Energy and Sustainability Roundtables
About Energy and Sustainability Roundtables
The Trienens Institute Energy and Sustainability Roundtables convene senior leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss key research and development (R&D) topics. Participants include members of Trienens Institute partner companies—both large and small—from across the decarbonization value chain.
The periodic gatherings address pressing research questions, scalability, and collaboration opportunities. In addition, they jointly outline R&D road maps for future attention through partnership, research, and innovation. Roundtables are invitation-only events that each consists of a series of thematic roundtables. Speakers and discussants focus on bridging the gap between the research and industry communities through action-oriented and discussion-based planning. The discussions are meant to inform thought leadership, plant seeds of collaboration, and build meaningful connections. Recent themes have included energy, power, hyperscalability, carbon capture, and policy.
The benefits of participation in a Roundtable event include the opportunity to engage with other companies and leading researchers, facilitated networking with Northwestern graduate students, and an opportunity to inform the priorities of Northwestern research teams.
Trienens Institute Six Pillars of Decarbonization
Northwestern is home to diverse expertise in leading academic departments and schools, and a longstanding culture of team science that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, all of which comes together to lead to solutions. The Energy and Sustainability Roundtables are guided by the Trienens Institute Pillars of Decarbonization, which outline areas of focus for research and translation that leverage University expertise.
