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Charlie Plumley
Nuveen Infrastructur... Nuveen Infrastructure
Senior Performa... Senior Performance Engineer
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Charlie Plumley
Nuveen Infrastructure
Senior Performance Engineer
Charlie has been in the renewables sector since 2010 and is the Senior Performance Engineer at Nuveen Infrastructure | Clean Energy .
In this role he analyses long-term production forecasts for both wind and solar assets, promotes and manages the use of data, and works to optimize the performance of assets through analytics.
He is also an open data and open source advocate, supporting collaboration across the industry.
Henry Tanner
Octopus Energy Gener... Octopus Energy Generation
Technical Perfo... Technical Performance Asset Manager
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Henry Tanner
Octopus Energy Generation
Technical Performance Asset Manager
Henry Tanner is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the IOP and a Technical Performance Asset Manager at Octopus Energy Generation.
With a decade of experience in the renewable energy sector, Henry specializes in using innovative technology to optimize wind farm performance.
His work focuses on maintaining turbine health to minimize downtime and implementing advanced upgrades to maximize energy yield, contributing to Octopus Energy’s mission of accelerating the transition to a greener future
Nicolas Dietenbeck
Akuo Akuo
Performance & I... Performance & Interface Director
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Nicolas Dietenbeck
Akuo
Performance & Interface Director
Nicolas Dietenbeck is the Interface & Performance Director within the Asset Management & Operation Department at Akuo, a renewable energy company based in France.
In his role, he focuses on optimizing operational and organizational efficiency, in particular through the definition and implementation of a pragmatic and business-oriented digitalization roadmap.
Prior to Akuo, Nicolas was leading the Wind Business Unit at Bureau Veritas, where he developed and implemented an accredited methodology for the certification of offshore wind farms, working for renown clients such as EDF EN, Orsted, E.ON or EDPR.
Nicolas started his career with the wind turbine supplier ENERCON, where he was in charge of analysing complex wind farms for the Site assessment department.
Nicolas holds an Engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in France as well as a Civilingenjör degree from KTH in Stockholm.
Johs Vamberg
PEAK Wind PEAK Wind
Lead Data Scien... Lead Data Scientist-Data & Intelligence
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Johs Vamberg
PEAK Wind
Lead Data Scientist-Data & Intelligence
Data Science
- Create end-to-end automated tailor suited reports/dashboards/profiles/tools and secure operation, support and proactive consulting.
- Focus on commercial impact and deliver storytelling through data driven visualization and fact sheets.
- ad-hoc deliveries with tight deadlines to support Operations, EPC and Finance supporting decision with actionable facts
- “Devil’s advocate” questioning current solution/performance identifying weak spots and options for improvements
Modelling
- Holistic approach delivering scalable module-based solutions to support strategic, tactical operational decision
- Blend internal and external data harvesting the potential on benchmarking sources enhancing insight and identifying discrepancies
- Secure transparent, reliable data from detailed to aggregated level
- Documentation, metadata and process description, master data.
- Data quality surveillance, validation, assurance securing high data reliability based on a deep understanding of data, insight possibilities and critical thinking.
- Implement KPI/ Performance Management. Educate users to use tools and deliveries in operational, tactical and strategic decisions.
- Documentation, metadata and process description, master data.
- Data quality surveillance, validation, assurance securing high data reliability based on a deep understanding of data, insight possibilities and critical thinking.
- Implement KPI/ Performance Management. Educate users to use tools and deliveries in operational, tactical and strategic decisions.
Career 34 years in Data Science
PEAK WIND| Product Manager – Data Services | 2020 – Ørsted| Data Scientist in Operations Data Management & Reporting | 2012 – 2020 Vestas Controls A/S|2010 – 2012
- Supply Change Management.
- KPI Performance Management.
Further Data Science / analytical experience |1990 – 2010 Telco (TDC and Telenor/Sonofon), Shipping (J.Lauritsen, Unifeeder). Consulting and Production/Retail.
