2024

Chief Rezende has been with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department for 17 years. He is currently the Battalion Chief assigned as the San Diego Fire-Rescue Hazmat Program Manager. Rob has been an active member of the hazmat team in all ranks since 2008. Rob has two (2) master’s degrees from San Diego State University. He has deployed…

Dr. Rahul Walawalkar is President & MD of Customized Energy Solutions (India). He leads the Emerging Technologies domain for Customized Energy Solutions globally, which under his leadership has emerged as a thought leader in the areas of energy storage, renewables, demand response, electric vehicles, and green hydrogen technologies. A strong votary of accelerating scale up of…

Dr. Peter Lamp received his MSc in Physics in 1989 and his PhD in General Physics in 1993, both from the Technical University of Munich. Between 1994 and 2000 he was group leader at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage of the Bayerische Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung. After a short period as project leader…

Paige Johnson is the founder and CEO of Tulsa-based Ten-Nine Technologies. Her professional and entrepreneurial background spans energy, chemistry and nanotechnology in both industry and academia.  Her scientific endeavors were sparked by the gift of a microscope for her 11th birthday and led her to a master’s degree in Chemistry and at least one patent…

Mike Sanders joined the Avicenne Energy team in 2016 as a Senior Advisor and the US leader.  Avicenne is a team of advisors and consulting professionals based in Paris for providing market understanding, research, deep subject matter experts and consulting for the energy storage market.  Avicenne Energy has been providing market understanding and insights to…

Martin Winter has been researching in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion for more than 30 years. His focus is on the development of new materials, components and cell designs for advanced energy storage systems. Martin currently holds a professorship for “Materials Science, Energy and Electrochemistry” at Institute of Physical Chemistry at University…

Les Alexander is the President & CEO of the Battery Innovation Center and has held executive positions at Navitas Systems (VP Research and Development and Government Business Development), Inmatech (CEO) (Supercapacitor start up), A123 Systems (GM Government Business), and T/J Technologies (COO). With over thirty plus years in financial, operations, and business development experience. He…

Kyle Veugeler is the Technical Account Manager – Batteries USA of Siemens.  Kyle holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and has been in the automation industry for 14 years, having held positions in hardware design, controls software development, field service commissioning, program management, R&D, and controls engineering management.  His experience ranges from combustion systems, agrochemical,…

Kyle Vanderhoff is the Manager of Business Attraction within AEP’s Economic Development organization. He supports growing organizations as they navigate complex growth and relocation projects. Kyle has spent over a decade in various economic development and sales leadership positions and proudly represents one of the largest electric utilities in the United States.

Dr. Khalil Amine is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and the leader of the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory, where he is responsible for directing the research and development of advanced materials and battery systems for, PHEV, EV applications. Dr. Amine is also the Co-director of US-German initiative on interface. He serves as…