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.

Elena Bou is the Innovation Director and member of the executive board of InnoEnergy. She has been involved in this company since 2007 being member of the founder team of InnoEnergy.
Prior to that, she developed her professional career in the field of management consulting in both private and public companies, nationally and internationally, giving her the opportunity to manage and develop many European Multinational Projects involving a high degree of complexity and stakeholders and including the creation of two spin-offs.
Elena is also Associate Professor of ESADE Business School since 1998. Former Director of the Executive Master of Operations and Services and cofounder and former director of the GRACO Research Group (IIK) at ESADE. Consultant and researcher in the field of knowledge and Innovation Management and author of several publications.
Elena Bou holds a PhD in Management Sciences from ESADE-URL (Doctor Europeus) and has a degree in Business Administration and Management and an MBA from ESADE Business School. She also studied in Florida University and Copenhagen Business School.

Diego Pavía is a serial entrepreneur, having created seven companies in his lifetime.

He graduated as an electrical engineer, specialising in electronics and automation from the Polytechnical University of Madrid. In 1988, he was as co-founder and CEO of a start-up, Knowledge Engineering, dealing with industrial controls systems using artificial intelligence and neural networks. Three years later he joined Sema Group, and started a long career with private companies.

In SchlumbergerSema, Diego headed multicultural working groups all over the world in the field of energy, with revenues of $650M. Between 2002 and 2010, Diego was the CEO of Atos Origin, a leading international IT service provider, where he was responsible for Spain and South America, about 9,000 employees, and an annual turnover of €450 million.

Since 2010, Diego has been CEO of InnoEnergy.

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.

Ton Dreves is CEO of SolidCity, a spin off subsidiary company of Equitec Holding. Ton holds a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is an driven entrepreneurial business man leading a group of companies with a focus on innovation. This group was founded by his father 35 years ago, of which he became the owner in 1996. He transformed the company structure into several  independent business-units, each with their own innovative specialism, their own customers and acting independently under their own brand names. Since last year, SolidCity is the new born company being part of this group structure. The mission of SolidCity is to create Smart Cities by enabling sustainable city growth with a more safe, secure and comfortable living environment for citizens.

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.

holds a PhD in industrial organisation and has been professor of economics at Paris-Dauphine University since 2002. The former international Vice-President of Paris-Dauphine, Patrice now heads a research centre in Energy and Climate Change Economics. His research deals with the convergence between electricity and telecommunications in the transition to low-carbon energy, with particular interest in the development of smart cities, smart electricity grids and the emergence of new organisations and new business models, with a recent focus on blockchain. He is co-editor of the journal Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Management and Network Economics. Patrice was a visiting professor at various foreign institutions, including Bocconi University (Milan), Fudan University (Shanghai), University of Tokyo (Todai) and Saint Joseph University (Beirut).

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.

A graduate in Public Administration from Twente University, Marc helps private enterprises and knowledge institutes fulfill their ambitions and expand, to become important contributors to the Arnhem community.

His focus and experience lies in the fields of new energy and international relations.

In new energy he has worked in public / private endeavours to define and launch several network initiatives and programmes in the city and region-wide. Thanks to this cooperation, some of these ventures have attracted over 100 active participants over a period of several years, and each initiative has led to valuable learning experiences, the founding of new companies and new innovations that have enjoyed further development and attracted customers.

In international relations, he has focused on forging strong connections between Arnhem and Germany, EU markets and China. The results have been an EU region / city network, several EU network memberships, and a sister city relationship to Wuhan in central China; a city of more than 10 million inhabitants in one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

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.

Erik held several positions over the years, at Atlas Copco. He is an innovative and visionary leader committed to electrifying the mining world.

Jimmy Ördberg is VP Technology Management at Husqvarna Group AB where he drives the overall processes for early stage innovations across the different divisions, especially within battery drive systems and connectivity. He has previously held different management positions at Atlas Copco, General Motors and Saab Automobile, and was a council member of the Vehicle Research Program FFI, founded by the Swedish Government Authority Vinnova. Jimmy holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an Executive Masters in Technology Management from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lina Bertling Tjernberg is Professor in Power Grid Technology at KTH – the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her research aims to develop models for electric power solutions for the future sustainable energy system. Areas of special expertise are in applied reliability theory and maintenance management. She has previously been Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sustainable Power System and the Head of the Power System Group, and with the Swedish National Grid as Director of the Research and Development. Dr. Bertling Tjernberg participates as an expert and adviser in government and industry and is active in various professional networks such as IVA and IEEE.

