Carla Barrera is Business Development & Marketing Director for Energy Storage - SLB New Energy (SNE). She is responsible for identifying and developing new growth opportunities for the deployment of differientiated stationary energy storage solutions and expand industry relationships to grow market presence. Carla is also responsible for the market strategy, positioning and branding of the business. Carla has 20 years of experience in the energy sector and has been with SLB (ex. Schlumberger) for 16 years, having worked in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and North America, in various managerial roles in Business Consulting, Sales, Marketing, Technology, and from 2020, in the New Energy organization. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an MBA from University of Nottingham, UK.

Duarte joined EDP Group in 2006 as Head of M&A and Corporate Development, overseeing international M&A transactions in renewables and networks in Europe, the U.S., Latin America, and China. Three years later, he took over as Chief of Staff for EDP's CEO. Since 2017, he has been developing his professional career at EDP Renewables, where he is CEO for Europe and LATAM, leading the strategy for renewable onshore (wind and solar) in 15 countries. He is also a member of EDP Group's Investment Committee. Prior to joining EDP Group, Duarte worked in investment banking at Citigroup in London, and at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in the UK and Portugal. As for his academic background, Duarte studied Business and Administration at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and later completed his academic training with an MBA at INSEAD (France and Singapore).

Adam has led Ambri's commercial efforts for five years and his career has spanned over three decades advancing new battery and fuel cell products for energy storage, consumer electronics, military and industrial markets. Adam led Duracell's OEM sales and consulting group. He was president of Millennium Cell and CEO of Acumentrics, fuel cell technology developers and manufacturers. Most recently as the Chief Commercial Officer of NEC Energy Solutions, he led the capture of grid scale energy storage projects for that leading energy storage integrator for a four year period.

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Gianni Ceneri is Chief Technology Officer at Gridspertise and currently in charge of the sustainable design and development of Gridspertise's technological solutions for the electricity distribution business with a specific focus on the implementation of smart grid frameworks and leveraging innovation in the energy business. The technologies developed along the last years represent a strong boosting factors for the DSOs that are facing the challenge of the Energy Transition accelerating the digitalization and evolution of the existing grids and including a cloud-edge approach needed to enable new use cases for the integration of DERs and complex loads. Along years, Mr. Ceneri has contributed to the extension of the organization's market leadership in the Smart Metering and Smart Grids sector through an unyielding commitment to innovation and engineering excellence. Mr. Ceneri had international professional experiences both in Europe (Spain, Netherlands), Far East (PRC) and Latin America focused on the development, manufacturing and certification of smart metering products. Mr. Ceneri has managed many massive rollouts of Smart Metering solutions around the worlds with main focus on the piloting phases in order to validate the technologies before the handover to normal operations.

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.

Mr Clerens studied law at the University of Saarbrücken and the University of Mainz. Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for a private company specialising in European Affairs in Brussels. In his capacity as Brussels Representative of different European associations, he has been involved in the climate and energy field since 2003. He has managed the EASE office in Brussels as Secretary General since its establishment in September 2011. Since then, EASE has grown from the initial 13 founding members to over 60 and is still growing rapidly.

Eloisa de Castro is the CEO of Enerpoly, a Swedish zinc-ion battery manufacturer. In 2020, Eloisa joined Enerpoly with the mission to build a sustainable and reliable supply of batteries for Europe's clean energy transition. Eloisa has over a decade of experience in technology leadership and entrepreneurship in the energy and aerospace industries. Before joining Enerpoly, she served as the Director of Market Operations at Modern Energy, specializing in grid modernization and power markets. Prior to that, she led energy products development as CTO of Hoplite Power and Chief Mechanical Engineer at Princeton Satellite Systems. Eloisa earned her MBA from INSEAD and her bachelor's in mechanical engineering from MIT.

Benedikt Deuchert is Head of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs at Kyon Energy, one of the leading battery project developers for utility-scale battery storage projects in Europe. He is responsible for developing new business models and leads initiatives to shape the regulatory environment for flexibility services in the electricity grid in general, and for battery storage in particular. Before joining the management team of Kyon Energy, he gained 8 years of experience in the energy sector, most recently as Senior Consultant at E-Bridge Consulting (Bonn, Germany). Benedikt Deuchert holds an MSc (Master of Science) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich.

