Fusion Energy Landscape
Join Fusion Industry founders, engineers, scientists and energy policymakers for a overview of the Fusion Energy Landscape - the different technical approaches to unlocking nearly limitless clean grid-scale base power by harnessing the power of the Sun right here on Earth.
The goal of this event is to give you a crash course in the different approaches to fusion, the trade-offs between them, the current state of technical progress made by private commercial fusion companies, and the regulatory, commercial, and capital landscape they jointly face.
Agenda:
12:30 - 1:00PM - Doors Open
1:00 - 2:15PM - Technical talks on general overview of approaches to, blanket design, fuel enrichment, tokamaks, and stellarators
2:15 - 2:30PM - Break
2:30 - 3:30PM - Technical talks on magneto-inertial fusion, electrostatic confinement, laser inertial confinement, MagLif, Z-Pinch, Magnetic Mirrors
3:30 - 4:00PM - Break
4:00 - 5:00PM - Panel discussion
Andrew Holland, President of Fusion Industry Association
Sally Benson, Professor at Stanford and Chief Strategist for Energy Transition at the White House OSTP
Ahmed Diallo, Program Director ARPA-E
Darren Woulfe, Head of Commonwealth Fusion Magnet Business
David Gates, former PPPL Scientist and CTO of Thea Energy
Malcolm Handley early-stage Fusion Investor
This event is part of a larger event series highlighting the frontiers of deep-tech development in San Francisco, SF Deep Tech Week
This event is kindly sponsored by Gigascale Capital.
Gigascale Capital backs climate companies that make the clean option a no-brainer choice. Our team brings deep and diverse operator experience to help founders gigascale game-changing solutions, including fusion. We typically invest in companies from Pre-Seed to Series A, embrace scientific and technical challenges, and actively support fast-growing operations.