Reindustrialization through Climate Tech - Hosted by Stanford ACTs, SAA, and SVB
Climate and Industry - Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Join us for a Summer Networking Event in San Francisco, hosted by Stanford Alumni in Climate Tech (ACTs), Stanford Alumni Association (SAA), and SVB.
Under the current administration, domestic manufacturing and “American dynamism” have entered the spotlight in a big way. Our featured panel (more details to come!) will explore how this dynamic intersects with energy and climate.
Featured Panelists:
Andy Zhao (Co-Founder/CSO of Limelight Steel)
Lukas Hackl (Co-Founder/CEO of Aepnus Technology),
Meng Lei (VP at Generate Capital)
Vivas Kumar (Co-Founder/CEO of MitraChem)
This event is open to climate alum working in the industry, recent graduates, and current students interested in the space.
About the Panelists
Andy Zhao is the CSO and Co-Founder of Limelight Steel, a startup reinventing iron and steel making with laser-powered furnaces. Limelight is building a 100 tonne/year pilot plant in the former American Steel mill in Oakland. Andy studied Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford (class of 2016!), got a PhD at UC San Diego in industrial heat and high temperature heat transfer, and was an Activate Fellow.
Lukas Hackl is the co-founder and CEO of Aepnus Technology. Aepnus develops process equipment to recover valuable chemicals from the byproducts generated during the production of critical minerals, batteries and other industrial processes. The company is located in Oakland, CA with subsidiaries in Canada and Germany. Prior to founding Aepnus, Lukas started two other businesses and received his PhD in electrochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is passionate about circularity and leveraging technology to drive domestic supply chain resilience.
Meng Lei is a VP on Generate Capital’s investment team, where she leads investments across the circular economy, battery value chain, and broader industrial decarbonization theses in North America. Previously, she led renewable power investments for Shell New Energies in Italy and the Netherlands. Meng holds an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Vivas Kumar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mitra Chem a leading U.S. clean tech company building advanced lithium-ion battery materials. He was previously at Tesla as a senior manager responsible for the global battery supply chain, and a Principal at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
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