News & Notes | Nuclear will be on display again next week in Knoxville
Amanda Goetz is joining the speaker lineup at this year’s Startup Mountain Summit.
From Knoxville:
Seven panels, two “101” sessions, a keynote address, and a concluding fireside chat comprise the agenda for next week’s Southeast Energy Policy Forum hosted by the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy in the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK).
Scheduled for August 5, beginning at 12 noon, and continuing all day on August 6, the sessions will be held in the Student Union Building.
As previously reported, the keynote address will be delivered by Jeff Waksman, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment in the Department of Defense. His topic is titled, “What Can the Commercial Nuclear Industry Learn from the Department of Defense?”
That will conclude the formal sessions on the first afternoon. Prior to his address, Joe Hoagland, Director of Special Initiatives at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will moderate a panel on “Energy Security and the Nuclear Supply Chain” featuring Jean-Luc Palayer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of Orano USA; Nikki Hashemian Sizemore, Government Affairs Manager for Kairos Power; and Christina Walrond, Director of State Government Relations for X-energy.
The sessions on August 6 include a panel moderated by Mike Howard, Chair of World Energy Council, featuring Kim Greene, CEO of Georgia Power, and Don Moul, President and CEO of TVA.
To register, click here.
From Johnson City:
Amanda Goetz is joining the speaker lineup at this year’s Startup Mountain Summit, scheduled November 6-8 in Johnson City. She is a 2X Founder, a 4X Chief Marketing Officer, and the author of Life’s a Game, her personal newsletter with more than 100,000 subscribers Amanda will take the stage at the Startup Mountain Summit this fall and the first attendees in the door will get a free copy of her new book titled Toxic Grit.
When she went on to college at the University of Illinois, she juggled four jobs, an engagement, and still graduated a year early. That combination of work ethic and ambition has been a throughline ever since. After graduating from the University, she went on to work at Ernst and Young, doing marketing for a hedge fund. After that, she took her first step into the wedding industry, and worked under David Tutera, a celebrity wedding planner.
Click here to learn more about her two start-ups.
From Knoxville and Springfield, OH:
Skuld LLC, a member of the 2023 cohort of the “Innovation Crossroads” program operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has sold a Lightning Metal machine to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
According to a post on 3Dprint.com, Skuld’s Additive Manufacturing Evaporative Casting (AMEC) technique is potentially a super low-cost method for making metal parts at scale. Using scrap materials, bound filament, and inexpensive desktop machines, Skuld lets you cast with aluminum, brass, bronze, and copper on their Lightning Metal LM 16 machine.
“This milestone represents more than a sale—it’s a signal that advanced casting is entering a new era,” said Sarah Jordan, CEO. “The University of Tennessee is a national leader in manufacturing innovation, and we’re proud to support their mission with a system that bridges research and real-world application.”
From Nashville:
Nathan Buttrey has been appointed Senior Advisor to Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter to lead the new Office of Innovation in the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. He served for the past 42 months as Director of Corporate Development for Altitude Ventures, a firm that accelerates growth for healthcare services and digital health companies through value-added partnerships and capital financing.
Backed by Governor Bill Lee’s historic $63 million investment in innovation, Buttrey will help position Tennessee as a place where companies research, test, and build for the future, right here in their own backyard.
Buttrey will oversee programs like the IRIS Grant, designed to strengthen partnerships between industry and Tennessee’s top research institutions.
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