Keynote Speaker

Katharine holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Katharine is Director of Technology at Still Bright, Inc., a start-up company working to replace copper smelting with an electrochemical alternative for a more sustainable and secure copper supply chain. Prior to joining Still Bright, she spent two years as a Fellow at the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) in the U.S. Department of Energy, identifying and analyzing emerging technologies in energy and climate. Katharine has a background in electrochemical engineering and earned her Ph.D. at MIT studying redox flow battery systems for grid-scale energy storage. While at MIT, Katharine served as a technical consultant for Woodside Energy in Perth, Australia, and at two Merck Sharp & Dohme facilities in Carlow and Brinny, Ireland. Katharine is a 2015 Barry M. Goldwater scholar and 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellow.