Gabriel Cossio is Founder and CEO of Nanoscale Labs. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas’ Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials. Gabriel earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and has a B.S. in physics. He performed seminal research in nanoparticle self-assembly, including the first demonstration of a low-cost and high-throughput nanomanufacturing system. Gabriel's mission with Nanoscale Labs is to create a new nanomanufacturing paradigm with low complexity and low cost, to unlock new climate tech solutions and utilize nanotech to accelerate our transition to a sustainable economy. 

Parul is the Director of Strategic Marketing with Technip Energies USA, a leading Engineering & Technology company for the energy transition.

Over the last 15 years, Parul has held different roles in business development, engineering, and operation within the energy industry. In her current role, Parul oversees the strategy, market development, and positioning of new offerings by Technip Energies in the energy transition markets within Americas. 

Parul has a Master’s Degree in Engineering Science from Pennsylvania State University and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Yale School of Business. 

Parul believes that energy transition is a generational opportunity to shape the futures of our economy, society, and planet, and is passionate about women’s role in realizing it. 

Yohei Hayakawa has been dedicated in the business development of energy transition at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for recent several years. MHI has developed Green Transformation (GX) Segment which integrated both for hydrogen and CO2 solution in 2024, and he has been assigned to represent the GX business in North America by establishing Energy Transition Division at MHIA. 

His main role is to develop a new business opportunity for this GX business by aligning the MHI headquarters strategy together with MHI group companies in Americas. He has experience in various industries at MHI and has the capability to think and respond flexibly to deliver the best solution to the stakeholders.

Tom Myers serves as the Energy Program Supervisor for the Texas Army National Guard and holds the rank of Major in the Marine Corps Reserve. He is currently assigned as a Civil Affairs Officer with the 3D Civil Affairs Group. In his role with the Texas Army National Guard, Tom oversees the implementation of energy and water resiliency projects and efficiency initiatives and ensures compliance with DOD, federal, and state reporting requirements. He is also involved in testing and integrating emerging technologies.

Recently, Tom completed a 10-month deployment to Southeast Asia, focusing on energy and water resiliency programming in the northern provinces of the Philippines. During this time, he collaborated with the Naval Postgraduate School's Energy Academic Group, the Batanes provincial government, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and various USG/DOD agencies to lead the first Energy Resiliency Readiness Tabletop Exercise in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

In addition to his professional and military duties, Tom owns Solar Sno Shaved Ice, a 100% solar- and battery-powered food truck chain based in South Austin.

Richard Amato serves as the Executive Director for the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), the business incubator for The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), where he is leading ATI in its next stage of growth as part of the Discovery to Impact team. Richard has a long-standing history with ATI, having first joined in 2001 to found the Clean Energy Incubator (CEI), the first incubator of its kind dedicated to supporting sustainable ventures.

Prior to rejoining ATI, Richard led the Global Programs & Innovation (GPI) team at Texas Global, the international office for UT Austin. Through the Global Innovation Lab and Global Customized Programs groups, GPI works with governments, universities, and industry around the world to train emerging leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

Richard serves as faculty for the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, leading Global Connection classes around entrepreneurship and sustainability. Leveraging his prior efforts with the World Bank, the class supports entrepreneurs at Climate Innovation Centers (CICs) in Africa and around the world in real time as they work to drive their ventures forward.

Richard also serves as the Managing Director of Carpe Aestus, a consultancy building off his extensive experience supporting hundreds of companies and organizations around the world with a focus on sustainability and developing markets as they look to commercialize their technologies.

Holding worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking involvement in clean energy business development, Richard has been featured as a keynote and panelist at conferences throughout the world: Austria, Denmark, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Norway, South Africa, and Vietnam. He also founded and served as President and CEO of Venti Energy, a renewable development company dedicated to increasing the supply of clean, reliable, and affordable energy.

Never standing still, Amato wants to ensure he does his part in leaving the world a better place for what's most important to him—his children.

Molly Bales is a Lecturer at UT Austin, where she teaches energy entrepreneurship on behalf of Texas Venture Labs and the UT Energy Institute. She is also Wood Clean Energy's Director of Origination, leading strategic consulting and advisory services for project conceptualization and development. She has over 14 years of experience in energy project development, enterprise sales, and entrepreneurship. In her career, she has helped scale multiple high-growth cleantech startups and developed hundreds of megawatts of utility-scale assets in multiple ISO territories. She holds an MBA from MIT and a BA from Harvard University.