Eshaan Agrawal is a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co. who formerly served in the Office of Technology Transitions at the Department of Energy (DOE). His energy interest is routed in climate impact, and he started off in college by focusing on environmental actions related to air pollution in his local community. Eshaan tells us about why he chose to start his career at DOE rather than alternative options, and then describes the different components of his role, such as authoring the Innovative Grid Deployment Liftoff Report and developing the pathway to commercial liftoff for critical energy transition technologies. Throughout the episode, he shares advice on career decision making, exciting areas of the energy sector, and more.

Keynotes:

- Energy work through the government

- Figuring out how to maximize impact and make strategic career decisions

- Exciting topics within energy

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Bryan Hassin is a serial energy entrepreneur with multiple successful exits. His latest challenge? Creating high-performance materials for a low-carbon world as the CEO of DexMat.

The global energy transition is not just about deploying renewables and electrifying everything—it’s also about rethinking the fundamental materials we use to build everything around us. Traditional materials like copper, steel, and aluminum come with significant carbon footprints, supply chain vulnerabilities, and physical limitations that impact scalability. Innovations in advanced materials can unlock higher efficiencies, lower costs, and more sustainable pathways for clean energy technologies.

DexMat is at the forefront of this revolution, pioneering Galvorn, a carbon-based material that can replace metals while offering superior conductivity, strength, and flexibility—all with a negative carbon footprint. In a world racing to decarbonize and electrify, materials like these could be game-changers for industries ranging from EVs to grid infrastructure.

Bryan brings decades of experience leading and scaling energy technology startups. Prior to DexMat, he co-founded Third Derivative, one of the largest climate-tech accelerators, where he assembled an ecosystem of corporate partners and investors, facilitating $2.5B+ in funding for 200+ climatetech startups.

Tune in to learn more about the most fundamental challenges facing the energy industry, where we need the greatest innovations in materials, and insights on company building from a successful serial entrepreneur.

Keynotes:

• Why an energy transition can’t happen without a materials transition

• How we bring scientific innovations from the lab to the market

• How DexMat’s carbon-negative Galvorn is poised to disrupt copper, steel, aluminum, and more

• What lessons from the computing revolution we can apply to materials innovation

• And much more

Book Recommendations from the Show:

• The Exponential Age

• Material World

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Gabe Malek describes himself as a passionate Texan focused on a transition to a more sustainable economy. And as a rapidly-rising young professional in the energy industry, he’s certainly living up to that description and more.

Originally from Houston, Texas, Gabe grew up around the energy industry, which played a fundamental role in shaping his outlook on the future of energy. While studying at Yale, he refined his interests in a human-centered approach to the energy transition with a focus on finance, which led him to roles at EDF and as Chief of Staff to Mark Carney. He then joined Fervo Energy as the company’s Chief of Staff, and helped guide the company’s growth as it raised more than $300MM, brought pilots online, and struck deals with companies including Google. He’s now studying law at Stanford.

In the episode, we cover the inflection points that have shaped his career, the value of mentorship, what he learned as Fervo grew from 30 people to more than 120, why he believes in a human-centric approach to the energy transition, and much more.

Keynotes:

- The benefits of a human-centric approach to the energy transition

- The most important criteria for choosing your next career opportunity

- Why there is no substitute for operational experience and what you’ll learn

- And much more

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