Dr. Anders B. Laursen
Dr. Anders B. Laursen has a BS in chemistry and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark with nine years of cumulative experience in electrochemistry and renewable energy storage. His experience includes electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production (water splitting), materials synthesis, spectroscopic characterizations, and catalytic processes. He has authored 27 scientific papers and 4 patent applications. Dr. Laursen joined Prof. Dismukes’ group at Rutgers in 2013 and now works as a Research Associate. He also serves as the chief executive officer of RenewCO2, LLC a start-up formed with Prof. Dismukes and graduate student Ms. Calvinho. Anders has extensive experience with catalyst design, synthesis, characterization and activity evaluation, electrolyzer development, and fabrication of electrochemical cells.
Nina Birger
Nina Birger is Vice President of Partnerships at Greentown Labs, North America's largest climatetech incubator with locations in Somerville, MA and Houston, TX. Greentown Labs advances a mission of providing climatetech entrepreneurs with the resources, space. community, and connections that support them in scaling and succeeding. Nina studied English Literature at Tufts University and Oxford and received an MBA from MIT Sloan. In Fall 2020, she guest lectured at Sloan in Managerial Communications.
Rob Schreiber
Rob Schreiber is a Distinguished Engineer at Cerebras Systems, Inc., where he works on architecture and programming of systems for accelerated training of deep neural networks. Schreiber’s research spans sequential and parallel algorithms for matrix computation, compiler optimization for parallel languages, and high performance computer design. With Moler and Gilbert, he developed the sparse matrix extension of Matlab. He created the NAS CG parallel benchmark. He was a designer of the High Performance Fortran language. Rob led the development at HP of the PICO system for synthesis of custom hardware accelerators. He has help pioneer the exploitation of photonic signaling in processors and networks. He is an ACM Fellow, a SIAM Fellow, and was awarded, in 2012, the Career Prize from the SIAM Activity Group in Supercomputing.
Michael James
Michael is co-founder and Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies at Cerebras, the company that created the world’s largest and most powerful computer processor. Michael leads the effort to reimagine the algorithmic building blocks for the next generation of AI technologies. Prior to Cerebras, Michael was a Fellow at AMD, where he pioneered a technique of adaptive and self-healing circuits based on cellular automata that was applied toward distributed fault tolerant machines. Michael focuses his career on exploration at the intersection of natural phenomena, mathematics, and engineered machines.
Shimon Ben David
As WekaIO’s CTO, Mr Shimon Ben-David actively engages with customers and partners to track emerging trends and to bring actionable feedback to Engineering and Product Management, with a focus on Financials and Life science markets as well as AI/ML and GPU workloads. In his more than 6 years at WekaIO, he grew with leadership roles in both Support and Sales Engineering organizations. Prior to joining WekaIO he led the Support Services for Primary Data, XtremIO, and IBM XIV. Shimon met the leadership team of WekaIO when he managed IT at XIV, acquired by IBM in 2007.
Sorin Cheran
Sorin Cheran is an HPE Fellow and currently serves as vice president of HPE’s AI Strategy and Solutions Group which is responsible for the company’s global AI strategy. Since 2007, Sorin has held positions including AI and Chief Architect in Hewlett Packard Labs and as a key member in the Hybrid IT Presales team in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI Competency Center in Grenoble, France. Sorin’s drive, creativity, energetic leadership and spirit of collaboration consistently delivers outstanding business outcomes for HPE and its customers. He has nurtured and evangelized Artificial Intelligence within HPE, as well as externally with customers and partners.
is an HPE Fellow and currently serves as vice president of HPE’s AI Strategy and Solutions Group which is responsible for the company’s global AI strategy. Since 2007, Sorin has held positions including AI and Chief Architect in Hewlett Packard Labs and as a key member in the Hybrid IT Presales team in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI Competency Center in Grenoble, France. Sorin’s drive, creativity, energetic leadership and spirit of collaboration consistently delivers outstanding business outcomes for HPE and its customers. He has nurtured and evangelized Artificial Intelligence within HPE, as well as externally with customers and partners.
Oliver Garfield
Simon Hann
Simon is involved in a wide range of policy and research based projects and with a background in design, he is interested in how the products we use everyday can be improved to better the environment.
Simon joined Eunomia in 2013 as the in-house Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) specialist after seven years working for an internationally recognised UK manufacturer, Kohler Mira Ltd. Whilst working as an engineer he developed an extensive knowledge base of materials and processes whilst studying for an MSc in Sustainable Product Design. His thesis, which looked at how LCA can be integrated into the design process, was awarded a distinction and the tools and models developed as an output continue to be used by Kohler.
Emilie Gauthy
