TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo June 14-17, 2015, Washington, DC
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Energy & Sustainability

Business Program

Innovation & Corporate Spotlights

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Technical Program

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There is a critical need for new materials and processes to enable more efficient, sustainable, and economical extraction, generation, conversion, transportation, storage and use of energy.

Join industry partners and applied research leadership accelerating the development and deployment of new energy solutions into products and society.

2015 Featured Speakers:

Pommer
Elena Enache-Pommer
Dow Chemical		   Sakhibgareev
Rushan Sakhibgareev
Chevron		   Gillespie
Kazuhiro Takanabe
KAUST, Saudi Arabia		   Yang
Joyce C. Yang
U.S. Department of Energy
Capdevielle
Willard C. (Bill) Capdevielle
Oil Patch Engineering, PLLC		   Sen
Tapas Sen
University of Central Lancashire, UK		   Tsakalakos
Loucas Tsakalakos
GE Global Research		   Papageorgopoulos
Dimitrios C. Papageorgopoulos
Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. DOE
Segal
Brent M Segal
Lockheed Martin		   Xia
Younan Xia
Georgia Institute of Technology		   Male
Jonathan Male
DOE, EERE		   van Limpt
Bart van Limpt
Voltea, Netherlands
Gyuk
Imre Gyuk
DOE		   Green
David Green
BASF		   Scott Twary
Scott Twary
Los Alamos National Lab		   Lewis
Norman G. Lewis
Washington State University

2015 Key Speakers Include:

  • Imre Gyuk, Dept. of Energy, US
  • Diane Broad, Oregon Dept. of Energy, US
  • Steve Martin, Iowa State University, US
  • Josh Castonguay, Green Mountain Power, US
  • Curtis Kirkeby, Avista Utilities, US
  • Yury Gogotsi, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Inst., US
  • Rushan Sakhibgareev, Chevron, US
  • Andrew J. Sherman, Powdermet, US
  • Joe Fox, Ashland Inc., US
  • Dimitrios Papageorgopoulos, Dept. of Energy, US
  • Srinivas Iyer, Los Alamos National Lab, US
  • Joyce C. Yang, U.S. Department of Energy, US
  • Jonathan Male, DOE, EERE, US
  • Norman G. Lewis, Washington State Univ., US
  • Sandra Merkel DeJames, Novozymes, US
  • Scott Twary, Los Alamos National Lab, US
  • Bart van-Limpt, Voltea BV, Netherlands
  • Tapas Sen, University of Central Lancashire, UK
  • Armin Volkel, Palo Alto Research Center, US
  • Elizabeth Burton, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab, US
  • Ron Munson, Global CCS Institute, US
  • Elena Enache Pommer, Dow , US
  • Keith B Kahen, Lumisyn LLC , US
  • David Green, BASF Corporation, US s
  • David C. Miller, Dept. of Energy/NETL, US
  • Mike Radler, Dow Construction Chemicals, US
  • Younan Xia, Georgia Inst. of Technology, US
  • Hong Yang, University of Illinois, US
  • Antoine Fécant, IFP Energies nouvelles, FR
  • Stefan Seeger, University of Zurich, CH
  • Bjørn Petter Jelle, Norwegian Univ. of S&T, NO
  • Brian Berland, ITN Energy Systems Inc., US
  • Brent M Segal, Lockheed Martin, US
  • Tom McKrell, MIT, US
  • Ginger Sigmon, Energy Frontier Research US
  • Peter Hosemann, UC Berkeley, US
  • Peter C. Burns, University of Notre Dame, US
  • Kazuhiro Takanabe, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), SA
  • Jan Kosny, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, US

Business Program - Energy & Sustainability

Sessions

Monday June 15

10:30Energy Storage Implementation Keynotes
10:30Innovation Spotlights: Electronics I - Panasonic & Samsung
1:30Innovation Spotlights: Venture Investments - Harris & Harris Group & Shell
4:00Federal Agency Expo-Rapid Fire Questions (4:00 - 5:30) ALL Attendees Encouraged to Join

Tuesday June 16

10:30Innovation Spotlights: Defense & Transportation - Magna & Boeing
1:30Fuel Cells & Hydrogen
1:30Water Innovations
1:30Innovation Spotlights: Energy & Efficiency - Shell & DOD PACOM
6:00SBIRx-Ignite

