue Economy: Emerging Technology Needs and Market
Opportunities
This “Energy and the Blue Economy” discussion will bring together
representatives from across government, philanthropy, and ocean-based
industries, who are all anticipated to drive significant growth in
at-sea energy consumption over the coming decade. The panel will serve
to connect the ARPA-E community to these
diverse users of ocean energy technologies, whose operational
requirements will motivate the development of innovative solutions in
renewable marine energy generation, storage, and transfer. Discussion
topics will include a) current marine energy technology limitations that
could be overcome through focused development supported by
ARPA-E; b) current and emerging Blue Economy
markets that may offer high-risk, but high-growth potential for novel
energy technologies; c) shared energy technology requirements across the
many segments of the Blue Economy; and d) unique challenges and
opportunities for funding and scaling energy technologies for use in
ocean environments. Ultimately, this discussion will highlight the role
that ARPA-E and its performers, in addition to
the DOE at large, can have in supporting the
energy needs of growing the Blue Economy, potentially illuminating new
markets, novel sources of investment, and untapped technology
development spaces.
Julie Decker, Executive Director, Alaska Fisheries Development
Foundation
Jennifer Garson, Director, Department of Energy Water Power Technologies
Office
Dr. Tom Fu, Head, Sea Warfare and Weapons, Code 33, Office of Naval
Research
Dr. Richard Spinrad, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere,
Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jennifer States, Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Sky
Maritime Coalition
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Scaling up with SCALEUP
Scaling up a start-up or small business presents multiple challenges.
This is particularly true when commercializing hard engineering
technologies due to the investment required to demonstrate cost and
performance at commercial scale sufficient to address market adoptions
risks. Through the SCALEUP program, first
launched in 2019, ARPA-E has endeavored to
help address these challenges and accelerate deployment of promising
technologies previously funded by ARPA-E. In
this panel you will hear from leaders of a few of the companies from the
SCALEUP 2019 and 2021 cohorts. They will
describe some of the key technical, commercial, and team development
challenges they have confronted – and continue to confront – in their
scale-up journey and how they are addressing them.
Allan Bradshaw, Chief Manufacturing Officer, InventWood
Danny Cunningham, Deputy Director for Commercialization, Advanced
Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Shreya Dave, Chief Executive Officer, Via Separations
Lane Nelson, Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer, Switched Source
Dr. Greg Rieker, Chief Technology Officer, LongPath Technologies
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
DOE Foundations
The Department of Energy has been tasked with setting up an independent
foundation — the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation (FESI) —
per section 10691 of the CHIPS Act.
FESI will be established as a non-profit
501©(3) organization. This panel will feature established organizations
by other government departments. Attendees can gain an understanding of
this new organization as panelists discuss what successes the department
and organizations have created and how outside stakeholders interact
with existing foundations.
Dr. Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the
Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. Department of Energy
Maynard Holliday, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Under
Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Dr. Sally Rockey, Chief Executive Officer, Rockey Consulting
Jetta Wong, Co-Author of the 2020, ITIF
report, Mind the Gap: A Design for a New Energy Technology
Commercialization Foundation, Former Clean Energy
10:25 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Video Address
Zoe Lofgren, Congresswoman, U.S. House of Representatives, California
10:30 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.
Video Address
Martin Heinrich, U.S. Senate, New Mexico
10:35 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
Vicki Hollub, Chief Executive Officer, Oxy
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
LTG Eric J. Wesley, U.S. Army, Retired
11:00 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.
Fireside Chat
John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy
Innovation and Implementation, The White House
Aliya Haq, Vice President, U.S. Policy and Advocacy, Breakthrough Energy
11:25 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Student PITCHES (Proposing Ideas for
Technologies that Can Harness Energy Sustainably)
Shomik Verma, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
11:30 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.
Keynote Address
Brandon Williams, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives, New York
11:35 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
Keynote Address
Charles Fleischmann, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives,
Tennessee
11:40 a.m.
Closing Remarks
Evelyn Wang, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
(ARPA‑E)
Department of Energy
Maryland
03/24/2023 at 09:00AM