Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering and Carey Business School are hosting Laboratory to Launchpad: Bringing Your Energy IP to Life, a conference focused on helping researchers think through how to move research into practice, with sessions on commercialization, intellectual property, funding, pitching, startup growth, and translational strategy. While the theme is energy, the applicability is quite broad, and the content should be relevant to many faculty, students, postdocs, and staff across Johns Hopkins whose work touches innovation, technology translation, entrepreneurship, or research with real-world impact.
This one-day workshop will not only spark conversation around the transition of energy-related technologies but also will offer attendees actionable tools and strategies for commercializing their work.
When: Thursday, June 11, 2026
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Where: Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C.
Highlights:
- Featured talk from Dr. David Gates, CTO of Thea Energy
- Workshops on pitching research, securing federal funding, intellectual property, licensing, and startup growth
- Working lunch panel on cross-disciplinary innovation and translational research
- Live pitch competition with judges from D.C. venture capital firms
- Networking reception to close the day