Organising committee
Ervin Spahic (co-chair)
Grid Planning Manager, WindGrid - Elia Group, Germany
Kai Strunz (co-chair)
Professor, TU Berlin, Germany
Chidinma Agwu
Senior HV/MV Components Engineer , Ørsted, UK
Willem Leterme
Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Ramesh P
Head of HVDC Engineering, Hitachi Energy, UK
Andreas Saçıak
Technical project manager, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany
Dirk Van Hertem
Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dirk Westermann
Professor, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Technical Programme Committee
- Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami, Lecturer in electrically powered aircraft and operations, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- BOUCHELGA FATMA, Senior professor, University of Ghardaia, Algeria
- Ian Cowan, HVDC Engineering Manager, SSEN Transmission, United Kingdom
- Xiao-Ping Zhang, Professor of Electrical Power Systems, Co-Director, Birmingham Energy Institute, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Zipan Nie, Researcher, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Lorenzo Zeni, Lead Power System Engineer, Ørsted AS, Denmark
- Pablo Briff, Principal Engineer, GE Vernova, United Kingdom
- Sahar Azad, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Eduardo Prieto, Associate Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
- Carl Barker, Consulting Engineer, GE Vernova, United Kingdom
- Mike Barnes, Professor, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Taoufik Qoria, Lead Control Engineer, GE Vernova
- David Devoy, Senior HVDC Project Engineer, SSEN Transmission, United Kingdom
- Sivapriya Mothilal Bhagavathy, R&D Team Leader (Whole Energy System), PNDC, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Francisco Javier Chivite Zabalza, Snr Product Manager, GE Vernova, Spain
- Jagruti Thakur, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Jef Beerten, Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Anish Babu ,Senior R&D Engineer, PNDC, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Jagruti Thakur Assistant, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Francesco Giacomo Puricelli, Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven / Etch – EnergyVille, Belgium
- Eros Avdiaj, Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Hakan Ergun, Research Expert, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Ramon Blasco-Gimenez, Professor - Head of the Research Institute of Automatics and Industrial Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Julian Freytes, Sr. HVDC Control & Protection engineer, GE Vernova, France
- Ozgur Can Sakinci, Grid Planning and Analysing Specialist, TenneT TSO B.V., Netherlands
- Neville Watson, Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Dr. NITHYA VENKATESAN, Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
- Dr. Robert H. Renner, Team Leader, Siemens Energy, Germany
- Ke Ji, Associate Professor, North China Electric Power University, China
- Benjamin Marshall, Technology Manager, National HVDC Centre, United Kingdom
- Jeremy Watson, Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Georgios Fintzos, HVDC Expert, Elia Grid International (EGI), Greece
- Dr. Tibin Joseph, Associate Director, WSP UK, United Kingdom