Shailesh Upreti is an expert in energy storage technology and former member of the US Department of Energy’s Frontier Research Centers at Binghamton. He holds multiple technology patents and is published in 70 international journals. Uttarakhand-born scientist Shailesh was presented the 76West Cle... Read more

Shobit Omar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry Division at Risø-DTU in Denmark. During this period, he was involved in the rational des... Read more

Sunita Satyapal is the Director of the Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the Department of Energy (DOE). In this capacity, she is responsible for the office's overall strategy and execution, including oversight and coordination of approxi... Read more

Swapnil Jain along with his classmate Tarun Mehta conceptualized and started Ather Energy, which is currently developing India’s first smart electrical scooter. As Co-founder and CTO, Swapnil oversees the system design of the vehicle and related technical development. Swapnil is an Engineering Des... Read more

When the idea of Revolo first occurred to young KPIT Cummins engineer Tejas Kshatriya, he was actually stuck in Mumbai traffic en route to Pune, where the firm is based. What started as a thought back in 2008 evolved through trial and error into a system that can be retrofitted to any vehicle at an ... Read more

Venkat Srinivasan, JCESR Deputy Director, Research and Development, facilitates and integrates the center’s many research activities across the entire program and delivers the programs’ progress to the Executive Committee. Srinivasan is also director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energ... Read more

Mr. Vinay Mahendru has been closely involved with Lithium Ion Battery Technology for over 7 years and has participated in various global conferences, exhibitions in USA, Europe and Far East and set up Lithium Ion Battery Packaging Plant with equipment and know- how from Samsung Electronics for makin... Read more

Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technologist. In 2004, Vinod formed Khosla Ventures to focus on both for-profit and social impact investments; a firm focused on assisting entrepreneurs to build impactful new energy and technology companies. Vinod grew up dreaming of being an entreprene... Read more

Yashraj Khaitan started working on Gram Power when he was 19. Before that, he worked on organic solar cells in high school, build cube satellites in college and after completing his B.S. at UC-Berkeley decided to drop out of his post graduate program to start Gram Power and work on high impact techn... Read more