Thought Leaders Forum
WindEurope 2019 welcomes a new exciting feature:
the Thought Leaders Forum.
Where: Hall 1
When:
Tue 2 April, 11:00-17:00
Wed 3 April, 9:30-16:30
Thu 4 April, 9:45-15:45
Every 30 mins
Brought to you by MHI Vestas and located in the exhibition area, it will create a bridge to the conference and offer exhibition visitors the possibility to listen to industry leaders, startups and policymakers about the future of technology, markets and the great transformations at work through the energy transition.
Over the three days of the event, through a series of short talks, discussions, interviews and panels, we will cover the challenges of the energy transition, the role of offshore wind in accelerating the decarbonisation of Europe’s economies, innovative advances in wind-based electrification, turbine and offshore technology, resource assessment, system integration and sustainability, as well as finance and global markets.
| 11:00 | Introduction | Stewart Mullin, Director of Public Affairs, Communications and Marketing, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind |
| 11:05 | Offshore wind as an enabler of delivering the energy transition for all Europeans | Philippe Kavafyan CEO, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind |
| 11:30 | Facilitating the integration of offshore wind: storage solutions | Connecting floating wind to storage: the BATWIND project Increasing the Value of Offshore Wind by Integrating On-board Energy Storage |
| 12:00 | Smart turbines in a connected environment | Enabling large-scale low CoE offshore wind grid integration Tusitha Abeyasekera, MHI Vestas |
| 12:30 | Taking offshore wind to the next level | Interview with: Christina Aabo, Director R&D Wind Power, Ørsted conducted by David Weston, News Editor, Windpower Monthly See presentation |
| 13:00 | Wind goes digital | Working together on the digital transformation of wind Vasiliki Klonari, Senior system integration & digitalisation analyst, WindEurope See presentation |
| 13:30 | Hydrogen: a natural companion for offshore wind? | Denis Thomas, EU regulatory affairs & business development manager renewable hydrogen, Hydrogenics See presentation |
| 14:00 | Electrification of industrial processes: what role for offshore wind? | Decarbonising offshore oil and gas operations with floating offshore wind Sebastian Bringsværd, Head of Hywind Development in New Energy Solutions, Equinor |
| 14:30 | Offshore wind powering future mobility | Electrification of transport: new demand for wind and renewables Jochen Kreusel, Market Innovation Manager, Power Grids Division, ABB See presentation |
| 15:00 | Keeping your offshore wind farms secure | Cyber Security – Key Tests Steve Ross, Data and Digital – Business Lead, ORE Catapult See presentation |
| 15:30 | Automating offshore wind farm inspections |
Using autonomous drones to inspect turbines André Moura, Founder and CEO, ProDrone |
| 16:00 | Using Artificial Intelligence to improve operations | An AI approach to control and monitor wind farm assets using satellite images Enrique Iriarte, Acciona Energia Eduardo Cuesta, Data Scientist, Pervasive Technologies See presentation |
| 16:30 | Using Advanced Analytics to improve Asset Management | From Data to Action: Advanced Analytics Applied to Asset Management Dave Roberts, Power Factor |
| 9:30 | Conference debrief: highlights of 2 April | Stewart Mullin, Director of Public Affairs, Communications and Marketing, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind Pierre Tardieu, Chief Policy Officer, WindEurope |
| 10:00 | Europe’s offshore wind potential | 400GW of offshore wind by 2050: are we on track? Giles Hundleby, Director, BVG Associates |
| 10:30 | The role of ports in the expansion of offshore wind | The role of ports in the expansion of offshore wind Jesper Bank, CCO, Port of Esbjerg |
| 11:00 | Innovation in subsea cables | Interview with: Raul Gil, VP Submarine Business Unit, Prysmian Group conducted by Shaun Campbell, Editor, Windpower Monthly |
| 11:30 | Floating wind solutions | Perspectives for floating offshore wind João Metelo, CEO, Principle Power See presentation |
| 12:00 | Multi-use of offshore wind farms | Pilot projects on multiuse of offshore wind farms Mattia Cecchinato, Offshore and Sustainability analyst, WindEurope See presentation |
| 12:30 | Developments in offshore wind foundations | Serial fabrication – Large Scale Floating Wind Farms Antonio Sánchez Pérez, Offshore Wind Programme Manager, NAVANTIA See presentation |
| 13:00 | Prespectives on offshore wind | Interview with Henrik Stiesdal conducted by Darius Snieckus, Editor in Chief, REcharge |
| 13:30 | Meshed offshore grids | Update on the PROMOTioN project Nicolaos Cutululis Professor, DTU Wind Energy See presentation |
| 14:00 | Artificial Islands connecting offshore wind farms | Javier Abanades, Head of Hydrodynamic Modelling, Wind Energy Division, TYPSA See presentation |
| 15:00 | Local acceptance | Co-creation as basic principle for creating local acceptance Ruth Schmitt, Head of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, FHNW Ursula Dubois, Head, Sociolutions GmbH See presentation |
| 15:30 | Wind Resource Assessment | The New European Wind Atlas: how it will impact wind resource assessments in the future Jakob Mann, Professor, DTU Wind Energy |
| 16:00 | Sustainability | Decommissioning: challenges and solutions Lida Barekzai, Project Manager,Veolia Environmental Services Germany See presentation |
| 16:30 | Closing session | Recap of the day Monica Lambert, WindEurope |
| 9:45 | Conference debrief: highlights of 3 April | MHI Vestas |
| 10:15 | Financing the energy transition | Interview with: David Gonzalez, Senior Energy Engineer, European Investment Bank conducted by Iván Pineda, Director of Public Affairs, WindEurope |
| 10:45 | The Clean Energy Package and impacts on energy trading | Viviana Ciancibello, Senior Business Developer, EEX See presentation |
| 11:15 | Global offshore wind markets: Asia | Interview with: Lars Hammershøj, Chief Strategy Officer, K2 Management conducted by Bernd Radowitz, Editor Europe, REcharge |
| 11:45 | Auctions: finding the right design | The impact of auction design: findings from the AURES II project Lena Kitzing, Senior Researcher, DTU Wind Energy |
| 12:15 | The UK offshore wind market | Brexit: perceptions from continental investors on the UK market Marcel Janssen, Partner, Dentons See presentation |
| 12:45 | Global offshore wind markets: North America | Shashi Barla, Principal Analyst, Global Wind Supply Chain & Technology, Wood McKenzie See presentation |
| 13:15 | Financing Floating Wind | Closing the risk-gap with bottom fix: experience from Windfloat Atlantic Pablo Lucas, Project Finance Senior Manager, EDP Renewables |
| 13:45 | Using PPAs to lower market risk in offshore wind | Offshore wind PPAs: optimisation of offtake Sophie Dingenen, Partner Corporate & Projects | Energy & Utilities, Bird & Bird See presentation |
| 14:15 | Financing offshore wind | Trends in offshore wind finance Jérôme Guillet Managing Director, Green Giraffe |
| 14:45 | Hedging risks in offshore wind projects | De-risking offshore wind projects Ronny Bendlin Spür, Project Manager, Munich RE See presentation |
| 15:15 | Day recap in the Thought Leaders Forum and see you in Copenhagen! Monica Lambert, WindEurope |
