The PhD School Annual Conferences gathers some of the brightest research minds in Europe in a two-and-a-half days event of co-creation, inspiration and empowerment to accelerate the energy transition in Europe. This year’s PhD School Conference includes sessions on:
- Effective networking
- Company challenges
- Industrial design
- Innovation projects
- Raising venture capital
- Commercial pitching
Additionally, participants will enjoy vast networking opportunities with other researchers, business specialists, industry leaders and members of the InnoEnergy community. Develop new ways of thinking, and discover how others have transformed their research into real-world solutions. Join experts from InnoEnergy and its partners to learn, network, connect, and explore.
Agenda
The PhD School Annual Conference 2019 seeks to develop the participant’s skills related to topics such as turning research ideas into business propositions, finding partners, raising investments, and learning from industry experience in the process.
Preliminary programme
Monday October 14, 2019
13.00 – 14.00 Welcome lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Opening speech by Laurent Kettenmeyer, R&D director, Total
14.30 – 15.10 Sharing experiences: Arthur Singer & Manuel Betancourt
15.10 – 15.20 Coffee break
15.20 – 17.40 Workshop: becoming better at networking by Will Kintish
19.00 – 22.00 PhD School Graduation Ceremony and dinner.
Tuesday October 15, 2019
08.30 – 09.00 Welcome desk open
09.00 – 10.30 Mental health in academia by Marteka Swaby
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 13.30 Industrial Design & Company Challenge Workshops. Part 1.: Laura Klauss and Meike Brehmer + Company Challenge workshop Lego Serious Play: Madis Talmar
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.15 Keynote speech: Paul Sexton, R&D Strategy & Intelligence Manager at TOTAL & Charles-Henri Clerget, MIT postdoc
15.15 – 15.20 Coffee break
15.20 – 17.45 Industrial Design & Company Challenge Workshops. Part 2.: Laura Klauss and Meike Brehmer + Company Challenge workshop Lego Serious Play: Madis Talmar
Wednesday October 16, 2019
08.30 – 09.00 Welcome desk open.
09.30 – 10.55 Get Inspired Session. InnoEnergy Innovation Projects: Madis Talmar & Ivan Andric
10.55 – 11.10 Sharing experiences: Boyuan Wei
11.10 – 11.30 Keynote: Redefining sustainable urban environment: Ivan Andric
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 – 12.45 Raising capital for a technology venture: Sylvain De Chadirac, Paris Business Angels
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.00 Commercial Pitching Competition for candidates
15.00 – 15.20 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.00 Keynote speech “Hurtling down the Data Highway – Opportunities for Success and Failure”: Margot Gerritsen, prof. of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University
16.00 – 18.00 Closing remarks, commercial poster session, coffee and snacks
*Programme details may vary
Speakers
The PhD School Annual Conference 2019 includes some of the most inspiring brains dedicated to accelerate the energy transition.
This year’s speakers include Margot Gerritsen – Standford University Professor, Co-director and Co-founder of Women in Data Science.
Margot Gerritsen
Margot Gerritsen is a professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University and a Senior Associate Dean in the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
She is a computational mathematician, and interested in numerical analysis and simulation of energy and fluid flow processes, including flow and transport in reservoirs, ocean dynamics and sailboat design.
She was born in the Netherlands. She earned a master’s degree at Delft University of Technology. She completed her doctorate in 1996 in scientific computing and computational mathematics at Stanford, under the supervision of Joseph Oliger. She then worked at the University of Auckland before rejoining Stanford as a faculty member in 2001.
She was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018.
Margot is co-founder and co-director of the Women in Data Science initiative (WiDS)
Participants
The PhD School Annual Conference gathers PhD candidates from across Europe who cover a wide range of research topics related to energy transition. This year, PhD candidates from TOTAL will also take part of the event to enrich the experience of participants with industry experience.
More details about the research areas and topics of this year’s participants will be announced soon.
Sponsors
The PhD School Annual Conference 2019 is sponsored by TOTAL S.A. (Total).
Total
Total S.A. (Total), incorporated on January 1, 1954, is an oil and gas company operating in three segments:
- an Upstream segment, including the activities of the exploration and production of hydrocarbons, and the activities of gas and power;
- a Refining & Chemicals segment constituting an industrial hub consisting of the activities of refining, petrochemicals and specialty chemicals, and also includes the activities of oil trading and shipping; and
- a Marketing & Services segment, including the activities of supply and marketing in the field of petroleum products, as well as the activity of New Energies.
The Company’s Corporate segment includes holdings operating and financial activities. The Company operates in the renewable energies and power generation sectors. It is engaged in various sectors of oil and gas industry, including upstream (hydrocarbon exploration, development and production) and downstream (refining, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products and marketing). It is involved in the renewable energies and power generation sectors.
Contact
The PhD School Annual Conference is an exclusive event for InnoEnergy’s PhD School participants.
For more information, please contact Christine Dominjon via christine.dominjon@innoenergy.com.