Event and Content Speakers Include

John Korsgaard

Senior Director Engineering Excellence, LM Wind Power

John Korsgaard has worked with wind turbine blades at LM Wind Power since 1990. He has a M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark. He has had various positions in the Engineering/R&D department at LM Wind Power and is currently heading the Engineering Excellence department

Florian Wuertz

Managing Director, Northland Power Europe

Bio coming soon.

Jürgen Berlin

Head of Planning, Enercon

Born 1974, studies of urban and environmental planning in Kaiserslautern and Valencia. From 2001 to 2006 work as urban planner in Kaiserlautern with focus on urban land-use planning including studies of potential for wind energy. Since 2006 in the sales department of ENERCON GmbH, Aurich, Germany for wind farm planning. Main areas of work are sales support concerning planning and approval procedures, with specialization on repowering and environmental issues.

Anna Jasper-Martens

Director of Business Excellence & Asset Management, Vattenfall

Bio coming soon.

Glenda Napier

CEO, Energy Cluster Denmark

Since 2016, Glenda Napier, age 46, has headed Energy Innovation Cluster, Denmark’s cluster organisation for energy production and one of the three clusters that are now united in Energy Cluster Denmark. The other two are House of Energy and Clean Energy. The merger is effective from 1 July 2020.

Steve Ross

Data and Digital Lead, ORE Catapult

Steve Ross is the Data & Digital Business Lead at the Catapult, supporting a dedicated team based in Glasgow. He joined ORE Catapult in 2017 with over 17 years of commercial and data experience in the renewable energy sector having worked for the likes of Centrica, MeteoGroup and 3TIER Visala as their Managing Director for the EMEA region. He also ran his own consultancy Spoor Global for several years, and has in-depth knowledge of O&M strategies and practices as well as the platforms, applications and use of core analytics in the wind market.

Joe Dalton

Director Asset Management, NTR plc

Joe joined NTR in 2014 as Asset Management Director and brings 34 years’ experience in conventional and renewable energy, spanning wind, solar, coal, oil and gas turbines.  Joe is responsible for the initial construction and long-term operational management of wind and solar assets.

Prior to joining NTR, Joe worked at Mainstream Renewable Power, where he negotiated turbine, balance of plant and EPC contracts for over 500MW of wind, conducted technical due diligence for a range of onshore and offshore wind projects and devised the asset management system for the company.  

Prior to Mainstream, Joe held a number of senior technical roles in Irish utility ESB where he oversaw operational performance and risk management for its 3,000MW power generation fleet, devised and implemented its asset lifetime plans and ran a number of significant programmes to refurbish and retrofit power stations.  

Joe began his career in power generation operations and maintenance.  Joe has particular expertise in grid code requirements and generation technology selection as well as construction and management of wind project assets.  

Joe holds an MSc (Maintenance Management) from Manchester University and a BE Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin.

Nicolas Dietenbeck

Asset Management France, Akuo Energy

Bio coming soon.

Miguel Ezpeleta

Global Wind Operations Director, Acciona

Bio coming soon.

Virginia Dundas

Head of Supply Chain Decarbonisation Programme, Ørsted

Bio coming soon.

Jan De Groof

Head Asset Management and Procurement, ENGIE

Mr. De Groof currently heads procurement as well as the commercial asset management of Engie’s European assets, with an installed capacity of ca. 3GW. He is based in Paris and joined Engie in 2010 having worked on different finance positions, conventional power and renewables projects in Brussels and Berlin. Prior thereto, Mr. De Groof was assistant at the faculty at the University of Antwerp working on corporate finance, cost – and management accounting topics. He graduated MSc at the University of Antwerp with a thesis on energy market design and a major in finance, afterwards pursuing an MArts in econometrics at the University of Leuven.

Pete Davies

Senior VP of Digital Engineering, Uniper

Pete Davies is the Senior VP of Digital Engineering Solutions and the founder of Enerlytics at Uniper, our digital energy asset management solution, built on a foundation of more than 100 years of expertise in the energy market.

Pete has worked in the energy sector for 12+ years on the boundary between IT and engineering or trading. He is passionate about digital solutions that can leverage big data to deliver better insights and support the transition to a safe and sustainable energy future. 

Matthias Zelinger

Managing Director, VDMA

Bio coming soon.

Haras Najib

Technology & Innovation Working Group, VDMA

Bio coming soon.

Alistair Mackinnon

Chair ICE-RE and Head of Standards, Conformity and Compliance, IEC

Bio coming soon.

David Talavan

Asset Operation Director, EDP Renewables

Bio coming soon.

Francesco Vanni

Head of Department, Renewable Energy Analytics, DNV

Bio coming soon.

Jonas Lau Forsberg Nihøj

Director PPA and Energy Trading, European Energy

Bio coming soon.

John Paul Larrañeta

Regional CEO - South Europe & Africa, Services BU, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Bio coming soon.

Gloria Kakimpa Kalyesubula

Technical Lead - Wind Farm Health Monitoring, Uniper

Bio coming soon.

Ian Hunter

General Manager, Renewables, Camlin Energy

Ian Hunter leads Camlin’s biogas division, which designs and manufactures innovative sensing technologies for the biogas sector. He focuses on developing a deep understanding of technical and operational challenges in the industry and working closely with customers and key stakeholders to bring novel solutions to market. With a background in both optical sensing and finance, he is passionate about delivering technologies that are truly value-adding. By helping the biogas industry to be more efficient and self-sustaining, biogas can play an integral role on the path to a net-zero future.