Speakers

Grant Allen

Senior Vice President
ABB Technology Ventures

André Argenton, Ph.D.

Global R&D Director
The Dow Chemical Company

François Badoual

CEO
Total Energy Ventures

Jason Berns

Director of Open Innovation
Under Armour, Inc.

Walter Cicha, Ph.D.

Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)
National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

James J. Collins, Ph.D.

Investigator and University Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
Boston University;
Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Patricia Cullen, Ph.D.

Director of General Industry Product Development NA
Henkel Corp.

Issam Dairanieh, Ph.D.

Global Director
BP Ventures

Robert Doering, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow
Texas Instruments

Margaret Dohnalek, Ph.D.

Global Head of Technology Scouting, Corporate R&D/Long Term Research
PepsiCo

Sandra D. Elliott

Director, Consumer Technology and Service Development, Meridian Health
Executive Director, iMPak Health, LLC

Claude Fauquet, Ph.D.

Director
CGIAR

Andras Forgacs

CEO
Modern Meadow, Inc.

Virginia Giddings, Ph.D.

Director, Global Strategic R&D
Abbott Nutrition

Josh Goldberg, J.D.

Co-Founder and Vice President, Policy and Business Development
Astrum Solar, Inc.

Stefan Heuser

Vice President, Open Innovation
Samsung

John Hillenbrand, Ph.D.

Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer
Owens Corning

Dave Icke

CEO
MC10

Andrea Jackson

Vice President Environmental Market & Business Development
PerkinElmer

Robert Kirschbaum

Vice President, Open Innovation
DSM

Giovanni Mancini

Director of Product Management
E Ink Holdings

Michael Matturro, Ph.D.

Hydrocarbon and Emerging Energy Sciences Laboratory Director
Corporate Strategic Research
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company

Akira Nakaminato

Managing Officer, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
President & CEO, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute

Thomas Perry, Ph.D.

Senior Innovation Scout and Investment Manager
E.ON SE

Willem Rensink, Ph.D.

GameChanger
Shell International Exploration & Production

Christopher J. Roche

Vice President – Global Research & Technology
Eaton Corporation

Kurt Schroder, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist
NovaCentrix

Carla Seidel, Ph.D.

Vice President Energy
BASF

Lubab Sheet

Director, Corporate Technology Development
Lam Research Corporation

Thad Simons

President and CEO
Novus International, Inc.

Cory Steffek, Ph.D.

General Manager, N. American Venture Capital
Aramco Energy Ventures

Joseph Vaillancourt

Vice President Corporate Venturing
Waste Management Inc.

John Zahurancik

Vice President
AES Energy Storage