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Francesco Sciortino

Co-Founder & CEO

Proxima Fusion

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Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
DeepTech
Energy & Greentech

About Me

Dr. Francesco Sciortino is CEO and co-founder of Proxima Fusion. Francesco has spent nearly a decade working at the cutting edge of fusion, spanning groundbreaking work on tokamaks during his PhD in plasma physics and fusion energy at MIT and later at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), where he also acted as one of the European coordinators for tokamak research. It was at IPP that Francesco progressively shifted his focus from tokamaks to stellarators, recognizing breakthroughs in stellarator research in 2022 and defining a new path to faster commercialization of fusion energy.

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Purple Stage

June 17

3:40 PM - 4:05 PM - CET

Energy, Greentech & Mobility

Can Europe Lead the Fusion Race?

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Luc Rémont

EDF

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Francesco Sciortino

Proxima Fusion

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DeepTech
Energy & Greentech
Industry & Supply Chain

Stage One

June 17

5:15 PM - 5:55 PM - CET

Europe at the Frontier? DeepTech, Defense and the Race for Critical Technologies

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Philippe Keryer

Thales

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André Loesekrug-Pietri

JEDI - Joint European Disruptive Initiative

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Simon Radford

Milken Institute

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Francesco Sciortino

Proxima Fusion

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DeepTech
Sovereignty & GovTech