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Central Massachusetts Climate Tech Summit
REGISTER\nThe Central Massachusetts Climate Tech Summit will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 the day-long event will focus on exploring topics related to climate tech research solutions, technology innovations, education and workforce training, existing or being developed in Central Massachusetts.\nParticipants will represent Central Massachusetts higher education institutions, including WPI, corporations, startups and City of Worcester and Commonwealth officials to provide context on the current development initiatives.\nTuesday, April 1, 20258:
 00 AM - 5:00 PMRubin Campus Center, WPI Campus\nJoin us for the whole day,
  or only the sessions that interest you most.\nAdvanced registration is re
 quested and encouraged.\n\n\n\n\nTime\n\n\nAgenda Topic\n\n\n\n\n8:00am to
  8:30am\n\nRegistration - Refreshments \& Networking\n\n\n\n8:30am to 8:35
 am\n\nWelcome - President Grace Wang - WPI\n\n\n\n8:35am to 8:45am\n\nWelc
 ome - City Manager Eric Batista 鈥?City of Worcester\n\n\n\n8:45am to 8:5
 5am\n\nWelcome - State Senator Robyn Kennedy\n\n\n\n9:00am to 9:15am\n\nKe
 ynote Address - Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll\n\n\n\n9:15am to 10:15am\n\n\n\n
 Panel 鈥?Central Massachusetts Startup Ecosystem\nPanelists \n\nAndrew Ab
 erdale '89, P'18, CFO - Ascend Elements\nAmelia Thomas, Chief Executive Of
 ficer - River Otter Renewables, Inc.\nAndrew Teixeira, Co-Founder -CemCycl
 e\nDavid Hsu, Founder and CEO - Respire Energy\nEmily Molstad BS/MS '19, C
 EO \& Co-Founder - VALIS Insights\n\nModerator: Renuka Babu Brown, Advisor
 , Faculty Innovation \& Startup Incubation - WPI\n\n\n\n\n10:15am to 11:00
 am\n\n\nClimate Tech Discovery \& Solutions Presentations\n\nPhil Robinson
 , Senior Director Engineering, Advanced Technology Alternative Power - Hon
 eywell Aerospace Technologies\nChristopher Williams, Professor, Geography 
 - Clark University\nBerk Calli 鈥?Associate Professor, Robotics 鈥?WPI\n
 \nEmcee 鈥?Bogdan Vernescu, Vice President and Vice Provost for Research 
 and Innovation - WPI\n\n\n\n\n11:00am to 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\nFireside Chat wi
 th President Grace Wang\nPanelists:\n\nTodd DiNoia '95, Vice President, In
 novation and R\&D 鈥?Saint-Gobain Research North America\nYvonne Hao, Sec
 retary of the Executive Office of Economic Development, Commonwealth of Ma
 ssachusetts\nDr. Jenn Le Blond, Managing Director of Emerging Climatetech 
 鈥?Massachusetts Clean Energy Center\n\nModerator: Grace Wang, President 
 鈥?WPI\n\n\n\n\n12:00pm to 1:00pm\n\nLunch\n\n\n\n1:00pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\
 nSpecial Research Presentation\nJamal Yagoobi, George F. Fuller Professor 
 of Mechanical and Materials Engineering - WPI\nRecipient of the Outstandin
 g Research and Creative Scholarship 2024 Trustees Award\n\n\n\n\n1:30pm to
  2:30pm\n\n\n\n\nPanel - Workforce Development Challenges and Opportunitie
 s\nPanelists: \n\nDavid Willens '09, MS'10, PhD'20, Director, Research \& 
 Development, 鈥?Kinefac Corporation\nJennifer Hanselman, Associate Provos
 t and Dean of Research 鈥?Clark University\nAnita Soracco, Professor of E
 nvironmental Science \& Physics, Department Chair Natural Sciences 鈥?Qui
 nsigamond Community College\n\nModerator: Jennifer Applebaum, Managing Dir
 ector of Workforce Development 鈥?Massachusetts Clean Energy Center\n\n\n
 \n\n2:30pm to 3:30pm\n\n\n\n\nPanel - Creating the Right Environment for a
  Thriving Industry Ecosystem\nPanelists: \n\nPeter Abair, Executive Direct
 or - MassEcon\nMorgan Steacy '08, VP, Connections \& Strategic Accounts, M
 A - National Grid\nZachary Dutton, Executive Director 鈥?Auxilium\nPamela
  Lynch '05, Founder \& Consultant - BlueWave Strategy\n\nModerator: Jay As
 h, President \& CEO - Massachusetts Competitive Partnerships\n\n\n\n\n3:30
 pm to 3:40pm\n\nBreak\n\n\n\n3:40pm to 4:50pm\n\n\n\n\n\nClimate Tech Disc
 overy \& Solutions Presentations\n\nNima Rahbar, White Family Distinguishe
 d Professor \& Department Head, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Eng
 ineering - WPI\nLaura Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Earth Science - Wor
 cester State University\nMichael Timko, Professor, Chemical Engineering 锟?
 锟?WPI\n\nEmcee 鈥?Bogdan Vernescu, Vice President and Vice Provost for Re
 search and Innovation 鈥?WPI\n\n\n\n\n4:50pm to 5:00pm\n\nClosing Remarks
 \n\n\n\n5:00pm\n\nPoster Reception\n\n\n\n*Times and participants subject 
 to change\n\nFeatured Speakers\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\n\n\nJay AshCEO
 , Massachusetts Competitive Partnership\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\n\
 n\nYvonne HaoSecretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development, Co
 mmonwealth of Massachusetts\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Emily
  ReichertCEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center\n\n\n\nThank You to Our Sp
 onsors\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\n
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