| 8:00 am - 8:30 am |
Registration and Breakfast
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| 8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Welcome and Introduction
- Pratim Biswas, Dean, College of Engineering, University of Miami
- Ramin Moghaddas, Professor, College of Engineering University of Miami
- Guillermo (Willy) Prado, Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Miami
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| 9:00 am - 10:30 am |
CEO Panel (Investing in the Green Future: Opportunities and Challenges)
- Moderator: Pratim Biswas, Dean, College of Engineering, University of Miami
- Jose Mas, CEO, MasTec
- Richard Voorberg, President, Siemens Energy North America
- Ajit Sapre, President, Reliance Industries Ltd.
- Tim Oliver, Vice President of Development, Florida Power and Light
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| 10:30 am -10:45 am |
Coffee Break
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| 10:45 am - 12:00 pm |
Community/Federal Agency Panel (Community-Driven Clean Energy Initiatives)
- Moderator: Galen Treuer, Climate Tech and Economic Innovation Manager, Miami-Dade County
- John Smegal, Program Manager, Department of Energy
- Patricia Gomez, Interim Chief Resilience Officer and Director of Energy, Miami-Dade County
- Tony Morgan, Deputy Director, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Olivia Collins, Vice President of Operations and Programs, CLEO Institute
- Michael Berkowitz, Executive Director, Climate Resilience Academy
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Networking and Lunch
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
Industry Panel (Decarbonization and Electrification in U.S. Industries)
- Moderator: Esber Andiroglu, Professor, College of Engineering, University of Miami
- Giovanni Herazo, Head of Solutions Architecture, Schneider Electric
- Clifford Hatcher, Director, Siemens Energy
- Guillermo Haberer, Vice President, Sales Cement and Aggregates, Titan America
- Paul Johnston, Executive Vice President, Watsco
- Rakesh Shalia, Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Customer Experience, FedEx
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| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Poster Session and Coffee Break
- Moderators: Esber Andiroglu and Murat Erkoc
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| 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm |
Technical Presentations
- Moderators: Esber Andiroglu and Murat Erkoc
Topics:
- Li-ion Batteries, the Electrification Revolution, and the Next Ideal Batteries via Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Kang Xu)
- An overview of Miami Engineering Autonomous Mobility Initiative (MEAMI) (Dr. Sivakumar Ramanathan)
- Waste Concrete and Seawater for Green Carbon Capture and Utilization (Abhishek Ratanpara)
- Engineering Microstructure of Ultra porous Carbon Aerogels as Advanced H2 Sorbent Carriers (Ruthradharshini Murugave)
- Modeling the compressive strength of geopolymer recycled aggregate concrete using ensemble machine learning (Nima Khodadadi)
- Mechanochemical activation of basaltic fines to produce low-carbon cement replacement materials (Sofiane Amroun)
- Reactivity of Calcium Aluminosilicate Glasses (Subhashree Panda)
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| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks
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