CEO, Cornis

Editor-in-chief. Energy Post

CEO – LECLANCHÉ

Energy and IT Innovator

CEO, First Energy Finance

Innovation Director Europe and Middle East-EDF

Chief Innovation Officer, innogy SE, innogy Innovation Hub

Co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth

Peter Carlsson joined Tesla Motors in 2011 as Vice President of supply chain with the mission of building a world class supply chain for electric vehicles. Starting from scratch, he has built up an organisation with complete end-to-end capabilities. The first phase of the assignment was to secure a successful industrialisation and launch of the Model S with Tesla’s 300+ suppliers in 18 months. Secondly, the team managed to turn a negative gross margin into a 28% surplus within the first year of production. As the company launched the Model X earlier this year, Peter decided to step out and do some other projects.

Before joining Tesla, Peter was the CPO (Chief Procurement Officer) for NXP (former Philips Semiconductors) responsible for purchasing and outsourcing. In this role, which was located in Singapore, Peter drove the project to take the organisation from a tactical decentralised structure to a strategic global commodity organisation. He was also country manager for Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines where NXP have more than 4000 people employed.

Previously, in 2005, Peter was CPO at Sony Ericsson. He had a total of 13 years experience from different roles with Ericsson and Sony Ericsson, mostly in Sweden but also in the US. He was also leading the team that built and implemented Ericsson’s framework for Supplier Quality Assurance.

Peter has a Master’s degree specialising in production and quality control, which he obtained fromLuleå Technical University in Sweden. He is also part of several advisory boards for global supply chain and procurement organisations.

Laurent Yana graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. He went on to work in the  IT Department at EDF-GDF, which was followed by his role of  Head Pricing in the Marketing Division of Gaz de France. From 1994-2006 he held various positions in Gaz de France, including Head of Transit and Sales (Gas Purchase Division), Deputy Managing Director (Regional Gas and Power Distribution), Project  Director M&A (International Division) and Head of Department (Strategy Division). From 2008, Laurent Yana was Vice President of Strategy at GDF SUEZ. Presently he is the Director and Advisor of Global Bus, Strategy Division at ENGIE.

Tomas Kåberger currently spends a quarter of his time in Japan as Executive Board Chairman of Renewable Energy Institute. Academically, he got an MSc in Engineering Physics, a PhD in Physical Resource Theory, and Docent in Environmental Science at Chalmers. He has been professor in International Sustainable Energy Systems at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, and he is currently Professor of Industrial Energy Policy at Chalmers University of Technology and serves as Distinguished Visiting Expert of bio-energy technology at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.

Industrially, he has had leading roles in companies providing fuels and technology in the bio-energy industry, another company developing sustainable energy solutions for the automotive industry, and a company operating wind power plants. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vattenfall, and the board of Industrifonden, an industrial investment foundation. Politically, he has served on board of Swedish and European Environmental Citizen’s organizations, several Swedish Government Commit tees developing energy and environmental legislation, and China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development as a member of a task force on Low-Carbon Industrialization Strategies. From 2008 until 2011 he was Director General of the National Swedish Energy Agency.

A devout tech evangelist, I have dedicated the last 20 years to bringing tech led innovation to some of the largest organizations across the globe. My commitment has been to helping companies “Renew” their world through digitization whilst creating “New” frontiers so they can be the first to disrupt their own industry.

An ardent advocate of Machine Learning and A.I, I have been spearheading the development of new platforms in the world of Energy and Services to leverage their data – the new oil of the 21st century. My passion to revolutionise these sectors through A.I. has lead me to the development of systems that are now crunching offshore oil rig data, which is foreseeing system failures in real time. And machine learning systems that have crunched 25 years of Tennis sensor data, giving us the power to showcase player’s technical and character trends, leading us to be able predicting outcomes.

Digitizing companies, I have worked on the automation of business processes for a Fortune 100 electric utility, cash management and payments hub for an investment bank and digitizing the world of sports to engage and add value to the fans whilst monetizing this engagement for the client. Disrupting industries, I am working on the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning through sensor data to create a real-time virtual tennis coach, an Uber like platform for real-time staffing and a social media sentiment platform for the oil and gas industry, providing a global and local insight into trends, news, opinion leaders and talking points to the leaders and policy makers in the industry.