Josephine Zetterman is responsible for the Future Grids business at Siemens AB, which includes battery storage systems, systems for PV plants, e-mobility and on-shore power supply. She is also a member of the Swedish Smartgrid task force seeking to clarify Roles and Responsibility for flexibility in the energy system. Previously she completed the Siemens Graduate trainee-program with placements both in Sweden and abroad. Josephine is a Mechanical Engineer from Lund University, with a M.Sc. in Energy Technologies. Her Master’s thesis was done in collaboration with Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, where she studied the possibilities for implementing hybrid renewable energy systems in remote locations.

Jorge Martinez is the Vice President, Market Development of Sentient Science, a global leader in life extension solutions for industrial assets, enabling Utilities/Electricity Operators and OEM’s to lower the cost of energy through disruptive technologies based on Digitalization and Materials Science.
Prior to joining Sentient Science, Jorge developed a 20-year international career covering various functions in the areas of R&D, Project Management, Product Development and Sales & Business Development in the Automotive and Renewable Energy sectors.
Jorge started his career at Renault as R&D Project Manager for engine design, then coordinating a full vehicle platform development from early design stages till full industrial roll-out. He later joined Alstom Wind where he was Director of Sales of Tendering for EMEA & Asia-Pacific, leading a €300M/yr P&L top-line and originating windpower projects worldwide. He later moved to GE Renewables where he managed several strategic projects across EMEA.
Jorge is a Mechanical Engineer from Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain), with a Master in Energy Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (France). He also studied Political Sciences and holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School (France/Singapore).

Mars Geuze is Chief Commercial Officer at Hardt Hyperloop, the European company that brings sustainable high-speed transportation to the world that is faster than airplanes, yet more energy-efficient than trains. Within Hardt, Geuze is responsible for the collaboration with stakeholders worldwide to develop hyperloop routes and standardize hyperloop technologies. Before co-founding Hardt Hyperloop, Geuze led the technical team of Delft Hyperloop, winning Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition by successfully testing the first hyperloop in cooperation with over 75 private and public partners. Geuze has been involved in the energy transition in the automotive sector for several years, leading a team in the development of the electrical system of an electric race car at DUT Racing. Geuze holds a B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from the Technical University of Delft.

Christopher Burghardt is ChargePoint’s Managing Director for Europe, responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s European business. Chris joined ChargePoint from Uber where he was the head of policy and communications, EMEA. Prior to his role at Uber he led the global and emerging market expansion at First Solar, a provider of solar panels and utility-scale PV power plants. Other roles Chris has filled were as Vice President for Corporate Affairs for Western Europe at Anheuser-Busch InBev and as Vice President for Business Development and Marketing EMEA at Hill & Knowlton.

Chris holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the College of Europe and a BA from the University of Sussex and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence. As a dual German/Belgian citizen, Chris is no stranger to Brussels as he grew up here for a part of his life and currently lives here with his wife and three young children.

Born in 1950, Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University Munich and received a PhD in Material Science.

He worked for BMW for 23 years, starting as a design engineer and on course of his career was in charge of electronic development, body engineering and also vehicle line director of the BMW 3-series. He finished as a Member of the Board in charge of R&D and purchasing.

He then joined the German automotive supplier Continental, where he was in charge of the electronics and the brake business.

He then became CEO of German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon.

After retirement, he joined several boards, including ASML N.V. and Autoliv Inc. and he is chairman of the German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex SE. He was head of engineering at Jaguar Land Rover from 2013 – 15 and since then focusses on the development of JLR´s first electric vehicle, the I-Pace.

Ulrich Seitz is the Managing Director of BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures GmbH a corporate venture capital firm focusing on digital energy solutions, storage and e-mobility. With his educational background on Entrepreneurship and Company Building at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), he has first co-founded a technology company in the field of energy efficiency, worked many years as an Acceleration Coach and as Management Consultant, before becoming Managing Director at BayWa r.e. in 2017.

Dr. Hans Hubschneider founded PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG, Karlsruhe, in 1979 and was the CEO until 2011. Since then Dr. Hubschneider has been involved in the energy sector. In addition to active participation in start-ups in the fields of mobility and energy, he supports the InnoEnergy and the think tank “Internet der Energie” at the BDI (Federation of German Industries).

Since 2014 Dr. Hubschneider has been CEO of the regional energy network fokus.energie e.V., which bundles education, research and start-up support in the TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe. Since the end of 2017 fokus.energie has been operating the accelerator AXEL with local partners and with support from the state of Baden-Württemberg to support company start-ups in the energy sector.

