Climate Biotech Fireside Chat: Techno-economic Modeling and Why it Matters for Invention

​We’re thrilled to welcome Jesse Lou for a discussion about climate biotech.

​Jesse is co-founder and CEO of Conductor Labs, whose mission is to provide tailored commercialization expertise to all innovators developing technologies for the energy transition. He formed Conductor’s thesis as a fellow at Breakthrough Energy, where he helped scientific founders build their own techno-economic analysis — a key but often neglected tool for teams to drive major R&D and commercial decisions by working backward from a projected future cost. To bridge the gap, Conductor Labs is building an AI-enabled co-pilot that scales the kind of 1:1 commercialization support he provided, to every single early-stage climate startup and scientist around the world.

​He was previously co-founder of PicoGreens (microalgae-based biomanufacturing startup), a product leader building AI-based modeling tools for the insurance industry, and consultant at McKinsey in the energy & materials practice. He has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Columbia and MBA from Harvard.