Mission: Electrify everything (that can be electrified) with clean and renewable energy. Bruce Douglas has 25 years' international experience in the promotion of renewable energy and electrification. He is currently Director of Communications and Business at Eurelectric based in Brussels, representing over 3000 companies active in the European power sector. Previously he has held the following positions: Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, Coordinator of the RE-Source Platform - the European alliance for corporate sourcing of renewable energy, founding Chairman of the Global Solar Council (GSC), Chief Operating Officer at WindEurope for 10 years, founding Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Managing Director of FLiDAR, an offshore wind company. He has a Master degree in renewable energy systems technology and is fluent in English and French.

Markus Elsässer studied mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart. He worked for a German manufacturer of solar thermal systems before he founded several companies all in the field of renewable energies. Markus Elsässer is the founder and CEO of the company Solar Promotion GmbH, an internationally operating exhibition company with a focus on renewable energy, energy storage technologies, electric transportation and energy efficiency. In 1991 he founded Intersolar, the world´s leading exhibition series for the solar industry with events spanning four continents. In 2014 the ees (electrical energy storage) exhibition was started, which has become Europe's largest exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems. In 2018 he founded The smarter E, an innovation hub for events and topics driving the new energy world: renewable energies, decentralization, digitalization and electric transportation. Solar Promotion has currently 50+ employees in Germany and has representation offices in 14 countries.

Marcus Fendt studied Industrial Engineering in Munich. Before joining The Mobility House in 2010, he held several management positions in the automotive and energy industry. As CSO and Managing Director at The Mobility House he is responsible for sales, international business development and marketing. Together with leading car manufacturers, utilities, fleet operators and e-mobility providers he realized partnerships and projects in the areas of smart charging solutions for electric vehicles and the underlying business models that arise out of the merge of the automotive and energy sector like V2G.

Jon has spent his career in energy engaging consumers and distributed assets in energy markets, managing a €1bn wholesale trading book on behalf of C&I consumers, working with retailers to develop new contracts improving market access for smaller and more diverse flexible assets. As Head of Storage and Flexibility at LCP Delta, he is responsible for leading research into two of the most dynamic aspects of the energy transition, and producing the industry-leading European Market Monitors on Flexibility and Storage.

Barbara came to Statkraft as CEO of SolarCentury through the acquisition of the company. She then became CFO in Statkraft European Wind and Solar before she took on the EVP role in 2022. Barbara also has extensive experience within consulting and finance from various businesses. She holds a master's degree in economics and finance from University of Hamburg. She heads the Business Area Europa that oversees development and operations of European activities within hydropower, wind power, solar, gas and batteries. Group procurement and the project delivery unit is also in this business area.

Uwe Fuchs is heading the global sales team for NAS Batteries at BASF Stationary Energy Storage. Prior to joining NAS team in 2020, he has been working for large electrical companies such as ABB and Siemens. Since more than a decade he has been responsible for the sales of advanced energy storage technologies to utilities, project developers and system integrators. With passion he drives the deployment of new green technologies to accelerate the energy transition. He promotes NAS® batteries (sodium-sulfur-based batteries) to customers across the globe and supports them on their way to the energy transition. Mr. Fuchs holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen University and an Executive Master in Business Administration from the University of West Florida.

Matthias Giller is an experienced specialist of battery storage systems in the field of renewable energies as well as a comprehensive industry expert. Since 2022 he is Head of Sales at MaxSolar GmbH and therefore a member of the company´s management board. In his area of responsibility are all Sales and Marketing activities throughout the company. During his time as Sales Manager at INTILION GmbH, he was successful and significantly responsible for the expansion of the sales force. His focus was on Sales of C&I and Utility-Scale battery storage systems. Matthias Giller holds a degree in Technical Consulting and Management (M.A.) from Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. He completed his dual studies at Hoppecke Batterien GmbH & Co. KG and work for the company for around twelve years.

Philip Gladek is a self-taught engineer with a background in business strategy. In 2012, he came to the Netherlands to help his sister start Metabolic, a consulting and venture building company that applies systems-thinking to tackle global sustainability challenges. In 2015, Philip founded Spectral, a leading smart energy technology company focused on accelerating the sustainable energy transition, where he is currently CEO / CTO. Over the past eight years, Philip has led Spectral's team to develop and scale up cutting edge solutions for integration of battery storage systems, renewable energy assets, and other sources of flexibility to enable the deployment of virtual power plants and smart grids.

Andreas Görtz, President of Business Unit Sustainable, is responsible to built-up business for CO2 neutral products within Rolls-Royce Solutions. He studied mechanical engineering and has 20 years of management experience, including international teams, as well as in-depth experience in international project management, expertise in implementation of new structures and processes and merger and acquisitions. Before joining Rolls-Royce Solutions, he served as the Head of Micro Technologies Division at Rohwedder AG. After he joint Rolls-Royce Solutions he was responsible for project system business and he let the global power generation business for over 5 years.

