Louisville Stakeholder Meeting

REBECCA is excited to share the success of our recent Stakeholder Meetings held on February 20th and 21st in Downtown Louisville. These two-day events served as pivotal moments in shaping the future of energy innovation and collaboration. Stay tuned for highlights from engaging discussions, insightful workshops, and collaborative sessions!

Stakeholder Meeting – REBECCA strategy development consortium

Noble Funk Brewing, 922 S. 2nd Street

Tuesday, Feb 20th, 2024

2.00 – 2.15 pm Kick-off Speakers

Eric Smith, EDA Tech Hubs Program Director

2.15 – 2.30 pm Introduction to REBECCA – Sundar Atre and Mahendra Sunkara

Session 1: 2.30 – 3.30 pm: Large companies (Moderator: Vijay Kamineni, MI2)

Haiyan Wang, Zeochem

Rebecca Heintz, GE Appliances

Victor Johnston, Clariant

Ramesh Subramanian, Allnex

William Jarosinski, Linde Advanced Materials Technologies

Lar Lubbers, HyperIon Motors

Lead Scribe for the Panel – Fatou Ndiaye

Session 2: 3.30 – 4.30 pm: Small companies (Moderator: Roy Toutant, Bluegrass Angels)

Vasanthi Sunkara, Advanced Energy Materials

Thad Druffel, Bert Thin Films

Tim Fogarty, PCC Hydrogen

Jeremaih Chapman, Freshfry

Jagannadh Satyavolu, BioProducts

Lead Scribe for the Panel – Mohana Gutta

Session 3: 4.30 – 5.30 pm: University Faculty (Moderator: Will Metcalf)

Badri Narayanan, Michael McIntyre, Joshua Spurgeon, Sam Park, Gautam Gupta

Lead Scribe for the Panel – Sihan Zhang

5.30 – 8 pm: Reception

6.00 – 6.15 pm: Reception Speaker (Christopher Hahn, LLNL)

Wednesday, Feb 21st, 2024

9.00 – 9.30 am: Sec. Rebecca Goodman, KY Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Environment

Session 4: 9.30 – 10.30 am: Workforce Needs (Moderator: Tonia Prewitt)

Michael Gritton, Kentuckiana Works

Alisher Burikhanov, Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board

Nickie Cobb, JCTC

Paul Perkins, Amatrol

Delaina Amos, UofL

Lead Scribe for the Panel – Aparna Munjuluri

Session 5: 10.30 – 12.30 pm:Government and Community (Moderator: Stan Moore, Chair, Louisville Downtown Management District)

Kenya Stump, KY Cabinet for Energy and Environment

Sumedha Rao, Louisville Metro

Chris Ward, TARC

Kunal Kate, KY MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center

Mark McGinley, DOE Industrial Assessment Center for Kentucky

Lead Scribe for the Panel – Athira Surendran

12.30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch with speaker

Robert Schneider, “MCH as Hydrogen Carrier: Technology Innovation to Commercialization”  

Session 6: 1.30 – 1:45 pm: Working Groups

Annie Colarusso, EDA Tech Hubs Program Director

1:45 – 3:00 pm:

Group #1: Operations. (Leader – Kevin Mulloy)

Scribe – Monem

Group #2: Innovation (Leader – Chandra Ratnasamy, Clariant)

ScribeFatou Ndiaye

Group #3: Workforce (Leader – Alisher Burikhanov, Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board)

ScribeAparna Munjuluri

Group #4: Infrastructure (Leader – John Wagner)

Scribe – Mohana Gutta

3 – 3.30 pm: Readouts – One page draft writeups are due within a week.

3.30 – 4 pm: Meetings: Frankfort, Lexington, Owensboro, Paducah, Pikeville, Bowling Green.