Autore: Emanuele Francesco Pecora

I want to make an impact on people lives by tackling big global challenges in energy, information, and technology. I believe the key driver of change is supporting robust innovation hubs and facilitating technology evolution from ideation, to prototyping, to market adoption. As a Technology Manager in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Office, I leverage my technical and leadership skills to negotiate and manage a $60M portfolio of R&D projects including innovation in manufacturing, software for energy load control and management, blockchain-enabled energy transaction, machine learning applications, technology evolution studies, creation and validation of new investment funds and business models to bring new capitals to the cleantech space. In my role, I provide support and oversee their projects, establishing technical and business milestones and providing guidance on technology development, stakeholder engagement, cost targets, market assessment, business strategy. I am also the SBIR-STTR Office Portfolio Manager, ensuring alignment of topic development and award selection with office goals and monitoring progress and impact of awards. I developed a data-driven statistically-rigorous methodologies to measure the impact of government funding in technology transfer and other variables in the success of startups. I demonstrated that a robust investor ecosystem and an independent technology validator are needed in the same location (“innovation hubs”) to enable technology maturation. Before, I worked as a researcher in academia for almost a decade, designing and developing technologies that can have an impact in the way we transmit data, and generate energy. I co-authored more than 40 scientific publications and a patent. I am the founder and first organizer of TEDxSSC, I was President of my Alma Mater Alumni Association, and facilitator for several events on communication and management at Stanford University and for start-ups in the StartX accelerator.