JACKSON,
Wyo., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Movers
Lab, an investor in breakthrough scientific startups working to
revolutionize the world's most important industries and transform
billions of lives, announced that serial entrepreneur Bill Gross will be the keynote speaker at its
3rd Annual Breakthrough Science Summit on Thursday, October 27th. The event will bring
together some of the leading investors, public policy experts and
researchers from across the breakthrough science ecosystem to share
their vision for a better future. To learn more about the summit
and register, click here.
Gross started Idealab, one of the first and longest-running
technology incubators, in 1996. At Idealab, he has created more
than 175 companies, with more than 50 successful IPOs and
acquisitions, and created more than 10,000 jobs. Today, Gross is
pioneering breakthrough science companies to mitigate climate
change, including Prime Movers Lab portfolio companies Heliogen
(NYSE: HLGN), Energy Vault (NYSE: NRGV), and CarbonCapture Inc.
Gross is CEO of Heliogen, a renewable energy technology company
utilizing concentrated sunlight and thermal storage to decarbonize
industry.
"Prime Movers Lab's Breakthrough Science Summit has become a
premier gathering for leading minds in science and technology every
fall to come together and solve humanity's most pressing problems,"
said Prime Movers Lab Founder and General Partner Dakin Sloss.
"Bill is one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs of the
last forty years and extremely knowledgeable about the relationship
of scientific research, government policy, startups, and venture
capital and how to make all of these sectors work better together
to advance humanity."
Additional speakers at the summit will include:
- Eli Dourado – Eli
Dourado is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and
Opportunity at Utah State University.
He focuses on the hard technology and innovation needed to drive
large increases in economic growth—speeding up infrastructure
deployment, eliminating barriers to entrepreneurs, and getting the
most out of federal technology research programs. His popular
writing has appeared in The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and
Foreign Policy, among other outlets.
- Ramez Naam – Ramez is the
Managing Partner of PlanetaryVC, a climate tech venture fund. He is
a computer scientist, author, and clean energy expert. Ramez served
as the Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity
University; authored 5 books about the future, including the
award-winning Nexus science-fiction trilogy; drove investments in a
number of clean energy companies including ESS Inc, EnergyX, and
other deeptech energy and climate startups; and spent 13 years at
Microsoft where he played leadership roles on products and services
that have touched the lives of billions.
- Alec Stapp – Alec is the
co-founder and co-CEO of the Institute for Progress. Previously,
Alec was the director of technology policy at the Progressive
Policy Institute, a research fellow at the International Center for
Law and Economics, a technology policy fellow at the Niskanen
Center, and a graduate research fellow at the Mercatus Center.
Alec's work has been published in the MIT Technology Review,
Politico, National Review, and Salon.
- Jason Crawford –
Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit
dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st
century. He writes and speaks about the history and philosophy of
progress, especially in technology and industry. Previously, he was
the co-founder & CEO of Fieldbook, a hybrid spreadsheet
database. He has also been an engineering manager at Flexport,
Amazon and Groupon.
- Ben Reinhardt –
Ben is working to enable scientific breakthroughs by creating
a private advanced research projects agency. He also hosts the Idea
Machines Podcast where he has long-form conversations with experts
in different innovation systems. Previously, he was an entrepreneur
in residence (EIR) at Entrepreneur First in Singapore where he helped ambitious people
build teams and companies. Before that, he was an EIR at Susa
Ventures.
- Amy Kruse – Amy is a
General Partner at Prime Movers Lab where she leads the firm's life
sciences investments. She serves on the boards of portfolio
companies Paradromics, Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, Cognixion and
Attune Neurosciences. Previously, Amy was the Chief Scientific
Officer at Optios and a government civilian program manager at
DARPA where she created and oversaw the agency's first
performance-oriented neuroscience programs, with a combined budget
of over $300M.
- Gaetano Crupi – Gaetano
is a Partner for Prime Movers Lab where he invests in early-stage
and growth-stage companies. His areas of interest include energy
transition, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure. Gaetano
currently serves on the boards of portfolio companies Mycoworks,
Atom Computing, Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, Oceanix and Bandit.
Gaetano is a three-time entrepreneur and brings his experience
building companies to evaluate opportunities and supports portfolio
CEOs in scaling world-changing companies.
- Liza Reed – Liza is the
research manager for electricity transmission at the Niskanen
Center and a Prime Movers Lab Research Fellow. She is an expert in
High Voltage Direct Current, electricity transmission, and
technology innovation. Before joining the Niskanen Center, she
worked on energy funding at the Great Lakes Energy Institute at
Case Western Reserve University,
wireless communication technology development at inmobly, and
business analysis at Capital One Finance.
The summit will take a deep dive into Prime Movers Lab's
Breakthrough Science Roadmap, which features predictions for the
future of energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing,
agriculture, and human augmentation. Panelists will outline how
breakthroughs in energy storage, fusion energy, space travel,
biotechnology, and neurotechnology will transform these industries
between now and 2050.
Register for the event here.
About Prime Movers Lab
Prime Movers Lab invests in
breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the
inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in companies
reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing,
agriculture and human augmentation. Portfolio investments span
in-space transportation, industrial solar heat, ag tech, brain
upgrades, nano-structured materials, wafer slicing, prosthetics, 3D
printing, mobility, longevity and AI. For more information, please
visit https://www.primemoverslab.com.
Contact: Gavin Mathis,
406-539-7277, gavin@primemoverslab.com
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