Michael Sen is a member of the Siemens Managing Board, in which he has special responsibility for Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and the company’s Global Services unit. After completing a Siemens Trainee Program (Stammhauslehre) and earning a degree in business administration at the Technical University in Berlin, he held various positions at Siemens, where he served among others, in the Corporate Strategy Department, as Head of Investor Relations and as Chief Financial Officer of the Healthcare Sector. In 2015, Sen moved to E.ON, where he was the company’s Chief Financial Officer. In this role, he was responsible for the spinoff of E.ON’s energy trading business and its conventional power generation business to form the subsidiary Uniper including the unit’s public listing. In 2017, he returned to Siemens. As the member of the Managing Board with special responsibility for Siemens Healthineers, he helped prepare the business’s IPO, which took place in March 2018.

Kasper Roed Jensen is the vice president for Ideation and Partnering in Vestas – the largest wind turbine supplier in the world. Kasper holds a master’s degree in engineering, and has been engaged in various parts of the energy world from oil and gas into renewables where he has been working for the last 13 years on both the utility side and different turbine suppliers.
In his current position, Kasper is responsible for technologies and new business opportunities that will ensure that Vestas also in the future will claim the leading position within renewable energy as well as find partners both from academia  and industry that can aid that vision.

Ed began his career in 2001 as graduate indexer and abstractor in the team creating the Derwent World Patents Index. Ed moved in 2005 to the then-emerging field of professional patent analysis – leaning on the deep technical content embedded in worldwide patent information to answer big questions for innovators: Who is doing what? What is next? Where are we? This field developed into a multimillion-dollar business providing patent data-underpinned answers to audiences that need and appreciate them, while lacking the ability or time to perform it for themselves.

Ed has designed and fostered many of the metrics and visual styles in use today – strength scoring of patents, methods and models of identifying key emerging themes and those difficult-to-find new players, bringing the methods of the scientific bibliometric discipline across to patent datasets and applying all those techniques to datasets both huge and niche.

He has spent most of his career at Thomson Reuters and its divested IP and Science business: Clarivate Analytics. Ed spent 2 years leading the Analytics business of Landon IP/CPA Global before returning to Clarivate in 2018. In this time, he managed and built professional production teams and environments for the delivery of high quality, high accuracy work for clients large, small and governmental across almost all industry sectors.

Ed has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham, and in his early career specialized in the technical fields of instrumentation, measurement and plasma/particle physics.

Edel Sheridan Ph.D is a senior research scientist with over 15 years of experience in research of electrochemical systems with a particular focus on batteries including Li ion, Mg, Zinc-air and High temperature liquid metal batteries. She has worked on a host of industry and publicly funded projects with roles varying from laboratory researcher to manager. In recent years she has focused on strategic business development and is heavily involved in several European initiatives, including the preparation of the SET Plan Implementation Plan for Action 7. Edel’s employer SINTEF has very recently appointed her the role of Leader for Strategic Development – Batteries. Edel is a native English speaker, has good communication skills and enjoys working with diverse teams. She is motivated to see the establishment of a large-scale battery industry in Europe.

Sara founded Tempus Energy in 2012. Her background combines a financial markets systems risk career with energy system innovation. She is a Director of the Association of Decentralised Energy, a member of the High Level Group of i24C, the Industrial Innovation for Competitiveness initiative, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for Energy for the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and an Innovation Ambassador for Innovate UK.

Since Mr. Aagaard was appointed CEO of the Danish Energy Association in 2009 his main focus has been on safeguarding the interests of the energy sector – and securing its position on the global market for energy technology solutions – a sector which will play a pivotal role in the struggle for implementing the ambitious political visions of becoming independent of fossil fuels in the years to come. Internationalisation of energy policy is a unifying principle in his work as well.

Communicating highly complex energy policy to a broad audience, politicians and journalists, in particular, is one of Mr. Aagaard’s skills and high priorities.

Mr. Aagaard has obtained his professional and technical knowledge through his MSc in Public Administration and through his management career as Head of Division in The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Climate and Energy section of DI Confederation of Danish Industry, and from 2006 to 2009 Vice President of the Danish Energy Association.

Theresa Steininger is the CEO and co-founder of WOHNWAGON, a young company from Austria focusing on sustainable and independent living. The innovative team developed circular systems for the supply of living units that can work completely off the grid and still provide a high living comfort. Today the company has 23 employees, offering self-sustained tiny houses and consulting for independent supply in closed circulation systems. Theresa, studied marketing and business administration in Vienna.