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Innovation Clusters with EDA, NSF, and DOE
December 5, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Since the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act the United States has made strong commitments to place based innovation, positioning our country to lead in areas key to our clean energy future such as batteries, critical materials, and small modular nuclear reactors.  This panel will start with a recap of the recent NSF EDA Roadmap Summit. It will offer information on opportunities to engage with the tech hubs and engines and dive into the unique and critical partnerships that they are building with capital partners, workforce organizations, national laboratories, and universities.
Join this session to explore:
- What are the EDA tech hubs and NSF engines and how is the tens of billions of dollars the US government is investing in place based innovation impacting the US clean energy landscape?
- How do the EDA tech hubs and NSF Engines compare to and complement DOE place based programs such as the Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) and Cradle to Commerce?
- What is the opportunity for investors, developers, and others to partner with and invest alongside EDA’s, NSF’s, and DOE’s regional innovation ecosystems?
Speakers
Edwina Manyeh
Tech Hubs Deputy Director, U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), U.S. Department of Commerce
Mary McManmon
Associate Director for External Commercialization Programs, Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. Department of Energy
Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei
Chair, Department of Mining & Explosives Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Avra Van Der Zee
COO, Elemental Impact
Reshma Singh
Program Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Binghamton University
