2023

James Craner, MD, MPH is an Occupational Medicine physician and global Corporate Physician for Tesla. Dr. Craner is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, residency trained in Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Before Tesla, Dr. Craner was in private clinical and consultative practice for 23 years, specializing in medical surveillance,…

David is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cirba Solutions. His impressive, over 25-year career is in research & development, operations, commercial, and strategic leadership roles across numerous innovative industries, including the global lithium business, energy storage, and several specialty materials industries. While working at Piedmont Lithium, Albemarle, and Dow Chemical he had expansive…

Margaret O’Riley is VP of Business Development at Electrada, a leader in the Charging as a Service (CaaS) industry and a BlackRock portfolio company that provides turn-key solutions to fleet customers nationally. Previously, she spent 5+ years at Duke Energy as the lead of EV, auto and battery projects as part of the Economic Development…

Eric C. Darcy, Ph.D, has spent his 30-year career at NASA in the areas of battery design, verification, and safety assessments for the rigors of manned spacecraft applications. As Battery Technical Discipline Lead at NASA-JSC, his main objective has been the development of safe, while high performing, battery systems with a deep focus on understanding,…

Brian is Director, Business Development at Amphenol where he is responsible for a complete portfolio of battery and electrification sensor technologies, and a variety of thermal sensing solutions, as well as development of new and emerging sensor technologies in the field. As President of NAATBatt International, he serves as part of the US Department of…

As Program Lead – Stationary Storage at Argonne National Lab, Sue Babinec creates and guides their strategy for a broad range of stationary storage technologies and represents the lab in cross-cutting vision setting forums. Babinec previously served six years as senior commercialization advisor at ARPA-E – co-managing for transportation and grid portfolios.  Prior to ARPA-E…

Michael Fetcenko is Sion Power Executive Chairman, developing high energy metallic Lithium anode batteries.   He has been in the battery industry for 43 years. He was President of Ovonic Battery Company, the inventor of NiMH and Managing Director of BASF Battery Materials. He is an inventor with over 70 patents and 100 publications in…

Ted Miller is Manager of Battery Cell Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford’s Battery Center of Excellence known as Ion Park. Mr. Miller leads the research, development, and implementation of advanced cell, material, and battery recycling for Ford.  He manages key collaborations with developers of solid state cell technology and commercialization of battery recycling. Mr.…

Kurt Kelty serves at GM’s Vice President of Battery Cell and Pack. Appointed to his role in February 2024, Kelty leads GM’s comprehensive battery technology strategy and lifecycle approach, encompassing research and development (R&D), battery cell evaluation and selection, battery pack design and commercialization, and sustainability initiatives including end-of-life solutions. A globally recognized expert in…

Austin Devaney is Chief Commercial Officer and leads the commercial activities for Piedmont Lithium.  Piedmont is developing a fully integrated project in North Carolina to mine spodumene and convert this product into Lithium Hydroxide for delivery into the battery supply chain.  Additionally, Piedmont will be building a greenfield conversion plant in Etowah Tennessee that will…