David Witcher
Arup Arup
Associate Direc... Associate Director | Offshore Wind Digital Lead
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David Witcher
Arup
Associate Director | Offshore Wind Digital Lead
David is the Offshore Wind Digital Lead at Arup and has over 20 years in the renewables industry. He has a technical background primarily in the wind industry with expertise in wind turbine design, numerical simulation techniques, control algorithm design, wind turbine aerodynamics, offshore and floating wind turbine concept modelling and control design, and holistic wind farm control policy development.
He also has experience with tidal turbines and the concept development, numerical modelling, control development and wave tank testing of several wave energy devices.
Prior to joining Arup, David spent 4 years as a Chief Engineer at Goldwind where he was involved in a number of R&D projects related to wind turbine design and wind farm operation as well as carrying out technical design reviews and supporting with resolving operational.
Christof Devriendt
OWI-lab Vrije Univer... OWI-lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Scientific Rese... Scientific Research Coordinator SHM
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Christof Devriendt
OWI-lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Scientific Research Coordinator SHM
Christof Devriendt is an expert in the field of Structural Integrity Monitoring for offshore structures, currently holding the position of Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. With a primary focus on Structural Dynamics, Structural Health Monitoring, and Lifetime Assessment of offshore structures, Professor Christof Devriendt and his research team have made significant contributions to the industry.
As a co-founder of the Offshore Wind Infrastructure Laboratory (OWI-lab), he has been at the forefront of driving innovation and research in offshore wind energy within Belgium. OWI-lab has been instrumental in promoting over 10 fundamental and industrial R&D projects in the offshore wind sector since 2010, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in this dynamic field.
In 2016, he co-founded the spin-off company, 24SEA, which has since established itself as a leading entity in Europe for monitoring offshore wind foundation structures. His career is marked by a steadfast commitment to advancing structural integrity monitoring in offshore operations, ultimately contributing to a safer and more sustainable industry.
Miguel Brito
EDP NEW EDP NEW
Project Manager Project Manager
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Miguel Brito
EDP NEW
Project Manager
Miguel Brito, Project Manager at EDP NEW with experience in offshore wind projects, including digital twins and Robotized O&M
Giuseppe Ferraro
GreenPowerMonitor, a... GreenPowerMonitor, a DNV company
Director Digita... Director Digitalization, Renewables Optimization
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Giuseppe Ferraro
GreenPowerMonitor, a DNV company
Director Digitalization, Renewables Optimization
Giuseppe is a renewable energy and digitalization enthusiast qualified at Masters’ level in Management as well as Engineering. He has been serving wind turbines OEMs and wind farms developers and operators globally for more than 10 years, covering various management roles in DNV since 2014. Giuseppe has been previously involved in several wind turbines design projects since joining Garrad Hassan in 2009. He has lately developed a strong interest in strategy, digitalization, team management and change management, due to the fascinating variety of skills required to design, deliver and improve business strategies of organisations operating at global level. In his past role as Business Director for Turbine Engineering, Giuseppe has led the design and implementation of the digital business strategy and business plans of 2 global teams offering high-end engineering services and tools. During his recent academic studies, Giuseppe has investigated in greater detail the potential offered by digitization running qualitative analysis to understand the role of value in a digital ecosystem’s context. Giuseppe is now a member of the GreenPowerMonitor Leadership Team, in charge of a unit focusing on wider renewables advanced analytics and digitalization, including the development and deployment of the WindGEMINI’s strategy (DNV’s wind assets digital twin SAAS).
Thomas Humphries
Cognitive Cognitive
Founder & Direc... Founder & Director of Technology
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Thomas Humphries
Cognitive
Founder & Director of Technology
Thomas Humphries is the Chief Technology Officer at Cognitive, a company dedicated to transforming wind operations through data-driven innovation.
With extensive expertise in technology leadership and a passion for renewable energy, Thomas spearheads the development of cutting-edge solutions that optimize wind energy performance, improve safety, and reduce costs.
At Cognitive, Thomas leads the charge in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and smart technologies to tackle the unique challenges of wind operations.
From predictive maintenance and operations planning to enhancing crew safety and forecasting energy production, their work is shaping a more efficient and sustainable future for wind energy.
Under Thomas' guidance, Cognitive is revolutionizing wind energy by empowering operators with intelligent tools that enhance efficiency, safety, and reliability - paving the way for a cleaner, greener energy landscape.