Alan is the Director of Europe at ESS Inc. and brings over 15 years of experience in the rechargeable battery space. He is a serial entrepreneur, focusing on new technology and has successfully founded and run several technology ventures in the UK, Germany and Switzerland.  Alan has also held senior board-level roles at battery companies. He has been deeply involved in several initiatives relating to renewable energy, including the Think Tank on Energy Environment and Business initiated by Harvard Business School in 2010.   He started his career in high-volume manufacture of computer electronics with IBM, Scotland and later worked as a senior manager in the Instrumentation Division of VDO Adolf Schindling AG, Germany, a world-leader in automotive instrumentation and now part of Continental.

Radu Gruescu is Partner at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, responsible for originating, evaluating and executing investments and projects within CIP's Flagship strategy. Radu's primary focus is on Investment Platforms, where he is Partner-in-Charge and board member for a number of CIP investments. With EUR 20bn of capital raised so far for energy infrastructure investments and with a target to increase this to EUR 100bn by 2030, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is a global leader in renewable energy investments and makes significant and meaningful contributions to the green transition. Radu joined CIP in 2017 and has a track record of more than 21 years in the energy sector. At CIP, he has led investments in projects and companies covering a large spectrum of renewable energy technologies (onshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and geothermal) and across many European markets. Prior to joining CIP, Radu was Director at Terra Firma Capital Partners, with responsibility for European renewable energy investments such as Infinis in the UK and RTR Rete Rinnovabile in Italy. Before that, he worked in the Power Generation and M&A departments of Centrica plc, where he focused primarily on offshore wind transactions and business development. He started his career in 2002 in J.P. Morgan's Energy & Power investment banking group in London. Radu studied Business Administration and Electrical Engineering and graduated from Darmstadt University of Technology.

Walburga Hemetsberger is the CEO of SolarPower Europe since 2019. She has over 20 years of professional experience in Brussels, working for a utility, trade association, the European Parliament and the European Commission. Walburga spent most of her career in the energy sector, covering in particular renewable energies and hydrogen.

Seb Henbest is Group Head of Climate Transition at HSBC, supporting the development, evolution and integration of the bank's climate strategy and working with its most emissions-intensive clients to accelerate their transition to a net-zero future. Prior to this he spent 14 years at BloombergNEF, most recently as Chief Economist. In that role he oversaw the firm's energy economics group and energy transition scenario analysis and was lead author of BNEF's flagship publication, the New Energy Outlook. Before that he was Director of BNEF's Europe, Middle East and Africa division and Head of Research for BNEF in Australia, establishing the firm's Sydney offices in 2009. Seb is a senior spokesperson on the energy transition, speaks regularly at industry conferences and events, and is quoted widely in print media. He has appeared as an expert commentator on ABC TV, Sky News, BBC, Bloomberg TV and ABC Radio. In 2012 he gave evidence to House of Representatives Economics Committee in Australia on the pricing dynamics of linking Australia's Carbon Price Mechanism with the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. He is a 2015 Rex J Lipman Fellow and was previously an advisor to the GCC region Clean Energy Business Council. Seb studied physics and theoretical astrophysics at Adelaide University and atmospheric science at Monash University in Australia, before moving to the UK where he read International Relations at Clare Hall, Cambridge, specializing in emissions trading and environmental markets.

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.

Dr. Hilton joined IHS Markit in 2020 and has eight years of experience in the clean energy sector. He leads the global forecast for energy storage and has a particular interest in how energy storage integrates with other industries. He has recently published work on recycling, energy storage for EV charging, vehicle-to-grid technologies, second life batteries and the use of batteries in hydrogen production. He has published articles in multiple well-respected journals, responded to government calls for evidence on energy storage and electric vehicles (EVs), and has been quoted in a range of media outlets. Dr. Hilton holds a first-class Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in energy engineering with a focus on energy storage integration with renewable energy and EV infrastructure, both from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

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.

Carina Hock received her Master's degree in 'Renewable Energy Engineering and Management' from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in 2018. Her work as research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Technology (ISE) was followed by a stay abroad at the Fraunhofer CSET Chile (Santiago). Since end of 2018 she is Advisor for Balancing Services at one of the four German Transmission System Operators TenneT TSO GmbH. Within this framework she is involved in the further development of prequalification conditions as requirement for the participation in balancing markets, the integration of volatile renewable sources and European harmonization.

