Olivier AMIEL

Solid State Program Director, SAFT – TOTAL ENERGIES

Gaurav ASSAT

Strategic Project Manager – EV, Saint-Gobain

Dr. Gaurav Assat is based in Saint-Gobain’s headquarters in Paris, where he is coordinating the EV battery strategy for the different BUs of Saint-Gobain, aiming for continuously improving our offering of diverse materials technologies for the full batteries value-chain, ranging from solid-state electrolyte to pack-level components and beyond. Before joining Saint-Gobain, Gaurav did a PhD on high-energy cathode materials with Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon at ‘Collège de France’ in Paris. For this work, he won the prestigious Prix Paul Caseau. His passion for battery technology initiated 9 years ago at the University of Texas at Austin, home of the Nobel prize in Li-ion batteries.

• Title of his talk:
  Saint-Gobain High Performing Solutions for Battery Packs

Hervé BEUFFE

President, TIAMAT

After 20 years in Industry Management, Hervé Beuffe was appointed CEO of Tiamat in 2020, where he started as Industrial Director in 2019.

Mechanical Engineer from Arts et Métiers, his experience in the fields of industrialization and plant construction were identified as necessary skills to bring the technology from lab to market.

Having worked in major international and industrial organisations since 1999 (Crown Cork, Tarkett, Alcan packaging – Albéa), as Quality Manager, Continuous Improvement Manager, Technical Manager and Production Manager, he eventually led the project of raising a factory from greenfield for plastic extruxion/injection cosmetics packaging business.

Since 2019, he puts his industrial expertise to the development of Tiamat, to achieve the market entry of the technology.

• Title of his talk:
  Sodium-ion batteries for high power applications

Ian BLANCHFLOWER

Sales: Division Microélectronique, ACCELONIX SAS

I am sales manager for micro-assembly processes equipment for ACCELONIX in France with 16 years’ experience. In this field our solutions cover component assembly from wafer back-end processes through die attach, wirebonding and encapsulation. Our clients are working in fine-assembly processes with scaled needs from detailed research to highly automated solutions for industrial production. Previously I was RF development engineer for 16 years - with posts Philips, Cellon in France, and Panasonic in UK and for mobile phones; and before then for GEC Marconi Research UK on optical communications systems. I have BA Honors degree in Physics from Oxford University in 1986, and PhD in Electronics from University College London 1993.

• Title of his talk:
  Accelonix industrial manufacturing processes for battery packs

Douglas CAMPBELL

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Solid Power

Douglas Campbell is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Solid Power. The company has extensive partnerships with both BMW and Ford to jointly develop all-solid-state batteries. In October 2021, Solid Power announced a partnership with SK Innovation to produce Solid Power’s automotive-scale all-solid-state battery cells utilizing Solid Power’s sulfide-based solid electrolyte, proprietary cell designs and production processes. The company was initially funded by prominent investors including Hyundai, Volta Energy Technologies, Umicore, Sanoh, A123 Systems and Solvay.

In parallel with establishing Solid Power, he founded i2C Solutions, LLC (“i2C”), a thermal management company, and co-founded Roccor, LLC (“Roccor”), a component supplier for the small satellite industry. i2C and Roccor merged in 2015, with Roccor being the surviving entity. Mr. Campbell served as the Chief Executive Officer of Roccor until the end of 2018 and remained on its board of directors until the company was acquired in late 2020.

He began his career in advanced technology development at the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM. Mr. Campbell holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering with a Structural Mechanics emphasis from the University of New Mexico.

• Title of his talk:
  The Road to a Solid-State-Powered Future: Updates on Automotive Qualification

Lars CARLSTROM

CEO, ITALVOLT

Italvolt is building the largest and greenest Gigafactory in Europe.

With a capacity of 45 GWh by 2024, potentially rising up to 70 GWh, the factory will be built at former industrial site of the iconic Olivetti factory in the heart of Europe’s Motor Valley, Scarmagno in Italy.

