{"599824":{"#nid":"599824","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SEI Presents: Breakthrough Energy Ventures","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Strategic Energy Institute invites you to attend\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV)\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Efeaturing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch1\u003EDavid Danielson\u003C\/h1\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eformer assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Office of Energy Efficiency \u0026amp; Renewable Energy (EERE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBill Gates recently established a venture capital fund to foster transformational low carbon technologies. In addition to clean energy, the fund has interest in a variety of \u0026quot;Gigaton\u0026quot; technologies and approaches for reducing climate change effects (e.g., land use, agriculture, eliminating beef).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid Danielson, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Office of Energy Efficiency \u0026amp; Renewable Energy (EERE), has been named the managing director for science at Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV). Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) will host a one-hour forum on Friday, December 15 at 12:30pm, featuring David Danielson, who will provide an overview of BEV and speak about its vision to invest in next generation technologies that provide reliable, affordable, zero-carbon energy, food, and products to the world. This group forum will be open to the Georgia Tech campus and local innovation organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeating is still available, and if you have interest in attending, please RSVP to \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sei.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESEI@gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A talk by David Samuelson, former assistant sect\u0027y, DOE\u0027s Office of Energy Efficiency \u0026 Renewable Energy"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2017-12-12 23:43:38","changed_gmt":"2017-12-12 23:46:03","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-12-15T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-12-15T13:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-12-15T13:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-12-15 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-12-15 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-12-15 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERSVP at\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:SEI@gatech.edu?subject=RSVP%20for%20Dec.%2015\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESEI@gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}