The DOST-NICER Advanced Batteries Center's 1st Battery Symposium, with the theme, “State of Charge: Taking Stock of Recent Developments in the Age of Batteries”, was held last November 7, 2022, in a hybrid of virtual through Zoom, and face-to-face meetings at the Microtel by Wyndham, UP Technohub, Quezon City.
A total of 51 attendees were present on-site while about 37 participants joined our virtual event through Zoom. Most on-site and virtual guests were battery researchers and students from DOST-PCIEERD, University of the Philippines, Technological Institute of the Philippines, and Ateneo de Manila University. Researchers from Stanford University, Harvard University, and Benchama Maharat School Thailand also joined us in the symposium.
An opening ceremony was led by Dr. Julie Anne D. del Rosario-Paraggua, the project leader of Project REBCell. Distinguished speakers invited are battery experts in the academe and in the industry. In their 20-minute talk, they discussed their recent research and insights on significant advances in materials and product R&D, manufacturing, and application of different battery systems and enabling technologies.
Notable speakers include Dr. Lyn Marie De Juan-Corpuz and Dr. Ryan Corpuz from DOST-PCIEERD and NanoLabs LRC Co. Ltd, Engr. Nonilo A. Peña of EUSTDD DOST-DOST PCIEERD, Engr. Gonzalo B. Julian Jr., M.Sc. of San Miguel Corporation Global Power Holdings, Dr. Bren Mark B. Felisilda of Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, and Engr. Prince Elmer A. Reyes, M.Sc. from Philippine Batteries, Inc. The project leaders of the program, Dr. Dranreb Juanico and Dr. Joey D. Ocon, also gave a talk on their laboratory's current research.
The Advanced Batteries Center (ABC) of the Philippines is a DOST-NICER Program between the Technopreneurship and Collaborative Applied Research (TechnoCoRe) of the Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP) and the Laboratory of Electrochemical Engineering (LEE) of the UP Diliman (UPD).
ABC's battery symposium is one of the first steps to achieving the program's endeavor of fostering battery research in the Philippines.