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Speaker Bios

Speakers are being added daily. Watch this space for many more to come.

Kathy Ayers
Vice President, Research and Development, Nel Hydrogen
Inês Azevedo
Associate Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Drew Baglino
Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering, Tesla
Ashok Belani
Chairman, Genvia Board
Thomas Birr
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, E.ON
Madhur Boloor
Manager, Carbon Neutral Program at Toyota Research Institute
Sam Bunke
PhD candidate, Stanford University
Grace Busse
PhD candidate, Stanford University
Steven Cai
CTO, Gotion
Tony Chan
President, KAUST
Vikhyat Chaudhry
Co-founder, CTO, and COO, Buzz Solutions
Jimmy Chen
Managing Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
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Steven Chu
Professor of Physics and of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University
Will Chueh
Associate Professor, Stanford University, Faculty Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative
Yi Cui
Director, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Jim Cushing
General Manager, Energy Storage Solutions, Applied Materials
Joseph DeSimone
Professor of Translational Medicine and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Brad Dore
Senior Director of Marketing, EnerVenue
David Edwards
Director & Advocate for Hydrogen Energy, Air Liquide
Steve Eglash
Director, Applied Energy Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Ben Eiref
CEO, Blue Current
Chris Field
Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
Yuan Gao
Board Director, Lithium Americas Corporation
Mayank Girdhar
Co-Founder, UpSpark
Stephan Graham
Dean of School of Earth, Stanford University
Chris Graves
Founder & CEO, Noon Energy
Kemp Gregory
CEO and Co-Founder, Renewell
Jerry Griffin
General Manager, Global Sustainability, Delta Air Lines
Wendy Gu
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
RV Guha
Founder and Lead, DataCommons.org; Fellow and VP, Google
Rob Hanson
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Monolith
Thomas Heller
Professor of International Legal Studies, Emeritus, Stanford Law School
Matthias Ihme
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Pamela Isom
Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Tom Jaramillo
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Mateo Jaramillo
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Form Energy
Sonia Kastner
Founder and CEO, Pano
Muhammad Aadil Khan
PhD Student, Stanford University
Anthony Kovscek
Professor, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Vivas Kumar
CEO and Co-Founder, Mitra Chem
Tom Linebarger
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Cummins Inc.
Fang Liu
Postdoc Research Fellow, Stanford University
Clyde Loutan
Principal Engineer, CAICO
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Arun Majumdar
Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor, Stanford University
Arnav Mariwala
Business Development, ClimateAi
Ted McKlveen
Co-Founder & CEO, Verne
Liang Min
Managing Director, Bits & Watts Initiative, Stanford University
Kam Moler
Transition Dean, Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Marvin Chodorow Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics, Stanford University
Lynn Orr
Professor Emeritus, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Kazuaki Osumi
Director General, NEDO Silicon Valley
Joe Papp
CTO, Anthro Energy
Nicolas Pinkowski
Founder & CEO, Nitricity
Matt Pitcher
Head of the Hydrogen Technology Portfolio, Technip Energies
Andrew Ponec
Co-founder and CEO, Antora Energy
Friedrich Prinz
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Faculty Director, Stanford Hydrogen Initiative, Stanford University
Dan Reicher
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for Environment
Condoleezza Rice
Professor in Global Business and Economy, Stanford University
Heather Rock
Chief of Staff to Executive Vice President of Engineering, Planning, and Strategy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Jimmy Rojas
Founder & CEO, EvolOH, Inc.
Sunita Satyapal
Director, U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office
Peter Sawicki
Regional Director for Sales and Marketing, Pacific West, Mitsubishi Power Americas
Kerstin Schierle-Arndt
Vice President Research Inorganic Materials and Synthesis, Associate Director CARA - California Research Alliance by BASF
Craig Scott
General Manager & Director of Fuel Cell Solutions, Toyota Motor North America
Austin Sendek
Co-Founder and CEO, Aionics
Gauri Singh
Deputy Director-General, IRENA
Heino Sommer
Director Development, Cellforce Group
Leonardo Spanu
Principal Scientist, Shell Project & Technology
Ionel Stefan
CTO, Amprius
James Swartz
Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Will Tarpeh
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Fong Wan
Senior Vice President, Energy Policy and Procurement | PG&E
Zhecheng Wang
PhD Student, Stanford University
Johanna Nelson Weker
Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Zhiao Yu
PhD candidate, Stanford University
Xiaolin Zheng
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Faculty Director, Stanford Hydrogen Initiative, Stanford University
Xueli (Sherry) Zheng
Physical Science Research Scientist, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Wesley Zheng
CEO, Posh Robotics