Speakers & Agenda
Asegun Henry
Founder & CTO
Fourth power
Lindsey Boles
Chief Product Officer
Zeno Power
Malcolm Robinson
GEneral Partner
Black Opus Special Situation Fund
Moses Asom
Co-founder and Chair, BIDT committee
GEneral Partner
Black Opus Special Situation Fund
Quinn Woodard
vice president
fervo
Rachel Slaybaugh
Partner
DCVC
Thu, Dec 4, 2025
1:00pm – 1:05pm ET
Welcome & Introduction
Malcolm Robinson and Moses Asom
1:05pm – 1:25pm ET
Keynote
Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh, Partner, DCVC
Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh, partner at DCVC and co-founder of Good Energy Collective, will share insights on how policy, research, and investment can accelerate innovation. She previously served as an associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley and as a division director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she led the Cyclotron Road Accelerator program supporting early-stage scientific projects. Dr. Slaybaugh also created ARPA-E’s nuclear fission program.
1:25pm – 1:45pm ET
Generation
Quinn Woodard, Vice President, Fervo
Quinn Woodard, Vice President at Fervo, will discuss the next generation of geothermal energy, focusing on solutions that are baseload, flexible, and ready to scale. He’ll explain how advanced geothermal is helping deliver reliable, low-carbon power for the future.
1:45pm – 2:05pm ET
Storage
Asegun Henry, Founder & CTO, Fourth Power
Asegun Henry, founder & CTO of Fourth Power, will share his vision for the future of energy storage. Drawing on his research at MIT and Georgia Tech and his experience turning scientific ideas into a growing company, he’ll explore practical strategies for scaling technologies, bridging science and entrepreneurship, and shaping sustainable energy solutions.
2:05pm – 2:25pm ET
Innovation Spotlight
Lindsey Boles, Chief Product Officer, Zeno Power
Lindsey Boles, Chief Product Officer at Zeno Power, brings a 15-year career in the nuclear industry rooted in chemical engineering and spanning nuclear reactor operations, advanced reactor design, medical isotope development, and radioisotope power system design and development.
Founded in 2018, Zeno Power is pioneering a new generation of radioisotope power systems for commercial and government applications on Earth and in space. In her talk, Lindsey will outline the company’s growth, describe RPS technologies, and highlight key technical and programmatic milestones on Zeno’s roadmap to a 2027 technology deployment.