Frauke Thies

Since September 2015, Frauke is Executive Director of smartEn, the European business association for digital and decentralised energy solutions focussing on the interaction of demand and supply in an integrated, decarbonised system.

She has been actively involved in European Energy Policy since 2004, and held different positions at the German Energy Ministry, Greenpeace EU and the European Photovoltaic Industry Association SolarPower Europe. She also worked on secondments in Washington D.C. and in New Delhi, India.

Frauke holds a Master degree in Environmental Sciences from Lüneburg University, Germany, and an Executive MBA from Vlerick Business School, Belgium.

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Rolf Bienert

Rolf Bienert is the Managing & Technical Director of the OpenADR Alliance. In this capacity, Rolf oversees all aspects of the non-profit organization, the technical developments, and the certification program. Before going independent, Rolf was the Technical Manager for Telecom and the Global Competence Center for emerging communication protocols at a global testing firm. In this role, Rolf was involved in many international standardization efforts and guided the company’s efforts in these areas.

Rolf has been an active member of the NIST SGTCC, USNAP Alliance, ZigBee Alliance, and other organizations driving the development of new technologies with a specific focus on standardization, certification and interoperability. Rolf holds a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering.

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DER Control Strategies and EV Charging

Stefan Lodeweyckx

Stefan Lodeweyckx is co-founder of i.LECO and former CEO and founder of ENERVALIS. He has 20 years broad international industrial experience on both technical as managerial level and has worked at different sized companies amongst which are Philips (Natlab), 2 startups, Option (telco devices) and Sony. This experience is complemented by his MSc and MBA degrees and 1 granted patent and 6 more patent applications.

He founded Enervalis in February 2013 and has since then successfully acquired different projects and customers. His expertise is in advanced energy services, business modelling, commercialisation and management.

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Local Energy Communities in practice: the Woerden pilot

Ton Wurth

Ton Wurth is a strategic energy transition consultant at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. He has experience in investment planning within the chemical industry and the energy-infrastructure business. The last years he is involved in the development of an approach to develop robust energy-infrastructure plans within the context of a deep uncertain future.

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Creating robust adaptive investment plans for an adaptive energy-infrastructure in the Netherlands

Maarten Sloot

As portfolio manager Digital Grid at Siemens, Maarten Sloot is responsible for the development of new products and services on the subject of digitalization of asset management and maintenance and grid-optimization. With his young mind he is able to look beyond borders in order to create new solutions for problems related to the energy transition. One of his focus points is the collaboration between IT and OT in the DSO market. In his believe, we should be aware of the value of data we have or could have at the grid edges. “This is in the end the place where most of the impact of the energy transition will be created”, he states.

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The grid edge

James Matthys-Donnadieu

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Introductory keynote speech

Thijs Vral

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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)

Jelle Meersmans

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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)

Pieter Vanbaelen

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Internet of Energy – FLEXITY

Arnaud Devleeschauwer

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Internet of Energy – FLEXITY

HALLSTEIN HAGEN

Hallstein Hagen is responsible for marketing and sales at NODES. He has 8-years’ experience from the Energy business from companies offering solutions in Energy Trading, Risk Management and Demand Response. He has been working in the Agder Energi Flexibility Program for more than 2 years and has previously experience from Brady Plc. Before moving to Brady, Mr. Hagen has 16 years’ experience from Reuters, working in the Nordics, Middle East and Germany. He holds a degree in Banking and Marketing Management.

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Trading platforms

Benjamin Grunfeld

Benjamin Grunfeld is a partner in the global energy, sustainability, and infrastructure segment at Guidehouse and the European and Middle Eastern utility and energy company practice leader. He is a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the entire energy sector value chain. He has considerable consulting project experience in the areas of strategy and operations, mergers and acquisitions, project development and finance, energy efficiency and demand-side management programming, regulatory economics, electricity market design and operations, and energy policy. He is a recognized expert on the energy sector globally and has served as an expert witness in regulatory and civil matters. Benjamin has worked in vertically integrated and restructured energy markets, as well as a range of developed and emerging economies around the world. Benjamin has an M.Sc. in Management and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom, and a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada.

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Making flexibility work

Arjan Wargers

Arjan Wargers is Manager Research & Innovation at ElaadNL and as Innovator at Enexis. Arjan has been working for ElaadNL since 2010. Arjan is responsible for multiple initiatives to explore solutions to ‘unlock’ flexibility from (mainly) EV’s; smart charging. The smart charging possibilities which are experimented within ElaadNL range from direct control, indirect control, incentives and market place. Although the main focus is on experimentation with the technical level of the solutions also the functional and legislative level are in scope.

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In-Home Energy Flexibility protocols: An exploration of (open) standards and protocols for unlocking energy flexibility for the in-home and building domain

Bert den Ouden

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