This month we invite our Autotech Council and Cleantech Council communities to a joint meeting to explore the latest innovations in battery technology - from large scale energy storage, to small scale IoT batteries. Join us as we hear from analysts, market leaders and startups working to improve the longevity, cost, size, safety, and chargeability of energy storage.

There has been lots of progress made recently in battery technology for energy storage & EVs - from improvements in battery design, to chemistry, to solid state. But it’s important to separate the shovel-ready progress from the impressive lab R&D projects. Today’s agenda will discuss the new technologies and meet innovators with practical solutions.

Building a better battery is a vexing mix of trade-offs: A battery may have higher energy density, but be explosive, another may be cheaper to produce, but have a short life. It’s very difficult to create a new battery that falls in the “Goldilocks zone” of excelling at all the requirements for a given commercial use case. This is why so many “battery breakthroughs” amaze reporters in the lab, but seldom make it into commercial service. But as the aggregate addressable market in EVs, home storage, portable units, and grid-scale storage grows, it’s attracting more and more R&D and innovation. These are the proverbial 1,000 monkeys. This R&D is discovering hacks, workarounds, low-hanging fruit, as well as tackling the bigger challenges like solid-state batteries. Somebody somewhere is going to write some Shakespeare!

Even if they don’t, these gains, big and small, stack up on each other. The sum represents faster progress than even the recent past. And once we cross important tipping points, such as renewable energy cost-parity with fossil energy, the dominos start to fall rapidly. There is now substantial demand for batteries, and in particular, batteries that perform well. If you can make it, you can sell it.

On this agenda, we’ll look at:

  • batteries for vehicles
  • stationary batteries for a)homes, b) buildings, c) commercial sites
  • portable batteries, generator replacements
  • grid-scale batteries

…each with a slightly different set of requirements, which can mean a wide range of solutions.

But there are also a variety of innovations that simply improve existing batteries, or how they’re used. These can range from simple hacks, to HVAC systems, to geopolitics:

  • dendrite reduction
  • BMS
  • temperature control
  • Fair Trade materials sourcing and processing
  • Owner/user education (or automation, or idiot-proofing)
  • and lots more.

The world is going electric, with a variety of incentives all aligned in that direction: government incentives, carbon reduction, renewable energy, cost savings, local energy production, distributed grids, lower noise and pollution, lower maintenance, less energy shipping. “That ship has sailed”, so to speak. So the question of how we store and manage that electricity is the hot topic of the decade.

Join us for an interesting look at the future of batteries and energy.

This meeting is jointly produced by the Autotech Council and the Cleantech Council.

Introduce your product or service to OEMs, Tier1s, and tech scouts. Applications are reviewed and invitations extended based on fit.

Meeting Tables will be available to presenters who wish to demo their product or service to our audience in a private networking space.

Share your thought leadership or market analysis on this topic.  Keynote, Analyst and Panel positions may be available.

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Fees & Options

  • ATTENDEE REGISTRATION: $200 (free for Autotech Council and Cleantech Council members)
  • TECHNOLOGY PITCH: $250
    5-minute on-agenda pitch to introduce a relevant technology, company, or product - subject to approval.

OPTIONS

  • DEMO/MEETING TABLE: $500 ($50 for members)
    Rent an in-room cocktail table to show demos, followup on your pitch, or connect with attendees during 3 networking breaks. Tables are 30” round, 42" tall and include black linen, power, Wi-Fi, and flagged with your logo.

Venue

Thank you to Qnovo for hosting today's meeting and bringing the Autotech Council and Cleantech Council communities to their facility. 

Qnovo
@ McCarthy Conference Center
690 N McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, California, 95035

Remote Access for Members:  Members who prefer to attend virtually, should follow the instructions in their registration confirmation email. Note that our Virtual Meeting room opens later and closes earlier due to onsite networking.