NanoTech Conference & Expo 2024 | TechConnect | 17 June 2024 | Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, 201 Waterfront St, National Harbor, MD 20745, USA

This event delivers application-focused research from the top international academic, government and private industry labs. Thousands of leading researchers, scientists, engineers and technology developers participate in Nanotech to identify new technology trends, development tools, product opportunities, R&D collaborations, and commercialization partners. Join the global community that has been working together for over 21 years to integrate nanotechnology into industry with a focus on scale, safety and cost-effectiveness.

2024 Speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Yuri Gogotsi
Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor, Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University

Sally Benson
Precourt Family Professor, Professor of Energy Science Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

KEY SPEAKERS:

Mounir Alafrangy
MS Aerospace Engineering Commercial Innovation Manager, Technology Lead, International Space Station National Laboratory

Babak Anasori
Professor, Purdue University

Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim
Vice President of R&D and Innovation, Marquis Energy, LLC

Osama Awadelkarim
Dept Chair and Professor, Penn State University

Wolfgang Bacsa
Professor, University of Toulouse, France

Amolak Badesha
CEO, Orbital Composites

Amay Bandodkar
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Tim Barckholtz
Senior Scientific Advisor, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co.

Rachel A. Bardsley
Materials Engineer, NASA

John Barnes
CEO and Founder, The Barnes Global Advisors

Robert Baseman
Senior Staff Member, IBM

Mehmet Baykara
Associate Professor, University of California, Merced

Tom Benson
VP of Global Exploration, Lithium Americas

William Bentley
Professor, University of Maryland

Abraham Beyene
Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Gus Block
Director of Corporate Development, Nuvera Fuel Cells

Houssam Bouloussa
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Stephen Boyes
Professor, George Washington University

Caroline Brannock
Sr. Sales Manager Battery Technology, BASF

Jef Caers
Professor, Stanford University

Amelia Campbell
Project Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Damian Carrieri
Bioresource & Environmental Security, Sandia National Laboratories

Sehoon Chang
Research Specialist, Aramco Americas

Xi Chen
Associate Professor, The City College of New York

Jeannine M. Coburn
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Jack Cohen
Director of Supplier Integration, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Liam Collins
Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Cait Cramer
Curriculum Lead, Micro Nano Technology Education Center

Katy Crist
Sr Mgr, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships, Tokyo Electron Limited

Maher Damak
CEO, Infinite Cooling

Amrit De
CEO, Apsidal

Emory De Castro
CTO, Advent Technologies

James De Yoreo
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Andria Denmon
Associate Professor, Life Sciences, Santa Monica College

Jaydeep Deshpande
Principal Open Innovation Engineer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Paul Dudley
Vice President, Armament Technologies Division, ATI

Tomer Efrat
VP of R&D, IDE Technologies

Alex Eskandarian
Researcher, University of California, San Francisco

Georg Fantner
Associate Professor, EPFL, Switzerland

Tim Finley
Global Technology Principal, Dow Chemical Company

Johann Foucher
CEO, Pollen Metrology

Jessica Frick
Research Engineer, Stanford University

Alison Fritz
Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Yoshiko Fujita
Distinguished Staff Scientist, Idaho National Lab

Kieran Furlong
CEO & Founder, Realta Fusion

Ariel Furst
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Angelo Gaitas
Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Doug Gardner
Professor, University of Maine

Slade Gardner
President, Big Metal Additive

Amy Gelmi
Senior Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Sougata Ghosh
Visiting Professor, RK University

Yury Gogotsi
Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor, Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University

Diana Grandas
Fusion Energy Research Analyst IV, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Peter Grutter
Professor, McGill University

Orane Josiane Guillaume-Gentil
Scientist, EPFL

Gregory Guisbiers
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Arkansas Little Rock

Imre Gyuk
Director, Energy Storage Research, U.S. Department of Energy

Jan-Willem Handgraaf
Senior Technical Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Bert Harrop
Packaging Lab Manager, Princeton

Damon Hartley
Senior Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory

Greg Haugstad
Technical Staff Member & Director, Characterization Facility (CharFac), University of Minnesota

Ilka Hermes
Group Leader, Liebniz Institute, Germany

Curtis Hill
Senior Materials Engineer, NASA

Shawna Hollen
Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire

Olivia Holzhaus
FOUNDER and CEO, Rhodium Scientific

Erik Hosler
CEO, XLight

Kyu-Youn Hwang
CEO, CTBio, Korea

Santa Jansone-Popova
R&D Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Oak Ridge National Lab

Shaoyi Jiang
Professor, Cornell University

Jim Johnston
Professor, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Mandakini Kanungo
Senior Research Scientist, Corning, Inc.

Anupama Kaul
Professor, University of North Texas

Jason Killgore
Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mike Young-Han Kim
CEO, Gauss Labs

John P. Kopasz
Chemist/Group Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

Matt Kramer
Distinguished Scientist, Ames National Laboratory

Piotr Kulczakowicz
Director, Quantum Startup Foundry

Matt Kweon
Senior Product Development Engineer, ExxonMobil

Yuming Lai
Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company

Matthew Lane
Engineering Contract Manager, AXIMA Concept France, France

Qilin Li
Professor, Rice University

Gang-yu Liu
Professor, University of California, Davis

John Lovell
VP Technology and Strategy, Micron Silicon Inc

Dennis Lucarelli
Founder & CEO, Error Corp.