Dr. Christian Chudoba is CEO and co-founder of Lumenaza. He graduated in Physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and did research at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT). Coming back to Germany he worked intensively on highly scalable software for telecommunications and utilities at Siemens. There, he led the solution business for billing and customer care software. To actively promote the energy revolution, he founded the Lumenaza GmbH together with Dr. Bernhard Böhmer in 2013.

John has been a consultant to the industry for over 20 years and is the global head of Frost & Sullivan’s Energy & Environment business. Focused  on visionary innovation and market transformation, John is a thought leader in the fields of Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Environment, Smart Grids and Buildings (including energy efficiency, energy management, smart buildings, lighting and facility management). John’s personal focus in the energy arena revolves particularly around the role of energy management, new business models, utility transformation and advanced technology in driving sustainability and business productivity.

Sylvain Paineau is with Schneider Electric since 2004 where he is in charge of managing innovation partnerships in Strategy & Technology corporate organisation (projects portfolio, incubator, start-up relationships and R&D partnerships. He is also coordinating strategic cooperation between Schneider Electric and a major European research centre.  He held several innovation management positions in the industry during these last 25 years and managed several R&D European projects.  He was in charge of MEMS lab in Thales (1997-2001) and more recently Marketing and Technical Director of PHS MEMS (2001-2004) a start-up in MEMS foundry business.  Sylvain Paineau holds an optronic engineering degree from Paris XI University.

Laurence Duyck is currently in charge of the open innovation initiative by Veolia focused on startups, SMEs and entrepreneurs. She is responsible for sourcing, evaluating and managing the integration of external innovative solutions in close connection with Strategy, Marketing, Business development and Business unit teams. Veolia is a leading company delivering services in water, waste and energy fields.

Before joining the field of innovation, Laurence had 20 years of experience in environmental topics management through various positions in the industrial area (risk studies and management, due diligences, remediation).

Luis Manuel has held this position since January 2008 with responsibilities that include company management and defining EDP group innovation strategy.

He is a board member of EDP Ventures (since 2008), CEO (since 2009), Windplus (since 2009), Arquiled (since 2010), all in the scope of his job assignment with EDP Inovação S.A..

He worked for 2 years at Explorer Investments, the largest private equity firm in Portugal and for 6 years in the strategy and business portfolio department of the holding of the Galp Energia group (the largest Portuguese oil and gas group). Prior to that, he worked at Espírito Santo Investment, in the project finance advisory department in Lisbon, and in the corporate finance department in Portugal and Brazil.

As member of the Ministry of Economy during the XVI Portuguese Constitutional Government, he assisted the Undersecretary for Economic Development with oversight responsibility over several privatisation processes in the energy sector, as well as in the process of defining the three major laws regulating the Portuguese energy sector (“Leis de Base” of the oil, natural gas and electricity sectors).

Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago-Concha  is Country Manager for Spain and Portugal at BlaBlaCar, the leading European ridesharing community that connects drivers with empty seats and people traveling the same way, so they can share their cost. Fascinated with technology since his childhood, Jaime has developed his career around it. He holds a Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Polytechnical Engineering University of Madrid and has been linked to the technological entrepreneurial field from the beginning of his career. Prior to joining BlaBlaCar on 2013 as Marketing Manager for the Spanish Market, he researched new ways of applying technology to education at the university, joined a high-tech startup working on big data for the telecommunications industry (Zhilabs) and founded his own user generated content based company (6cero). Jaime is a regular speaker in both national and international conferences, media and masters on the themes of Collaborative Economy, entrepreneurship and Online Marketing.

Gonzalo de Mendoza Asensi is a member of the Cabinet of the Commission for Climate Action and Energy. He is responsible for Energy projects and interconnections, relations with the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. His area of competence within the Cabinet includes energy interconnections, shale gas, oil and coal research, science and innovation, nuclear energy and nuclear safeguards.

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.

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.