Okan Sargin
OWC OWC
Head of Wind &... Head of Wind & Site
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Okan Sargin
OWC
Head of Wind & Site
Okan Sargin is a seasoned expert in wind resource assessment and modeling, with over 15 years of experience supporting developers, lenders, and governments in onshore and offshore wind projects worldwide.
As the Head of Wind & Site at OWC, Okan leads a team delivering cutting-edge solutions in wind resource analysis, energy yield assessments, and site feasibility studies.
Okan's expertise lies in combining advanced analytical methods with emerging digital technologies to improve efficiency and accuracy in wind energy projects.
His contributions span across pre-construction wind analysis, operational assessments, and the integration of automated tools into traditional workflows.
Passionate about driving innovation, he is dedicated to shaping the future of wind energy through digitalisation and collaboration.
Okan holds a degree in mechanical and wind energy systems engineering and has furthered his expertise through specialized training in management of technology.
With a commitment to fostering growth and transformation, he is actively engaged in advancing industry standards and promoting sustainable energy solutions globally.
Professor Mayorkinos Papaelias
University of Birmin... University of Birmingham
Professor in ND... Professor in NDT and Condition Monitoring
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Professor Mayorkinos Papaelias
University of Birmingham
Professor in NDT and Condition Monitoring
Professor Mayorkinos Papaelias holds the Chair of NDT and Condition Monitoring in the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham, where he currently leads the NDT and Condition Monitoring Research Group.
He has been involved as technical coordinator or scientific consultant in several FP6, FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe collaborative research projects primarily focusing on renewable energy sources and transport.
In addition to his work on European Commission funded research projects, Professor Papaelias has been funded by the EPSRC, the National Structural Integrity Research Centre, industry and the UK government.
Professor Papaelias is the author or co-author of more than 150 journals and national and international conference papers in NDT and condition monitoring and has edited 3 books on the subject.
He is a Member of the International Society for Condition Monitoring, currently chairing the Education Committee.
He regularly attends international conferences and workshops as a guest speaker.
Thomas Buchhart
VERBUND Green Power... VERBUND Green Power Germany
Managing Direct... Managing Director
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Thomas Buchhart
VERBUND Green Power Germany
Managing Director
Thomas has been in the renewable business since 2012 and in holding a double function as Head of Construction and Digitalisation in Vienna and as Managing Director of VERBUND Green Power Germany in Berlin.
In his role, he is responsible for the Digitalization and Innovation strategy of VERBUND Green Power.
Thomas started his renewable career as a data analyst and introduced VERBUND's first second level scada system. After the first couple of years, he focused more and more on innovation and R&D topics and initiated research projects in the field of wind turbine operation in cold climates.
Now he is steering the introduction of a completely new cloud-based Lakehouse to process all operational data of VERBUND Green Power assets in operation.
Ana Margarida Coutinho Mota
EDP Renewables EDP Renewables
Predictive Diag... Predictive Diagnostics Analyst
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Ana Margarida Coutinho Mota
EDP Renewables
Predictive Diagnostics Analyst
Ana holds a background in Physics and Renewable Energy Engineering and has been working in the Wind Energy sector for over seven years, specializing in wind farm operational data analysis and predictive diagnostics.
In her current role as a Predictive Diagnostics Engineer, Ana has contributed to a variety of key projects, including temperature monitoring for EDPR’s wind turbine fleet, the installation of condition monitoring systems (CMS) for vibration monitoring across multiple European sites, and a range of tasks related to data analysis, reporting, and dashboard creation.
These experiences have given her the opportunity to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams from Operations, Dispatch, Networks, IT, and more, providing her with a comprehensive understanding of how operational data is acquired, processed, and utilized within EDPR.
As a member of the Predictive Diagnostics team, Ana is passionate about enhancing the quality of monitoring and the recommendations provided to Operational departments.
She believes that continuous improvement in this area hinges on modernizing and streamlining current tools, improving data quality, and leveraging automation, machine learning, and AI technologies.
