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1:30 PM to 5 PM : EverZinc Plant Tour
Pickup & Dropoff – AC Hotels Nashville Downtown
EverZinc Clarksville Plant
480 International Blvd, Clarksville, Tennessee 37040, United States
6:00 PM : Reception
RTB!(Roof Top Bar) , AC Hotels Nashville Downtown
8:00 – 9:00 : Welcome to R-Zinc
8:00 – 9:00 : Registration + Breakfast
9:00 – 9:20 : Arnaud de Weert, Harsha Kolli - EverZinc
9:20 – 9:30 : Opening Remarks by ZBI
Dr. Josef Daniel Ivad, IZA, ZBI
9:30 - 11:00 : Session 1: Manufacturing and Scaling
Lead: Peter de Vries
| 9:30 – 9:50 | Scaling with Lead Acid Lines | Nick Hennen | ESEMA |
| 9:50 – 10:10 | De-Risking Scale Up Through Partnerships | Ben DeWys | Hitachi America |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Pilot Lines for Scaling | Dr. Sanja Tepavcevic | Argonne, DOE |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Panel – Manufacturing & Scaling | Lead: Harsha Kolli (EverZinc); Panelists : Nick Hennen (ESEMA), Ben DeWys (Hitachi America), Sanja Tepavcevic (Argonne, DOE), Katharina Gerber (Siemens) |
11:00 - 11:15 : Break
11:15 – 12:35 : Session 2: Zinc Battery Developers
Lead: Pascal Verbiest
| 11:15 – 11:35 | Zinc Air Batteries | Vincent Dujardin | AZA Battery |
| 11:35 – 11:55 | Path to Deploy NiZn Batteries for Critical Infrastructure and Defense | Dr. Michael Galuzzo | Enzinc |
| 11:55 – 12:15 | Additives for Zinc Rechargeable Batteries | Jean-Luc Caldini | Easyl Zinc |
| 12:15 – 12:35 | Collaboration for a Zinc Future | Glenn Austin Green | GP Energy Tech |
12:35 - 13:50 : Lunch
13:50 – 14:30 : Session 3: Zinc Battery Developers
Lead: Paul Williams
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Commercial Deployment of Rechargeable Alkaline Zn-MnO2 Batteries | Dr. Jinchao Huang | UEP |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Ni-Zn Batteries for Data Centers and Beyond | Jim Dietz | ZincFive |
14:30 – 15:10 : Session 4: Zinc Battery Use Cases
Lead: David Graf
| 14:30 – 14:50 | The Evolving World of LDES Technology and Use-Cases | Dr. Luke McLaughlin | LDES Consortium |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Zinc Battery Use Cases and Execution Risk Reduction | Raafe Khan | Camelot Energy |
| 15:10 – 15:40 | Panel – Zinc Use Cases | Lead: Harsha Kolli (EverZinc); Panelists : Dr. Jinchao Huang (UEP), Raafe Khan (Camelot Energy), Jim Dietz (ZincFive), Emily Dickens (Octet Scientific) |
15:40 – 16:00 : Break
16:00 – 17:10 : Session 5: Zinc Innovations
Lead: Harsha Kolli
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Advancing Zinc-Based Energy Storage: Academic and National Laboratory Research Frontiers | Dr. Timothy Lambert | Sandia National Labs |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Accelerating Zinc Batteries with Agentic AI and Autonomous Labs | Dr. Jonathan Schraf | SES AI |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Aqueous Zinc Battery Work by ORNL | Dr. Bin Li | ORNL |
| 17:00 – 17:10 | Closing Remarks | Arnaud de Weert | EverZinc |
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