2025 NREL Industry Growth Forum: Unlocking Value (Text Version)

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Music plays as time-lapse footage from an event shows people riding escalators, talking while gathering at tables, and standing having conversations. Throughout the video, similar footage plays, interspersed with video of those speaking and overlaying text showing their names and titles.

>>Trish Cozart, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory: We have over 3,000 meetings that take place in the course of just hours. What we're doing here is compressing time and making it efficient for investors and making it efficient for startups.

>>Tim Woodward, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures: There really isn't anything like IGF. I think it's uniquely serving a purpose of bringing this community together.

>>Suzanna Caldwell, Deputy Director, Launch Alaska: It's not a super-long conference, but I find that in that short amount of time, I just meet with so many amazing people and they're the right people that I need to be working with as an accelerator. I really do feel like IGF is really hyper-focused on the connections. And that's the thing that I walk away with that is most valuable to me.

>>Michael Solomentsev, CEO and Founder, Palanquin Power: To schedule that many meetings would take me weeks, months. And to do it in one sitting and get clear feedback and understand if there can be a second conversation is just worth its weight in gold.

>>Trish Cozart: The Industry Growth Forum is a platform for startups and investors. And what we're really trying to do is match up motivated capital with startups who are raising capital.

>>Tim Woodward: It is a catalyzing event for the industry.

>>Bob O'Connor, Partner, Wilson Sonsini: I come to IGF in order to ascertain what's next; to determine what's on the cutting edge; to really understand what's possible; to help us shape where we want to spend our time.

>>Michael Solomentsev: There's no such thing as a bad conversation here. I want to understand what's stopping investors from potentially investing and use that feedback to build the business and make it better.

>>Trish Cozart: It's all about relationships and people.

>>Bob O'Connor: These are some of the brightest minds. And honestly, you can't miss it because if you do, you're missing insights into the most important trends in energy.

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