YPE Holiday Party 2023

YPE SF Bay Area

Wear your finest ugly holiday sweater or sparkles for an energizing fireside chat, dinner and holiday activities!

192 Museum Way

Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) SF Bay Area is hosting a winter party to celebrate the holidays and energy innovation.Join us for a conversation with KoBold Metals CEO Kurt House on the critical minerals enabling the energy transition and Alef Auronautics CEO Jim Dukhovny on the creation of a flying electric car.KoBold Metals' AI is accelerating our clean energy future by finding new deposits of lithium, cobalt, copper and nickel. With over 60 projects across four continents, KoBold Metals is leading the largest exploration R&amp;D effort to advance the frontier of exploration technology with AI and novel hardware.Alef Aeronautics is creating the world's first flying car. Alef recently announced receiving a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to fly the car in limited locations.In addition, Southern Beams Builds CEO Ryan Wartena will deliver a talk about renewable energy at Burning Man and building mobile renewable microgrids.We'll also hear from DOE Boost, a partnership led by Sandia National Laboratories and funded by Department of Energy's Technology Commercialization Fund administered by the Office of Technology Transitions. Their program enables the brightest minds seeking to launch energy tech companies. Hear about the current cohort of innovators tackling the Nation’s most pressing energy challenges and how you can get involved. More information at boostplatform.orgAfter the talks, stick around for a glittery and fancy holiday party with dinner, drinks, and holiday activities to spark a conversation with our speakers, guests, YPE, and Fifty Years community. Wear your finest ugly sweater or sparkles for this special YPE holiday event.If you're feeling artsy, join the energy ornament painting worshop led by Liz Finnegan, EV Service Diagnostics PMO at Rivian.This event is hosted by Fifty Years, a VC firm based in San Francisco, backing founders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.50 Years is a no shoes office - great opportunity to showcase ugly holiday socks to match your ugly sweater and win a socks competition!PARKING: You can legally park at Randall Museum (199 Museum Way) parking lot until 10PM. 50 Years office is a tall brown buiding that looks like a home. <h3>Meet KoBold Metals CEO Kurt House</h3>

Kurt is the Co-founder and CEO of KoBold Metals, an AI-driven mineral exploration company that combines leading mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers hailing from Apple, Google, and other Silicon Valley companies. KoBold’s mission is to accelerate discovery of critical materials needed for the energy transition. In the five years since its founding, KoBold has built a portfolio of over 60 projects on 4 continents, and developed lasting partnerships with major mining companies such as BHP and Rio Tinto.Throughout his career, Kurt has been an entrepreneur at the interface of technology and natural resources. He previously founded a carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery business as well as a direct investment platform to acquire North American natural gas assets. Kurt has been an Adjunct Professor in Stanford University’s Energy Resources Engineering Department. Previously, he was a KAUST Research Fellow at MIT where he studied the chemistry and physics of CO2 capture and storage. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University for his work in applied math and earth science and his B.A. in physics from the Claremont Colleges. Kurt has also worked in private equity and corporate advising for Bain &amp; Company. <h3>Meet Alef Aeronautics CEO Jim Dukhovny</h3>

Jim Dukhovny is the Co-founder and CEO of Alef Aeronautics, a sustainable electric transportation company that is designing and developing the world's first flying car. Dukhovny received education from UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University. Influenced by his father, Leonid Dukhovny, a well-known singer-songwriter, poet, scientist, and avid science fiction lover, Jim created a number of organizations spanning the entertainment, software, and non-profit industries. Dukhovny co-founded and led startups Intellectual Casino, Transcoder, DjWizard Presents, was the president of the Science Fiction Society of Silicon Valley and contributed to the architecture of Windows 10, Walmart's online imaging system, and a number of Yahoo products. In 2015, Dukhovny, together with Constantine Kisly, Pavel Markin, and Oleg Petrov, founded Alef Aeronautics to develop the world's first flying car. The prototype of this car successfully debuted in 2022 and through pre-sales became the world's best-selling aircraft in 2023. <h3>Meet Southern Beams Builds CEO Ryan Wartena</h3>

Ryan Wartena is the CEO of Southern Beams Builds which makes mobile renewable microgrids. Before creating Dragon Wings, Ryan founded the company Growing Energy Labs (GELI), which offers an “operating system” for energy that helps deploy energy storage. He then sold GELI to solar provider Qcells. Ryan brings over 10 years of experience in computational and battery R&amp;D, as well as energy storage business and control platform technologies, with several patents in energy storage and energy computing technologies. Ryan holds degrees in chemical engineering from UC San Diego, a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a post-doc research at Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and MIT. <h3>Meet Zevvy Founder Andrew Krulewitz</h3>

Andrew has been working (mostly) in cleantech since graduating from college in 2009. He got his start as a market analyst at Greentech Media, interned in Ford's EV group during graduate school, later joined early-stage energy storage optimization software startup Geli, and took a short detour into the world of self-driving cars. Most recently he founded Zevvy, a triple-bottom-line financing platform accelerating adoption of EVs by drivers for whom the operational savings and tailpipe offsets are most meaningful.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkrulewitz/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkrulewitz/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkrulewitz/</a> <h3>Meet Reporter and Author Katherine Blunt</h3>

Katherine Blunt is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid. The book, a national bestseller, won the 2022 Golden Poppy award for nonfiction.Her coverage of PG&amp;E, a collaboration with two colleagues, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and earned a Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business journalism.<a href="https://www.katherineblunt.com" title="https://www.katherineblunt.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.katherineblunt.com </a>

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