Co-founding Cognitive.Business as Director of Technology. Designing and creating the digital products to help engineers unlock the potential value in their data with easy-to-use machine learning. The solutions are secure, accessible, and provide engineers near-instant insight to decades of their industrial data, even on legacy systems.

Mercedes Irujo / Head of Innovation Wind Projects / ACCIONA

At present, she is leading the Innovative Wind Projects of Acciona, which are deployed over two main lines: Extending Life of the assets and Optimizing the O&M of the fleet. Those two lines are based on techniques such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Physical Modeling representing the behavior of the Wind Turbines and its components.  She started in the Renewable Energy Sector 12 years ago in Acciona Windpower working on topics related to the Wind Turbine Design Process in the engineering department, in particular, with the Certification Process. Afterwards she changed to Acciona Energy, to the Utility Division, for the Life Extension Program in the Wind Energy Production Department as expert for Turbine Simulation where she stayed for 6 years and one year ago she moved internally to Innovation department. She did her studies in Mechanical Engineering at the Public University of Navarre and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in Paris.

Starting from 2009, Richard Distl, joined the ImWind Team as a partner in project development and engineering. From that time on the windfarm operations management came into focus. With the company growth, Richard Distl focused on the operations management, which is now his primary scope of work. The digitalisation around asset operation is the foundation on which ImWind builds up it’s successful operational services. Furthermore, together with the company BaxEnergy, ImWind also offers a great software products called Energy Studio Pro and AssetStack, that help to manage renewable assets and the digitalisation efforts around them in the most efficient way

Christopher Gray has more than 20 years of industrial experience, working originally in the gas turbine and automotive industries and for the last 12 years in the wind industry. He is an energetic and creative entrepreneur and has founded and directed several successful technology companies. Currently he is the CEO of i4SEE TECH GmbH, a company providing automated software solutions and strategies for wind turbine fleet optimisation. He is a specialist in the field of data analytics, predictive maintenance and digitalisation and holds a Masters degree in Renewable Energy Systems

Multi Disciplined , experienced professional with 14 years of experience of working in various segments of energy industry. Skilled in operations, EPC, Oil & Gas, Subsea Engineering, Commissioning, IMR. I have extensive hands on experience with 500+ offshore days.

Strong academics and technical background with multiple Master's degree INDØKS , Industrial Economics, risk management , Asset management from University of Stavanger (UiS). 

Marc-Alexander Lutz holds a Master Degree in Engineering with the focus on renewable energies. He has been working in the group for reliability and maintenance strategies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology in Kassel, Germany since 2016. His scope of work includes assessing of different data sources to identify component condition and the implementation of processes for predictive maintenance.

This includes statistic based approaches to estimate the reliability of certain wind turbine components as well as site specific reliability indicators.

Furthermore it includes the development of predictive maintenance algorithms. A combination of neural networks and heuristics to decide if an anomaly is severe or not and the combination of those with the event data

Phillip Elflein is a technical engineer specialised in renewable energies.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in naval architecture and a Master's degree in wind energy technologies.
While studying in 2018, he has already worked in the technical operational management at Energiekontor AG and has been involved intensely in the area of data analysis based on SCADA data ever since.
A year later he wrote his Master's thesis about progressive damage prevention and long-term prediction of component failures.
As a project manager he is currently trying to set up a pool company for all Energiekontor owned wind farms to generate significant synergy effects in terms of damage prediction and spare parts warehousing

Raul Manzanas Ochagavia

MSc Industrial Engineer

Executive MBA UPC

Master in Renewable Energy by CENIFER

Working Bio:

·         Working in the Renewable & Wind Industry since 2004

·         First as Acciona Energia Head of International Asset Manager

·         By 2007 leading Technical R&D for Wind Technology within Acciona Energia

·         Working on Offshore Wind Technical and Business development, with special focus on Floating

·         Supporting Acciona Group activities in Offshore O&G

·         By 2014 moving to Acciona Windpower as O&M and After Sales Director

·         Being part of the Key group driving the Merge process with Nordex during 2015 and post integration

·         Once Nordex and Acciona Windpower holding several parallel positions

·         Global Head of Service Key Accounts plus Head of Services for Med, Africa and LATAM

·         Since 2017 Nordex Service Director for International Division (Americas, Africa, Spain and Asia-Pacific)

Previously to entering the Renewable sector holding several positions

·         General Manager of Real State and Construction Group at a Spanish company

·         PM, Area Manager and Assistant to CEO for Swedish Securitas Group within the Systems and Technology Business Line

Founder, Investor, Board member, Keynote speaker, Coder, Advisor, Father, Dreamer.

