E- Robot Competition Info Session and Brainstorm

The E-ROBOT Prize offers $200,000 each to the 10 teams delivering the best concepts for robots designed to install energy-saving measures in buildings. Watch American Made's video for a quick contest overview. In this session we will looks at the competition as a whole and brainstorm ideas for future exploration. Hear from Government - Mary Hubbard, The U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office (BTO) Emerging Technologies (ET) Program Mary Hubbard is the technology-to-market manager within the Building Technologies Office’s (BTO’s) Emerging Technologies Program. In this position, she works across the office to lead BTO’s Technology- to-Market initiative. This includes a number of programs and activities to help researchers and innovators in the buildings space de-risk their technologies, products, and processes to make them more attractive to private investment. Installer Perspective - Peter Harding, Vice President, MaGrann Associates MaGrann Associates is a building energy consulting and engineering firm specializing in energy efficiency and green building. Peter leads MaGrann’s operations in the New England region providing insightful support to our clients from the conceptualization to final completion of their high-performance single- and multi-family home projects. Peter founded Home Energy Technologies in 2009 and over the next 11 years built it into the largest HERS rating provider and ENERGY STAR Certified Homes verifier in Connecticut serving developers, owners, and builders of single- and multi-family homes.