Wednesday June 17

10:30Innovation Spotlights: Medical Devices - Dept. of Defense
10:30Green Building Materials
1:30Green Building Innovations
3:00Innovation Spotlights: Environmental, Water & Waste - DOD

Program

Monday June 15

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10:30Energy Storage Implementation KeynotesPotomac 1
Session chair: Vince Sprenkle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US
10:30Energy Storage Systems: Progress and Opportunities (invited presentation)
I. Gyuk, U.S. Department of Energy, US (bio)
10:55The Grid of the Future – Utilizing Energy Storage to Transform Our Grid (invited presentation)
J. Castonguay, Green Mountain Power, US (bio)
11:20Leveraging Stacked Use Cases for Maximum Benefit of Energy Storage in Pullman, WA (invited presentation)
C. Kirkeby, Avista Utilities, US (bio)
11:45Making Energy Storage Work for the Pacific Northwest (invited presentation)
D. Broad, Oregon Department of Energy, US (bio)
12:10Plug-in-Electric Vehicle Charging: Administrative and Evaluation Issues in Measuring Grid Storage Success
D.J. Santini, Argonne National Laboratory, US
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10:30Innovation Spotlights: Electronics I - Panasonic & SamsungNational Harbor 5
Session chair: Thomas Gillespie, In-Q-Tel, US
10:30Panasonic - Innovation Interests
I. Nydick, Panasonic, US (bio)
10:45Samsung - Innovation Interests
I. Shum, Samsung, US (bio)
11:00NASA Armstrong’s Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS)
L. Fobel, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, US
11:07Inorganic (GaN – InGaN) microLED arrays for light projection or Head Up Displays and Head Mounted Displays
H. Metras, CEA Tech, FR
11:14The Technology and Equipment for Production of Sapphire Monocryctals of Improved Quality and Sizes for Displays of Smart Phones and Other Devices, Substrates for Products of Electronic and Optoelectronic Industry
V. Korzhyk, Ukrspetstechnologii Corporation, UA
11:21Gallium and mixed metal nanoclusters
L. Hansen, University of Oregon, US
11:28"Quilt Packaging" Microchip Interconnect Technology
J. Kulick, Indiana Integrated Circuits, LLC, US
11:35High Accuracy, Long-Life, Ultra-thin Contact Stress Sensor
J. Kaschmitter, MicroMetrics, Inc., US
11:42Panasonic & Samsung - Q&A
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1:30Innovation Spotlights: Venture Investments - Harris & Harris Group & ShellNational Harbor 5
Session chair: Belen Martínez López, CaramelTech, MX
1:30Harris & Harris Group - Investment Interests
D. Jamison, Harris & Harris Group, US (bio)
1:45Shell - Investment Interests
N. Dikerman, Shell, US
2:00Fluid-Screen
M. Weber, Integrated Microfluidic Devices LLC, US
2:07Chemotherapy wafer to treat oral cancer topically
M. Goldberg, Privo Technologies, US
2:14THz-Raman: Fast, simultaneous measurement of both material composition and structure
R. Heyler, Ondax, Inc., US
2:21Melodea NCC Foam
Y. Shkedi, Melodea Ltd., IL
2:28Meros drug and biologic delivery polymers
A. Lavasanifar, Meros Polymers Inc., CA
2:35Harris & Harris Group & Shell - Q&A
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4:00Federal Agency Expo-Rapid Fire Questions (4:00 - 5:30) ALL Attendees Encouraged to JoinExpo Hall B
-DARPA, Small Business Program Office
-Department of Commerce, NOAA
-Department of Defense, OSD Office of Small Business Programs
-Department of Defense, OSD ASD(R&E)
-Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
-Department of Energy
-Department of Homeland Security
-Department of the Army
-Department of the Air Force
-Department of the Navy
-Department of Transportation, Volpe Center
-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
-MDA Advanced Research
-NASA
-National Science Foundation (NSF)
-Small Business Administration
-USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
-NIH, Office of the Director
-National Institutes of Health (NIH)
-US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
-Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
-BILAT USA 2.0/HORIZON 2020

