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2025 speakers

Julian Leslie

Director of Strategic Energy Planning and Chief Engineer, National Energy System Operator, UK

Dr Andreas Saçıak

Technical Project Manager, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany

Beth Warnock

Senior Power Systems Engineer, Energy Systems Catapult, UK

Magnus Callavik

Global Head HVDC Engineering, Deputy Head HVDC, Hitachi Energy, Sweden

Rebecca Ward

Deputy Director, Electricity Networks Policy and Offshore, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, UK

Christina Deters

Innovative Equipment Engineer, TransnetBW, Germany

Victor Schnell

Grid Planning and Analysing Specialist, TenneT TSO GmbH, Germany

Marko Grizelj

GB&I Lead Engineer, Siemens Energy, UK

Ryan Tumilty

Head of System Performance, SSEN Transmission, UK

Changjiang Zhan

Deputy Chief Engineer, Research Institute of NR Electric Co. Ltd, China

Darren Jones

Technology Manager, Hitachi Energy, UK

Carl Barker

Consulting Engineer, GE Vernova, UK

Steve Langdon

Manager European Operations T&D, Mitsubishi Electric Europe, UK

Afshin Pashaei

Network Operability Specialist, National Grid, UK

Xiaoyao Zhou

Engineering Compliance Manager, National Grid, UK

James Yu

Engineering Expert, Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK

Dennis De Decker

Head of Engineering, WindGrid - Elia Group, Belgium

Keith Bell

Scottish Power Chair, Future Power Systems, University of Strathclyde, UK

Hani Saad

HVDC Expert, ACDC Transient, France

Michael van der Straeten

Engineer, Amprion, Germany

Priya Bhagavathy

Whole Energy System R&D leader, PNDC, UK

Daniel Stenzel

Grid Planning and Analysing Specialist, TenneT, Germany

Colin Foote

Senior Simulation Engineer, The National HVDC Centre, UK

Florent Morel

Research Team Leader, SuperGrid Institute, France

Khaled Ahmed

Professor of Power Electronics, University of Strathclyde, UK

Xiao-Ping Zhang

Chair, Electrical Power Systems, Director of Smart Grid, Birmingham Energy Institute, UK

Yang Yuexi

State Grid Smart Grid Institute, China

Ben Marshall

Technology Manager & Power System Engineer, The National HVDC Centre, UK

Dirk Van Hertem

Associate Professor, KU Leuven, IEEE committees, Belgium

Dr Ervin Spahic

Grid Planning Manager, WindGrid - Elia Group, Belgium

Agustí Egea Alvarez

Network Operational Performance Manager, Scottish Power, UK

John Moore

Assistant Project Coordinator, Supergrid Institute, France

Martin Cammidge

Operational Planning Manager, SP Energy Networks, UK

Yamamoto Kentaro

Senior Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Europe

Chris Watkin

HVDC Global Marketing & Strategy Manager, Hitachi Energy, Australia

Sumek Elimban

Director Product Applications, RTDS Technologies, Canada

Joan Hernandez

Product Owner - HVDC Systems Dynamics, Models and Control, Hitachi, Sweden

Prof. Nicoloas Cutululis

DTU, Energy Island Roadmap, Denmark

Geraint Chaffey

KU Leuven, Energy Islands, Belgium

Simon Thams

Team Leader Energy markets and grid operation, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Angelo L'Abbate

RSE, Italy