8-8:30AM

Breakfast and Registration

8:30-8:40AM

Introductory Remarks

Prof. Reza Abbascian, Distinguished Professor and Director of Winston Chung Global Energy Center

8:40-9:10AM

Morning Keynote Presentation

9:10-10:10AM

Morning Presentation Session: Current and Future Horizon for Energy Storage Industry

The speakers will discuss the current state and roadmap for adoption of energy storage technologies. The discussions will include the current challenges facing this industry and the path to effectively overcome the barriers, as well as the opportunities for energy storage and the role of policy, technology, and business advancements for accelerating the energy storage market, and grow its benefits.

Presenter 1: Mr. Rahul Chopra:  “Energy Storage – Disrupter of energy sector”

Presenter 2: Mr. Ed Cortez:  “Energy Storage at Riverside Public Utilities”

10:10-10:30AM

Morning Break and Poster Presentations

10:30AM-12:00PM

Morning Panel: Grid and Applications of Battery Energy Storage

The speakers will discuss their experiences and viewpoints on successful implementations, the promising applications, emerging markets, significant values, and innovative advancements in integration of energy storage technologies. The discussions will also include the breakthroughs that enhance the performance, lower the costs, and improve the economics of energy storage.

Moderator: Mr. Erik Bakke

Panelist 1: Mr. Kent Redwine: ““A Vision for New Energy”

Panelist 2: Dr. Seyed Madaeni:  “Integration of DERs in Competitive Electricity Markets”

Panelist 3: Dr. Antonio Tong: “Energy Storage Systems Integration, Testing and Valuation at UC San Diego”

Panelist 4: Mr. Michael Lee: “A case study of control systems that enable value-stacking with multiple stakeholders”.

12:00-1:00PM

Lunch and Poster Presentations

1:00-1:30PM

Afternoon Technical Presentation

Mr. Richard J. Bravo: “Storage Smart Functions”

1:30-3:00PM

Afternoon Panel 1: Alternative and Innovative Energy Storage Technologies

The speakers will discuss their achievements in developing, demonstrating, and commercializing novel technologies of alternative energy stage, including fuel cells, thermal storage, compressed air storage, super-capacitors and other non-battery-based energy storage technologies.

Moderator: Mr. Jin Noh

Panelist 1: Dr. Marcel Christians: ‘Controlling Peak Demand using thermal energy storage’

Panelist 2: Mr. Matt Gregori: “Power-to-Gas: California’s Trillion Dollar Storage Solution.”

Panelist 3: Prof. Pirouz Kavehpour: “Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES): Challenges and promises”

Panelist 4: Mr. David Lentsch: “Practical Use of Supercapacitors for Grid and Microgrid Energy Storage”

3:00-3:15PM

Afternoon Break and Poster Presentations

3:15-4:45PM

Afternoon Panel 2: Latest Advancements and Next Generation of Battery Energy Storage

The Speakers will present and discuss various innovative technologies, materials, and processes to improve the characteristics, performance, and costs of battery energy storage technologies based on their applications in different industry sectors.

Moderator: Dr. Juchen Guo

Panelist 1: Dr. Will West: “Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies for Space Applications”

Panelist 2: Prof. Mihri Ozkan: “Future Outlook For Electric Vehicle Batteries: Sulfur cathode, Li-metal anode and Solid Electrolyte”

Panelist 3: Dr. GJ la O' : “An Innovative Zinc Bromide Flow-Battery for Grid Scale Energy Storage”

Panelist 4: Prof. Sarah Tolbert: “Using nanoscale architectures to improve stability and power density in batteries and pseudocapacitors”

4:45-5:00PM

Closing Remarks

5:00-5:30PM

Facility Tour (optional)

5:00-6:30PM

Evening Reception