Gwyn Lauber

Gwyn Lauber is a corporate affairs and investor relations executive with more than 25 years of experience working with technology companies, including extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and, most recently, bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure.

As Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Canaan Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of bitcoin mining ASICs and computing systems, Gwyn works at the intersection of bitcoin, semiconductors, energy and high-performance computing. Her role has given her a firsthand view of the rapidly evolving relationship between compute and power - from semiconductor efficiency and bitcoin mining economics to grid flexibility, stranded and curtailed renewable energy, and the growing competition for power created by AI and data centers.

She is particularly interested in the potential for bitcoin mining to serve as a flexible energy resource. Unlike many traditional industrial loads, mining can be located close to energy production, absorb electricity that might otherwise be curtailed or wasted, and rapidly adjust consumption in response to grid conditions. Just as importantly, the heat generated by computing represents an underutilized resource rather than simply a waste product.

Gwyn is especially focused on the opportunity to rethink that equation: pairing renewable energy and flexible computing with heat recovery for applications such as district heating, greenhouses, commercial buildings and other community infrastructure. She believes the next stage of energy efficiency will involve looking beyond how electricity is generated to how completely we use the energy we already produce.

Her work and industry participation increasingly explore the convergence of bitcoin mining, semiconductor technology, renewable energy and heat reuse, and the opportunity to turn wasted electricity and wasted heat into productive economic resources.

Earlier in her career, Gwyn spent more than two decades advising technology and semiconductor companies on investor relations, corporate communications, capital markets and strategic positioning. That experience gives her a perspective that spans the full infrastructure stack: from silicon and computing hardware to capital markets, energy and the communities in which infrastructure is built.