Yongbin (Bruce) Lee

Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. Our Hydro-to-Cathode direct cathode precursor (pCAM)synthesis process transforms todays waste into high value materials for tomorrows EV batteries - a major advancement for the entire industry. We are building North America and Europes domestic supply of critical minerals through "urban mining" and innovative battery materials technologies - an infrastructure that retains critical minerals in country for supply chain security. We produce high-performance, engineered battery materials using the valuable elements found in end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap. Join us in elevating the performance, security, and reliability of domestic battery materials with the first pCAM production in North America and the first refined pCAM production in Europe.

Allonnia is a bio-ingenuity company™ dedicated to extracting value where others see waste. We believe that elegant solutions to the world’s biggest problems will be found in the world’s smallest organisms. So, we’re pioneering novel approaches and imaginative combinations in biotechnology and engineering to solve waste challenges in nature, using nature. We are focused on three key sectors of mining, industry, and plastics, including segments of PFAS separation and concentration, PFAS sensing, rare earth elements (REE), and oil sands process water (OSPW). We like to think of ourselves as nature's detectives, sifting through billions of biological clues to discover and deploy elegant solutions only nature itself can yield. If you've got a passion for tackling big problems, come see what we're up to. https://allonnia.com/careers/

Echodyne designs and builds advanced radar solutions that unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays. Our combination of patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology with powerful software ultimately means significantly greater situational awareness that increases safety and saves lives. Our first radar is the size of a paperback book, weighs less than bowling pin, draws less power than a light bulb, yet outperforms every comparable radar on the market. We are just getting started. Echodyne delivers commercial radar solutions for end users and integrators in Government and Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Autonomous Vehicle markets globally. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington and backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona Venture Group, Baillie Gifford, Vulcan Capital, Vanedge Capital, and Irongrey among others. Discover more at echodyne.com.

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Modern Hydrogen is an energy & materials company. Our proprietary pyrolysis technology converts natural gas into high-value hydrogen while producing solid carbon for asphalt, which is used to strengthen roads. By producing hydrogen at the point of use, Modern Hydrogen helps utilities & industry extend the value of their existing energy infrastructure and reduce emissions while maintaining energy security and affordability. Backed by top investors and customers like Bill Gates, NextEra Energy, and National Grid, Modern Hydrogen is redefining how natural gas resources can become more valuable and sustainable in and beyond the energy industry.

EdgeQ is a leading innovator delivering the worlds first 5G Base Station-on-a-chip. Led by executives from Qualcomm, Intel, and Broadcom, EdgeQ is pioneering a converged connectivity and AI platform that is fully software-customizable and programmable. The company is backed by leading investors, including Threshold Partners, Fusion Fund and AME Cloud Ventures, among others.

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.

With the growing interest in LLMs and multimodal AI, many companies and people are struggling to construct and utilize large-scale AI infrastructure with thousands or more accelerators. The most difficult challenges in AI technology are now a variety of infrastructure-level problems such as parallelization, cluster scalability, performance portability, orchestration of heterogeneous accelerators, and failover. Founded in 2020, we are committed to accelerating the advancement of AI technology by solving these problems with innovative software technologies. Our mission is to develop a full AI software stack optimizing the entire life cycle of a hyperscale AI from development, training, compression, to serving. Through this, we aim to make future AI technology more accessible to a wide range of customers.

FADU is a fabless start up focusing on advancing Flash storage devices. We are dedicated to developing and deploying a new architecture for SSD controllers and storage products to meet the explosively increasing data demands placed on enterprise data centers. We believe that existing solutions, with their legacy ties to the past, are unable to meet both performance and power requirements to support real-time, cloud based, connected applications. We are addressing all aspects of the Flash-based enterprise storage solution – very lower power, ultra-high performance, rich feature set, solid reliability and a superior QoS. The FADU FC3081 is our first ASIC for enterprise grade NVMe SSD controllers targeting the data center market. Based on our award-winning, proprietary architecture, the FC3018 is considered one of the best controllers available today, consuming >30% less power and delivering unparalleled performance without any thermal, throttling or power issues. FADU’s BRAVO series of NVMe / PCIe SSDs are designed for data storage in the enterprise data center. Available in E1.S, M.2 and U.2 form factors with capacities from 1TB to 8TB, the FADU BRAVO series TCO is lower because of low latency, low power, high throughput and thermal management. For High-performance, ultra-low latency storage cache applications, the BRAVO XL SSD, using the Kioxia XL-FLASH NAND in capacities up to 800GB, is ideal for handling the IO intensive workloads of IMDB, AI, HPC and real-time analytics applications. We are reimagining data center storage because performance is not enough.

Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. Our Hydro-to-Cathode direct cathode precursor (pCAM)synthesis process transforms todays waste into high value materials for tomorrows EV batteries - a major advancement for the entire industry. We are building North America and Europes domestic supply of critical minerals through "urban mining" and innovative battery materials technologies - an infrastructure that retains critical minerals in country for supply chain security. We produce high-performance, engineered battery materials using the valuable elements found in end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap. Join us in elevating the performance, security, and reliability of domestic battery materials with the first pCAM production in North America and the first refined pCAM production in Europe.

Allonnia is a bio-ingenuity company™ dedicated to extracting value where others see waste. We believe that elegant solutions to the world’s biggest problems will be found in the world’s smallest organisms. So, we’re pioneering novel approaches and imaginative combinations in biotechnology and engineering to solve waste challenges in nature, using nature. We are focused on three key sectors of mining, industry, and plastics, including segments of PFAS separation and concentration, PFAS sensing, rare earth elements (REE), and oil sands process water (OSPW). We like to think of ourselves as nature's detectives, sifting through billions of biological clues to discover and deploy elegant solutions only nature itself can yield. If you've got a passion for tackling big problems, come see what we're up to. https://allonnia.com/careers/

Echodyne designs and builds advanced radar solutions that unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays. Our combination of patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology with powerful software ultimately means significantly greater situational awareness that increases safety and saves lives. Our first radar is the size of a paperback book, weighs less than bowling pin, draws less power than a light bulb, yet outperforms every comparable radar on the market. We are just getting started. Echodyne delivers commercial radar solutions for end users and integrators in Government and Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Autonomous Vehicle markets globally. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington and backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona Venture Group, Baillie Gifford, Vulcan Capital, Vanedge Capital, and Irongrey among others. Discover more at echodyne.com.

Decoding Secreted Proteins for Chronic and Age-Related Diseases

Modern Hydrogen is an energy & materials company. Our proprietary pyrolysis technology converts natural gas into high-value hydrogen while producing solid carbon for asphalt, which is used to strengthen roads. By producing hydrogen at the point of use, Modern Hydrogen helps utilities & industry extend the value of their existing energy infrastructure and reduce emissions while maintaining energy security and affordability. Backed by top investors and customers like Bill Gates, NextEra Energy, and National Grid, Modern Hydrogen is redefining how natural gas resources can become more valuable and sustainable in and beyond the energy industry.