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
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)
Scribe – Fatou Ndiaye
Group #3: Workforce (Leader – Alisher Burikhanov, Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board)
Scribe – Aparna 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.
