Ben Vickery serves as senior technical advisor and sustainability program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). Vickery’s focus is on the E3 (Economy, Energy and Environment) initiative, a coordinated federal and local technical assistance initiative to promote sustainable manufacturing and economic growth throughout the United States. Vickery has developed several MEP’s technology acceleration initiatives, including Technology Scouting, a pull-based approach to technology transfer and commercialization, and Technology Driven Market Intelligence, which helps organizations better understand how a product, technology, capability, or product idea might be leveraged to create business opportunities.