Webinars

(FREE) INTERTEK: Adjacent Market Compliance for EV Cells and Batteries

EV manufacturers and their major battery suppliers have invested $-billions in large format Lithium Ion cell and battery pack manufacturing capacity. With the sometimes volatile EV demand market, these manufacturers must look to adjacent markets to utilize and monetize this capacity. New industries, applications and global markets each bring their own unique challenges when working to comply with all relevant regulatory and industry standards and regulations. This webinar addresses some of the key challenges faced when developing new battery systems for compliance within these adjacent markets. Key markets include micromobility, industrial trucks, eVTOL, product handling equipment, as well as stationary storage. Challenges include: understanding market regulations and regulators, the role of certification bodies and other third parties, as well as common misconceptions when applying EV expertise to other industries.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• Identifying adjacent markets for EV cell and battery capacity
• Regulatory drivers
• Third party certification options
• Common missteps applying EV designs to new markets
• Second life vs. new construction applications

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenter
Rich Byczek – Global Technical Director at Intertek

Rich Byczek is the Global Chief Engineer, Batteries at Intertek. He has 30+ years of experience in automotive product development and validation testing, over 20 of which have been spent at Intertek. Rich sits on several SAE, IEC, UL, UN and ANSI standards panels, focusing on electric vehicle, battery, and emerging vehicle technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, and is based at the Intertek facility located in Plymouth, Michigan.

Intertek is a proud sponsor of this event.

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(FREE) SAINT GOBAIN: From Mobility to Infrastructure – High Performance Materials Engineered to Extend Battery System Lifetime

With battery technologies extending beyond automotive applications into grid-scale energy storage systems (ESS) and data centers, the performance requirements for battery packs are evolving toward longer service life, higher reliability, and highly predictable behavior over 15–20 years of operation. In this presentation, we discuss how high-performance Norseal® foam materials, originally developed for EV battery packs, can be adapted to meet the mechanical and durability requirements of adjacent segments such as ESS and data centers. Key battery system design challenges – including cell swelling, compression cycling, and pack sealing – are addressed, supported by experimental testing validation for Norseal® foam products.

We further demonstrate how tailored material formulations, guided by design tools such as MAXIO, enable optimization of stiffness, resilience, and long-term stability across diverse pack architectures. Finally, we provide insights into emerging battery system technologies, such as immersion cooling, and outline the performance of Norseal® foam materials for these architectures.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• EV battery material learnings applied to ESS and data center batteries
• High-performance Norseal® foams to manage mechanical challenges: cell swelling, optimal cell pressure, sealing and materials resilience overtime
• Customized formulation and simulation modeling for optimized cell-to-cell (C2C) pad designs
• Emerging trends: ESS & data center convergence and immersion cooling

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenters
Patricia Adame – Senior Applications Engineer at Saint Gobain
Weilin Deng – Senior Research Engineer II at Saint Gobain

Saint Gobain is a proud sponsor of this event.

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(FREE) KIM & CHANG: Cathode Materials and Patent Strategy in the ESS Era

As ESS becomes a major driver of battery demand, safety, cost, cycle life and supply security have become increasingly important factors for batteries beyond maximum energy density, with LFP batteries becoming widely used as a result. Various new cathode materials have been proposed to replace LFP to address the relatively low energy density of LFP batteries while maintaining safety and low cost, such as LMFP, LMR, and SIB. Each of these materials promises certain improvements over LFP in ESS applications, but involve different challenges to achieving widespread adoption. This talk compares these chemistries for ESS, and uses patent landscape analysis to examine how leading players are trying to solve these challenges and build system-level IP platforms.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• Expansion of ESS market leading to prioritizing safety, cost, and cycle life for cathodes, not just energy density
• LMFP is the nearest practical upgrade path from LFP, but Mn dissolution and dual-voltage behavior remain challenges
• LMR is promising, but voltage fade still limits commercialization
• Sodium-ion is a strong low-cost challenger, but lower energy density and cathode stability remain hurdles

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenters
Inchan Andrew Kwon – Foreign Attorney at Kim & Chang
Sung-Eun Kim – Patent Attorney at Kim & Chang

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