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About Connect into

Connect into is the podcast by investment bank Pantokrator, that catches up with leading entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders in climate technology and the energy transition movement. We will be discussing what actions are being taken to create a sustainable future.

Publisher

Pantokrator

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jun 2023

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Upgrading the Grid with Rahul Chaturvedi, CEO & Founder of VIE Technologies

   Pantokrator's Andre Shortell sat down with Rahul Chaturvedi, Founder & CEO of VIE Technologies, to discuss all things Grid 2.0. Transformers are the backbone of our power grid, and most are quietly ageing without anyone watching. Up to half of all transformers are already past their useful life, while demand has surged since 2019 and new units now take two to five years to arrive at up to 80% more than before COVID. VIE's technology delivers continuous transformer intelligence, spotting the signatures of failure months before they happen, right across a fleet and without taking a single asset offline. No shutdowns, no guesswork, and no need for an expert to interpret the results. In this episode: ⚡ Problems with existing transformer monitoring technologies⚡ The special sauce behind VIE and its potential for impact⚡ How catching faults early protects critical assets and avoids costly outages⚡ VIE's road to 30,000 transformers and beyond As Rahul puts it: "We are the physics that chemistry cannot see." Discover more on VIE: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07kTMQ0 (https://na2.hubs.ly/H07kTMQ0) Thanks again, Rahul!

2. 

   28 Aug 2026

   'The Power Behind AI' with Haroon Inam, CEO and Co-Founder of DG Matrix

   Our founder Andre Shortell sat down with Haroon Inam, Co-Founder & CEO of DG Matrix, to discuss all things Grid 2.0.The race for AI isn't really about chips. It's about power. As Haroon puts it, power availability is the limiting factor for the next level of intelligence, and the grid was never built for demand this concentrated.DG Matrix is building the power fabric for the intelligence age. Its Interport™ platform, the first multi-port solid-state transformer, blends grid power, batteries, solar, natural gas, turbines and fuel cells in a single device, then delivers AC or DC power straight to data centres. It replaces the fifteen-to-twenty components of a legacy setup with one, cutting cost and footprint, and because it isn't AC coupled to the grid, it sidesteps the two-year interconnection queue and gets permitted in weeks.The traction speaks for itself. A commercial pipeline of over $14 billion through 2029, multi-gigawatt factory capacity coming online in 2027, and a software-defined design that can be reprogrammed for anything from supermarkets to EV chargers to AI factories. The platform is already validated through partnerships across the industry, including NVIDIA's Inception programme and MGX ecosystem.In this conversation, Haroon covers:⚡ Why power, not chips, is the real bottleneck for AI⚡ How one device replaces the tangle of legacy grid equipment⚡ Turning distributed generation into multi-gigawatt capacity in under a year⚡ Designing hardware through software, and using every watt to generate tokens⚡ DG Matrix's roadmap and where demand is most concentratedAs Haroon puts it: "Power is the limit today. It's not the GPUs or the chips."00:00 - Intro00:23 - How Haroon founded DG Matrix02:11 - Why the legacy grid is struggling03:43 - Power, not chips: the real AI bottleneck04:27 - The DG Matrix solution in plain terms06:08 - Designing the grid through software08:22 - Commercial progress and the $14bn pipeline10:26 - Where the grid opportunities are emerging12:21 - Handling a more volatile, renewable grid16:38 - What the market needs to overcome17:43 - Growth plans and scaling production22:00 - Funding and the road ahead If you would like to speak to someone at DG Matrix, please contact: info@dgmatrix.com (mailto:info@dgmatrix.com) 🔗 DG Matrix: https://www.dgmatrix.com🔗 Pantokrator: https://www.pantokratorltd.comThanks again, Haroon!

3. 

   26 Jun 2026

   Making Thermal Energy Storage Sexy with Pasquale Romano, CEO of Tempo Energy

   In this episode, Pasquale Romano, CEO of Tempo Energy, joins Andre Shortell and Alex Moody for a candid conversation on why this opportunity remains so overlooked, and what it will take to scale it. Industrial heat accounts for roughly a quarter of the world's final energy consumption, yet remains almost entirely reliant on fossil fuel combustion. Industry estimates put the global addressable opportunity at $6 trillion, with the sector roughly thirty times the size of the data centre market, and a fraction of the capital and attention. Topics covered: The case for industrial heat as a product-led, rather than project-led, technology category Manufacturing philosophy: why standardisation matters more than building bespoke factories Why lithium-ion, not direct competitors, represents the principal commercial threat to the sector The case against reliance on subsidies, and what a credible path to profitability looks like Why current market conditions favour Europe over the United States Tempo Energy's strategic priorities for 2026 and 2027 Thanks again, Pasquale!

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• Juergen Mayerhofer
• Valerie Dejaeghere
• Dr John Alper
• Patrick Sheehan
• Rob Genieser

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