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Before, I was responsible for leading and building the BCG Digital Ventures business across Asia, as part of the global BCG Digital Ventures Partnership.

I was joint CEO of an award winning strategic design firm, S&C, which was acquired by BCG in July 2014. I was responsible for client development, engagement management and overall growth of the business.

As CEO at Pocketweb, I was responsible for product innovation, partnerships, investor relations and business strategy. Pocketweb are building great location based services platforms for consumers and corporate clients on web and mobile.

As Head of Innovation at Vodafone, I was responsible for driving idea incubation and product innovation across the business.

As Head of Strategy at Vodafone, I was responsible for developing new business models, partnerships, evaluating mergers and acquisitions, analyzing competition, new technologies, regulations and new organisational structures.

At Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz&Co) my responsibilities involved building client relationships, managing multiple consulting teams and growing the business as part of the global Telecoms & Media management team.
Specialties: Artificial intelligence, computer vision, embedded computing, autonomous vehicles, python, mobile telecoms, IT, hardware, financial services, banking, health, media, customer experience, entertainment, design, social media, marketing, business development, strategy and growth 

Simon is the Digital Energy Leader at Arup, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the Delivery Team Lead for the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) National Digital Twin programme.

A technology developer and chartered mechanical engineer, Simon has a passion for the transformational applications of digital engineering, and regularly speaks on the subject at events around the world. He is the author of the Digital Twin Maturity Spectrum, and has received numerous awards for contributions to the engineering profession.

Simon's background is in the structural/mechanical design and analysis of offshore structures for oil & gas and renewables, and he has experience of living and working internationally. He was elected to Council for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 2017, and is an advisor to the IMechE Trustee Board for digital transformation.

Prior to this, Simon was Director of Digital Engineering for the SNC-Lavalin Group, where he was part of the leadership team responsible for the global transformation of the +$5bn consultancy and construction group, and formed and led their Digital Twin Services business

Mihail Ivanov is digitalisation and technology enthusiast with diversified proactive and predictive maintenance experience. He is responsible for ZF Wind Power’s customer centric product portfolio of Services Powered by Analytics which supports wind farm owners and operators to harvest the power of digitalisation. Prior joining ZF Mihail led the aftersales revolution journey of a number of large OEMs. Keen interest to get connected and network about transforming unstructured data into valuable insights and enhanced machine uptime.

Robson has over 10 years of experience in implementation, operation and maintenance of renewable energy projects, mainly in US and Latam. He accumulate more than 3.0 GW in his professional history, presenting relevant results on performance improvement, O&M in-house, as well as investments in data science and modern tools of maintenance engineering. Specialties: Management of multidisciplinary teams, Contract negotiation, Project management, High performance teams and Data Management.

Tom is the Director of Systems and Innovation in RES’s global Support Services business, helping to ensure we deliver a consistent, high quality service to our key customers across all their markets. Tom has been with RES for over five years, initially helping steer the Group’s global strategy but more recently leading a programme to put in place the software tools we need to scale as a business as well as building a standard framework for excellence in service delivery. Prior to his time at RES, he worked in strategy consulting and then for the International Finance Corporation helping to grow the geothermal sector in Turkey.

Anders has worked with industrial asset management in CAPEX heavy industries in the elaboration of strategies, smart data transformation, process efficiency improvements and reorganisation.

As CEO and managing partner of ZEVIT, Anders has advised, developed and implemented asset integrity solutions in multiple international companies.

Before joining ZEVIT, Anders was Vice President at Vestas Services leading the strategic core functions of advanced asset analytics, smart data commercialization and product management. Anders has an M.Eng. in International Technology Management and Biomedical Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark (2003-2009).

