Speakers

Daniel P. Abraham, Ph.D., Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

John Abramson, Ph.D., CTO, ArcActive, Ltd.

Lawrence Alger, Ph.D., Principal Engineer, EV/HV Engineering, Denso Corporation

Menahem Anderman, Ph.D., President, Total Battery Consulting

Tim Arthur, Ph.D., Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America

Paolina Atanassova, Ph.D., Global Applications Development Manager, Cabot Corporation

Christiaan Beekhuis, CEO, Gridtential Energy

Robert Bienenfeld, Assistant Vice President, Environment and Energy Strategy, American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

Peter Blume, President and Founder, Bloomy

Rod Borup, Ph.D., Program Manager, Fuel Cells, Los Alamos National Laboratory

George Brilmyer, Ph.D., Partner, HighWater Innovations, LLC

Kriston Brooks, Chief Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Andy Bush, Ph.D, Managing Director, International Lead Association

Mei Cai, Ph.D., Technical Fellow & Lab Group Manager, General Motors

Steven Clark, Senior Manager Energy Storage & HV Systems, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

Allan Cooper, European Project Coordinator, Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC)

Gaetan Damblanc, Technical Lead, CD Adapco

Robert Dominko, Ph.D., Research Associate, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia Ljubljana University

Mark Duvall, Director, Electric Transportation and Energy Storage, Electric Power Research Institute

Timothy W. Ellis, Ph.D., President , RSR Technologies, Inc.

Bill Elrick, Executive Director, California Fuel Cell Partnership

James Fenton, Ph.D. , Director, Florida Solar Energy Center, Professor, Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida

Robert Flicker, COO, East Penn Manufacturing

James Francfort, Program Manager, Energy Storage and Transportation Systems, Idaho National Laboratory

Jun Furakawa, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Furakawa Battery Company

Kevin G. Gallagher, Ph.D., Chemical Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

Jeff Gelb, Senior Applications Development Engineer, Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy

John German, Senior Fellow, ICCT

François Girard, Ph.D., Thrust Leader – Fuel Cell Manufacturing, Vehicle Propulsion Technologies Program, National Research Council Canada/Government of Canada

Phil Gorney, Vehicle Safety Research Engineer, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Juergen Gross, Ph.D., Senior Vice President Research, Bosch

Oliver Gross, Technical Fellow – Energy Storage Systems, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

JT Guerin, Engineering Specialist, General Motors

Paul Haney, Manager Advanced Energy Storage, Low Carbon Vehicles Research, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.

Shinichi Hirano, Principal Research Engineer, Fuel Cell and H2 Research, Ford Motor Company

Jerry Hoffman, President, Northstar Battery

Koji Ishiwa, Senior Manager, Automotive Systems Division, Toshiba Corporation

Christian Jung, Ph.D., Development Engineer, Porsche AG

Donald Karner, President, Battery Test & Development, Electric Applications Incorporated

Mohan Karulkar, Ph.D., Battery Research Engineer, Energy Storage Materials & Strategy, Ford Motor Company

Yuki Katoh, Ph.D., Battery AT, Advanced Technology Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA

Jeff Kessen, Vice President, Corporate Strategy, A123 Systems

Jong Hun Kim, Research Fellow & Team Leader, PHEV/EV Cell Development, LG Chem

Takayuki Kimura, Energy Devices and Materials Development Center, Tsukuba Chemical Laboratory, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.

John Kopasz, Ph.D, Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory*

Perry Kramer, Research Scientist, East Penn Manufacturing

Jennifer Kurtz, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Systems Engineering Group Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Kevin Layden, Director, Electrified Powertrain Engineering, Ford Motor Company

Michael Lord, Executive Engineer, Vehicle Regulation and Certification Engineering, Toyota Technical Center, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NA

Brett L. Lucht, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island

Shingjiang Jessie Lue, Ph.D., Professor/Chair, Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

Al Masias, Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company

Ahhmad Mayyas, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Strategic Energy Analysis Center, NREL

Ted Miller, Senior Manager of Energy Storage Strategy and Research, Ford Motor Company

Takeshi Miyamoto, Senior Vice President, B3 Corporation

Boris Monahov, Ph.D., Program Manager, Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) – a program of the International Lead Association (ILA)

Sanjeev Mukerjee, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Director, Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology, Northeastern University

Mustafa Musameh, Ph.D., CSIRO Manufacturing

Kenji Nakai, Group Leader, LIB Cell Development Department, Hitachi Automotive Systems

Madeleine Odgaard, CEO, IRD Fuel Cells, LLC, Denmark

Miki Oljaca, Ph.D., Technology Manager, Battery R&D, Cabot Corporation

Ben Ollis, R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ahmad Pesaran, Ph.D., Energy-Storage Group Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Gregory Plett, Ph.D., Professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Monique Richard, Senior Principal Engineer Material Engineering Division, Toyota Technical Center, N.A.

Robert Rose, Executive Director, Breakthrough Technologies Institute

Hiroyuki Sakai, EV/Powertrain System Engineering Department, Development Engineering Office, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation

Edward Shaffer, Ph.D, CEO, Advanced Battery Concepts

Boris Shirov, Project Manager, Research and Development, TASC, Ltd.

Greg Smith, Engineering Manager BEV Battery Packs, General Motors

Kandler Smith, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Energy-Storage Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jordan W. Smith, Engineering Manager Advanced Technology, Southern California Edison

Steve Sokolsky, Program Director, CALSTART

Erik Spek, Chief Engineer, TÜV SÜD Canada

Robert Spotnitz, Ph.D., President, Battery Design LLC

Venkat Srinivasan, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Joe Steiber, Principal Engineer, Energy Storage Technology Group, Engine, Emissions, and Vehicle Research Division, Southwest Research Institute

Shane Stephens, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer and Principal, FirstElement Fuel, Inc.

David Stone, Ph.D., Professor, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

Bob Taenaka, Technical Leader, Advanced Battery Systems, Ford Motor Company

Koji Takahata, Toyota Motor Corporation

Roman Tarnovsky, Global Marketing Director, Materials Design, Inc.

Travis Thompson, Ph.D., Research Fellow, University of Michigan

John Turner, Ph.D., Group Leader, Computational Engineering & Energy Sciences, Oak Ridge National Lab & UT-Battelle

Junji Uetake, Automobile R&D Center, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

Steven J. Visco, Ph.D., CEO, CTO, PolyPlus Battery Company

William Wallace, Director, Global Battery Systems, General Motors Co.

Charles Wampler, Project Leader, Global Battery Systems Engineering, General Motors

Conghua Wang, Ph.D., Vice President and CTO, Treadstone Technologies

Justin Ward, General Manager, Powertrain System Control Department, Toyota Technical Center, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North American, Inc.

Yasuharu Watanabe, General Manager, EV and HEV Battery Engineering Department, Nissan Motor Company

Tom Watson, Vice President & Technical Fellow, Powertrain & Vehicle Systems, Johnson Controls

M. Stanley Whittingham, D.Phil., Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, Binghamton University

Martin Winter, Ph.D., Chair, Applied Material Science for Energy Conversion and Storage, MEET Battery, Research Center, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster

Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist & Project Leader, ZSW

Kang Xu, Ph.D., Senior Research Chemist, Electrochemistry Branch, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

John Zhang, Ph.D., CTO, Celgard