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

Andreas Abart
Technical Manager, Netzooe, Austria

Jan Meyer
TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Mark Halpin
Auburn University, USA

Tongxun Wang
China Electric Power Research Institute, China

Jargstorf Johannes
Fluvius, Belgium

Karl Atzmueller
Product Manager, Sprecher Automation, Austria