Mr. Fields is a senior research engineer with over a decade of renewable experience  spanning multiple continents.  He specializes in understanding wind plant performance particularly pre-construction energy assessment and operational assessment. After spending several years in the private sector with Black & Veatch, he is now a member of the National Wind Technology Center within the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Mr. Fields is the principal investigator for the US DOE’s  Performance Risk, Uncertainty and Finance (PRUF) project which includes one of the largest data sharing initiatives in wind, the Wind Plant Performance Prediction (WP3) Benchmark.  Mr.Fields is the product owner for OpenOA, an open source data analytics platform for wind plant data.   Mr. Fields is the operating agent for IEA Task 43 on wind energy digitalization, the secretary for the IEC 61400-15 standard “Assessment of site specific wind conditions for wind energy parks” as well as serving as an advisor/organizer for several industry working groups including Consortium for Advancement of Remote Sensing, and RECAST.

Stephen Dictor, Principal & founder of Renewable Asset Partners LLC is an energy executive with 15 years of deep experience in renewables, data analytics & software technology including financial & operational management of power plants, negotiation of supply and operations agreements, and deployment of advanced data infrastructure. He holds advanced degrees from Rice University and IESE Business School and is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Ph.D. Industrial Engineer (Predictive Maintenance), Ph.D. in Economics (Climate Change) and International M.B.A. Expert in data science, innovation, R&D and 4.0 Industry between others. I hold more than 15 years experience in the energy sector.  

I have worked at ACCIONA ENERGÍA as Digital Transformation Manager, previously as Data Scientist Expert I managed the development one the largest condition-monitoring software for renewable energy assets, implementing artificial intelligence and Big Data methodologies for the development of equipment health status monitoring systems.  

I have worked at IBERDROLA S.A. as analyst in Energy Policy and Climate Change into the chairman department. In IBERDROLA O&M ENGINEERING as Senior Manager of R&D in O&M projects related to RCM and Condition Monitoring with artificial intelligence techniques.  

I started my career at GAMESA EÓLICA as engineer in production department, prototyping and international industrialization.   

I have collaborated as associate professor teaching Innovation, Desig Thinking and Visual Analytics & Big Data at UNIR. 

I greatly enjoy combining my different passions for Multi-Objective Optimization, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and my background in Electrical Engineering. Currently, I’m helping jungle developing a distributed time-series prediction pipeline that can extract value from any dataset regardless of its size. I’m also pushing forward the current research on predictive maintenance strategies for electrical assets, with a strong focus on wind turbines and heavy industry

Eva is a Senior Systems Analyst currently leading the development of Natural Power's 24/7 Performance Centre; a digital platform for renewable energy assets. She has over 6 years of experience carrying out independent analysis of turbine SCADA data and site work management data, to provide comprehensive operations and performance analysis for active wind farms within the UK and Ireland. She has also been involved in wind and solar energy yield assessments for sites in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, France and Argentina. She currently works with Natural Power's 'Advanced Performance Engineering' and 'Innovation & Digitalisation' teams to develop cutting edge innovation for the renewable energy industry.’

Thomas Pump, RWE Renewables, Germany

As Head of Asset Information Management Thomas is leading five global teams of specialists which are responsible to operate, maintain and manage our global platforms for maintenance, performance analytics and -management - to operate RWE’s wind and solar farms across the world.

RWE’s  integrated landscape provides the connectivity to the wind-  and PV farms, contains central data warehouses and analytical tools. The monitoring tools for the control rooms like CHRONOS are part of this platform and a whole suite of analytical tools for RWE’s fleet analysts and engineers like our PredATur™ tool.

The integrated mobile maintenance solution with respective backbone integration are completing the tool set provided by his team for Operations and Maintenance.

Driving the OT security roadmap for the growing renewables business was and is ongoing part of his responsibility.

He joined RWE in 2020 - coming from a similar position at E.ON Climate & Renewables which he held for 5 years.

Before that time he had different management and project management roles across different value chain steps in the energy industry.

Christian Verrecchia graduated from University of Cassino in Electrical Engineering in 2018. His background is in renewable energy, power electronics, machine learning and AI applied to renewable technologies. He joined EDP NEW in 2020 as a researcher in projects related to renewable energy and smart grids. At EDP he works in numerical modelling and data analytics for RES technologies, namely PV and offshore wind, developing software for the computation of the power output, LCoE and O&M costs. He also supports real-world demonstrations of smart grids, focusing on storage integration and operation. Before joining EDP, he worked as a power electronic designer for the Italian Railway Network manager, designing and prototyping novel power converters (AC/DC and DC/DC with high efficiency and low harmonic distortion).

