Shawn Drost
Education Lead
Shawn spent seven years as an educator and program designer at Hack Reactor, a coding bootcamp which he co-founded in 2012. He has designed educational programs for a diverse range of audiences including Fortune 500 employees, the general public, and even inmates at San Quentin prison. After leaving Hack Reactor in 2019, Shawn went through a period of study and analysis and ultimately founded Diversified Hydrogen, a sustainability-focused industrial gas company. He is co-creating this program to help others learn about this area of intense recent development. Shawn also serves on an advisory committee to the San Francisco Unified School District. He is a proud graduate of Terra.do's first cohort of Fellows.
Ye (Agnes) Li
Content Lead
Agnes is a senior associate at Rocky Mountain Institute, China office. She leads the green hydrogen work to promote decarbonization in China, especially for steel, chemical, and other heavy industries. She is one of the main authors of 'China 2050: A Fully Developed Rich Zero-carbon Economy' report.
Agnes has gained a Master of Environment Policy and Planning from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor of Economics from Peking University.
Gniewomir Flis
Guest Lecturer
Gniewomir is a consultant with four years experience analysing low-carbon technologies with a focus on hydrogen markets. He previously worked as a personal analyst to Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), and for Aurora Energy Research as the lead analyst on their Hydrogen in Northwest Europe project.
Gniewomir is a consultant with four years experience analysing low-carbon technologies with a focus on hydrogen markets. He previously worked as a personal analyst to Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), and for Aurora Energy Research as the lead analyst on their Hydrogen in Northwest Europe project.
Shawn spent seven years as an educator and program designer at Hack Reactor, a coding bootcamp which he co-founded in 2012. He has designed educational programs for a diverse range of audiences including Fortune 500 employees, the general public, and even inmates at San Quentin prison. After leaving Hack Reactor in 2019, Shawn went through a period of study and analysis and ultimately founded Diversified Hydrogen, a sustainability-focused industrial gas company. He is co-creating this program to help others learn about this area of intense recent development. Shawn also serves on an advisory committee to the San Francisco Unified School District. He is a proud graduate of Terra.do's first cohort of Fellows.
Janice Lin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Strategen. Janice has over than two decades of experience in clean energy strategy, market development, and corporate strategy. Janice co-founded and for a decade served as Executive Director of the California Energy Storage Alliance, where she helped create the world’s most robust energy storage market. Janice is an internationally recognized thought leader in energy storage and grid decarbonization and won the 2019 Cleanie Award for Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2019 Janice launched the Green Hydrogen Coalition, an educational non-profit dedicated to facilitating policies and practices to advance the production and use of green hydrogen in all sectors where it will accelerate the transition to a carbon free energy system.
Dr. Joseph Pratt
Guest lecturer
Dr. Joseph Pratt has been involved in hydrogen energy since 1996 and is known as a hydrogen technical expert and impactful entrepreneur. His unbiased, award-winning technical work has been featured in numerous technical papers, countless talks, and in the popular media. Joe is the CEO and CTO of Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine, a company providing technology innovations for the marine hydrogen market, and a Founding Partner at H2 Advisors, an advisory firm assisting worldwide governments, corporations, and financial institutions incorporate hydrogen energy into their strategic plans and actions.
Dr. Joseph Pratt has been involved in hydrogen energy since 1996 and is known as a hydrogen technical expert and impactful entrepreneur. His unbiased, award-winning technical work has been featured in numerous technical papers, countless talks, and in the popular media. Joe is the CEO and CTO of Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine, a company providing technology innovations for the marine hydrogen market, and a Founding Partner at H2 Advisors, an advisory firm assisting worldwide governments,
corporations, and financial institutions incorporate hydrogen energy into their strategic plans and actions.
Matthew Klippenstein
Guest lecturer
Matthew Klippenstein is a professional engineer with two decades’ experience in the cleantech sector. His roles at Ballard Power Systems ranged from R&D through to product development. A member of the team which won the 2007 American Electrochemical Society New Technology Award for its early Ene-Farm residential cogeneration product, he pioneered Ballard’s use of multiple new materials and manufacturing processes. At engineering consultancy Wood, he performed wind and solar energy yield analyses to broaden his understanding of the renewables sector, and through the non-profit Plug In BC he helped administer the province of British Columbia’s EV infrastructure incentive program for multi-unit buildings such as apartments, giving about 150 presentations in a year and a half in the course of his outreach. He currently provides engineering documentation services through his consultancy Electron Communications and tweets at @ElectronComm.
Matthew Klippenstein is a professional engineer with two decades’ experience in the cleantech sector. His roles at Ballard Power Systems ranged from R&D through to product development. A member of the team which won the 2007 American Electrochemical Society New Technology Award for its early Ene-Farm residential cogeneration product, he pioneered Ballard’s use of multiple new materials and manufacturing processes. At engineering consultancy Wood, he performed wind and solar energy yield analyses to broaden his understanding of the renewables sector, and through the non-profit Plug In BC he helped administer the province of British Columbia’s EV infrastructure incentive program for multi-unit buildings such as apartments, giving about 150 presentations in a year and a half in the course of his outreach. He currently provides engineering documentation services through his consultancy Electron Communications and tweets at @ElectronComm.