Tuesday June 16

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10:30Innovation Spotlights: Defense & Transportation - Magna & BoeingNational Harbor 5
Session chair: Saeed Bagheri, University of Waterloo, CA
10:30Magna - Innovation Interests
D. Pascoe, Magna, US (bio)
10:45Boeing - Innovation Interests
J. GreyEyes, Boeing, US
11:00Compact, High Temperature Nanolayer Film Capacitors
D. Langhe, PolymerPlus LLC, US
11:07Active Aerodynamic Systems
D. Menicovich, Actasys Inc, US
11:14Data mining the acoustical field inside vehicles to prevent distracted driving
F. Estevez, Sonisafe Inc., US
11:21HAANG - efficient adsorbent materials for energy gas storage
J. Ornstein, framergy, Inc., US
11:28Nanoparticle-based Holographic Display
J. Miner, UCF Office of Research & Commercialization, US
11:35Non-Specular Reflective Surface Treatment
G. Watts, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, US
11:42Magna & Boeing - Q&A
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1:30Fuel Cells & HydrogenPotomac 1
1:30U.S. Department of Energy Overview of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Activities: Advancements and Opportunities (invited presentation)
D.C. Papageorgopoulos, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. DOE, US (bio)
1:55Gasification Technology Developed for the Production of Renewable Hydrogen
D.M. Dodd, J. Hazard, Sierra Energy, US
2:15Nanotechnology in Mg-based Materials for Hydrogen Storage
H. Shao, Kyushu University, JP
2:35Thermoresponsive “Sponge-like” Nanocomposites for Catalytic Production, Storage and Controlled Release of H2 in Water
E.K. Abo-Hamed, University of Cambridge, UK
2:55Hydrothermal synthesis of uniform porous carbon nanospheres and their gas storage capacity
M.K. Lee, S.W. Nam, J.S. Han, S. Kang, Seoul National University, KR
3:15Nano electrochemical deposition of PGM based fuel cells electro catalysts
M. Mathe, M. Modibedi, K. Ozoemena, CSIR, ZA
3:35Renewables-source Energy Storage for < $1.00 / kWh Capex as Hydrogen and Ammonia C-free Fuel Systems
B. Leighty, The Leighty Foundation, US
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1:30Water InnovationsAzalea 1
Session chair: Armin Volkel, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), US (bio)
1:30River, Lake and Ocean Water Cooling
J. Peterson, HP, US
1:50Potential of Water‐Responsive Materials to Harvest Energy from Evaporation
A.‐H. Cavusoglu, X. Chen, O. Sahin, Columbia University, US
2:10Rapid Tracking of Nanoparticles through Drinking Water Treatment by Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
A.R. Donovan, H. Shi, Y. Dan, C.D. Adams, Y. Ma, C. Stephen, T. Eichholz, Missouri University of Science and Technology, US
2:30Biological Decontamination of Radionuclides in Industrial and Environmental Water Using a New Highly Radioresistant Microalga
C. Rivasseau, D. de Gouvion Saint Cyr, A. Atteia, M. Gromova, E. Farhi, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, FR
2:50Advanced oxidation processes for water purification: compact vs nanoporous anodic TiO2
V. Piazza, M.V. Diamanti, A. Mazare, MP. Pedeferri, P. Schmuki, Politecnico di Milano, IT
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1:30Innovation Spotlights: Energy & Efficiency - Shell & DOD PACOMNational Harbor 4
Session chair: Neil Cameron, Emerald Technology Ventures, CA
1:30Shell - Innovation Interests
W. Rensink, Shell, US (bio)
1:45DOD - Innovation Interests
R. Roley, US Pacific Command, US (bio)
2:00Alphabet Energy PowerBlocks
P. O'Reilly, Alphabet Energy, US
2:07Electricity Producing Air Conditioners
D. Betts, Be Power Tech, LLC, US
2:14A New, Cost Effective Solution for Waste Heat to Power
M. Newell, Ener-G-Rotors, Inc., US
2:21An Anti-reflective and Anti-Soiling Coating for Glass
A. Lyons, ARL Designs LLC, US
2:28Injection Locked Magnetron with Phase and Amplitude Control
B. Chase, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US
2:35SolFilm - Nanowire film
E. Olsson, Sol Voltaics, SE
2:42Shell & DOD PACOM - Q&A
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6:00SBIRx-IgniteNational Harbor 2
Session chair: Javier Saade, SBA; Michelle Kim-Danely, Thiel Foundation & Breakout Labs, US (bio)
-J. Kessler, NASA & LAUNCH, US (bio)
-K. Carpenter, Teachley, US (bio)
-M. Morse, Mango Materials, US (bio)
-M. Snyder, Made in Space, US
-G. McIntyre, Ecovative Design, US
-T. Swift, Other Labs, US
-S. Dimovski, BASF, US
-M. Pobloske, Raytheon-Sensintel, US
-C. Frangione, XPRIZE, US
-B. Bland, Manufacture NY, US

