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Andrew Ponec Put the Future in a Black Box
The Antora Energy co-founder has spent half his life chasing a stubborn question: how do you make clean energy keep factory hours? His answer is disarmingly physical - heat solid carbon until it glows.
Rohan Suri and the Useful Art of Changing His Mind
The Nooks co-founder began as an AI engineer, volunteered to make the first sales calls, and discovered that the shortest route to a useful product runs straight through the customer’s working day.
Himanshu Gupta Is Teaching Business to Read the Weather
The ClimateAi co-founder moved from wiring smart-grid hardware to modeling national energy policy. Now he wants companies to treat climate forecasts as decisions waiting to be made.
Kaitlyn Albertoli Is Teaching the Grid to See Trouble Coming
She began with a jewelry business, a sustainability course, and 35 conversations with utilities. Now her company is turning inspection images into early warnings for the infrastructure that keeps the lights on.
Lauren Dunford Is Teaching Old Machines to Tell the Truth
Her company began with an energy thesis in Kenya. The breakthrough came when factory teams showed her that the same electrical heartbeat could reveal something more urgent: where production was getting lost.