May 6: Energy solutions and applications

• City of Santa Cruz - learn about our city's environmental policies and plans from Tiffany Wise-West.

• Bird - Robert Singleton, Government Partnerships Manager for Bird in the Pacific Northwest, Rockies, and Central California, will provide an overview of the state of micromobility, while offering some predictions about what the future may hold.

• Joby Aviation - the gem of all-electric air mobility. JoeBen Bevirtwill discuss how advances in energy storage has made air taxi service a reality.

• Ambient Photonics - Bates Marshall has a revolutionary ambient light cell for indoors. Learn about how his company is changing energy consumption.

• Concentric Power - Amy Tomlinson, microgrid developer, will reveal current and upcoming projects.

• VeriCool - Darrell Jobe built his green company to solve package cooling. And he provides real jobs for people who have taken a new path in society after incarceration.

• Piersica / Claudiu Bucur ushers in a new era of solid state batteries.

• NuScale - Rudy Murgo will discuss their small modular reactor innovations.

• Orange Charger - Nicholas Johnson has a cost-effective electric vehicle charging solutions that manage payments for energy at multi-unit properties between drivers and owners.