Electrification and Decarbonization Solutions for Industry Workshop - Videos and Presentations

April 5 - 7, 2022 (Event was held via Zoom)

Day 1 (April 5)

Opening Remarks - video- Richard Sassoon, Executive Director, Strategic Energy Alliance, Stanford University, Introduction/Welcome - Yi Cui, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University; Elizabeth Endler, Senior Principal Science Expert and Principal Technology Advisor, Shell

Keynote Address: "Industrial Decarbonization at the Gigaton Scale" - video and presentation - Arun Majumdar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Photon Science, Stanford University and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Panel: The Challenge - video

• John Weyant (Moderator), Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• Jeffrey Rissman, Industry Program Director & Head of Modeling, Energy Innovation - presentation
• Eric Duchesne, Senior Vice President, Technical Lines, TotalEnergies
• Jeremy Pearce, Industrial Electrification Technology Program Manager, Shell
• Vijay Swarup, Director of Technology, ExxonMobil - presentation
• Eric Masanet, Professor and Chair, Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies, UC Santa Barbara - presentation

Panel: Resource Extraction Industries - video

• Tony Kovscek (Moderator), Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University - presentation
• Bob Foglesong, Upstream GHG Solutions Manager, ExxonMobil - presentation
• Sarah Gasda, Research Director and Chief Scientist in Computational Geosciences, NORCE - presentation
• Adam Brandt, Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University- presentation
• Jill Engel-Cox, Center Director I-Technical, NREL - presentation
• Amit Singh, Director Corporate Strategy & Marketing - Digital, Integrated Projects, Energy Transition, Schlumberger - presentation

Day 1 Wrap-Up - video and presentation - Richard Sassoon, Executive Director, Strategic Energy Alliance, Stanford University

Day 2 (April 6)

Opening Remarks - video - Richard Sassoon, Executive Director, Strategic Energy Alliance, Stanford University

Panel: Refining and Chemicals - video

• Matteo Cargnello (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
• Raphaël Le-Gall, R&D CO₂ Conversion Team Manager, TotalEnergies - presentation
• Joule Bergerson, Associate Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary - presentation
• Jennifer Port, Chief of Process Sustainability, ExxonMobil - presentation

Panel: Steel and Cement Industries - video

• Leora Dresselhaus-Marais (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• P. Chris Pistorius, Co-Director, Center for Iron and Steelmaking, Carnegie Mellon University - presentation
• Tiziana Vanorio, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University - presentation
• Eric Trusiewicz, Fellow, Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance
• Pulakesh Mukherjee, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Imperative Ventures
• Mriganshu Guha, Head, Tata Steel Advanced Material Research Centre (TSAMRC) at Tata Steel

Day 2 Wrap-Up - video and presentation - Richard Sassoon, Executive Director, Strategic Energy Alliance, Stanford University

Day 3 (April 7)

Opening Remarks - video- Richard Sassoon, Executive Director, Strategic Energy Alliance, Stanford University

Panel: Review of Common Issues and Potential Solutions - video

• Liang Min (Moderator), Managing Director, Bits & Watts Initiative, Stanford University
• Amitava Sarkar, Corporate Research Scientist for North America, TotalEnergies - presentation
• Addison Stark, Director of Energy+Environment, Clark Street Associates - presentation
• John O’Donnell, Chief Executive Officer, Rondo Energy
• Andrew Ponec, Co-Founder and CEO, Antora Energy - presentation

Panel: Opportunities for Academic Research - video

• Christopher Chidsey (Moderator), Associate Professsor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Stanford University
• Amy Herhold, Senior Advisor, Research Division, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company - presentation
• Matt Kanan, Director, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford University
• Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• Dhruv Arora, Team Lead, Integration and Power Solutions, Shell Power Technology
• Shaffiq Jaffer, VP, Corporate Science and Technology Projects, TotalEnergies

Feedback to Meeting Organizers and Next Steps - video and presentation - Jennifer Milne, Associate Director for Advanced Research Projects, Precourt Institute for Energy and the Strategic Energy Alliance

Day 3  Wrap-Up - video and presentation - Richard Sassoon, Executive Director, Strategic Energy Alliance, Stanford University

Concluding Remarks - video

• Yi Cui, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University - presentation
• Amy Herhold, Senior Advisor, Research Division, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
• Shaffiq Jaffer, VP, Corporate Science and Technology Projects, TotalEnergies