Adina Luican Mayer
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

Arnie Lumsdaine
INFUSE Program Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Hanni Lux
STEP Cost Model Lead, UK Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom

Niall MacDowell
Founder and Director, Xiron Global, United Kingdom

Yusuke Matsuda
Staff Engineer, Quantum-Si

Joey Mead
Professor; Director of the Nanomanufacturing Center, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Daniel Melters
Staff Scientist, National Cancer Institute

Solomon Mensah
Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Chris Menzel
Principal Scientist, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc.

Katherine Mirica
Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

Cortney Mittelsteadt
VP, Plug Power

Hannah Murnen
CTO, Graphyte

Vivek Murthi
Director, Nikola Motor Company

Prakash D. Nallathamby
Associate Director of Research at the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, University of Notre Dame

Sang Nam
Professor, George Mason University

Celeste Nelson
Professor, Princeton University

Jeff Nelson
Director of Center of Integrated Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories

Christina Newcomb
SPM Lab Manager, Stanford University

Aaron Noble
Professor, Virginia Tech

Alex Norman
Executive Director, Princeton Institute of Materials

Kwang W. Oh
Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Andriy Palasyuk
Research Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory

Divya Panchanathan
Sr. Materials Engineer, Axiom Space

Simona Patange
Biologist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Derek Patton
Director, University of Southern Mississippi

Mihir Pendharkar
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Tom Pennell
Research Support Specialist, Cornell Nanofabrication Facility

Martin Poitzsch
Leader Reservoir Engineering Technologies Team, Aramco Americas

Elena Polyakova
Founder, Graphene Laboratories, Inc.

Zhe Qiang
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi

Carlos Quiroz-Arita
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Yevgeny Raitses
Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

YuanQiao Rao
Fellow, Dow Chemical Company

Kenneth Reardon
Professor, Colorado State

Hyun Wook Ro
Polymer Scientist, PPG INdustries

Stefan Roberts
CEO, Insoma Bio

Abhishek Roy
Senior Staff Scientist, NREL

Rok Sabjan
Deputy COO, Cosylab

Ozgur Sahin
Professor, Columbia University

Wesley Sanders
Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College

Ken Savin
Chief Scientist, Redwire Space

Daniel Schmidt
In-Line Metrology Manager, IBM Research

Amarda Shehu
Professor, George Mason University

Andy Sherman
Chairman, PMT Group

Maksim Shivokhin
Staff Engineer, ExxonMobil

Christopher Sims
Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Srikanth Singamaneni
Professor, Washington University of St. Louis

Emilie Siochi
Senior research materials engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Kenan Song
Professor, Arizona State University

Sita Sonty
CEO, Space Tango

Erik Spoerke
Energy Storage Materials Lead, Sandia National Laboratories

Chris Stafford
Scientist, NIST

Don Stevenson
Vice President, GTI Energy

Anirudha V. Sumant
Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Madhava Syamlal
Founder & CEO, QubitSolve Inc.

Halil Tekinalp
R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Timothy Thomas
Chief Strategy Officer, Mohawk Valley Community College

Loucas Tsakalakos
Director Of Engineering, Coherent Corp.

Shruti Venkatram
Materials Data Scientist, 3M

Nicole Wagner
CEO, Lambda Vision

Matthew Webber
Associate Professor, Notre Dame University

Thomas J. Webster
Chief Scientific Advisor, Interstellar Therapeutics

Dawn Wellman
Strategic Programs Manager, Rio Tinto Copper Research

Lynn Wendt
Director, Biomass Feedstock Natl User Facility, Idaho National Laboratory

William (Cy) Wilson
Electronics Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Ken Winston
Senior Applications Engineer, Calgon Carbon Corporation

Michael Wong
Professor, Rice University

Yiliang Wu
Director of Technology and Innovation, Colltech North America

Dalia Yablon
Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Helen Zha
Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Chen Zhang
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

Lin Zhao
Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company

Emil Annevelink
Co-Founder, Physics Inverted Materials

Andrew Anstey
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

Guoliang (Greg) Liu
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

2024 Sponsors

SPONSORS & PARTNERS:
• Arkema
• Dundee Precious Metals
• Lockheed Martin
• Research Commercialization
• TechOpp Consulting
• AAR
• RioTinto
• KochModular Process Systems
• Technology Commericialization
• National Technology Alliance
• Advanced Technology International
• Medical CBRN Defense Consertium
• Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
• RISE
• SBIR STTR
• DART
• Reckitt
• Mondelez International
• People Prosperity Planet
• Northrop Grumman
• Defense Electronics Consortium
• USPAE
• Defense Business Accelerator
• Vertical Lift Consertium
• Eqlipse
• Green Hills Software
• Precise Systems
• FLC

SBIR/STTR AGENCY PARTNERS:
• Department of Energy
• Department of Defense
• National Institutes of Health
• Air Force
• Army
• Navy
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• US Department of Agriculture
• Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
• Department of Homeland Security
• Research & Engineering (ASD(R&E))
• US Small Business Administration
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
• NASA
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• National Science Foundation
• Defense Health Agency
• Department of Education
• SOCOM
• Defense Microelectronics Activity(DMEA)
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)
• Department of Transportation