🌐 Battery & Energy Storage Meetup with Smriti Mishra, Strategic Growth Lead and GRiD Innovation Accelerator at PG&E

​Come join us for a fireside chat with Smriti Mishra, the Strategic Growth Lead and GRiD Innovation Accelerator at PG&E. The evening will focus of conversations around developing customer-centric products and product development approaches that will lead into market delivery at scale.

Expect meeting the battery industry professionals from a wide range of companies and areas of expertise. Whether you're looking to expand your network, discover new corners of the industry, or find out what's trending in batteries — this is the place to be.

​Agenda

​5:00 - 5:45pm: Arrive and mingle

​5:45 - 6:45 pm: Fireside Chat with Smriti Mishra and Q&A

​6:45 - 7:30 pm: Networking & Closing

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​About Smriti:

Smriti Mishra is the Strategic Value and Ideation Lead for PG&E’s Innovation Accelerator, where she focuses on turning emerging ideas into scalable solutions for the grid. She brings a strong track record of advancing innovation from concept to deployment during her nearly 15 years as an expert in grid modernization. Previously, she was part of the founding team at WeaveGrid, a leading EV-grid integration software business, where she led strategic growth, partnerships, and helped scale programs with some of the largest utilities in the country. She has also served as Director of Distributed Energy at National Grid Ventures, where she led first-of-kind collaborations.

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​About The Battery Saloon:

​The Battery Saloon is a San Francisco-based deep tech battery technical commercialization hub founded in August 2024. We work with early-stage technical founders to build products designed for manufacturability, standardization, and scalability from the outset—while also teaching the art of storytelling and customer-driven product development.

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