Since March 2018 Dr. Wolf has been the Regional Manager of the Electric Power Research Institute based in Switzerland. EPRI conducts research, development, and demonstration projects on electricity generation, delivery, and use in the United States and internationally.

A physical chemist by training, Dr. Wolf conducted post-doctoral research in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, having earned a PhD in physical chemistry from the Ruprecht-Karls Universität in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2002 Dr. Wolf joined the Alstom Power Technology Center where in 2008 he became a Principal Engineer for chemical technologies, working on projects related to CCS, membranes, PV and energy storage.

From 2013-2016 he served as Technology Watch Manager in Alstom Open Innovation, responsible for technology scouting in the field of energy and thereby, representing Alstom in the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Program, the EU Zero-Emission Platform and other national and international R&D programmes.

From 2016 to 2018 he led Innovation & Roadmapping in GE Power Service, following market and technology trends, analysing future product needs and organising multi-year product and technology roadmaps.

Roger Harrabin, is the BBC’s Environment Analyst, and one of their senior journalists on the environment and energy. He has broadcast on environmental issues since the 1980s and has won many awards in print, TV and radio. Aside from his specialty he has covered many major general news stories. He is a Visiting Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, an Associate Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and has received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Cranfield University.

In 2004, the BBC created the role of Environment Analyst so Harrabin could work across all media. He reported early on the uncertainty in climate forecasting and on geoengineering to combat climate change.

In 2007, he shared the Media Natura TV News award for films including a report from Bangladesh highlighting the need for climate adaptation; another revealing how China was building two power stations a week; and a third demonstrating the drive for the Chinese to increase energy production to tackle poverty. He also showed how some people in the West were blaming China for its emissions created during the manufacture of goods for export. Harrabin popularised discussions around these “embedded” emissions and showed that there were problems in all methodologies comparing international greenhouse gas emissions. In 2015, Harrabin’s report on renewable energy sources in Malawi , including a cook stove that charges mobile phones, reportedly pulled in 22 million hits.

Harrabin’s reporting is dominated by risk issues. He states that often major risk issues fail to fit news criteria of novelty, drama, conflict, personality and pictures. The media therefore provides prominence to statistically lower probability events such as MMR vaccine problems, dirty bombs, child abduction, transport safety, exotic diseases, the UK National Health Service “crisis”, the Brent Spar oil platform, nuclear power failures and genetic modification impacts. He argues that the media should find new ways of exploring long-term risk issues like preventative health and security of water, food, energy and climate, which can and will impact many more people’s lives.

Leen Govaerts has more than 15 years of experience in policy-oriented research on sustainable urban development. At present she is leading the research unit Smart Energy and Built Environment dealing with sustainable energy and urban sustainability. She represents VITO in the board of Energyville, a research association on sustainable energy and cities between VITO, KULeuven and IMEC.
She is involved in several international networks and has experience in coordinating several European research consortia (e.g. IEE, Framework program). She is recognized expert on behalf of the Flemish Government to evaluate sustainability aspects for granting subsidies for renewal of urban districts.

Jørgen Abilgaard is Project Director for the 2025 Carbon Neutral strategy and plan for the City of Copenhagen. He is an experienced project manager and strategic adviser who has worked on several projects in Denmark, Nordic Countries and internationally for companies, organisations and governmental administration. Jørgen has worked with a wide range of tasks within the energy and environment area such as energy planning and strategies, green growth, climate change, sustainability, the Kyoto mechanisms, the Nordic power market, renewable energy, energy efficiency, research and development, building regulations and investments in the energy sector.

From 2002 to 2010 Jørgen was director in the Nordic consultancy companies ECON and Poyry Management Consulting. Before that, Jørgen spent 2 years as special adviser for the former Danish Minister for Environment and Energy, Mr. Svend Auken and before that as adviser in several positions in the Danish Ministry for Energy.

Jørgen has a comprehensive experience from work within international organisations such as the United Nations, EU, IEA, the Nordic Council of Ministers and BASREC and he has an extensive national and international network.

Specialties include: Climate change, green growth, sustainability, energy planning and strategies, the Kyoto mechanisms, the Nordic power market, renewable energy, energy efficiency, investment, research and development, building regulations as well as strategy and planning in general.