Bora Tokyay
Kavaken Kavaken
Co-Founder & CE... Co-Founder & CEO
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Bora Tokyay
Kavaken
Co-Founder & CEO
Bora Tokyay, Co-Founder & CEO at Kavaken, has 22 years of experience in energy project development and consulting, including a significant role at ExxonMobil’s Houston and Spain operations and positions at Accenture and Experian.
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Digitalization refers to the application of digital technologies and data to transform business models and generate new value-producing opportunities. In the wind industry, advances in areas such as data science and the internet of things are set to disrupt the industry at every stage of the asset life cycle.
Hear from the industry experts as they come together to share their experience and knowledge as well as look at the future market opportunity of digital wind farm. Wind turbine manufacturers will share their views on technical requirements, standards and drivers for digitalization as well as investigate the latest wind turbine design & technology. Data analytics & cyber security will be discussed to bring an understanding on the importance of accurate data & security and how it plays an important part in the operational and developing phase as well as help predict components failure, reduce operational costs and risks.
Join us to discuss and brainstorm on how digitalisation is sharpening the wind industry and shaping the industrial innovations of tomorrow, how to build effective strategies for a data-driven maintenance, understand how predictive maintenance can improve windfarm asset efficiency, explore how to leverage digital innovation to optimize performance, examine how to use data analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize O&M & asset management processes and learn how to harness the power of wind data analytics to uncover performance losses, reduce maintenance and increase revenue.
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As the wind energy sector continue to lower down the cost of operations and maintenance, digitalization and data analytics plays a vital role to achieve further cost reductions & increase revenue. This conference aims to bring the wind industry together to discuss the market opportunity of digital wind farm, digital innovation and technological challenges for the industry, including how machine learning, digital twin and predictive analytics can enable monitoring and prediction failures to help drastically improve availability, reliability of the windfarm assets & increase revenue and reduce O&M costs.
Predictive analytics and digital twin modeling are sweeping across many industries, including the wind sector. Wind asset owners seek to improve power plant performance and manage and minimize operations and maintenance costs. Wind turbines are highly instrumented machines, lending themselves well to collecting vast amounts of data that can inform and refine digital twin models.
Windpower Data and Digital Innovation Forum is set to cover all aspects of data analytics & digital innovation and its impact on the wind energy sector as well as identifying issues and challenges and providing potential solutions. It’s a great opportunity for industry professionals to come together to exchange the ideas, explore new thinking and help shape the development of the industry. The sessions are set up to be interactive for the attendees to get involved in the experience-sharing process and to tackle existing problems in real-time discussions.
The Windpower Data and Digital Innovation Forum will critically analyze wind energy sector digitalization and data-driven operations, performance forecasting and new business models, windpower assets optimization with artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, data-driven monitoring and inspection, predictive maintenance, and using advanced analytics to reduce costs and drive performance.
The Windpower Data and Digital Innovation Forum aims to bring together industry leaders and experts to exchange and share their experiences on all aspects of Digital Innovation, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. It also provides a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers, scientists and thought leaders to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, technology and application as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Big Data , Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Do not miss the opportunity to join the Windpower Data and Digital Innovation Forum where we will be discussing digital twin technology with AI, how digitalization can help to increase the efficiency in wind turbine operation, using data analytics tools to reduce wind turbine failures and operational costs, the potential of technology to enhance windfarm cyber security in the age of digitalization. We will have a deep look into how digitalization can help asset owners and wind turbine OEMs operating wind turbines to predict and plan for faults and optimize performance of their assets.
Attendees will gather to discuss the importance of data-driven predictive maintenance and develop an optimized strategy for their wind farm performance. Advanced data analytics and Integrated Big Data platforms based on IoT develop analytical opportunities for planning and forecasting, revealing the bright future for the wind industry.
Join us to discuss and brainstorm on how digitalisation is sharpening the wind industry and shaping the industrial innovations of tomorrow, how to build effective strategies for a data-driven maintenance, understand how predictive maintenance can improve wind energy asset efficiency, explore how to leverage digital innovation to optimize performance, examine how to use data analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize O&M & asset management processes and learn how to harness the power of wind data analytics to uncover performance losses, reduce maintenance and increase productivity.
