Featured Speakers

Dr. Marco Möller is Co-founder and CEO of Pionix GmbH, an industry leader for EV Charger Software. He chairs the EVerest TSC at LFE EVerest and initiated the growing community of companies, agencies, utilities, universities, and governments worldwide that collectively create and support the EV charging infrastructure of the future. In addition, he serves as a Board member in the LF Energy as well as the Open Charge Alliance.

François Mirallès has been a researcher at the Hydro-Québec Research Center since 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Québec, Canada. Specializing in AI applications within the electrical industry, he currently oversees Hydro-Québec’s contribution to an initiative focused on developing grid foundation models.

Entrepreneurial leader, operator and advisor with over fifteen years of experience advancing the energy transition and climate technology in both the public and private sectors. I help startups commercialize critical technologies, funds invest in and provide differentiated support to companies, and governments get greater leverage out of their resources to accelerate our transition. I thrive with steep learning curves, complex systems challenges, and particularly enjoy commercializing and scaling transformative technologies.

Sébastien is the General Manager of CRESYM, a non-profit research association gathering the energy industry and research players. He’s been active in the energy sector for more than 20 years, at TotalEnergies, EDF, RTE including about 10 with ENTSO-E, where he set the founding stones of the ten-year network development plan and adequacy forecasts. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris and Universität Stuttgart in process engineering.

Amber is the International Public Affairs Manager at Centre for Net Zero, a not-for-profit energy research institute founded by the Octopus Energy Group. She gets research into the hands of influential global stakeholders, drives bolder policy-making, and an accelerated energy transition. Amber has worked for the UK government in various strategy and policy roles in the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero and No.10. She holds a Geographical Sciences degree from the University of Bristol.

Pedro P. Vergara is an assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, leading a research team that exploits AI and optimization tools to solve challenges related to the planning and operation of city-level electricity infrastructure.

Jonas van den Bogaard is a Digital Strategy Lead at Alliander, a distribution system operator (DSO) in the Netherlands. Alliander provides reliable, affordable, and accessible energy transport and distribution to a large part of the Netherlands. Open source has proved to be an enabler of innovation and collaboration. It is Jonas’ responsibility to ensure open source initiatives contribute to Alliander’s digital strategy and objectives. Jonas takes a leading role in Alliander’s OSPO.

Tony Xiang is a distribution power system expert with strong affiliation of data science and scientific software engineering. He is currently leading the design and the implementation of innovative (modelling and software) solutions for the congestion problems of Dutch distribution grids.

Minh Dupuis is the Global Product Lead Market Management Systems (MMS) within GE Vernova’s Grid SW business. He drives the global strategy and roadmap for a portfolio that includes GridOS Markets, the Limit Exchange Portal (LEP), Market ENTSO-E, and Settlements. With over 18 years of experience spanning IT consulting and the grid software industry, Minh is passionate about delivering innovative solutions that empower market and system operators to accelerate their energy transition journey.

With over two decades in leadership across Cyber Security, Software Engineering, and Technology Management, Jonny Eriksson brings deep expertise in mission-critical automation platforms, from real-time control and HMI to event handling, gateway systems, and cloud-connected architectures. A strong advocate for open collaboration and modern software engineering practices, Jonny drives scalable innovation across the energy and industrial technology landscape.

Dr. Renan Giovanini brings over 25 years of experience across academia, transmission system operation, and digital energy products. He has led roles in engineering, product management, and marketing, with deep expertise in EMS, WAMS, AI/ML, and renewable orchestration. A published author and active industry contributor, he combines technical leadership with a strong focus on grid modernization and innovation.

Tim Breitenbach is the Head of Data & Development at Swissgrid, Switzerland’s Transmission System Operator (TSO). He leads all in-house software engineering efforts and oversees the data and developer platform strategy. Prior to this, he held roles as a Data Engineer and Staff Architect in other Swiss energy companies. He is also a dedicated Linux user with a strong preference for Arch Linux.

Lucian is Deputy Director of R&D and Open Source Director at RTE. He is leading the open source strategy of RTE which aims at moving the digitalization of the power grid into a new era. Early 2018 he started a collaboration with The Linux Foundation to launch LF Energy, an open source coalition to speed technological innovation and support the energy transition across the world.

Christian is a Managing Director at Accenture, responsible for the utilities and energy transition related business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has 20 years of experience in Engineering and Consulting for utilities. Christian holds a phd-degree in power system and high voltage engineering. Prior to Accenture he founded two companies providing services to utility companies. These companies became subsidiaries of umlaut SE and Christian became part of the global board to manage all energy transition related activities. In 2021 the board decided to sell the company with 5.500 employees to Accenture and Christian became an integral part of the newly founded service line “Industry X” within Accenture, entering the next digital frontier around engineering and manufacturing.

Antonello Monti received his Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1994. He started his career with Ansaldo Industria and then held different academic positions in Italy and USA. Since 2008, he has been the Director of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power System, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Since 2019 he also has a joined appointment at Fraunhofer FIT, Center for Digital Energy Aachen. 

Mirko Pracht is Director, Digitalization in System Operations at 50Hertz (German TSO) and Program Lead and Initiator for MCCS (Modular Control Center System). Mirko and his team are responsible for digitalization strategy and initiatives within System Operations of 50Hertz, project portfolio and project implementation, data strategy and architecture and for national and internal cooperation & compliance topics in System Operations. Before that he was Head of Technical IT, working with his team on maintenance, operation and development of all operational technology (OT) systems within 50Hertz.