Speakers 2021

Keisuke Torikai
Business development, Electricity market & System analyst, Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI)

Hemant Mandal
Senior Energy Specialist
Upstream, APAC, IFC - International Finance Corporation

Debi Prasad Dash
Executive Director
IESA

Akira Morise
Technical Director, Power Generation, Aurecon

Steve Wilson
Technical Director
Power Generation, Aurecon

Matt Stein
China Energy Storage Alliance (CNESA)

Gustav Beerel
Country Head
Customized Energy Solutions, Japan

Peter Tickler
Co-Founder and Head of Product
Grid Cognition

Gregory Poilasne
Co-founder, Chairman & CEO
Nuvve

Zezan Tam
Vice President- Strategy and Business Development
Relectrify

Dr. Satyajit Phadke
Sr Manager – R&D
IESA

Ohira Eiji
Director, Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Group, New Energy And Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

Alan Kneisz
Global Business Development Director
Cummins - Hydrogenics

Attilio Pigneri
Founder and CEO
H2U

Harsh Thacker
Director, Consulting Services
Customized Energy Solutions

Sanjiva De Silva
Counsellor (Industry, Science, Energy and Resources), Australian High Commission, New Delhi, India

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

Dr. Arvind Muthiah
Strategic Product Specialist
Durapower Holdings Pte Ltd

Mohan Yellishetty
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Netra Walawalkar
Director – India Markets
Customized Energy Solutions

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

Praveer Sinha
CEO & Managing Director
Tata Power

Sumant Sinha
CEO
Renew Power

Kiran Kumaraswamy
Vice President
Fluence

Pawan Mulukutla
Director-Clean Mobility and Energy Tech
WRI India

Sadaf Arif Siddiqui
Marketing Manager
(IoT, Automotive), Keysight Technologies

Martin Zierer
Application Engineer, Schaltbau GmbH

Anant Nahata
Managing Director
Exicom

Vikram Gulati
Country Head
Toyota Kirloskar Motors Pvt. Ltd

Dr Ashok Kumar Saraswat
Senior Director, Advanced Battery Engineering & Chief of Center for Cell and Battery Research Excellence, Ola Electric Mobility

Polash Das
Head –eMobility
Convergence Energy Services Limited

Frank Wouters
Sr. V.P, Energy Transition, Reliance Industries, Chairman, Mena Hydrogen Alliance

Tarun Kapoor
Secretary, Ministry Of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government Of India

Kowthamraj V.S.
Expert, Clean-tech Manufacturing
NITI Aayog

DMR Panda
General Manager, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC)

Manoj Kumar Upadhyay
Founder & Chairman
Acme Group

Mr. Amitabh Kant
CEO
NITI Aayog

Stefan Louis
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer, Nexcharge

Vijayanand Samudrala
Chief Executive Officer
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd

Emin Askerov
CEO
RENERA

Arvind Balaji
Joint Managing Director
Lucas-TVS

Frederic Verdol
Senior Power Engineer
The World Bank

Vinayak Walimbe
VP
Emerging Technologies, Customized Energy Solutions

Jatin Sarode
Senior Analyst
Customized Energy Solutions

Vijay C S
Senior Analyst
Customized Energy Solutions

Dr. Srini Venu Uppuluri
Vice President
SB Energy

Sandeep Bangia
Head - EV, HA & ESCO Business
Tata Power

Awadhesh Jha
Vice President, Fortum India

Manikandan Palanimuthu
Chief Technology Officer
Hero Lectro Mobility

Dr. Sajid Mubashir
Scientist G, (EV_R&D Mission | EV_Charging_Standards), Dept. Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India

Reji Pillai
President, ISGF; Chairman
Global Smart Energy Federation

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka
CEO
National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI)

Dr. Ajay Mathur
Director General, International Solar Alliance

Pranav R Mehta
Founder Chairman of National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI)

S. K. Mishra
Director (Power System)
Solar Energy Corporation of India

Kushagra Nandan
Co-Founder and
Managing Director
SunSource Energy

Máté Heisz
Director of Global Affairs
Solar Power Europe

John Wood
Director
NOAB Ventures

Danny Kennedy
CEO
New Energy Nexus

Anupam Jalote
CEO
iCreate ( International Centre for Entrepreneurship & Technology

Rakesh Malhotra
Founder & Mentor
SAR Group

C. Robert Pedraza
Former President (India)
EnerBlu

Gauthier Dupont
Director
Energy Infrastructure, NGK

Jacopo Tosoni
Policy Officer
European Association for the Storage of Energy

Michele Pissarello
Business development
Enel X

Emanuele Taibi
Power Sector
Transformation Strategies, IRENA

Avanthika Satheesh
Industry Research Manager- Emerging Technologies; CES

Lars Carlstrom
Founder & CEO
Italvolt

Dr Georg Angenendt
CTO
ACCURE Battery Intelligence GmbH

Peter Kelly-Detwiler
Consultant

Cornelius Matthes
Senior Vice President
Dii Desert Energy MENA

Thierry Lepercq
Founder & CEO
DH2 energy, President Soladvent

Bard Karlsen
EVP Operations & Innovation
Morrow Batteries

Mikhail Nikomarov
Chairman, South African Energy Storage Association (SAESA), Co-founder, Bushveld Energy

