Keynote speakers
Julian Leslie
Head of Networks and Chief Engineer, National Grid ESO
Overcoming barriers to achieve Net Zero in this turbulent global climate?
Fitim Kryezi
Senior Lead of the electrical design: North Sea Energy Island, Energinet
Plain sailing towards energy Islands
Dr Cora Petino-Wagner
Electrical System Design, Energy System Planning, TenneT
Project DC HUB Heide - Onshore multiterminal hub
Andreas Saçıak
Large Projects and Stability Analysis, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
Project DC HUB Heide - Onshore multiterminal hub
Professor James Yu MBE
Head of Innovation Team of Future Networks, SP Energy Networks
Panel - How can we innovate whilst remaining within budget and delivering in a timely manner?
Chris Fox
Head of Interconnection & Offshore Networks (Joint), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The need for speed: Building the grid of the future
Plenary Speakers
Gunther Newcombe OBE
ORION Energy Hub Project Coordinator, ORION Clean Energy Project
The Orion Clean Energy Project: Transforming Shetland into an entirely secure and affordable renewable energy island
Dennis de Decker
Head of Engineering, WindGrid – Elia Group
Extracting greater value from Interconnection, Multi-purpose interconnectors
Stewart Whyte
Head of Network Control and Transformation, National Grid
Grid Resilience: a global perspective
Julia Matevosyan
Chief Engineer, Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG)
The American Dream of a US Macro-grid
Panel Speakers
Dr Alessandra Parisio
Reader of Power and Energy, University of Manchester
Panel – Is a whole system approach the way forward?
Professor Keith Bell
Holder of the ScottishPower Chair in Future Power Systems and Professor of Smart Grids, University of Strathclyde
Policy navigation - Are we in an impossible disconnected maze?
Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez
Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
Panel – HVDC WISE - EU project on HVDC resiliency and reliability of HVDC systems
Dr Collin Foote
Senior Simulation Engineer, HVDC Centre
Panel – HVDC WISE - EU project on HVDC resiliency and reliability of HVDC systems
Nicola Todd
Head of Innovation, National Grid Electricity Transmission
Panelist - How can we innovate whilst remaining within budget and delivering in a timely manner?
Vijay Shinde
Head of New Innovation Solutions, Siemens Energy
Panel - How can we innovate whilst remaining within budget and delivering in a timely manner?
Professor Mike Barnes
Head of Power and Energy Division, University of Manchester
Panel - How can we innovate whilst remaining within budget and delivering in a timely manner?
Dr Pablo Briff
Head of R&D – HVDC, GE Renewable Energy
Panel - How can we innovate whilst remaining within budget and delivering in a timely manner?
Laura Sandys CBE
Chair, Government's Energy Digitalisation Taskforce & Non-Executive Director, Energy Catapult Systems
Panel – Is a whole system approach the way forward?
Professor Sara Walker
Director of the Centre for Energy, Newcastle University
Chairing the Panel – Is a whole system approach the way forward?
Nicolaos A. Cutululis
Professor, Department of Wind and Energy Systems
Technical University of Denmark
Panel Policy navigation - Are we in an impossible disconnected maze?
Rannveig Loken
Head of Innovation and Technology
Statnett
Panel Policy navigation - Are we in an impossible disconnected maze?
Florent Morel
Research team leader
SuperGrid Institute
Panel – HVDC WISE - EU project on HVDC resiliency and reliability of HVDC systems
Ilka Jahn
Junior PI
RWTH Aachen University
Panel – HVDC WISE - EU project on HVDC resiliency and reliability of HVDC systems
Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Research & Innovation Engineer
SuperGrid Institute
Panel – HVDC WISE - EU project on HVDC resiliency and reliability of HVDC systems
Robert Dimitrovski
Electrical System Design
TenneT TSO GmbH
Panel – HVDC WISE - EU project on HVDC resiliency and reliability of HVDC systems
Dr. Xiaoyao Zhou
Engineering compliance manager
Nationalgrid ESO
Session: Panel Keeping the Lights On!
Gordon McKinstry
Lead Systems Analysis Engineer
SP Energy Networks
Session: Panel Keeping the Lights On!
Ryan Tumilty
Head of System Performance
Affiliation SSEN Transmission.
Session: Panel Keeping the Lights On!
Grace Millman
Senior Energy Analyst
Regen
Session: Panel - Panel - Is a whole system approach the way forward?
Dr Priya Bhagavathy
As a Lead R&D Engineer at PNDC
University of Strathclyde
Session: Panel - Is a whole system approach the way forward?
Editorial Session Speakers
Beth Warnock
Systems Integration Manager, Energy Systems Catapult
Whole System Approach to Integration
Nigel Williams
Project Director, XLinks
Journey to Morocco - Xlinks
David McKay
Director of Asset Management and Operations, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Reliability Considerations for the Design and maintenance
Alberto Rodriguez
Member of the System Reliability Department, Red Eléctrica
Energy transition in Spain: A Picture of a Power System with Large Amounts of Power-Electronic Devices
Niall McDonald
Chief Engineer, Ofgem
A regulator's view on Grid Resilience
Dr Liam Ryan
Chief Innovation and Planning Officer, EirGrid
An Irish Strategy for a Future Grid
Perry Hofbauer
Lead Principal HVDC Engineer, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Road to HVDC Interoperability: Opportunities and risks
Mitsubishi Electric Representative
Fainan Hassan
Lead Engineer
GE Power Conversion
Protection for Power Electronics Based Future Networks
Dr. Hani Saad
HVDC Expert
ACDC Transient
Session: Energy storage systems embedded in Statcom and HVDC systems
Colin Davidson
Consulting Engineer
GE Renewable Energy
Session: Evolving Capability and Need of Grid Forming Control
Ioannis Antoniou
Electrical Engineer
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Session: Electrical Infrastructure For The Spherical Tokamak For Energy Production
Tomas Modeer
CEO Scibreak AB.
Sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Group
Grant McKay
Hitachi
Session: HVDC offshore networks – the next phase
