This panel of Princeton-affiliated startup founders and investors will explore the fast-moving developments in battery development and hydrogen cell technology that are the backbone to decarbonizing the global transportation sector. Founders of four exciting startups – commercializing Princeton-developed and other technologies to drastically improve battery production and performance for electric vehicles, to enable super-fast EV recharging via networked energy storage, and to enable zero emission air travel.

Panelists leading startups in the battery and aviation power train sectors are:

Andrew Hsieh ’14, Co-Founder & CEO, Feasible Inc.

Val Miftakhov ’03, Founder & CEO, ZeroAvia

Yiguang Ju, Robert Porter Patterson Professor, Princeton University & Founder HiT Nano

Vince Wong, Co-Founder & COO, ElectricFish

Moderated by William Bohnett ’70, Chair, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center