Julian Jansen is a Senior Director at Fluence. He leads the strategy, market development, marketing, and policy teams in the EMEA region. Julian is responsible for commercial strategy, as well as expansion in the region working with customers and industry stakeholders to enable the growth of energy storage markets. He also leads regional policy and regulatory efforts, early business development activities, as well as partnerships to enable new applications and help shape future market development. Julian has been working in the clean energy sector his entire career. Prior to joining Fluence, he was an Associate Director at IHS Markit leading the group's consulting activities on clean energy technologies, having previously managed IHS Markit's global energy storage team and establishing the energy storage research area at specialist consultancy Delta-ee. Julian holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in European management from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, a Bachelor of Science in international management from ESB Business School in Germany, and a Master of Science in ecological economics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Lempäälän Energia is producer of district heating and electricity in Lempäälä area, Finland. Lempäälän Energia owns and operates the LEMENE MicroGrid which is enabling sector integration, demand response. energy consumption forecasting and market optimization. 'We feel being forerunners in the energy field in our size.' Mikko Kettunen is leading the Lempäälän Energia by finding a sustainable and new ways to produce energy by the means of feasibility and efficiency. Demand response, ancillary markets, sector integration, machine learning and optimising are the part of diverse energy production and consumption system. He has experience in energy communities and microgrids where energy is produced and consumed locally and supporting energy networks with excess energy.

Thomas contributes to enspireds Growth Team with regulatory expertise on national and international basis, focusing on intraday markets, storage and ancillary services. He surveillances regulatory surroundings, to get the best for enspireds customers and support a vital market, where efficient solutions function as primary tool for affordable and clean energy. He started as a dispatcher and intraday trader but focused soon on supporting in the regulatory field by preserving or exploring new business cases, at the intersection, where regulations meet free markets. This evolved into a deep dive into mechanisms enabling a pan-european coupled power markets while working for the international regulations and market development team for Amprion gaining views on the needs of TSOs and system stability before he joined enspired.

Carol is a Director within the European Project Finance team of Rabobank, one of the leading banks in project finance globally. The energy transition is one of the core pillars of Rabobank's ambition and the bank has been project financing renewable energy assets for over 20 years with a current global commitment of c. EUR 5bln distributed over 20 countries. Carol is responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of renewable energy transactions (battery storage, offshore wind, solar PV, onshore wind) across Europe, including complex holdco and/or portfolio structures and financing on the basis of corporate PPAs and/or merchant revenues. Most recently, Carol has been involved in financial advisory for offshore wind in the Netherlands and has led the negotiation and execution of the financing for several large-scale solar PV portfolios in the Netherlands, Denmark and Italy. In respect of battery storage specifically, Carol recently closed financings for a stand-alone battery in France and two stand-alone battery portfolios in the UK. Before joining Rabobank, Carol was responsible for debt advisory within Philips Capital and prior to that spent the first years of her career within structured metals and energy finance at ING. Carol holds a Master in Business Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jochen Kreusel is Senior Vice President of Hitachi Energy, Zurich, and Global Head of Market Innovation. He studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where he was also granted his doctorate. From 1994 to 2020 he worked with ABB, where he held managing positions in marketing and technology. Jochen Kreusel is President of T&D Europe and member of the Supervisory Committee of VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies. He is member of several committees of the European Commission and the German government on aspects of the future development of power systems. Moreover, he is honorary professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he is teaching power economics in liberalized electricity markets.

Director, SEVA - Slovak Electric Vehicle Association Vice-president, AVERE - the European Association for Electromobility Patrik has long-term professional experience in electric mobility, renewables, and batteries. In addition to his elected positions, he is the managing partner of Enairgy, a clean tech consultancy, and Espio, a technology startup focused on graphene-based sensors. Patrik is an alumnus of the Executive MBA program at Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota, and WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and also holds a Master's degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy from Matej Bel University in Slovakia. In addition, he is a certified trainer for the Battery Academy of the European Battery Alliance and an alumnus of the EIT InnoEnergy's Battery Expert program.

