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9:00 - 9:10 am - Welcome to Demo Day!
Christine Galib, Senior Director, Accelerator Programming, The Ion
Courtney Cogdill, Project Manager, The Ion
Jesse Bounds, Director, Innovation, The City of Houston
Nathaniel Thompson, Innovation Advisor, The City of Houston
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9:15 - 9:35 am - Smart Cities and Urban Planning
Lara Cottingham, Chief Sustainability Officer. City of Houston
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9:40 -10:05 am - Energy digitization: Technology in service of the environment and, now, a very attentive audience
Geronimo Martinez, CEO & Founder S2G Energy
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10:10 - 11:00 am - How Norway is Mapping Out the Future’s Smart Cities
Part 1:City Planning & Mobility: Guided by the Smart City Roadmap - The City of Stavanger and the Transition to EVs
Gunnar Crawford , Head of Smart City Stavanger
Joel Alexander Mills , CEO of Augument City
Linn Terese Marken CEO, Mobility Forus
Part 2: Collaboration & Flood Protection - How open data can prepare a city for possible problems.
Gunnar Crawford, Head of Smart City Stavanger
Magne Eide, Partner, Customer Success, InfoTiles
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11:00 - 11:30 am - Data-driven Community Engagement: Do More with Less
Ryan- Alexander Thomas, President & CEO, Umanity Inc.
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm - Rapid Prototyping
Samantha Snabes, re:3D Co-Founder
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12:00 - 12:30 pm - Fireside Chat - Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America
Stephen L. Klineberg Founding-Director Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University
Kyle Shelton, Deputy Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University
Jan Odegard, Interim Executive Director, The Ion
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12:30 - 12:35 pm - The Ion Innovation Challenge Presentation - PiezoPlace
Ashley Turnage & Anirudh Srinivasan - Innovation Challenge Participants
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12:35 - 1:05 pm - Energy 2.0
Jose Beceiro, Senior Director, Global Energy 2.0, GHP
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1:10 - 1:20 pm - Develop your international network in Houston and access the European market.
Constance Bost, Director, French American Chamber of Commerce
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1:20 - 1:50 pm - Total, the largest French company, with a strong international engagement with Tech & Innovation
Vincent Saubestre, CEO & President - Total EP Research & Technology USA at Total
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2:00 - 2:30 pm - COVID-19: Mobility, Energy, Air Quality, & Design Implications for the Houston Region and Beyond
Mustapha Beydoun, Ph.D., HARC - Vice President & COO
Gavin Dillingham, Ph.D., HARC - Director, Clean Energy Policy
Marina V. Badoian-Kriticos, HARC - Research Scientist, Energy and Natural Resource Policy
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2:30 - 2:55 pm - Resilient Houston
Marissa Aho, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Houston
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3:00 - 3:30 pm - Innovations in Workforce Development
Landi Spearman. CEO, Organized Shift
3:30 - 3:55 pm - Digitalization of Energy Downstream (Refining & Petrochemicals) - lessons from the field and state of current plant automation technologies
Dean Guma, Co-Founder, Eigen Control
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4:00 - 4:20 pm - Getting to Know Greentown Labs
Juliana Garaizar, Launch Director- Houston
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4:25 - 4:50 pm - Living in a Finite Water World: Leveraging Water Testing to Create Resilient Cities and Serve Our World's 7.8 Billion People
Keith Cole, Founder, Water Lens
5:00 - 5:30 pm - The Ion Smart and Resilient Cities Accelerator Cohort 2 Company Pitches
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Eigen Control has developed state of the art machine learning and chemical engineering models to enable efficient real-time control of distillation columns with results of significant increase in stability, product quality, and decrease in emissions that are an order of magnitude better than current state of the art equivalents. Our product is currently in the early commercial stage; we are already engaging customers in trials to refine and enhance our product.
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Re:3D is a social enterprise committed to decimating the cost & scale barriers to 3D-printing in order to create jobs & enable problem-solvers worldwide to independently address local needs. Recently, re:3D modified Gigabot, its industrial 3D printer, to directly 3D print from shredded reclaimed plastic waste to truly enable affordable, sustainable, and locally driven manufacturing around our Houston factory, satellite office in Austin, outpost in Puerto Rico & beyond. This opportunity provides disaster response/resiliency efforts, as well new job creation, education, and in supply chain reduction.
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S2G Energy digitizes Enterprise energy consumption, with a focus on multi-site industrial and commercial organizations. S2G builds a technological (Artificial Intelligence) and human team, where collected and analyzed data add value and personalized solutions beyond energy efficiency, for organizations.
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Water Lens has developed a differentiated, scalable water data analytics platform that brings the quality of a traditional analytical instruments to the field (and it can even be used in a lab). It is easy enough for the average non-technical person to operate. As a result, it provides consistent, reliable results in minutes; rather than days or weeks.