The company plans to be a world leader in the circular economy, with a certified green supply chain about to set new standards for green manufacturing. https://www.italvolt.com/

Claude CHANSON

Corporate General Manager, RECHARGE

Claude Chanson is General Manager of the Recharge association. He has an engineering degree from Bordeaux Graduate School of Chemistry and Physics and a PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Bordeaux 1.

He joined the Saft Group in 1986 initially as an engineer in research and development and as project manager in the telecommunications and e-mobility sectors, before taking the posts of Division Technical Manager and Director for Li-ion technology. He has been with Recharge for ten years, representing the rechargeable battery industry’s interests at European bodies and international transport organisations, such as UNECE and ICAO.

He has been involved in several EU funded projects, either as a consortium member (such as ELIBAMA project- FP7 or Prosum- H2020), or as scientific adviser (such as SCRREEN, or SABATAIR – H2020).

He his expert in multiple Lithium and other batteries technologies, including R&D, manufacturing and recycling, as well as safety and in depth knowledge of batteries LCA.

• Title of his talk:
  Can “sustainability” really becomes the batteries industry competitiveness driver?

Jeff DAHN

Professor in the Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science and the Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University

Jeff Dahn obtained his B.Sc. from Dalhousie University (1978) and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1982. Dahn then worked at NRC (Canada) (82-85) and at Moli Energy (85-90) before taking up a faculty position at Simon Fraser University in 1990. He returned to Dalhousie in 1996. At Moli, he did pioneering work on lithium-ion batteries.

Dahn was appointed as the NSERC/3M Canada Industrial Research Chair in Materials for Advanced Batteries at Dalhousie University in 1996, a position that he held until 2016. In 2016, Dahn began a research partnership with Tesla as the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair.

Dahn’s research has been recognized by numerous awards including a Governor General’s Innovation Award (2016) and the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal in Science and Engineering (2017), Canada’s top science prize. He is the only person to have been awarded both awards this far. Dahn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Guillaume DE VERTHAMON

Market director, AIR LIQUIDE

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. Guillaume is in charge of the strategy and the marketing for the automotive market. He coordinates actions between battery ecosystem, R&D and operations to bring innovative added value solutions to customers. In an open innovation mode, Air Liquide aims at better understanding industrial gas impact on battery quality and sustainability. He graduated from EDHEC business school. He has experience in sales, marketing and strategy in both automotive and industrial gases business.

• Title of his talk:
  Industrial gases, A critical role, how to make it more sustainable?

Klaus EBERHARDT

PhD, Exyte AG

Klaus is a proven technology leader with international experience in the global Battery Industry. He has an in depth knowledge of the worldwide battery market, the equipment supplier landscape as well as of the key requirements on how to design and construct cost effective factories. As the Technology Manager for the global Battery Factory business, Klaus supports the various Battery projects from Exyte with the focus of driving down costs for new Factories with innovative solutions and making sure that the most stringent Safety requirements are fulfilled. The scope of services encompasses Consulting such as Site evaluation, Building concept development, Cost estimates, Site Master Planning, Value Engineering, Benchmarking, Safety Concepts and Energy saving concepts followed by the Design and subsequent Construction of the Factories.

• Title of his talk:
  Smart Project Approach for the Design and Construction of GigaFactories in Europe

Yvonne FISCHER

Sales Manager BU Plasma & Heat Staking, bdtronic

Yvonne Fischer, holds a M.A. degree in business administration and linguistics, and is a VDE Sales Manager. She has more than 15 years of experience in sales for technical products. Yvonne joined bdtronic in 2012 and is responsible for sales of plasma and heat staking technologies worldwide.

• Title of his talk:
  Process solutions for heat staking applications in mass production for battery cells

Katja FRÖLICH

Senior Research Engineer, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

Katja Froehlich received her PhD in 2018 in Technical Chemistry from the Technical University of Vienna for combined studies on Ni-rich NMC cathode materials. Since 2021 she is Senior Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology and Thematic Coordinator since 2022 within the new Competence Unit named “Battery Technologies”. Her actual research field covers sustainable and efficient production methods for battery manufacturing with special focus on the Li-ion technology, as well as their increased lifetime and safety via Smart Cells development.

• Title of his talk:
  Sustainable and Smart Battery Manufacturing at the Austrian Institute of Technology