Dr. Rashi Gupta, fondly known as “Batterywali of India”, is the pioneer of manufacturing Advanced Lithium Batteries in India. She is the founder and Managing Director of M/s Vision Mechatronics Private Ltd, leading it towards a name to reckon for in the field of Robotics, Renewable Energy & Energy Storage. She’s been fearless & ferocious in making a name for herself & the company in a market filled with Goliaths. Under her able leadership, India got the “Worlds Smartest Lithium Battery” and introduced “Active Balancing of Batteries in India”

If one takes a closer look at the alchemy of this achiever, two distinct virtues pop up, besides perseverance & hard work. These are pioneering spirit & willingness. Coupled with an impressive background, it was not therefore surprising that she became a prominent name in the Renewable Energy Sector of India.

She holds degrees in BE, MBA, LLM, & Ph.D. to her title. She is a committee member of the Bureau of Indian Standards for Batteries(ETD-11), Energy Storage(ETD-52), and E-Mobility(ETD-51). She is also a Member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC TC120). She is also a committee member of the National Energy Storage Committee- FICCI, Vice Chair-India CBC, and Chairperson-Womens India CBC. She firmly believes in gender equality and works on global forums for women's empowerment.

She has been an admired speaker on various forums like Intersolar India, REI Expo, WFES, The Ceo Conclave, Municipalika, and The Smarter E,  to name a few.

As a lead business solutions analyst, Baker evaluates emerging technology and policy issues in the electric power sector. In this role, he administers technology demonstration projects with PJM members, research institutions, and the industry at large for the purpose of deploying innovative solutions to emerging problems. Recently, this work has focused on PJM market evolution initiatives related to Distributed Energy Resources, Renewables, and Energy Storage technologies participating in the PJM Capacity, Energy, and Ancillary Services markets.

Prior to joining PJM, Baker worked as a researcher at the University of Delaware’s Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration on electric Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology, helping to successfully deploy the first fleet of electric vehicles to provide ancillary services to a wholesale power market in 2007.

Baker has a bachelor’s degree in biology and environmental science from Ithaca College in New York and a Master’s degree in Marine Policy from the University of Delaware, where he studied the offshore wind power potential in the Atlantic Ocean and related transmission system integration issues.

Sydney Hughes is an engineering support contractor at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Her industry experience consists of 7 years in the natural gas processing industry, where she served as a plant engineer at a cryogenic gas plant, a senior processing engineer covering several processing facilities across a multi-state territory, and finally as an operations and maintenance leader at a major natural gas fractionation facility. Since joining NETL in 2019, her work has focused mainly on post-combustion carbon capture systems and CO₂ utilization technologies. Sydney earned three degrees from Louisiana Tech University: Chemical Engineering (B.S. 2012), Engineering and Technology Management (M.S. 2022), and Business Administration (M.B.A. 2022).