J.C. Herz

COO at Ion Channel

JC Herz is the COO of Ion Channel and has served on federal investigative and advisory boards for more than a decade. She is co-chair of the NTIA (Department of Commerce) software transparency standards and formats working group. She has served as a special White House consultant for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as an advisor to DARPA’s Office of Defense Science. JC was a co-author of the Pentagon’s Open Technology Development roadmap spearheaded by Sue Payton, then the Air Force’s chief procurement officer.

JC participated in the Standing Committee of Technological Knowledge (TIGER) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a council of future trends for the intelligence community, the Federal Advisory Committee of Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation and the IT committee and creative practice.

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Klaus Hesch: Building Europe’s Fusion Supply Chain

At the Future Trends Forum, KIT expert Klaus Hesch warns: without a strong and scalable supply chain, Europe risks missing the fusion energy race

Richard Pearson: The Tritium Cycle – The Hidden Challenge for Commercial Fusion

This article has been translated using artificial intelligence Fusion energy is a global promise -but also a monumental challenge. To turn it into a clean, abundant, and safe energy source, mastering plasma is not enough: we must learn how to fuel and sustain that system for decades. That’s the key point raised by Richard Pearson, […]

Ángel Ibarra: Functional Materials to Turn Fusion into Industrial Reality

At the Future Trends Forum Fusion Forward, Ángel Ibarra (IFMIF-DONES) highlights a challenge that rarely makes headlines but is absolutely decisive: without functional materials validated under extreme conditions, fusion will not be viable