Sustainability Expo

Sustainability Expo
June 15, 2022
4:00PM - 7:30PM CEST
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The Sustainability Expo just made the earth cool down a bit more with the freshest industry trends and innovation! Featuring fireside chats, startup panels, a networking aperitivo, and more, we had the chance to get a peek at what the future of our planet looked like.

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Sustainability - Batch 4 - Milan

  • Echogen Power Systems Logo
    Echogen Power Systems
    Echogen Power Systems Logo
    Echogen Power Systems
    Echogen is a producer of scalable heat-to-power systems. Their process captures heat energy—which would normally be lost—and converts into higher value, usable power. Echogen offers a cost-effective solution to monetize their customers’ otherwise wasted heat.
  • AiSight Logo
    AiSight
    AiSight Logo
    AiSight
    AiSight develops a product that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to determine the state of a machine in real time, predict errors and dynamically regulate the machine parameters based on sensor data. The solution consists of both hardware and software components.
  • Chement Logo
    Chement
    Chement Logo
    Chement
    Our technology gets rid of the highly-polluting coal-fired kilns, using renewable electricity and the same raw materials to perform the chemical reaction with less energy and less CO2 emitted. Chement technology also enables carbon capture that is cheaper and easier than carbon capture in conventional cement production. The result: - More efficient production - No energy emissions - Easier carbon capture
  • 247Solar Logo
    247Solar
    247Solar Logo
    247Solar
    With technology originated at MIT, 247Solar Plants represent the first distinctively new approach to solar power in many years. Their modular design brings all the advantages of mass production to applications requiring as little as 400kW capacity 24/7, while occupying as little as 4 acres of land. Yet, 247Solar technology is scalable to meet any demand. 47Solar Plants combine three proprietary core technologies from 247Solar’s Ultra-High Temperature Technology Platform: 1. An innovative Solar Collector that uses sunlight to heat ambient-pressure air to 970°C (1800°F). 2. A simple, inexpensive, Thermal Energy Storage system that stores energy as heat instead of electricity 3. A revolutionary Heat2Power turbine that converts ultra-hot, ambient- pressure air to electricity without combustion or emissions.
  • Groundup.ai Logo
    Groundup.ai
    Groundup.ai Logo
    Groundup.ai
    Groundup.ai helps industrial companies prevent unplanned downtime and unnecessary wastages. Their core solutions lie in Condition Based Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance for a wide range of industries including manufacturing, maritime and construction. They achieve this by deploying our ‘proprietary IoT sound sensors and AI platform’, thereby helping clients to save substantial maintenance expenses without the need for a huge learning curve nor high-risk deployments on ground. Their proprietary high-performance IoT sound sensor is compact and built to withstand harsh industrial environments, allowing for flexible deployments across a wide range of industries, operational sites and machines. They then leverage on their unique 3-dimensional approach to analyse the sound data collected and do Condition Based Monitoring for a wide range of machinery, as well as to pick out sound anomalies for Predictive Maintenance, where accurately identify potential machine failures and downtime. Their solutions are 5X faster with the help of Meta Asset Capsule™, their existing library of data resources to catapult the speed of deployment so that clients can see a faster ROI. At heart, they see themselves as a catalyst to help industrial companies transform into ‘Industry 4.0’ and beyond.
  • Uptake Logo
    Uptake
    Uptake Logo
    Uptake
    Uptake is an Industrial AI company with a unique collection of proven data science models, deep industry expertise and a comprehensive library of industrial asset data. Together, our products empower you with new knowledge that can rapidly improve business performance, optimize spending and reduce operational risk faster than any other industrial analytics company can deliver. We make information more accessible and actionable in order to improve operations, augment human decision making and drive rapid industrial-scale optimization. Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky founded Uptake Technologies in July 2014, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.
  • Cemvita Factory Logo
    Cemvita Factory
    Cemvita Factory Logo
    Cemvita Factory
    At Cemvita, we apply synthetic biology to reverse climate change. We do this by engineering microbes to use carbon dioxide or methane as a feedstock for the production of carbon-negative industrial chemicals. Our clients are oil and gas, chemical, mining, and aerospace companies that strive to apply nature-inspired technologies for reducing their carbon footprint while creating new revenue streams. Our CO2 Utilization platform mimics photosynthesis to produce industrial chemicals and polymers for energy sustainability.
  • Brimstone Energy Logo
    Brimstone Energy
