Innovators
IMPEL+ Innovators are entrepreneurs and small businesses, National Lab, Government or Non-profit experts, or Faculty and Graduate Students working in the built environment space such as engineering, architecture, urban design, facilities and real estate, healthy buildings, energy services, microgrids, data science, and other applicable areas. Innovators come to the IMPEL+ workshops with a project, technology, program, or idea to pitch.
IMPEL+ provides value to Innovators in at least three critical areas:
1. World-class pitch coaching: Expert Silicon Valley Coaches provide dynamic guidance using interactive tailored exercises, on-camera training, and live professional critique for Innovators to develop roadmaps and value proposition for critical audiences
2. Growing Innovators' networks: Develop sustainable relationships between building entrepreneurs, industry and manufacturing collaborators, professionals, and national labs.
3. Gaining access to incubation opportunities: Workshop participants will have twin pipelines of access to strategic stakeholders that could help selected Innovators spin out or hand off their technologies. This is specifically designed to de-risk earlier stage technologies by leveraging public sector funding and validation, and as possible, private funding.
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See Past Innovators:
2021 IMPEL+ Innovators
February 5 Workshop
Abinesh Selvacanabady
Project ManagerSage Energy Consulting
Project: Intelligent Algorithm to Optimally Match Donor and Recipient EV Agents
Boker Agili
CEOGolden Dimension LLC
Project: Intelligent Solid State Devices for Home Energy Applications
Carolyn Szum
Program ManagerLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Project: Building Efficiency Targeting Tool for Energy Retrofits (BETTER)
David Lovelady
Founder and OwnerLovEnergy
Project: LovEnergy Building to Grid SaaS Market Launch
Dhaval J. Brahmbhatt
President and CEOPhychip Corporation
Project: Nanotech Batteries
Jake Rabinowitz
Graduate ResearcherColumbia University
Project: Integrated Wind
Joseph Kucic
FounderKUCIC MC
Project: Scalable Thermal (Ice) Energy Storage
Kyoung Hee Kim
CEOEcoclosure
Project: Microalgae Window Retrofitting for Indoor Air Quality
Levon Atoyan
CEOActive Energy Systems
Project: High-Impact Chillers for Thermal Storage in Commercial Building Air Conditioning
Mudit Saxena
CEO and Co-FounderXeroHome
Project: XeroHome - A Cloud Platform for Scaling Residential Deep Energy Retrofits
Natalia Mykhaylova
CEOWeavAir
Project: WeavAir Sensor Modules to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency of HVAC Systems
Nemanja Danilovic
Research ScientistLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Project: Nanosegregated Bimetallic Oxide Anode Catalyst for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer
Omid Hajishirmohammadi
Founder4 OMID
Project: 4 Circular Biomimicry Brick Hardware
Peter May-Ostendorp
CTO and Co-FounderXeroHome
Project: XeroHome - A Cloud Platform for Scaling Residential Deep Energy Retrofits
Philip Boudreaux
ResearcherOak Ridge National Laboratory
Project: Building Air Leakage Detector
December 2 Workshop
Aaron Baskerville-Bridges
Project: Super-insulating, Transparent Inserts for Windows
Adam Landsman
PresidentPulseIQ LLC
Project: Building Performance with the Power of Data Analytics
Ayyoub Momen
CEOUltrasonic Technology Solutions
Project: Direct Contact Ultrasonic Drying
Brenda Hu
President and OwnerBEE
Project: VisionBee® EEAAS
Chris Westmoreland
Project: Waste-to-Energy Converter
Daniel Farb
Project: Building-integrated Wind Turbines
Derek Stein
Project: Multifunctional Materials for Building Envelopes
Donna Childs
Project: Reinsurance Capital for Clean Energy and Efficiency
Gregor Henze
Project: RFID Sensor Network for Human Presence Sensing
Iman Najjar
Project: Construction-grade Recycled Building Materials
Joseph Rendall
Project: Hot-water Saving Insert for Residential Hot-water Tanks
Laurent Canneva
Project: Data-driven Waste Reduction for Building Owners
Tanya Barham
Project: Scalable AI-powered Clean Building Control System
Tommy Gibbons
Project: U.S. Production of Hemp-Based Building Insulation