2015 Bay Area Battery Summit
November 3
Meeting Agenda
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♦ 8:00 a.m. Registration (Bldg. 50 Auditorium, Berkeley Lab)
♦ 8:45 a.m. WELCOME
- Paul Alivisatos, Director, Berkeley Lab
♦ 9:00 a.m. MORNING KEYNOTE
- Cheryl Martin, Former Acting Director, ARPA-E, and Founder, Harwich Partners
♦ 9:30 a.m. BREAK
♦ 9:45 a.m. National Labs and Energy Storage Innovation
- Horst Simon, Deputy Director, Berkeley Lab
♦ 9:50 a.m. Energy Storage: The Changing Landscape
- Venkat Srinivasan, Staff Scientist, Berkeley Lab, and Deputy Director, JCESR
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♦ 10:00 a.m. A Technology Vision for Transportation
- Uwe Higgen, Head of Technology Office, BMW Group USA
♦ 10:25 a.m. The Technology Roadmap for Grid Storage
- Haresh Kamath, Program Manager for Energy Storage, EPRI
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♦ 10:50 a.m. BREAK
♦ 11:05 a.m. The Role of Utilities in Transportation Electrification
- Eileen Tutt, Executive Director, California Electric Transportation Coalition
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♦ 11:30 a.m. PANEL DISCUSSION: Policy as an Accelerator
Moderator: Janice Lin, Executive Director, CESA
- Timothy Burroughs, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Berkeley
- Sachu Constantine, Director of Policy, Center for Sustainable Energy
- David Hochschild, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
- Ted Ko, Director of Policy, Stem, Inc.
♦ 12:30 p.m. Brainstorming Session and Working Lunch
- Meeting participants will help brainstorm questions to guide the direction of the afternoon panel and define proposed meeting "take-aways."
♦ 1:45 p.m. AFTERNOON KEYNOTE
- Mateo Jaramillo, Director of Powertrain Business Development, Tesla Motors
♦ 2:15 p.m. JCESR: The New Paradigm for Battery Development
- George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)
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♦ 2:40 p.m. BREAK
♦ 3:00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION: Bridging from Proof of Concept to Proof of Product
Moderator: Ilan Gur, Director, Cyclotron Road
- Samir Mayekar, Co-Founder and CEO, Sinode Systems
- Said Al-Hallaj, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, AllCell
- Roger Lin, Marketing Director, NEC Energy Solutions
- Kevin Fok, Senior Program Manager, LG
- Hany Eitouni, CTO and VP of Advanced Engineering, and Founder, SEEO
♦ 4:00 p.m. CalCharge: From Innovation to Installation
- Danny Kennedy, Managing Director, CalCEF, and President, CalCharge
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♦ 4:25 p.m. Wrap-up/Lessons Learned
- Venkat Srinivasan, Staff Scientist, Berkeley Lab, and Deputy Director, JCESR
♦ 4:55 p.m. Transition to Building 54
♦ 5:00 p.m. Poster Session and Reception in Building 54
♦ 6:00 p.m. ADJOURN