Speakers 2020

Praveer Sinha
CEO & Managing Director
The Tata Power Company Limited

Mikhail Nikomarov
Co-founder
Bushveld Energy

Frank Burke
Technical Advisor
Irish Energy Storage Association

Cornelius Matthes
Senior Vice President
Dii Desert Energy MENA

Dr. Andreas Hauer
Head of the energy storage division
Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research

Brittney Elzarei
Policy Manager
EASE (European Association for Storage of Energy)

David Lecoque
Chief Executive Officer ad interim
Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)

Dr. Judy Jeevarajan
Research Director
Electrochemical Safety, Underwriter’s Laboratories Inc.

Stephen Fernands
Founder and President Customized Energy Solutions

Janice Lin
Founder and CEO
Strategen

Anant Nahata
Managing Director
Exicom Power Systems

Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
Chair, GESA, President, IESA, MD, CES (India)

Mr. Yoshiro KAKU
Chief Representative
NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization)

Rajendra Shrivastav
President and Market Business Leader
AES India

Vikram Gulati
Country Head
Toyota Kirloskar Motors Pvt. Ltd

Carla Peterman
Senior Vice President Regulatory Affairs
Southern California Edison

Manoj Sinha
Founder and CEO, Husk Power Systems

Chandrasekar Govindarajalu
Lead Energy Specialist, Energy Climate Finance, The World Bank

Edwin Antonio
Energy Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Abhijeet Sathe
President
SB Energy USA

Brieux Boisdequin
Vice President- Automotive & Materials
BASF India

Nathan Adams
Director of Technology and Business Development
Hitachi ABB Power Grid

Roger Kranenburg
Vice President, Strategy and Policy
Eversource

Bryan Pellerin
Senior Researcher
Smart Innovation Norway

Giuseppe Cicerani
Head of Business Development Generation Integrated Storage
Enel Green Power

Dr Avishek Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO
V-Flow Tech

Netra Walawalkar
Director – India Markets
Customized Energy Solutions

Debi Prasad Dash
Executive Director
India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA)

Harsh Thacker
Director, Consulting Services
Customized Energy Solutions

Dr. Satyajit Phadke
Sr Manager – R&D
IESA

Justin Wahid Rangooni
Executive Director
Energy Storage Canada

Venkat Viswanathan
Associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

Jitendra Kulkarni
Vice President
Innovation SB Energy (Softbank Group)

George Dudley
International Engagement and Research Manager
China Energy Storage Alliance (CNESA)

Austin R. Bryan
Senior Director – Innovation
CLP Holdings Limited

David Morgado
Senior Energy Policy Specialist
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

William Brent
Chief Campaign Officer
Power for All

Dr. Sanjay Bajpai
Head (Technology Mission Division: Energy, Water & All Others), Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology

Helge Tryti
Commercial Counsellor, Royal Norwegian Embassy in India and the Innovation Norway Director of the Mumbai and New Delhi office.

M. Stanley Whittingham,
Chemistry Department
State University of New York at Binghamton

H.E. Upendra Tripathy
Director General
International Solar Alliance

Mr. Amitabh Kant
CEO
NITI Aayog

Mr. Anshul Gupta,
Director
Okaya Power

Mr. Saurabh Kumar
Executive Vice Chairperson
EESL group of Companies

Mr. Awadhesh Jha
Vice President, Fortum India

Dr Tudor Constantinescu
PhD, Principal Adviser, European Commission, Directorate General for Energy in the European Commission

David Schlosberg
VP, Energy Market Operations & Policy, Global Energy Services, e-Mobility, enelX

Kelly Speakes-Backman
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Storage Association

Paul Gleeson
Managing Director
Energy, Resources & Water, Aurecon Group

John Zahurancik
Chief Operating Officer
Fluence Energy

Chris King
Senior VP, eMobility, Siemens

Dr. N. Kalaiselvi
Director
CSIR- Central Electro Chemical Research Institute (CECRI)

Nitin Akhade
Manager, MICRO, Customized Energy Solutions

Dr Gustav H. Beerel
Country Head
Customized Energy Solutions, Japan

Pramod Kulkarni
Senior Consultant
Customized Energy Solutions

Vinayak Walimbe
CFA, VP
Emerging Technologies, Customized Energy Solutions

Vijayanand Samudrala
Chief Executive Officer
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd

Shri Ghanshyam Prasad
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Power, Government of India

Ashok Thakur
Chief Editor
ETN

Martin Zierer
Application Manager
Schaltbau GmbH

Ricardo Estefano Rosa
Critical Power & ESS, WEG

Beejay Kim
EV Volumes, Country Representative of Korea, and Battery market analyst

Kaushik Burman
Vice President, New Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
Gogoro

Steve Blume
President
Smart Energy Council

Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper
DER Strategy Specialist
Energy Security Board (ESB)

Nathan Dunlop
Head of Market Strategy
Tritium

Dr. Anshuman Tripathi
Programme Director
Future Mobility Solutions (Electromobility), Energy Research Institute, NTU *

Priyank Agarwal
Vice President, Head - Business Development & Strategy
EXICOM

Dr. Imre Gyuk
Director, Energy Storage Research, Office of Electricity
US Department of Energy (DoE)

Emanuele Taibi
Power Sector Transformation Strategies
IRENA

Eric Hsieh
Director, Grid Components and Systems, Office of Electricity, Advanced Grid R&D, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)

Sandeep Tandon
National Programme Manager
UNIDO

Sidharth Choudhary
AGNIi AVP and Lead Technology Management

Srinivasa Venu Uppuluri
Vice President
SB Energy

Avanthika Satheesh
Sr. Analyst & Head of Research
Emerging Technologies, Customized Energy Solutions

Kumail Rashid
EV Charging Solutions Lead, Asia Pacific, ABB

Rohit Modi
Country Head & President of India Business
SB Energy – SoftBank

Arumugam Manthiram
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin)

Davide Coppola
Project manager and business developer
European Space Agency (ESA)

Dr. YU TACK
KIM Team Leader / KBIA (Korea Battery Industry Association) & KORBA(Battery R&D Association of Korea)