Cohort 9 Finals Agenda

MARCH 6, 2025

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks

Megan Clifford, Associate Laboratory Director, Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach
Colleen Wright, VP, Corporate Strategy, Constellation
Dick Co, Director, Chain Reaction Innovations

15-minute pitch, followed by 10-minute Q/A, and 5 minutes for panelists to record notes

9:15 a.m. Jordan DeVries, Value-Added Products from Mineralized Carbon
9:45 a.m. John Misiaszek, Flue Gas Capture and Utilization via Iron-Tungsten Redox
10:15 a.m. Moha Shahjamali, US-Based Production of Value-Added Critical Carbon Materials and Hydrogen

————– 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break ————–

15-minute pitch, followed by 10-minute Q/A, and 5 minutes for panelists to record notes

11:00 a.m. Nathan Arnold, Room-Temperature, Free-Space Photonic Quantum Memory
11:30 a.m. Clayton DeVault, Manufacturing Diamond Solutions for Quantum and Microelectronics
12:00 p.m. Brandon Grinkemeyer, Photonic Interconnects for Scalable Quantum Computing

————– 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Working Lunch – Paul Kearns, Argonne Laboratory Director, Keynote ————–

15-minute pitch, followed by 10-minute Q/A, and 5 minutes for panelists to record notes

1:15 p.m. Jeremy Daum, Covalent Organic Frameworks for Erasing Forever Chemicals
1:45 p.m. Ryan Cardiff, Bioproduction of Valuable Chemicals from Carbon Waste Using Engineered Bacteria

————– 2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break ————–

15-minute pitch, followed by 10-minute Q/A, and 5 minutes for panelists to record notes

2:30 p.m. Kyle Matthews, Quality MXenes at Scale for Energy and Defense
3:00 p.m. Becca Segel, Sensors and Diagnostics to Improve Grid Efficiency and Resilience
3:30 p.m. Siddique Khateeb, Advanced Thermal Management Solutions for Power Intensive Applications

4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks