We are excited to announce that our May meeting will be in person at Stanford University! This will be our 1st in-person meeting in two years!
The meeting will be on Monday, May 2 at the Green Earth Sciences Building of Stanford University (367 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305; Room 104). Please note that Stanford requires an indoor mask in the classroom. No food will be served during the seminar. Please plan your lunch accordingly. The meeting will be from 12:15 to 1:15 pm. The meeting will also be the graduate seminar on that day.
our speaker for this month is Dr. Akshay Sahni, who is the General Manager, Strategy and Technology at Chevron Technology Ventures. The title of his presentation is Partnerships and ecosystems for driving innovation in energy. A short bio of Dr. Sahni is shown below.
A map for the meeting venue is here:
https://earth.stanford.edu/about/maps-directions
A parking map and visitor parking information are here:
https://lbre.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/parking_and_circulation_map_0.pdf
https://transportation.stanford.edu/parking/purchase-a-parking-permit/visitors
The best place to park is the Roble Field parking lot (underground) on Via Ortega. You can pay with a credit card at the machine on Level 1.
Please RSVP by Thursday, April 28, 2022, to Professor Roland Horne: horne@stanford.edu.
Abstract
Akshay Sahni is the General Manager, Strategy and Technology at Chevron Technology Ventures. In this position he provides oversight over enterprise technology strategy development, R&D for disruptive technologies, external partnerships for technology innovation, intellectual property and technology deployment and adoption. His focus is on technologies supporting the core business, digital and low carbon technology verticals including CCUS, hydrogen, renewable fuels, energy storage systems etc. He is an advisory board member of the Energy Institute, UT Austin.
Akshay joined Chevron in 1998 as a Research Scientist and since then has held operations and asset management leadership positions of increasing responsibilities in multiple locations within the US and internationally.
Akshay has a Doctorate in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University and MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business. In addition, he has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab University, India and a MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has authored over 20 technical publications and has 3 patents.
Next Meeting
Our speaker for next month is Dr. Rita Esuru Okoroafor from Stanford University. She will speak about "Maximizing The Use of Clean Energy Resources Through Underground Hydrogen Storage". Stay tuned for our next meeting announcement!