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Global Energy Future Innovation Forum and Challenge
September 7, 2022 - September 8, 2022
Please join the Mines Global Energy Future Initiative for the first-ever Innovation Forum and Innov8x Challenge event.
The Global Energy Future INNOVATION FORUM on September 7, 2022 from 9:00am – 6:00pm will showcase some of the most ground-breaking research that makes Mines the leader in solving the world’s biggest challenges to the global energy future. The Innov8x CHALLENGE on September 8, 2022 from 11 am – 1 pm will feature presentations from Mines Students, pitching solutions to the most pressing Challenges and Problems facing industry today, and competing to win funding from GEFI to further pursue their innovative research.
This challenge event brings together Mines students, faculty, staff, and a world-class list of industry problem sponsors. Problem sponsors will supply students with challenges, that will push their skills to brainstorm innovative ideas by truly identifying the beneficiaries (people who would benefit when the problem is solved) and the innovation needed to successfully solve a presented challenge.
All innovative and entrepreneurial problem-solving #HelluvaEngineer students are welcome to join, including hard sciences to economics, business, and public policy. During the challenge, these #HelluvaEngineers will solve the challenge problems with the support of faculty and staff mentors, and our challenge problem sponsors.
For more information, or with questions please contact Sid Saleh, shsaleh@mines.edu, or Greg Clough, gclough@mines.edu.
SEPTEMBER 7 – GLOBAL ENERGY FUTURE INNOVATION FORUM
September 7 (9am – noon) – Innovation Forum Event – Session 1
Location: Bunker Hall, Green Center
September 7 (noon – 1:15pm) – Innovation Forum Lunch (pre-registration required)
September 7 (1pm – 4:30pm) – Innovation Forum Event – Session 2
Location: Bunker Hall, Green Center
September 7 (4:30pm – 6pm) – Innovation Forum Networking Reception (pre-registration required)
(all times are in MT)
SEPTEMBER 8 – GLOBAL ENERGY FUTURE INNOV8X CHALLENGE
August 18 (4:30pm – 6:30pm) – Challenge Problem Sponsor workshop (virtual)
August 24 (4pm – 6pm) – Challenge Pitch Day (Problem Sponsors pitch challenges to students & student teams formed)
September 8 (11am – 1pm) – Challenge Event (student teams present solutions) – with networking lunch for everyone
Location: Grand Ballroom, Mines Ben Parker Student Center
Keynote Speakers
(detailed Keynote Speaker Biography here)
Nima Brooks, BS’13 and MS’20, Global Head of Innovation & Ventures, Strategy and Integration for BHP
Alice Jackson, Senior Vice President, System Strategy and Chief Planning Officer, Xcel Energy
David C. Lawler, ’90, Chairman and president, bp America, Inc. and CEO, bpx energy, and Colorado School of Mines Trustee
Special Guests
John Hickenlooper, United States Senator for Colorado
Walter Copan, PhD, Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines
Morgan D. Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines
Faculty Speakers
(detailed Faculty Speaker Biographies here)
Linda A. Battalora, Teaching Professor, Petroleum Engineering
Sebnem Düzgün, Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair and Professor, Mining Engineering
Dorit Hammerling, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Andy Herring, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Elizabeth Holley, Associate Professor, Mining Engineering
Rennie Kaunda, Associate Professor, Mining Engineering
Ian Lange, Associate Professor, Economics and Business
Michael McGuirk, Assistant Professor Chemistry
Jennifer L. Miskimins, Department Head and Professor, Petroleum Engineering; Director FAST; Director Center for Earth Materials, Mechanics and Characterization
Manika Prasad, Professor, Geophysics; Director Mines CCUS Innovation Center; Co-Director, Center for Rock & Fluid Multiphysics
Ryan Richards, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Director, Joint Mines/NREL NEXUS Center
Jenifer Shafer, Professor, Department of Chemistry
Jonathan (Josh) Sharp,Director, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kamini Singha, Professor and Associate Dean of Earth and Society Programs, Geology and Geological Engineering
Jessica Smith, Professor, Engineering, Design, & Society, Director, Humanitarian Engineering Graduate Programs
Neal Sullivan, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Director Colorado Fuel Cell Center
Lori E. Tunstall, Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
John Bradford, Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Global Initiatives
– Moderator
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