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2024 Speakers
Welcome Address
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Kevin D. Bell Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology Group The Aerospace Corporation  | 
Energy Storage I
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Dr. Erik Brandon Chief Technologist, Power Systems and Technology Section NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology  | 
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Dr. Yannick Borthomieu Cell Technical Department Manager Aerospace, Defense & Performance (ADP) Division Saft  | 
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Jarred Olson Senior Member of Technical Staff The Aerospace Corporation  | 
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Dr. Albert Zimmerman Technical Fellow The Aerospace Corporation  | 
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Ryan Pritchard Principal Project Engineer Enersys Advanced Systems ABSL  | 
Energy Storage II
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Hiroki Fuse Technical Staff GS Yuasa Technology Ltd.  | 
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Tom Pusateri Director, Business Development GS Yuasa Lithium Power  | 
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William Hadala Vice President of Operations & Strategy American Lithium Energy Corporation  | 
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Joseph Troutman Director of Government Affairs Forge Nano, Inc.  | 
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Dr. Will West Principal and Group Supervisor, Electrochemical Technologies Group NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory  | 
Energy Storage III
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Dr. Kumar Bugga Senior Fellow Lyten  | 
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Haodong Liu CTO Tyfast Energy Corp.  | 
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Ryo Tamaki, Ph.D. VP of Product South 8 Technologies  | 
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Dr. Elena Bekyarova CEO Carbon Solutions, Inc.  | 
Energy Generation I
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Dr. Daniel Derkacs Senior Scientist SolAero by Rocket Lab  | 
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Diana Aponte  Head of Product Solestial, Inc.  | 
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Dr. Torsten Torunski Senior Product Manager AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH  | 
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Dr. Philip Chiu Senior Staff Scientist, Technical Fellow Spectrolab, Inc.  | 
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Dr. Phillip Jahelka Staff Scientist California Institute of Technology  | 
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 Justin Lorentzen Founder/CEO BlackSky Aerospace Systems  | 
Energy Generation II
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Spencer Furin Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center  | 
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Harry Yates Solar Array and Battery Engineering Maxar Space Systems  | 
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Jay Gordon Senior Principal Engineer Northrop Grumman  | 
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Chris Youtsey CTO MicroLink Devices, Inc.  | 
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Ismael Sanchez Head of Product Development DHV Technology  | 
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Samuel Smith Mechanical Engineer Opterus Research & Development  | 
Energy Generation III
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Meghan Bush Research Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center  | 
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Michael Kelzenberg Senior Staff Scientist California Institute of Technology  | 
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Yao Lao Manager – Energy Technology Group The Aerospace Corporation  | 
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Scott Messenger, Ph.D. Senior Staff Radiation Survivability Physicist Northrop Grumman Corporation  | 
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Tetsuya Nakamura Associate Senior Researcher Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency  | 
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Scott Ireton V.P. Engineering Angstrom Designs, Inc.  | 
Mission and Program Experience
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Brandon Burns Power Systems Engineer Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology  | 
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Alexander Jurcago Student John Carroll University  | 
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Steven Korn Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center  | 
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Mark R. Toft Electrical Power Subsystem – Principal Engineer Iridium Satellite LLC  | 
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Harry Yates Principal Engineer, Solar Array and Battery Engineering Maxar Space Systems  | 
Power Systems Architecture
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Arnold Arst Senior Engineer Specialist The Aerospace Corporation  | 
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José María Martínez Cerdá Technical Manager Airbus Crisa  | 
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Abigail Eberts Senior Applications Engineer Renesas Electronics America Inc.  | 
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Joseph Kozak Senior Electrical Engineer Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory  | 
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Jason Stange Senior Space Systems Engineer Packet Digital  | 
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Advanced Concepts
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David Caldwell Senior Engineer Specialist The Aerospace Corporation  | 
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Park Cover Fusion Space Systems Architect Avalanche Energy  | 
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Jeffrey Csank Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center  | 
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Jason Merrell, Ph.D. Director of Engineering and Technology Development 5N Plus Semiconductors, LLC  | 
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Andy Presby Deputy Project Manager Fission Surface Power Project NASA Glenn Research Center  | 
PMAD
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Alex Billings Junior Analog IC Designer Apogee Semiconductor  | 
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Richard Coffin Manager, Applications Engineering – Space EaglePicher Technologies  | 
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Hans Jensen Senior Power Systems Engineer Terma A/S  | 
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Marcos Núñez Rodriguez Product Portfolio Manager for Power Airbus Crisa  | 
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Nick Uguccini Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center  | 
Poster
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Kristof Dessein Innovation Director Umicore Electro-Optic Materials  | 
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Frank Fan Manager, Next Generation Battery Technology 24M Technologies  | 
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Brynn Hall Technical Project Manager Dynovas, Inc.  | 
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Casey Hare CTO Angstrom Designs, Inc.  | 
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Scott Ireton V.P. Engineering Angstrom Designs, Inc.  | 
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Nadeesha Katakumbura Graduate Research Assistant The University of Toledo  | 
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Scott M Lambright Graduate Research Assistant The University of Toledo  | 
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Justin Lorentzen Founder/CEO BlackSky Aerospace Systems  | 
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Oscar Mansilla Director of Product Marketing IR HiRel an Infineon Technologies Company  | 
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Marcos Núñez Rodriguez Product Portfolio Manager for Power Airbus Crisa  | 
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Amirhossein Rahimi Graduate Research Assistant University of Toledo  | 
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Samuel Smith Mechanical Engineer Opterus Research & Development  | 
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Hiroshi Tomita R&D Theme Leader Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.  | 
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Eric TREHET Product Portfolio Manager – Power Products Airbus Defence and Space  | 
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Taylor Xu Principal Research Scientist Navitas Systems  | 
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Youngsu Youn Principal Research Engineer Korea Aerospace Research Institute  | 



































































