Platinum Sponsors
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is part of the California Environmental Protection Agency and the lead state agency for the assessment of health risks posed by chemicals in the environment. Scientists at OEHHA conduct cutting-edge work performing evaluations that are used by various regulatory programs in California, and that are also frequently the subject of statewide, national and international interest. OEHHA offers many advantages of government service including excellent benefits, telework possibilities, a work-life balance, and the opportunity for a meaningful career that makes a difference to the health of Californians. Careers at OEHHA.
Photon Vault is a grid-scale thermal energy storage company that is targeting systemic impact with its proprietary technology. Cheaper than lithium-ion batteries for shorter durations and cheaper than industry’s 2030 projections for long-duration storage, Photon Vault is the cleanest, safest and most profitable energy storage technology. We seek talented engineers, researchers, and technologists to help us accelerate the Energy Transition. Careers at Photon Vault
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation. We are a world-class team of scientists, engineers, technologists, post docs, and professionals all focused on cutting-edge technology, ranging from homeland defense, global security, biotechnology, and environmental preservation to computer security, and nuclear defense. Careers at Sandia Labs
Founded in 2015, Twelve is a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. Our breakthrough electrochemical reactor eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential chemicals, materials, and fuels. We are a team of scientists, engineers and problem solvers on a mission to fundamentally shift the way the world addresses climate change and lead the transition to a fossil free future with our carbon transformation technology.
Gold Sponsors
Heirloom builds low-cost Direct Air Capture technology that permanently removes CO2 from the atmosphere, with a real path towards removing 1b tons of CO2 by 2035. Our technology rapidly accelerates the natural processes that enable limestone to transform and take up atmospheric CO2 from a timespan of years to days. Founded in 2020 by the world’s leading experts in CO2 removal and serial deep-tech entrepreneurs, our facilities offer the quickest pathway to permanent, low-cost CO2 removal at a billion-ton scale. Heirloom has the only operating Direct Air Capture facility in North America permanently capturing CO2, and its customers are the world’s biggest buyers of carbon removal including Microsoft, Stripe, Klarna, Shopify and more. Careers at Heirloom.
Kazelnut is building the first handheld device to monitor insulin resistance. Its cofounders as well as advisors consist of scientists and physicians from Umass, SUNY, Stanford and Harvard.
Founded in 1989, Thorlabs seeks to accelerate the forward movement of scientific discovery and advancement! As a vertically integrated manufacturer of photonics components, instruments, and systems, our vast product portfolio includes over 20,000 items, ranging from optics and optomechanical positioning components to imaging systems, many of which are customer inspired. Photonics is the foremost technology driving innovation in science and engineering. As the number of technological innovations has grown, Thorlabs has extended its core competencies in an effort to play an ever increasing role serving the Photonics Industry at the research end, as well as the industrial, life science, medical, and defense segments. Headquartered in Newton, NJ, Thorlabs has grown to over Approximately 2,300 employees with manufacturing and sales offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, China, and Brazil. As light-based technologies push into new markets, Thorlabs plans to enter early with the products and services required to ensure the ultimate success of our customers.” Careers at ThorLabs.
Silver Sponsors
Aepnus Technology develops technology to manufacture a range of commodity chemicals via the process of electrolysis. The company’s current focus is on the recycling of sodium sulfate waste, ubiquitous across the battery supply chain, into usable reagent chemicals: sodium hydroxide and sulfuric acid.
Calico (Calico Life Sciences LLC) is an Alphabet-founded research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies and model systems to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging. Calico will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. Calico’s highly innovative technology labs, its commitment to curiosity-driven discovery science, and, with academic and industry partners, its vibrant drug-development pipeline, together create an inspiring and exciting place to catalyze and enable medical breakthroughs.
Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm that brings together more than 90 different disciplines to solve the most pressing and complicated challenges facing stakeholders today. Our vision is to engage the brightest scientists and engineers to empower clients with solutions for a safe, healthy, sustainable and technologically complex world.
SyntheX is an emerging growth biotechnology company harnessing the power of synthetic biology to build the next generation of drug discovery engines. SyntheX discovers and develops novel therapeutics for conventionally “undruggable” targets across a wide range of modalities and mechanisms of action. SyntheX has developed two proprietary platforms: ToRPPIDO, to discover functional disruptors of protein-protein interactions, and ToRNeDO, to discover molecular glue-based protein degraders using pre-specified E3 ligases and neosubstrates of interest. By relying on intracellular functional selection, the platforms identify potent hits from a first-pass selection.