Labs and the University: The Future of Clean Energy in the Midwest
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Location
Chicago Innovation Exchange
1452 E 53rd St Promontory Point Conference Room Chicago, IL 60615Description
This panel will discuss the future of the clean energy industry in the Midwest and how the regional university and national laboratory resources are our best-kept secret in building up the industry. This panel, sponsored by the Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE), Argonne National Laboratory, and the Clean Energy Trust, provides a wide-ranging array of perspectives – from those of government researchers, national lab management, renewable energy start-up supporters, corporate energy industry executives, and University administrators tasked with commercializing research. The panelists will highlight some of the interesting technologies that are coming out of universities and national labs but also discuss how new organizations and processes can help take breakthrough research in energy and transform it into exciting new companies that will form the basis of the Midwest energy industry.
Panel Participants
- John Flavin (Moderator), Executive Director of the Chicago Innovation Exchange
- David Danielson (Panelist), Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the Department of Energy
- Amy Francetic (Panelist), CEO of the Clean Energy Trust
- Mark Peters (Panelist), Associate Laboratory Director for the Energy and Global Security Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory
- Samir Mayekar (Panelist), CEO of SiNode SystemsCEO of SiNode Systems
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