• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Mark Lundstrom

Radia

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mark is a serial cross-industry entrepreneur and MIT aerospace engineer who has co-founded companies to bring aerospace techniques, technologies, and solutions to new sectors including biotech, telecommunications, and materials science. In 2016, Mark founded Radia to bring these technologies to bear on the low-carbon energy transition and, importantly, energy security. Radia is an energy company building a unique aerial transportation solution, the WindRunner™, to radically expand the scope and scale of the onshore wind energy industry and, hence, the addressable market for our business partners. Simultaneously, Radia is developing a world-class portfolio of wind energy projects to leverage this solution. This unique combination of capabilities allows Radia to bring together the ecosystem of stakeholders to enable GigaWind™: the largest onshore wind turbines, manufactured by our partners, deployed to more places to deliver differentiated green electricity and, correspondingly, green molecules and synthetic fuels at transformational prices. Under Mark’s leadership, Radia was competitively selected in 2023 by both the World Economic Forum and Endeavor to become an active member of their Global Innovators Community and Global Entrepreneur Community, respectively. As part of these communities, Mark works with policymakers and private sector leaders to help define the global agenda and provide innovative solutions on key issues especially those he is passionate about including climate change.

Sessions With Mark Lundstrom

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 09:30am - 10:10am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 02:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 03:10 pm

    Voices of Innovation: Mark Lundstrom

    Join this conversation with a dynamic innovator and serial cross-industry entrepreneur whose latest company, Radia, a pioneering company is changing the game for wind energy by delivering the largest and most powerful turbines to onshore locations. What is GigaWind and how will it expand dramatically the scope and scale of onshore wind globally?  What will this mean for the power industry and for rapidly growing demand from hard to decarbonize critical industries?  Mark is a former ski racer, pilot, Rhodes Scholar and inventor with sixteen patents. What are the learnings from Mark’s remarkable experiences, including launching companies ranging from material science to satellite communications, software, bioscience, energy/environment, and aerospace?  Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired and informed!

  • 04:30pm - 05:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 10:00 pm

    Innovation Unleashed: Addressing supply chain constraints with cutting-edge technology
    Climate & Sustainability

    Countries are trying to meet the demand for critical minerals, metals, materials and equipment parts needed for energy transition, along with onshoring and nearshoring supply chains for them. This dual focus on industrialization and energy transition will lead to bottlenecks and could slow the energy transition’s pace. How can innovative material substitution and new technologies reduce the constraints in the supply chain? What are some insights, strategies and real-world examples of how new materials and technologies could be leveraged to optimize efficiency, mitigate risks and adapt to evolving needs of energy transition? The ability to adapt and find new technological solutions for constraints in the supply chain will be even more critical in a world that is increasingly fragmented.

Thursday, 21 March

  • 03:15pm - 03:55pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 08:15 pm - 21/mar/2024 08:55 pm

    Higher Value, Lower Costs: Growth models for renewables
    Clean Tech

    Renewable energy is poised to continue its torrid growth as the world presses to decarbonize power grids. But the next phase of growth will require delivering on two key fronts: Driving further cost reductions, as the sector has done for decades, while also contributing to a more resilient and reliable energy system by tackling the challenges of intermittency and cannibalization. What technologies will drive the next wave of cost reductions? What strategies are industry leaders exploring to mitigate the challenges of cannibalization, reliability, supply chain vulnerability and sustainability? 

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