The Future of Energy: Abundance & Resilience
Hannan Happi is the CEO and co-founder of Exowatt. A mechanical engineer by training, Hannan studied at the Technical University of Munich and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before founding Exowatt, Hannan held leadership and engineering roles at General Electric, Siemens, Accenture, and Tesla. He later co-founded and led Volansi, a vertical take-off and landing drone startup focused on autonomous logistics, which was acquired by a major defense firm. Now based in Miami, Florida, Hannan and the Exowatt team are focused on solving one of the most urgent infrastructure challenges of our time: delivering scalable, dispatchable, onsite energy solutions that keep pace with the digital world’s accelerating demands.
Carl Hoiland is the Co-founder and CEO of Zanskar, a Utah-based company deploying proprietary AI to discover and develop geothermal resources at unprecedented speed, cost, and scale. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and later an Activate Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Carl's industry experience includes geothermal, shale gas, and critical minerals exploration. Drawing on his research and exploration background, and inspired by a growing scientific consensus that the vast majority of geothermal resources remain undiscovered, he co-founded Zanskar to meet surging demand for carbon-free baseload power. In just five years, Zanskar has grown to become the most successful geothermal explorer in U.S. history and is now advancing a gigawatt-scale pipeline of greenfield geothermal assets across the western United States. Zanskar's recent Series C financing, led by Spring Lane Capital with participation from Obvious Ventures, USV, Lowercarbon Capital, and many others, brought its total equity funding to >$180 million and marked the largest ever investment into AI discovery for geothermal resources.
Justin leads operations and technology at Base Power. Prior to starting Base, Justin led Manufacturing at Anduril, a leading defense technology company serving the US and allied nations. Prior to Anduril, Justin led manufacturing & operations for SpaceX’s Starship vehicle, building the South Texas launch site from the ground up. As the COO at Base, he brings that same hands-on approach to software, hardware, and operations, ensuring reliable power when people need it most.
Tori Shivanandan is the Chief Operating Officer of Radiant, where she leads a team of world-class engineers and business leaders who are building the world’s first factory-built portable nuclear microreactor. Tori brings extensive experience in operations, consulting, and management across a variety of sectors and industries, giving Radiant the jump-start it needed to deliver on its mission to build the world's first portable mass-produced nuclear microreactors. Prior to joining Radiant three years ago, Tori was a consultant at Happy Returns and supported PayPal’s $350M acquisition of the business. In the first eight years of her career, Tori climbed the ranks of industrial supplier McMaster-Carr, leading teams numbering in the hundreds. Tori earned her B.A.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sarah is a Founder and Managing Partner at Voyager. She has been building and investing in transformative technology companies since 2009 and brings expertise in mobility, biotech, food and materials production, and carbon removal. Prior to Voyager, she co-founded car-sharing firm Getaround and served as the founding business director of Modern Meadow, the world’s first company making bio-fabricated leather. Sarah is a technical advisor to Frontier, the $1B fund to purchase carbon removal.
Sarah is a graduate of Harvard and of MIT, where she researched energy technologies and carbon removal technologies. She lives in New York City.