Marc Mennekes is a Senior Battery Expert and part of the customer success team at ACCURE Battery Intelligence. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen with energy storage systems and aging analyses of lithium-ion batteries at the heart of his studies. Previously, Marc was a Graduate Research Student at the Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies (ISEA) and he worked for BMW Group both in Europe and the U.S. gaining experience analyzing battery field data with a focus on safety, reliability, and sustainability. Since 2020 he has been translating ACCURE's customers' needs into innovative battery analytics and monitoring solutions, helping to improve their battery business in terms of safety, lifetime, and performance.

Boris Cergol holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics and has more than 15 years of experience implementing machine learning projects across various industries. As Regional Head of Data at Endava, he is dedicated to growing the companie's data capabilities in the Adriatic region. Thoroughout his career, Boris has co-founded and led a data consultanty, established a new AI departement within an IT services company, and advised governments on AI strategy and standards. He is passionate about innovation and maintains a good track record of spotting key technology trends early on. In recent years, his main areas of interest have been large language models and other generative AI technologies.

Dr. Stephan Rohr is Co-CEO at TWAICE. TWAICE supports enterprises across industries with predictive battery analytics software based on digital twins. Customers are empowered to develop and use battery systems more efficiently and sustainably while making them more reliable and durable. Before founding TWAICE with Dr. Michael Baumann, Stephan completed his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich after working in start-ups, PE, and in consulting. Stephan's battery specific domain expertise derives from over 6 years of academic research into Li-ion batteries with a particular focus on the economic implications.

Holger Hesse holds a PhD in physics and Postdoctoral researcher in the field of energy management and battery energy storage. He is assistant head of the chair for Electrical Energy Storage Technology at Technical University of Munich. This research group focusses on modelling, optimization and control of battery storage systems for stationary applications. Holger Hesse will be head of the newly fronded Professorship "Smart Energy Systems" at the University of Applied Sciences Kempten, focusing techno-economic modelling and machine learning control of battery assisted energy systems.

Mandy Schipke is Co-Founder and CEO of the AI-Company NOVUM since nine years. Additionally, she is head of management board of the Energy Cluster of Saxony, where she is responsible for all topics related to batteries. Together with her two teams she works on making batteries more sustainable, secure and predictable and has therefore been awarded multiple times, e.g. with the digital energy award from innogy and google or the future mobility award from Volkswagen.

Alexander leads Sonnen's commercial and industrial storage development activities in the position of Vice President C&I since 2019. Prior to sonnen, Alexander helped build the stationary energy storage business unit at VARTA as technical director. He has a diploma and a doctorate in physics.