Tim Naylor is a veteran in advanced Information Management and Analytics sectors and heads Envision Energy’s Digital business in EMEA. He has an Honours degree in Information Science from Otago University, an MBA from London Business School and 20 years leadership experience with Oracle EMEA.  For the past 4 years Tim has been helping global energy companies create advantage from digitalisation, where advances in Energy IoT, cloud computing, big data and machine learning are dramatically reshaping the energy value chain.  These advanced technologies are also creating opportunities for:

(i) reduced LCOE and system integration cost of renewables,

(ii) better predictions of weather, power, asset health and optimised O&M activities,

(iii) exciting new business models in power system flexibility, microgrids and intelligent infrastructure, and

(iv) the electrification of heating, lighting, buildings and e-mobility networks.

Giles Dickson is the CEO of WindEurope since 2015. Previously he ran global public affairs in Alstom and served 16 years as a UK Government civil servant.

Dr. Mark Hartney is the Chief Technology Officer, Division Director for Applied Energy, and Deputy ALD for Energy Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.  Mark is also a Precourt Energy Scholar with the Stanford Precourt Energy Institute.  Mark is responsible for expanding the engagement of SLAC with industry partners, government agencies and Stanford University with an emphasis on renewable energy materials development and grid integration.

Prior to his role at SLAC, Mark served at the Department of Energy as one of the founding program directors of ARPA-E, from July, 2009 to March 2012.  As a program director, he was responsible for selecting and managing technical projects, and defining new research program opportunities.  Mark led ARPA-E’s efforts in carbon capture technology, (the IMPACCT program), as well as a number of other projects in wind technology, energy efficiency, biofuels and lighting.

Before going to ARPA-E, Mark served as the Chief Technical Officer for FlexTech, an industry-government partnership focused on R&D for flexible electronics including displays, photovoltaics and OLED lighting.  Mark previously worked in a variety of technical management, marketing and business development roles, at Silicon Image – developers of the HDMI interface, and at dpiX – a display And image sensor manufacturer spun out of Xerox PARC.

From 1992 to 1996, Mark worked in Washington DC at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).   Mark also previously held research and development staff positions at MIT Lincoln Labs and AT&T Bell Labs.

Mark serves on the board of the California Clean Energy Fund, the Lab Affiliates of the California Council on Science and Technology, and is an advisor to a few energy-related start-up companies and the Cyclotron Road program at LBNL.

Mark is a graduate of MIT (B.S. and M.S.) and earned his doctoral degree at University of California at Berkeley, all in chemical engineering.  He has over 60 technical publications, over 100 conference presentations and 4 issued patents.

Robert Rosner is a theoretical physicist, on the faculty of the University of Chicago since 1987, where he is the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, as well as in the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Computation Institute, and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. He served as Argonne National Laboratory’s Chief Scientist and Associate Laboratory Director for Physical, Biological and Computational Sciences (2002–2005), and was Argonne’s Laboratory Director from 2005–2009; he was the founding chair of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratory Directors Council (2007–2009); and he is currently co-chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (as a Foreign Member) in 2004; he is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Most of his scientific work has been related to fluid dynamics and plasma physics problems, as well as in applied mathematics and computational physics, especially in the development of modern high-performance computer simulation tools, with a particular interest in complex systems (ranging from astrophysical systems to nuclear fission reactors). He also serves as the chairperson of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist’s Science and Security Board.

Within the past few years, Mr. Rosner has been increasingly involved in energy technologies, and in the public policy issues that relate to the development and deployment of various energy production and consumption technologies, including especially nuclear energy, the electrification of transport, and energy use in urban environments. As an outgrowth of these interests, he co-founded the Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) at the University of Chicago, spanning the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, the Booth School of Business, and the Department of Economics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He is a member of the American Academy’s Council and serves as co-chair of the Academy’s Global Nuclear Future Initiative.

From material scientist at the service of power generation (nuclear and fossil) and distribution, Valery evolved to international collaboration and leverage. He co-founded NUGENIA, an international collaborative initiative with over 110 members from 28 countries, and I2US, a corporate innovation to business acceleration vehicle founded with key Silicon Valley and European stakeholders and currently in a process of expansion.

Valery spent 2 years in Japan and 8 years in the States, working in the start-up American Superconductor and in Bicron, part of Saint-Gobain High Performance Materials. He spent time as EDF Open Innovation Director for North America based in San Francisco, and then in a similar role in Paris, covering Europe and the Middle East. There he serves the whole EDF Group, a world leader in low carbon energy that in its diverse geographies and business lines is dedicated to building mutually exclusive opportunities between EDF and start-ups.

Valery remains active in the energy sector, co-founding and managing two micro-hydro companies. He has also taken an active role in politics and has been mayor of a French village in Champagne for 6 years.