The United States (U.S.) has set the goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) in half by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Business net zero targets are gaining steam even with the economic and geopolitical context in the past year such as supply chain bottlenecks, inflation, and talent shortages. More than a third of the world's largest companies have net zero targets. Some have developed comprehensive decarbonization strategies and carbon intelligence capabilities. On March 15, 2023, join the Energy Innovation Network’s Annual Forum in partnership with Plug and Play, learn from keynote speakers and an expert panel on policy impacts, investments, executive strategies, and accountability, and hear in-depth from both sides of the business spectrum and the importance of cross-sector, cross-industry efforts that drive new business development to achieve decarbonization targets! Co-sponsored by: Plug and Play Tech Center Agenda: Agenda: Suggest arrive by 4:15 to park and check in 4:30-4:35 PM: Opening Remarks 4:35-4:55 PM: Sean Bushart at World Economic Forum 4:55-5:45 PM: Panel Discussion 5:45-6:05 PM: Speaker, Ben Hertz-Shargel at Wood Mackenzie 6:05-7:05 PM: Climate-tech start-up pitches 7:05-7:25 PM: Speaker, Osama Idrees at EDF 7:25-7:35 PM: Speaker, Pooja Jain at WSP 7:35-9:00 PM: Social Hour Bldg: Plug and Play Tech Center , 440 North Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085

Learn what it takes to develop and deploy high-reliability, space-qualified, 20 GHz, 10 Watt High-Gain GaN IC Amplifier Modules from Industry Veteran and Distinguished Maxar Engineer Jim Sowers. Co-sponsored by: Electron Devices Society–Santa Clara Valley/San Francisco Chapter Speaker(s): Jim Sowers, Room: 4201, Bldg: SCDI 4201, Santa Clara University Frugal Innovation Lab, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350415

Title: How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 was achieved in inertial fusion presented by Dr. Omar A. Hurricane, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Chief Scientist for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, Design Physics (DP) Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Speaker(s): Dr Omar Hurricane, Agenda: Abstract: For many decades the running joke in fusion research has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion ignition, and target energy gain greater than unity in the past tense – a situation that is remarkable! In this talk, we tell the story of the applied physics challenges that needed to be overcome to achieve these milestones and the strategy our team followed. To help understand the story, several key physics principles of inertial fusion will be presented, and I will try and dispel any confusion about what the terms burning, ignition, and gain mean in the context of inertial fusion research. About the speaker: Omar Hurricane is Chief Scientist for the inertial confinement fusion program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a position he’s held since 2014. Omar completed his PhD in Physics at UCLA in 1994 where he remained as a postdoc doing plasma theory until 1998. In 2009, Omar was awarded the Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award for National Security and Nonproliferation for solving a long-standing nuclear weapons anomaly. More recently, Omar has been recognized for his contributions to inertial confinement fusion with Fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS), the 2021 Edward Teller Award of the American Nuclear Society, and the 2022 John Dawson Award from Excellence in Plasma Physics of the APS for achieving the first laboratory burning plasma. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350188

For many decades the running joke in fusion research has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion ignition, and target energy gain greater than unity in the past tense – a situation that is remarkable! In this talk, we tell the story of the applied physics challenges that needed to be overcome to achieve these milestones and the strategy our team followed. To help understand the story, several key physics principles of inertial fusion will be presented, and the speaker will dispel any confusion about what the terms burning, ignition, and gain mean in the context of inertial fusion research. Speaker(s): Omar Hurricane, ***CANCELED*** Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350460