Wednesday June 17

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10:30Innovation Spotlights: Medical Devices - Dept. of DefensePotomac 2
Session chair: Camille Blanckaert, Univalor, CA
10:30DOD - Innovation Interests
T. Bennett, US Army Medical Materiel Agency, US (bio)
10:50Microfluidic hemoperfusion device for treatment of sepsis
A. Higgins, Oregon State University, US
10:57A Wavy Micropatterned Microfluidic Device for Capturing Circulating Tumor Cells
Y. Liu, Lehigh University, US
11:04BaDx (Bacillus Anthracis Diagnostics)
T. Edwards, Sandia National Laboratories, US
11:11Use of Titanium-Based Materials as Bactericides
D. Haas, Savannah River National Laboratory, US
11:18Treatment for Alopecia
A. Betha, University of Kansas, US
11:25Nanoparticle Matrix for Delivery of Natural Bioactive Components
D. Benedict, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, US
11:32LIGHT: Immunotherapy for treatment of primary tumors and metastatic disease
E. Ginsburg, University of Chicago, US
11:39Traumatic brain injury repair with neurotropic factors and coral scaffold
L. Loev, Ariel University R&D Co., IL
11:46Medical Devices - DOD Medical Spotlight - Q&A
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10:30Green Building MaterialsCamellia 2
Session chair: Elena Enache-Pommer, Dow Chemical, US (bio)
10:30Quantifying Sustainable Concrete with Eco-Efficiency Analysis (invited presentation)
D. Green, BASF Corporation, US (bio)
10:55High Performance Composite Materials for Building & Construction Applications (invited presentation)
J. Fox, Ashland Inc., US
11:20Thin-shell Concrete Structures for Low Embodied and Operating Energy and Durability
B. Leighty, Alaska Applied Sciences, Inc., US
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1:30Green Building InnovationsCamellia 2
Session chair: Elena Enache-Pommer, Dow Chemical, US (bio)
1:30Green and Cool Roofing Technologies (invited presentation)
M. Radler, B. Richey, V. Demarest, Dow Construction Chemicals, US (bio)
1:55High Performance Building Envelope Technologies for Residential and Small Commercial Roofs and Attics (invited presentation)
J. Kosny, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, US (bio)
2:20Next-generation nanomaterial down-conversion phosphors for solid state lighting (invited presentation)
K.B. Kahen, University at Buffalo, SUNY, US (bio)
2:45The Utilization of Electrochromic Materials for Smart Window Applications in Energy-Efficient Buildings
B.P. Jelle, T. Gao, SINTEF Building and Infrastructure / Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO
3:05Ag Nanoparticles as Low Emissivity Coating Materials for Window Glazing Applications
T. Gao, B.P. Jelle, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO
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3:00Innovation Spotlights: Environmental, Water & Waste - DODPotomac 1
Session chair: Sophia Kim, NSTXL, US
3:00USMC-DOD - Innovation Interests
Colonel J. Caley, US Marine Corps, US
3:15DoD - Innovation Interests
D. Becker, NPS Star-Tides, US
3:30BioTiger™: An Environmental Biocatalyst
D. Haas, Savannah River National Laboratory, US
3:37High-value chemicals from any biodegradable waste or organic feedstock
C. Granda, Earth Energy Renewables, US
3:44Carbon Nanotube Membrane for Sea, Brackish and Frack Water Desalination
C. Georgeson, New Jersey Institute of Technology, US
3:51Membrane-Based Dehydration System
L. DiNetta, Compact Membrane Systems, Inc., US
3:58Real Time Monitoring System for trace analytes e.g. phosphate in Water
MT Ma, National University of Singapore, SG
4:05Hydrogen from Wastewater: Fermentation Membrane
E. Hockert, University of Minnesota, US
4:12Environmental, Water & Waste - DOD Q&A
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