Events

C2V Initiative Year 4 Final Showcase

Date: 3 April 2025

Location: Dock 72, Kings County New York

Hosted by: Urban Future Lab, Greentown Boston

The Carbon to Value (C2V) Inative is a collaboration between Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs and Fraunhofer USA.

Join us in New York City to celebrate Year 4 of the Carbon to Value Initiative!

At this event, attendees will:

• ​Hear presentations from the C2V Year 4 Cohort of carbontech startups developing technology and business innovations to capture, convert, and/or sequester carbon.
• ​Learn form carbontech experts.
• ​Have the opportunity to network with government, nonprofit, and corporate executives from the Carbontech Leadership Council (CLC) 
• ​Meet with carbontech entrepreneurs, investors, and other climate champions

Meet the startups shaping the future of carbontech as they each present their unique solutions, the progress they’ve made throughout the past six months of the C2V program, and where they are headed next.

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Date: April 29-30, 2025

Location for SCFUSA Battery Symposium: Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC

The Spring Summit will showcase the future of our signature clusters and initiatives in the Palmetto State and celebrate 20 years of SC Competes mission of collaboration and competitiveness. Over 3 exciting days, this Summit will bring together top leaders, innovators, and students from Aerospace, Logistics, Technology, Battery, and Workforce innovations to share insights, explore emerging trends, and foster collaboration amongst all who join. Attendees can look forward to dynamic presenters, student showcase, a B2B networking event, and a variety of exhibitors.

Together with Fraunhofer USA, SCFUSA Battery Symposium will be back for a third year. Our Battery experts and SC battery companies will take stage at the Spring Summit, focused on South Carolina’s future in the Battery Production, Safety, and Recycling. SC Battery Symposium will be held on April 30th.

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Date: 1-3 April 2025

Location: Hilton University of Houston

Organizer: University of Houston

Marcel Schaefer, Ph.D, Senior Program Coordinator of Fraunhofer USA CMA, will participate in a panel discussion of “BioFuels” at the 2025 Port of the Future Conference, to be held April 1-3, 2025, at the Hilton University Houston, in Houston, Texas.

Biofuels are liquid hydrogen fuels with similar composition and properties to fuel oil. They are produced from renewable sources such as crops, agricultural and forestry waste, animal waste, or vegetable and animal fats. Biofuels offer reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Biofuels’ suitability with existing power generation systems makes them a drop-in solution without the need for equipment retrofits or vessel redesign. As such, Biofuels are a “here-now solution” as they take advantage of existing fuel transport and bunkering infrastructure.

Dr. Marcel Schaefer has been leading the Fraunhofer USA office in South Carolina since March 2021. He is the Senior Program Coordinator for Fraunhofer USA's activities within the South Carolina Fraunhofer USA Alliance, which offers 50% co-funding on all projects with Fraunhofer. Projects so far cover a broad spectrum ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Digitization, Predictive Analytics to sustainability, renewable energy, battery, hydrogen, and other innovative and emerging technologies. Typically, those projects have a strong manufacturing focus.

Dr. Marcel Schaefer has been a Senior Research Scientist for Fraunhofer USA since January 2019. From 2009 to 2018, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technologies SIT in Darmstadt, Germany.

He holds a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and a PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. As PI, Co-PI, and researcher, Dr. Schaefer has led and worked on various projects that discover new challenges and opportunities broadly spread over the fields of cybersecurity and software engineering in both the public and private sectors.

This year’s event includes tracks on Port Infrastructure 4.0, Developing Ports; Intermodal Connectivity; Decarbonization and Alternate Fuels; Port Energy and Sustainability; Enhancing Port Infrastructure Resilience; Port Security and Cybersecurity; and other relevant topics.

The 2025 Port of the Future Conference will host representatives from over 50 ports worldwide.

For the list of participating ports access https://pof.egr.uh.edu/participating-ports/

Register for the 2025 Port of the Future Conference at https://portofthefutureconference.com/registration/

When: April 22 - 24, 2025

Where: Hyatt Regency Greenville, SC

Fraunhofer USA is proud to contribute to the 4th MX.0 Southeast event. 

Returning to beautiful downtown Greenville, SC, MX.0 Southeast expands to two full days of conference sessions and a dedicated factory tour day in 2025.

Year after year, MX.0 Southeast attracts new and returning manufacturers eager to hear and meet with experts from regional and national plants. Manufacturing leaders share real-world experiences, best practices, and innovative strategies for driving digital transformation and automation.

Join our colleague Marcel Schaefer on 23 April ,2025 at 11:00 for a Panel Discussion: How to Start, Scale & Survey the Success of AI & ML Initiatives to Take Advantage of the Hype!

Interview with Marcel Schaefer

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