Guiliang Xu is currently a chemist in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his Bachelor (2009) and PhD (2014) degree at Xiamen University. He has over 15-years of research experience in designing and synthesizing multifunctional materials for

Dr. Chunsheng Wang is a Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair Professor in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is an associate editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials and UMD Director of The UMD-ARL Center for

Arumugam Manthiram is currently the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He was the Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at UT-Austin for

Dr. Marc Deschamps is Director of the Electrochemistry Division at Blue Solutions, a subsidiary of the Bolloré Group and a global designer and manufacturer of solid-state batteries. He joined the company in 1999. He has been a key player in the development

Corsin Battaglia is directing the laboratory Materials for Energy Conversion at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology, and is Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and Adjunct Professor of

Dr. Alex Yu is co-founder and CTO of Factorial Energy. In 2013, Alex started Lionano and served as CEO during the last year of his Ph.D. in electrochemistry from Cornell University under Prof. Héctor Abruña. He holds several patents in advanced battery technology including NMC/NCA cathode,

Dr. Lorenzo Stievano is a professor at Université de Montpellier since September 2009, he is an expert in the spectroscopic characterization of functional inorganic materials and in the development of specific tools for the in situ and operando analysis of their working mechanisms. His research

Yuri Nakayama is a principal researcher at Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. working on the new business creation as well as R&D of the next-generation batteries. He used to be a distinguished researcher and project manager at Sony Corporation. 22+ years R&D experience