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Past Speakers
Thomas Humphries
Cognitive Business Ltd
Director of Technology & Co-Founder
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Thomas Humphries
Cognitive Business Ltd
Director of Technology & Co-Founder
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
Acciona Energía
Manager of Transfer from Innovation to Business
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Mercedes Irujo
Acciona Energía
Manager of Transfer from Innovation to Business
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.
Richard Distl
i4SEE
COO
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Richard Distl
i4SEE
COO
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
SkySpecs
VP SCADA Analytics, Managing Director
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Christopher Gray
SkySpecs
VP SCADA Analytics, Managing Director
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
Jay Jayakumar
TNO
Wind Energy Consultant Scientist
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Jay Jayakumar
TNO
Wind Energy Consultant Scientist
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
Fraunhofer IEE
Associate Researcher
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Marc-Alexander Lutz
Fraunhofer IEE
Associate Researcher
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
Energiekontor AG
Asset Manager Renewables
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Phillip Elflein
Energiekontor AG
Asset Manager Renewables
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
Nordex Group
International Division, Service Director
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Raul Manzanas Ochagavia
Nordex Group
International Division, Service Director
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
Hanno Blankenstein
Unleash live
CEO
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Hanno Blankenstein
Unleash live
CEO
Founder, Investor, Board member, Keynote speaker, Coder, Advisor, Father, Dreamer.
At Unleash live we unleash the power of autonomous vehicles on the ground and in the air. Realtime A.I. analytics for better business decisions.
We turn Vision into Visual Data to Measure Reality
Find out more at unleashlive.com
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 Evans
Arup
Digital Energy Leader
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Simon Evans
Arup
Digital Energy Leader
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
ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV
Product Manager Digitalization
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Mihail Ivanov
ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV
Product Manager Digitalization
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 Liger
Cubico Sustainable Investments
WTG Maintenance Manager
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Robson Liger
Cubico Sustainable Investments
WTG Maintenance Manager
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 Harding-Newman
RES
Director of Systems & Innovation
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Tom Harding-Newman
RES
Director of Systems & Innovation
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 Hvashøj
ZEVIT
CEO
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Anders Hvashøj
ZEVIT
CEO
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).
Jason Fields
Wind Research Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Jason Fields
Wind Research Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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
Renewable Asset Partners LLC
Principal & founder
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Stephen Dictor
Renewable Asset Partners LLC
Principal & founder
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.
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez López
foggify
Founder
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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez López
foggify
Founder
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.
Silvio Rodrigues
Jungle
CTO & Co-Founder
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Silvio Rodrigues
Jungle
CTO & Co-Founder
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 Fernandez Moran
Natural Power
Senior Systems Analyst
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Eva Fernandez Moran
Natural Power
Senior Systems Analyst
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 Europe & Australia GmbH
Head of European Control Rooms
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Thomas Pump
RWE Renewables Europe & Australia GmbH
Head of European Control Rooms
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
EDP NEW
Project Engineer
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Christian Verrecchia
EDP NEW
Project Engineer
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 Morris
University College London
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
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James Morris
University College London
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
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
Tarucca
Co-founder & CEO
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Hans Van Beek
Tarucca
Co-founder & CEO
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
NASH Renewables GmbH
Founder & CEO
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Daniel Luecht
NASH Renewables GmbH
Founder & CEO
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
DNV
Global Service Area Leader: Wind
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Sarah Barber
DNV
Global Service Area Leader: Wind
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
Eurus Energy Europe B.V.
O&M Technical Manager
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Teemu Vekkeli
Eurus Energy Europe B.V.
O&M Technical Manager
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 Bjerrum
Shoreline Wind
CCO & Co-Founder
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Michael Bjerrum
Shoreline Wind
CCO & Co-Founder
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.
Marc Hoffmann
Sulzer Schmid
Global Head of Sales & Marketing
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Marc Hoffmann
Sulzer Schmid
Global Head of Sales & Marketing
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 Tegtmeier
Turbit Systems GmbH
Founder and Co-CEO
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Michael Tegtmeier
Turbit Systems GmbH
Founder and Co-CEO
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
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