Marek is a founding member and managing director of energy storage technology company Fluence. He leads Fluence's Western Europe team where he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of energy storage product and services sales. Marek has over a decade of experience in cleantech, including an instrumental role in delivering Europe's first grid scale commercial battery storage project in 2015. A prominent energy industry influencer and thought leader, Marek is also a cleantech advisor to the UN and in 2017 was also named a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree; a list that recognises 'the world's most inspiring young innovators, bright rising stars and the leaders of tomorrow

Charles Lesser is a senior corporate financier in the international energy industry. Over 25 years he has led a wealth of successful transactions in public and private capital markets, from asset and corporate M&A to IPOs. His award-winning career includes heading the energy investment banking groups at a number of leading international banks. He has a particular interest in energy storage and heads Apricum's global transaction advisory practice.

Florian Mayr is an expert for strategy, business development and transaction advisory in the global renewable energy markets, including energy storage. Mr. Mayr leads Apricum's energy storage practice and is responsible for the company's international activities in this field. In particular, Mr. Mayr supports Apricum's clients in successfully accessing new markets and seizing attractive business opportunities. He is also active in advising cleantech companies on corporate and project financing, including M&A, fund raising and due diligence. Furthermore, he is a regular contributor to external publications and a frequently booked speaker on the topic of energy storage. Prior to Apricum, he spent a decade in senior positions at McKinsey & Company and RWE, where he was mainly involved in strategy development projects both in the conventional and renewable energy sectors. Mr. Mayr holds a master's degree in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, and an MBA from the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Mannheim.

Juan Carlos had a degree in environmental engineering and energy economics. He has spent the last 15 years in senior management positions at fossil generators, renewable energy, and battery energy storage manufacturing companies. Before joining CellCube, he led the regional sales of Rolls-Royce PS for gas and hybrid power systems in Latin America and Europe, and at MAN ES the hybrid and automation product and solutions development for the decarbonization of fossil fuel generation. In the last few years, he has focused on BESS projects in the industrial and utility sectors. As a Director Sales Microgrid Solutions with Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries for the industrial sector, he dedicates his time to the market, solution portfolio, innovation development and sales growth of CellCube.

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.

Ralf Plieninger has been sonnen GmbH's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since May 2022, heading up the company's research and development as well as the global service. Before that, he was Managing Director and COO/CTO at Torqeedo, an innovative specialist for electric boat drives, building up the company for almost 10 years. Prior to that, he held various top management positions in engineering and supply chain management at the photovoltaic manufacturer Q-Cells. During the first ten years of this career, he worked in different locations at Infineon Technologies in the areas of production planning, product and process engineering and package development. He holds a PhD in semiconductor physics with a thesis on thin silicon solar cells.

Lori joined BlackRock in 2015 and is a member of the Climate Infrastructure investment team which currently manages over $9bn in capital commitments. Lori is responsible for sourcing, executing and managing climate infrastructure assets in Europe, and has recently led transactions in the transmission and energy storage sectors in the UK. Lori earned a MA degree in Mathematics from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University.

Dr. Roland Roesch has been Acting Director at the Innovation and Technology Center (IITC) in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since November 2022. In this role, he oversees the agency's work on advising member countries on energy scenarios and planning, power sector transformation, renewable generation, cost and markets, technology status and innovation outlooks, and project development guidelines. Before becoming Acting Director, he served as IITC Deputy Director from 2018. Roland joined IRENA in 2012 and has worked in multiple work programs since. For two years prior to joining IRENA, Roland had been Professor for Energy Economics at the University of Applied Science in Damstadt. Previously, he worked for 15 years in the oil and gas and utilities industries for Shell and E.ON, latterly as General Manager Power with Shell and as Head of Division, Project Leader, Project Executive and Technical Project Developer with E.ON. Previously, he worked as an Energy Market Consultant for Lahmeyer International and as a researcher in renewable energy. Roland has solid business experience in energy markets, energy economics and strategies, renewable integration management, energy project development and project financing.

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.

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.

Rebekka Schuster is the CCO of EDF Renewables Storage Deutschland, a startup founded in 2018 in Berlin with the support of EDF Renewables. The company's goal is to help the German industry build energy resilience through storage and solar energy projects. The company has successfully grown and is now one of the leading providers of storage as a service for the German industry. Rebekka brings more than a decade of experience in the renewable energy industry. Her focus has been developing PV plants and market access strategies throughout Europe for international companies such as Hanergy and First Solar. She joined the EDF group in 2018 with the focus on battery storage, integration of renewable energies and service concepts for the industry. New business models and strategies to develop the renewable energies market have been her constant driver.

