​The Longhorn Energy Club is proud to host our second Texas Energy Innovation Night, our premier fall event highlighting breakthrough energy technologies being developed in Austin, Texas.

​The event is Tuesday, October 20, 2026, from 5:30-8:30 pm in the Mulva Auditorium (EER) at UT Austin. This year, we are organizing three sessions (the agenda will be updated over the next few weeks):

​Forty Acres Panel: Discovery to Impact

​Graduate school is a great time and place to innovate! Hear from the founders of three startup companies who spun their technologies out of research laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin.

​Gridraven: Optimizing Transmission Capacity

​Georg Rute is the CEO of Gridraven, the world's largest provider of dynamic line ratings by length of lines covered. Originally founded in Estonia, Gridraven has recently expanded to Austin, where it is deploying probabilistic forecasting models of the weather to optimize carrying capacity for transmission lines. Hear from Georg in a fireside chat about his company's technology and story.

​Nanoborne: Nanotechnology for the Subsurface

​Vitaly Sergeev is the CEO of Nanoborne, a pioneering tech startup focusing on applied nanotechnology for the petroleum and geosystems industry. Nanoborne has developed a nanoparticle surfactant used for subsurface fluid flow management, which is used in geothermal well drilling, carbon storage, and upstream oil and gas sectors. Hear from Vitaly in a fireside chat about his company's technology and story.