• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Greg Rieker

LongPath Technologies

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Greg Rieker is co-founder and CTO of LongPath Technology, and Associate Professor and Vogel Family Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. LongPath is a spinout of Dr. Rieker’s lab at the University of Colorado, offering continuous quantitative methane emissions monitoring across large areas using long distance laser sensing. LongPath was the Colorado Photonics Company of the Year in 2022, and has built a monitoring network covering more than 750 square miles for dozens of customers.  Greg earned a BS from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He has affiliations with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Greg received the NSF CAREER award, the Peter Werle and Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Scientist Awards, and the Colorado Governor’s Award for High-impact Research.  He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. 

Sessions With Greg Rieker

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:10pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 10:10 pm

    ARPA-E: Spotlight on energy startups
    Innovation & Technology

    The DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) invests in innovative, early-stage ideas from academia, private industry, national labs, start-up companies and small businesses. How are some of the agency’s brightest, emerging energy startups with innovations around emissions monitoring, energy storage and zero-carbon cement being set up for success? How do some of their challenges compare? To help them scale, what financial and non-financial help do these companies need next?