Get 50% off with the coupon code COUPON50Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship for Transitioning to a Net-Zero Economy
- Thursday
- July
- 17
- 2025
Abhijeet Borole Overview:
Transitioning to Net-zero requires a deep understanding of the current energy sector, emissions from the industry, environmental consequences and existing and upcoming alternatives that the world needs to develop and deploy within a decade. The transition will impact almost all sectors starting with energy, which is the largest of all in volume and economic impact. We will touch briefly on the changes needed in all sectors, but focus on clean energy in this webinar. The talk will lay down the background, provide details of the energy sector, then introduce the existing state of this rapidly evolving industry and then go into the entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship needs.
We will discuss the general steps for both and compare the two. The remaining webinar will discuss what the unmet needs are and the challenges of the path to innovate, develop and deploy these new technologies. We will also lay down the various valleys of opportunities, potentially using examples and the steps one has to take on their journey to make a dent in the massive energy demands the world has to transition to renewable and sustainable resources.
Why you should Attend:
The competition for commercializing new and novel sustainable technologies is getting very hot. The path from invention to commercialization is plagued with unforeseen hurdles. To enable a successful venture, one needs to be aware of the pitfalls of this process. Streamlining the innovation activity to get to a successful outcome is critical. Anyone who is thinking of contributing to the development of the new economy that will rule the 21st century needs to know how to access the resources. This will be a crash course in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship you will not want to miss.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Net-Zero Economy
- Sector transition - Energy, Chemicals, Materials, Construction, Food and Ag, Transportation
- Technology - Lift-off reports (Status quo vs Transition)
- Policy
- Capital/funds for transition
- Need for Innovation everywhere - Intrinsic and Extrinsic
- Entrepreneurship
- Idea/Technology/Passion
- Choosing and defining a problem
- Team development
- Customer discovery and market analysis
- Fund raising
- Unit economics
- Product development
- Customer acquisition and sales
- Manufacturing and scaling
- Pathway to exit
- Intrapreneurship
- The need
- Prons and Cons of being on inside
- Challenges to overcome from within
- A path to a product and options to venture
- Specific challenges of clean energy industry re volume & price
- Socio-economic factors/DEIA, energy equity, environmental considerations
Who Will Benefit:
- To be Founders and early-stage Founders
- C-Suite folks from CEO to CXO
- Tech Leads
- Scientists
- Ph.D.'s and budding students passionate about Net-Zero
- Professors interested in Entrepreneurism
Speaker Profile
Abhijeet Borole is a chemical engineer with more than 25 years of experience in technologies for production of biofuels, hydrogen, bioproducts and chemicals. His experience ranges from fossil industry to clean tech and climate tech. He worked with oil giants in his early career and now focused on developing biomass and waste technologies to produce clean fuels and products. He worked as a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is the largest DOE National Laboratory in the US, for almost 20 years. During the period, he was also an Adjunct/Joint Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), where he trained students in the emerging fields of Renewable Energy and BioEnergy. He is currently the CTO and President of Electro-Active Technologies, a startup which was launched with one of his students a few years ago. He still mentors students at UTK as a Research Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
His expertise is in biohydrogen, biofuels, catalysis, scale-up. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed papers, 5 patents and 8 books/chapters. He has received recognition for his work from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US DOE, Discovery Channel, BioMed Central Publishers, TechConnect and others.
He envisions a circular economy where all materials we need will one day come from biomass, waste and renewable resources. His efforts today are focused on bringing that future closer. He loves to train students, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs in biology and engineering to solve the toughest problems in the world using tricks he has learned from nature.
In his free time, he engages in reading history and relaxing via meditation, gardening and cycling.