Exciting Announcements for the OTT Community - Week of September 21

Department of Energy Announces Release of Annual Technology Commercialization Fund Solicitation 

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 solicitation for the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) managed by the Office of Technology Transitions. TCF projects will advance the commercialization of promising energy technologies and strengthen partnerships between DOE’s National Laboratories and private sector companies to deploy lab-developed technologies to the marketplace. This is the sixth annual TCF solicitation since FY 2016.

Read more here.

OTT Represents DOE at Mission Innovation 

This morning, DOE Chief Commercialization Officer and OTT Director Conner Prochaska participated as Head of Delegation for the Energy Department at the fifth (and first virtual) Mission Innovation Ministerial. At the event, global energy leaders discussed the importance of clean energy innovation."The United States shares the commitment to innovation, which is a core element of our competitive energy philosophy," said Prochaska. 
Earlier in the week, Deputy Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes addressed the partnering Clean Energy Ministerial. He remarked, "We have an opportunity to unleash the clean energy potential of all of our fuels and technologies. Rather than accept the status quo, we can use innovation to transform it." 

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Final Session 
Funding and Partnering Opportunities with the U.S. Department of Energy 

September 24, 2020 @ 1PM EST 

Join us for the grand finale of our summer webinar series in collaboration with The Urban Tech Hub @ Company and the New York City Economic Development Corporation! 

At our final session, Conner Prochaska, Director of the Office of Technology Transitions and Chief Commercialization Officer for the U.S. Department of Energy, will wrap up the Funding and Partnering Opportunities with the U.S. Department of Energy Summer 2020 Webinar Series, hosted by Urban Tech Hub at Company, by announcing the launch of a new digital library. Here, visitors will be able to maintain access to all of the valuable resources and information that were shared to help connect early- and growth-stage companies, accelerators and incubators, and university entrepreneurial scientists and engineers with the DOE. This virtual event is part of Climate Week NYC, an event organized by The Climate Group.

InnovationXLab Quantum Information Science & Technology

Virtual Series: Global Communications,Transportation, and Navigation Webinar
September 30, 2020 @ 1:00 PM EDT

The final webinar in a special series prelude to the Quantum InnovationXLab will focus on potential transformations that quantum technologies can bring to global communications and the transportation sector, including drones, automotive, space, air, and marine sectors. Global communications and transportation today increasingly rely on wireless communication, sensing, and in situ data processing.

This webinar, featuring opening remarks from Deputy Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes, will include an expert panel and explore how quantum technologies, such as secure wireless quantum communication, quantum sensing networks, and quantum edge computing, could be transformational as we progress in these sectors. 

You can catch up on previous webinars in the Quantum InnovationXLab Virtual Series here!