Speakers
Keynote speakers
Liang Ying
Director of the Power Distribution Technology Center, CEPRI
President of the Shanghai Energy Internet Research Institute, State Grid Corporation of China
LIANG Ying has over 20 years of R&D experience in smart power distribution and relay protection. As a senior researcher and Director/President, she has led the research for over 30 projects including multiple national funds and accomplished a series of significant achievements in the area of power distribution, rural electrification, distributed energy resources, microgrids, relay protection, etc.
President LIANG has published over 30 SCI/EI papers, been granted 30 invention patents, and won 20 awards on the provincial/SGCC level.
Mrs.LIANG is also a Doctoral Supervisor at CEPRI, a Master Supervisor at North China Electric Power University and China Agricultural University, and a visitor scholar at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016.
Benoît Revaz
Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
Benoît Revaz has been Director of the SFOE since 2016. Prior to his current position, he held various management positions in Entreprises Electriques Fribourgeoises (now Group E), EOS Holding, Alpiq Holding and E-CUBE Strategy Consultants.
Jan De Voght
Head of Electrical Infrastructure, CERN, Switzerland
Gilles Thonet
Deputy Secretary-General, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Switzerland
Gilles Thonet is the Deputy Secretary-General of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as well as the Secretary of the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB). In his current role, Gilles oversees the IEC technical boards, the IEC strategy, legal and compliance matters, as well as external relationships with partner organizations.
A technology executive with international experience in high tech industrial companies (including ABB, Eaton and Schneider Electric), Gilles has a PhD in Signal Processing from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Louvain School of Engineering, Belgium, and an MBA from Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France.
Round table speakers
Uwe Kaltenborn
Director, Business Development, HIGHVOLT Prueftechnik Dresden GmbH, Germany
Marie-Cécile Alvarez-Herault
Grenoble InP, France
Xavier Yang
Senior Research Engineer, EDF Lab, France
Ziqian Zhang
Project Assistant at the Institute of Electrical Systems, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Stefan Polster
Expert, Power Systems, Verbund AG, Austria
Eike Erdmann
Team Leader, Grid Integration, Enercon, Germany
David Lehnen
Network Planning Expert, CKW, Switzerland
Herwig Renner
Professor, TU Graz, Austria
Marisca Zweistra
Smart Charging Project Manager, ELaadNL, Netherlands
Rémy Cleenwerck
Researcher, Ghent University, Belgium
Jan Desmet
Senior Full Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
Fred Steinhauser
Business Development Power Utility Communication, Omicron Electronics, Austria
Anton Krupskii
Vice President Digital Substation, Welotec, Germany
Riccardo Lama
President of CENELEC - Comité Europeén de Normalisation Electrotechnique, and President General of CEI - Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano, Italy
Ricardo Prata
Manager of Planning, ENOWA / NEOM, Saudi Arabia
Alessio Marcelli
Head of Network Analysis, Enel, Italy
Patrick Eugster
AMAG Venture LAB, Switzerland
Lukas Küng
Managing Director, Primeo Energie, Switzerland
Ben Gemsjäger
Head of PTI, Siemens, Germany
Fabrizio Pilo
Full Professor, University of Cagliari, Italy
Pierre Lemetayer
Supergrid Institute, France
Jun Ting Loh
Research Assistant, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz, Germany
Yasir Shamim
Research Assistant, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Joonas Kari
Network Engineer, Energiavirasto, Finland
Carl Johan Wallnerström
Head of Unit, The Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate (Ei), Sweden
Yun-Su Kim
Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Ingrid Schürrer
Salzburg Netz GmbH
Basanta Raj Pokhrel
Department of Electric Energy, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Andreas Jurisch
Siemens AG
Thomas Schinerl
Sprecher Automation
Albana Ilo, ETIP SNET WG1 co chair
Alfons Haber, E-Control
Andrea Michiorri, Mines Paris
Andrea Michiorro, MINES PARIS - PSL
Andreas Abart, Netzooe
Anne de Moliner, Enedis
Archie Chapman, University of Queensland
Aurelien Watare, RTE International
Bastien Gauthier, Enedis
Cezary Dzienis, University of Applied Sciences Zittau
Diana Moneta, RSE
Dong Jin Yun, LS ELECTRIC
Eduardo FRANCISCO, E-REDES
Filipa Capela, E-Redes
Flo Silver, SmarterGriidSolution
Frederic Reymond-Laruina, EDF
Frederik Geth, GridQube
Gaurav Singh, EPRI
George Andreakos, HEDNO
Gerd H. Kjølle, SINTEF
Gerhart Jambrich, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Ghazi Kablouti, Hitachi Energy
Graeme Burt, Strathclyde University
Harry Stokman, Schneider Electric
Ifedayo Oladeji, Hitachi Energy
Ilara Losa, RSE
Jan Meyer, TUD Dresden University of Technology
Jargstorf Johannes , Fluvius
Jemima Hurley, EPRI
Jennifer Han, Enedis
Johann Meyr, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Jonas Wafler, ewz
Jouni Peppanen, EPRI
Karl Atzmueller, Sprecher Automation
Laura Pimpinella, Enel
Levente Rácz, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Luis Cunha, EDP, ETIP/SNET
Luis Cunha , E-REDES / ETIP SNET
Luis Nando Ochoa, University of Melbourne
Luis Ochoa, University of Melbourne
Marina Cavlovic, HEP ODS Ltd
Mark Halpin, Auburn University
Markus Zdrallek, University of Wuppertal
Martin Uhrig, LEW
Mathias Duckheim, Siemens
Matias Kippke, PLEXIGRID
Maurizio Delfanti, Politecnico Milano
Nicole Ludwig, University of Tübingen
Nikos Hatziargyriou , National Technical University of Athens
Pascal Terrien, IEC - EdF
Paul Javal, Enedis
Pavel Novak, Schneider Electric
Peter Ferrier, Scottish Power Energy Networks
Peter Kjaer Hansen, Green Power Denmark
Radoslaw Szewczyk, DuPont Polska Sp. z o.o.
Rimnesh Shah, ENOWA
Rosemary Tawn, TNEI Services Ltd
Samuel Rader, ABB
Stephane Daetwyler, Romande Energie
Thierry Cormenier, SE
Tongxun Wang, China Electric Power Research Institute
Uwe Schmidt, University of Applied Sciences Zittau
Vincent Gliniewicz, ingridcapacity