James is a lecturer at UCL with a focus on applied mathematics and sustainable energy economics.  Prior to joining UCL, he has held a number of roles in the wind energy sector, including project finance lending, wind power investing, and economic consulting.

Hans van Beek holds a Master of Science degree from Eindhoven University of Technology. Hans has a background in B2B industries. He worked for 10+ years in the Telecom sector for Ericsson in sales and management positions across the globe. This was followed by 10+ years as COO and CEO for private European investors in online businesses in China and South-east Asia, with a focus on growing startups and scaleups, and then eventually selling them. In 2020, Hans co-founded the clean-tech company Tarucca and is its CEO. Tarucca is imagining a world where the blades tell you what their structural health and condition is, and when they need further inspection and maintenance, without requiring wind turbine stoppage, reducing the need for human intervention, enabling optimized electricity production, costs, and blade lifespan planning.

Daniel Luecht has studied and worked in the UK, USA, Denmark, China and Spain before returning to Germany, Hamburg to build up NASH*Renewables a company creating datadriven AI software for the post-subsidy renewable energy era. Nash*Renewables enables radically new ways of making risk-adjusted, return-optimized wind asset choices for global developers and investors. ​ Daniel has studied automotive engineering and -management at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg and University of Hertfordshire, UK where he finished the Masters program with distinction in 2004 and proceeded to work in a fast and professional environment, assuring advanced technology and customers delight with new innovative batterie- and hydrogen transportation concepts within the BMW Group. Passionate about solving the challenges for a sustainable future, the move into the renewable industry was a natural fit. Applying automotive industry knowledge within the wind pioneer Nordex Energy has helped growing the business and kick-started his management career. Since 2008, Daniel focuses his efforts on a renewable and sustainable ecosystem: • 13+ years in wind turbine and hybrid renewable solutions • 7+ years as Vice President in product development, product lifecycle management, and innovation • 5+ years driving digital transformation, software development, business processes, and digital platform development with global teams across APAC, China, EU, and North America In 2020, Daniel became a PhD Candidate at the Department of Business Development and Technology and affiliated member of Center of Energy Technologies (CET) @Aarhus University, developing novel concepts and business models to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy systems globally

Sarah Barber, Global Service Area Leader: Wind, DNV

As DNV's Global service area leader for wind, Sarah has responsibility for developing DNV’s technical advisory and measurement services for wind developers, owners, investors and manufacturers.   Sarah joined DNV in 2008 and has worked in renewable energy engineering consultancy for more than 18 years. Her experience includes technical due diligence assessments, wind and solar diagnostics, resource and energy production assessments, technical inspections, feasibility, resource and scoping assessments and layout design.

Teemu Vekkeli is the O&M Technical Manager in Eurus Energy Europe´s Asset Management team. Eurus Energy Europe B.V. is a part of Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation, which is jointly owned by Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. Mr. Vekkeli is responsible for the technical aspects of operating the EEE portfolio, currently exceeding 1.400 MW in six countries across Europe. Prior to joining EEE, he served in various engineering and management roles in both onshore and offshore wind energy since 2007. Mr. Vekkeli holds a M.Sc. in Engineering from TUT, Finland.

Michael is the CCO and Co-founder of Shoreline Wind. He has an engineering background and 27 years of global commercial management experience in different energy sectors. Michael entered the offshore wind business in 2008 and have held several other management and board positions within the offshore wind industry prior to co-founding Shoreline Wind in 20215.

A graduate from the University of Maastricht, Marc has held numerous strategic roles within the wind industry. Having worked for a leading independent service provider and subsequently one of the largest OEMs, he has gained vast industry knowledge and a strong understanding of both challenges and opportunities. In 2020 Marc joined Sulzer Schmid, a leader in delivering world-class autonomous drone inspections and advanced analytics software for rotor blade inspections. He is now a passionate driver of digitalization for OEMs, wind farm operators and industry suppliers alike.

Michael is the Founder and Co-CEO of turbit.com, an AI Operating System for wind turbines. As a physicist with seven years of deep experience in AI and renewables, he is responsible for engineering, AI, and product at Turbit. Michael has a passion for physics, automation, and renewables. When doing talks in public, he gives insights into the current capabilities of AI in renewables and shares insights from R&D at turbit.com