Daniel Sherlock-Burke is Head of Asset Performance at Gore Street Capital, where he manages the Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's operational portfolio. He is primarily responsible for interfacing with operations and maintenance teams to ensure fleet availability, whilst working closely with route-to-market providers to optimise each project's revenue structure. Dan feeds this experience up to a fleet level, utilising lessons learned to set minimum criteria for the pipeline whilst enacting policies for improving the existing assets. This has extended to another 400MW of projects currently under construction as well as a significant pipeline beyond that. He is particularly passionate about safety improvements for BESS-supporting and chairing various industry groups in the UK-and the opportunities of data-led methods of improving fleet performance.

Lars is a part of Fluence's Commercial, Market Development, Marketing and Policy Team in the EMEA region. He is responsible for policy and regulatory efforts on the EU level and throughout the EMEA region and supports the market and business development in Central Europe. Lars also leads the policy and market development for the TSO segment in the EMEA region, working with grid operators, regulators, and policy makers to establish energy storage as grid assets to improve utilisation and increase the operational reliability of power grids. Before joining Fluence, Lars worked for 8 years at Aggreko and Younicos (acquisition in 2017) on storage policy and market development globally, with a specific focus on storage-renewable hybrid assets. During this time, he participated in setting a 1GW storage target within Aggreko's company strategy. Before joining the clean energy sector, Lars worked at the political communication think tank ProDialog, and as a communication specialist for the European Parliament.

Hariram Subramanian is CTO of the Huawei FusionSolar Smart PV Solution - Europe and is also responsible for large utility scale power plant design and grid integration. He is also the head of PV competence and test center in Nuremberg, Germany. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree in International business and strategy. Before being named to his current role at Huawei, he has held R&D, Product Management and senior technical solution sales positions at PV inverter manufacturing companies. He has worked extensively in the Energy conversion technology field as a senior R&D engineer, especially in the field of control engineering for power electronics and PV Grid Integration. He then moved into techno-commercial and product management roles in the solar inverter industry focusing on utility scale PV projects. He has in total 18 years of experience in the energy conversion business. His interests are Grid integration of Renewables, New PV system Architectures, Applications with innovative power electronics systems like EV and Data Center Power Delivery.

Marian Süße studied industrial engineering at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau (Diplom FH) and the Technical University of Chemnitz (Master of Science). The focus of his education here was on automotive engineering as well as factory and production planning. After internships at OEMs in the automotive sector, he started as an research scientist at Fraunhofer IWU during the master's degree and has the position as a research assistant after the master's degree in 2017. In 2019 and 2020 he was responsible for the group "Factory Design and Simulation" and since 2021 he is head of the department Factory System Design and Production Planning. The department combines aspects of factory and production planning with issues of sustainability and sustainable energy supply. In both areas, there is a focus on the use of various simulation tools.

Fredrik Troost is a senior structurer within the trade floor of Eneco. He is responsible for the procurement of flexibility for Eneco's electricity portfolios in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom. He has 15-year experience in the operation, optimization & hedging strategies, and commercial structuring of flex assets, which ranges from grid scale gas-fired generation, renewables, and storage to distributed storage like home storage and EV's. Since 2015 he is involved in the development and contracting of the batteries owned or under contract by Eneco in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. Today, Eneco optimizes seven batteries across various ancillary services and wholesale markets.

- Electrical Engineer, 25 years of experience at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE - PhD thesis in the field of modeling and development of control strategies for fuel cell systems - From 2005 to 2010 Head of Group 'Off-Grid Power Supply' - From 2011 to 2016 Head of Department 'PV Off-Grid Solutions and Battery System Technology' - Since 2017 Head of Department "Electrical Energy Storage" and Coordinator of Business Unit 'Electrical Energy Storage' - Contact Person for Stationary Battery Storage at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE - Contact Person for Battery Systems at Fraunhofer Battery Alliance - Spokesman of R&D Advisory Board of German Energy Storage Systems Association (BVES) - Technical Advisor of Working Group 'Stationary Applications and Integration' of Batteries European Partnership Association / Batteries Europe - Member of Steering Committee of Batteries European Partnership Association / Batteries Europe

Klemens Wegehaupt - enthusiastic engineer, from energy enthusiast to energy expert, working for over 10 years in the field of microgrids & renewable energy. According to Einstein's principle "If you can't explain something simply, you haven't understood it." he tries to inspire and sensitize people for this topic. (He moved from the conservative business of general planning for large power plants, where he was responsible for the design, calculation, and planning of primary and secondary components, to innovation in the field of microgrids & renewables. In this field he is working since 2011 as project engineer & solution architect and takes care of the creation of practical concepts for sustainable energy supply.)