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EIR LiveEpisode 16 - Spinning Out of Google X with Ramya SwaminathanRamya Swaminathan brings 30+ years of electricity infrastructure experience to this conversation about spinning companies out of corporate environments, navigating strategic pivots, and the transformative moment facing the energy grid. From growing up with unreliable infrastructure in India and the Philippines to leading Malta Inc. out of Alphabet's Moonshot Factory (Google X), Ramya shares hard-won lessons about commercializing deep tech in capital-intensive industries. An active supporter of the energy infrastructure innovation ecosystem, she previously served as Executive-in-Residence at Engine Ventures and currently sits on the boards of Vema Hydrogen and Resources for the Future. Her non-traditional path through a...
2026-02-041h 25
The Pre-Made PodcastJay Dickerson’s Extraordinary Career In Science – And The Coin Flip That Started ItJay Dickerson, Amherst Class of 1994, could give the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man In The World a run for his money. With a career in the sciences that spans not one but two tenured faculty positions, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Consumer Reports as Chief Scientific Officer, Jay is as skilled at helping the rest of us understand science as he is at practicing it.
Jay has a PhD in physics, holds two patents, and has published two books and more than 85 journal articles, including one he co-authored with a Nobel laureate. You'll also find videos of him on TikTok...
2023-11-1347 min
SOSV Climate Tech Podcasts03e09 - The Missing Link: Grid-level Energy Storage with Malta, Energy Dome and RenewellIn this panel from the 2023 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Sept 26-27, 2023), three founders of startups involved in long-duration energy storage discuss the importance of such technologies in the changing grid and the need for new ways to store energy. Each speaker explains their company's technology and how it fits into the energy system. They also discuss the challenges they have faced in funding their projects and the importance of proving the business case for their technologies. Finally, they highlight the cost competitiveness of renewable energy and the role of energy storage in enabling the transition to a greener future.
2023-10-1836 min
How I Built This with Guy RazUnlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc.Ramya Swaminathan is the CEO of Malta Inc, a company that spun out of Google’s moonshot factory in 2018 to work on an energy storage solution using the existing power grid. One thing holding the world back from a transition to clean energy: electricity generated from sources like the sun and wind has to be used right away or it disappears…but one possible answer might be—salt.This week on How I Built This Lab, Ramya recounts how she got into the renewable energy industry with two previous companies focused on hydropower. She also explains how molten...
2023-10-1235 min
The Pre-Made PodcastRamya Swaminathan, CEO of Malta, Is Building The Essential Piece To Scaling Renewable EnergyListen to Ramya Swaminathan, CEO of energy storage company Malta, and you'll understand what it means to have learned how to think. With degrees in anthropology and economics from Amherst College, Ramya is the CEO of her second renewable energy company. Her superb logic, ability to understand and weigh options and tradeoffs, and ask the right questions at the right time all have not only earned her a seat at the table in an engineering-intensive industry. They've empowered her to lead, motivate, and inform others, from others who have an interest in this business to White House cabinet secretaries.
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2023-10-0947 min
The Women Who Code PodcastTalks Tech #36: Build Resilient Environment Through Cloud Disaster RecoveryEpisode: https://www.womenwhocode.com/blog/talks-tech-36-build-resilient-environment-through-cloud-disaster-recovery
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvyAlLg00ro
Ramya Victor, Staff Engineer, VMWareShwetha Lakshman Rao, R&D Manager at VMwareRanjani Swaminathan, Manager R&D, VMWare Software India Private Limited
2023-03-2921 min
Parley by The HinduWhat approach should we adopt to treat Omicron?With Omicron becoming the dominant COVID-19 variant in the country, and with its reputation of being a ‘milder’ form of the disease, there is a debate raging on what treatment methodologies are appropriate. Should we adopt a conservative line or an aggressive line to treat Omicron? The responses to SARS-CoV-2 have been changing constantly, whether in the form of treatment or social restrictions.Here we discuss the question and the challenges of responding to an evolving pandemic.Guests: Subramanian Swaminathan , Director, Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Chennai; V . Ramasubramanian , Senior Infectious Diseases Consult...
2022-01-2846 min
Azeem Azhar's Exponential ViewWhy Energy Storage Is the Future of the Grid (with Malta CEO Ramya Swaminathan)Renewable energy is the future of power, but relying on solar, wind, etc. will require a more reliable and resilient grid. Effective energy storage would make it possible to smooth out discrepancies in supply and demand, and harness renewable power more efficiently.
A range of technologies are being developed and refined with that mission in mind, including large-scale lithium-ion batteries and clean hydrogen storage. Former Alphabet X moonshot spinoff Malta Inc. uses established industrial processes and molten salt to store energy and pump it back into the grid as demand requires. Malta CEO Ramya Swaminathan joins Azeem...
2021-11-1050 min
Watt It TakesMalta CEO Ramya SwaminathanThere's a race going on to build the next generation of energy storage technologies using gravity, chemicals, or heat to store clean electricity for long periods of time.And that's where our guest, Ramya Swaminathan, comes in.Ramya is the CEO of a company called Malta. Malta is building an electro-chemical battery that converts renewable electricity into heat. It's like a giant version of the heat pump in your air conditioner, using commercially-available, off-the-shelf parts.Malta's heat-pump battery could provide energy to the grid for half a day -- and potentially, multiple days.
2021-08-1048 min
New FoundationsElectrify!Renewable energy, including solar and wind, is rapidly becoming the cheapest form of electricity there is. The prospect of cheap, limitless, emissions-free energy is here. Harnessing it will take a transformation of our infrastructure and demand that consumers and businesses adapt to new technologies. To capture the benefits of clean energy, we’ll need more of our energy use to come from the electric socket, rather than from fuels that flow directly into our cars, homes and factories. We’ll need to electrify everything from home heating systems, to container ships and steel making plants– but how do we do tha...
2021-06-0627 min
In Focus by The HinduWHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on virus variants, vaccinations and the undercounting of fatalities | The Hindu In Focus PodcastAmong the key voices of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Soumya Swaminathan with her clarity of thought, articulation and deep awareness of the Indian context, has emerged as a reliable voice amid the covid 19 pandemic maelstrom. In an online interview, she provides detailed responses to a range of topics that are simmering, resolves some doubts, and advocates strategies to adopt gainfully. Investments in health care are crucial, she says, because it is now clear that there is nothing without health and without sufficient physical and mental well being, it would be impossible to take the path to recovery.
2021-05-1726 min
InevitableEp 48: Ramya Swaminathan, CEO of Malta, Inc.Today’s guest is Ramya Swaminathan, CEO of Malta, Inc.
Malta’s electro-thermal energy storage system is a new grid-scale technology that collects and stores energy for long durations. Energy can be stored from any power generation source in any location – be it wind, solar, or fossil fuels – enabling reliable and predictable operation of the grid.
Ramya joined Malta from Rye Development, where she was CEO, co-founder, and Member of the Board of FFP New Hydro. Under her leadership, Rye Development grew to be the leading developer of new hydropower projects in the United States and its...
2019-10-2459 min
Leaders in CleantechRamya Swaminathan, Malta Inc - Episode 18It was very flattering when a Google Moonshot company, invested in by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos funded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, called to ask for help to scale their team. I took the opportunity whilst in Boston, MA, meeting the team, to record this episode with CEO Ramya Swaminathan, and to hear what’s it like to have such auspicious origins and investors, and what pressure that brings.About our guestRamya Swaminathan joined Malta from Rye Development, where she was CEO, co-founder and Member of the Board of FFP New Hydro. Under her leadership, Rye Development grew to be the le...
2019-04-1034 min