2024 WMF Start Up & Scale Up Challenges: Prof. Victoire de Margerie announces the Awards
And the winners of our Start Up and Scale Up Challenges are :
GRAND PRIX START UP
Grand Prix to Aepnus Technology - Lukas Hackl and Bilen Akuzum, Ph.D.

COUP DE COEUR START UP
Coup de Cœur to Pure Lithium Corporation - Emilie Bodoin

GRAND PRIX SCALE UP
Grand Prix to Brimstone Energy - Hugo Leandri

COUP DE COEUR SCALE UP
Coup de Cœur to ZetaEnergy, LLC - Tom Pilette and Michael Liedtke

THE JURY
- Tadeu Carneiro, Chairman & CEO BostonMetal (USA)
- Laurent Frescaline, Founder & Head of Technology I Pulse (France)
- Bronwyn Fox, Chief Scientist CSIRO (Australia)
- Gervais Jacques, CEO 5N Plus (Canada)
- Ilse Henne, Member of the Executive Board Thyssenkrupp AG (Germany)
- Stéphane Mangin, Université de Lorraine (France) – Vice Chair
- Victoire de Margerie, Founder & Vice Chair WMF (France) – Chair
- Shirley Meng, University of Chicago/Argonne National Lab (USA)
- Martina Merz, Supervisory Board Member Rio Tinto and Siemens (Germany)
- Hartwig Michels, President Petrochemicals BASF (Germany)
- Bernard Pinatel, President Refining & Chemicals Total Energies (France)
- Alberto Salleo, Stanford University (USA)
- Nick Stanage, CEO Hexcel (USA)
- Karim Zaghib, Concordia University (Canada)