"Investing in Energy Innovation Leadership"

When: December 2, 2013 at 12:00-1:00PM
Where: ACEP Energy Technology Lab
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Speaker: Dane Boysen
Program Director, Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E)

How would you like $60 million to spend on developing cutting-edge technology to solve the important energy problems in the country? That is Dr. Dane Boysen job at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy. As a program director at the newly established agency—charged with ensuring the nation’s leadership in energy technology—Boysen has invested in technologies from natural gas compressors to next generation batteries at institutions that span the nation. What lessons might be learned from ARPA-E and how could Alaska grow their own local energy innovation ecosystem?