    Brimstone Energy Logo
    Brimstone Energy
    Brimstone Energy is a venture-backed R&D company with the ambition to reduce global CO2 emissions by a couple of percentage points. The cement/concrete industry is a $1T market opportunity responsible for 5.5% of GHG or approximately 8% of global CO2 emissions, the same emissions as cars. Brimstone has developed a process capable of producing carbon-neutral Portland cement and supplementary cementitious materials, regardless of the energy source. Brimstone Energy was founded in 2019 at Caltech and since then moved to the Bay Area thanks to Cyclotron Road and other federal and private grants. We are lucky to be supported by wonderful investors and advisors. Over the years, we have assembled a strong and diverse team of special individuals devoted to making an impact on climate change. Our culture is focused on hard work, equity, and gratitude.
  • Forecasty.AI Logo
    Forecasty.AI
    Forecasty.AI Logo
    Forecasty.AI
    Forecasty.AI helps customers with accurate commodity forecasts to enable better & faster business decisions: 1. Highly accurate commodity forecasts and insights by applying advanced AI on established and alternative data sources. 2. Easy, accessible, and explainable forecasting for the business users and executives. 3. Scenario analysis and simulation aiding decision making. 4. Automation of forecasting tasks that saves time and effort. 5. AI-enabled data repository with established, alternative & event data that helps identify drives of prices aiding business insights.
  • Levistor Logo
    Levistor
    Levistor Logo
    Levistor
    Levistor is a private company formed to commercialize innovative kinetic energy storage technology for grid power boosting. Their goal is to build the only known, fail-safe flywheel with a simple, low-cost steel construction that can spin faster for greater energy storage, enabling ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging. Their inherently safe flywheels require little containment and no safety enclosures or bunkering that flywheels traditionally require to protect people and property in the event of a mechanical fault. This brings down the cost and makes flywheels a viable technology for supply bursts of energy, as in EV charging or regenerative braking. The patented laminated flywheel uses sheets of high-strength, low-cost steel to allow higher speeds, lower costs, and a structure that ensures a crack can never pass from one sheet to the next. They can thus achieve a high energy density, lower cost, and a safer flywheel than competitors.
  • Gazelle Wind Power Logo
    Gazelle Wind Power
    Gazelle Wind Power Logo
    Gazelle Wind Power
    Gazelle Wind Power Limited was founded to accelerate the transition to renewable energies by introducing the next generation of advanced offshore wind platforms. The key for market growth is the reducing Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) through lowering of CAPEX and OPEX and improving yield. Gazelle significantly reduces CAPEX, as well as speed to market. Additionally, by enabling the reduction in cost from offshore wind energy, Gazelle contributes to accelerating the decarbonisation of electricity production. Gazelle’s team brings together veteran experts from the global renewable energy and power generation industries supported by leading naval engineers. The Board of Directors includes Chairman, Dr Javier Cavada, previously, President at Wärtsilä Corporation, with extensive experience leading international expansion and deployment of successful proprietary technologies; Founder and President, Jon Salazar, a former executive with Deloitte and Heathrow Airport in London; Pierpaolo Mazza, a veteran of GE Power Generation and Wärtsilä; David Mesonero, Iberdrola's Deputy Director of corporate development and former CFO at Siemens Gamesa Renewables, and Connie Hedegaard, the former Minister of Energy of Denmark and EU Commissioner for Climate Action.
  • Encentive Logo
    Encentive
    Encentive Logo
    Encentive
    We take the green energy transformation to the next level! By connecting energy consuming assets with energy providers our breakthrough technology helps to match electricity demand with renewable supply. Improve portfolio performance as energy provider or get paid for offering flexibility as asset owner - All in the virtual load plant of encentive!

Sustainability Expo Agenda

  • 3:10 - 3:25 PM
    Opening Remarks
  • 3:25 - 3:50 PM
    Keynote: Laura Margheri, Post Doc, Bioinspired Soft Robotics, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia
  • 3:50 - 4:10 PM
    Corporate Fireside Chat: Marco Borroni Environmental Strategy Manager, Buzzi Unicem
  • 4:10 - 4:35 PM
    Startup Panel 1: AI & Sustainability
  • 4:35 - 5:00 PM
    Startup Panel 2: Renewable Energy
  • 5:00 - 5:30 PM
    Corporate Fireside Chat: Sebastiano Silvestri Corporate Venture Capital Manager, A2A
  • 5:30 - 5:50 PM
    Takeoff Accelerator new office announcement
  • 5:50 - 6:20 PM
    Startup Panel 3: Carbon Neutrality and Net Zero
  • 6:20 - 6:35 PM
    Startup Panel 4: Energy Storage and Optimization
  • 6:35 - 6:50 PM
    Investment Announcement
  • 6:50 - 7:00 PM
    Closing Remarks
  • 7:00 - 8:00 PM
    Networking Aperitivo

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