Nechan Naicker
Founder and CEO
The Megamillion Energy Group of Companies

Holger Ihssen
Delegate for the Research Area Energy, Helmholtz Association of German Research

Holger Ihssen
Delegate for the Research Area Energy, Helmholtz Association of German Research

Nitin Akhade
Manager, Micro, Customized Energy Solutions
Claudio Pedretti
President
Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)

Dr Imre Gyuk
Director, Energy Storage Research, Office of Electricity, DOE

Manoj Sinha
Founder and CEO
Husk Power Systems

Jens Jaeger
Director of Policy &, Business Development
Alliance for Rural Electrification

Benjamin Dumond
Head of Operation and Technical
ENGIE PowerCorner

Tarek Keskes
Energy Specialist
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)

Jeff Spangenberger
Director
Recell Center And Materials Recycling Group Leader, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Alan Ferguson
Commercial VP, Battery Supply – North America
Li-Cycle

Mathy Stanislaus
Director
Public Policy and Engagement, Global Battery Alliance Secretariat (by World Economic Forum)

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

Jason Burwen
Interim CEO
U.S. Energy Storage Association

Patricia A. Hoffman
Acting Assistant Secretary
Office of Electricity

Stephen Fernands
President
Customized Energy Solutions

Judith Judson
Head Of US Strategy
National Grid

Chandrasekar Govindarajalu
Lead Energy Specialist
The World Bank

Steve LeVine
Editor
The Electric

Melissa Chan
Director-Grid Solutions and Strategic Partnerships
Fermata Energy

Paul Beach
President
Octillion Power Systems

Oliver Gross
Global Subject Matter Expert
Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion, Stellantis

Suresh Jayanthi
Sr. Director-Mobility Solutions
NextEra Energy Resource

Frank Wolak
President & CEO
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association

Fernando De Sisternes
Senior Energy Specialist
World Bank

Rob Harvey
Director
Energy Infrastructure, Hydrogenics

Chris Ball
Head of Product Marketing
Bloom Energy

Dr. Sunita Satyapal
Director
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program & Fuel Cell Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy

Pashupathy Gopalan
Co-chairman and CEO
SunEdison and Co-founder and CEO of Vilasini Housing

Venkat Srinivasan
Director, Access, Argonne National Laboratory

Diana Bauer
Advanced Manufacturing Office Deputy Director (Acting)
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Tim Holme
Co-founder & CTO
Quantumscape

Jim Cushing
Managing Director- Energy Storage Solutions, Applied Materials

Shirley Meng
Professor
Materials Science & NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego (UCSD)

Ash Lazenby
Cobalt Trading and Marketing, Glencore International

Todd Haynes
Renewable Energy Project Manager
POWER Engineers

Utsav Dhoj Adhikari
Vice President
Delphos International

Juliet Pumpuni
Senior Energy Specialist
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)

Eric Hsieh
Director
Grid Systems and Components, U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. John S. Vetrano
Program Manager
Mechanical Behavior And Radiation Effects Technology Coordination Program, U.S. Department Of Energy

Kristin Persson
Lead Scientist
Liquid Solvation Science Thrust, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)

Dr. Scott Litzelman
Program Director
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Or Yogev
CEO
AugWind

Scott Burger
Senior Manager of Analytics
Form Energy

Dr. Avi Shultz
Program manager
Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO), U.S. DoE

Lara Pierpoint
Director of Climate
Actuate Innovation

Curt Graham
Vice President
Office of Technology Lead, Fluor Corporation

Davis Hackenberg
Advanced Air Mobility Project Manager
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Venkat Viswanathan
Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Varon Felipe
Founder & CEO
Varon Vehicles

Akshay Kumar
Assistant Manager
eMobility, IESA

Christian Eschmann
Acting Head of Lab
German Aerospace Center

Ajit Mate
Lead System Engineer A T M
Boeing Research and Technology

Val Miftakhov
Founder & CEO
ZeroAvia

Dr. Judy Jeevarajan
Vice President
Research Electrochemical Safety Research Institute, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

James Trudeau
Business Development Manager
Batteries & Energy Storage UL - Integrated Energy Systems

Leo Subbarao
Fire Department City of New York (Retired)

Dr. D. K. Shami
Fire Advisor
Govt. of India

Chetan Maini
Co-Founder & Chairman
Sun Mobility

Dr. O.A. ('DK') Ezekoye
W.R. Woolrich Professor
Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin

Christine Lins
Executive Director
Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition

Mani Khurana
Sr. Energy Specialist
The World Bank

Patricia Tatto
Vice President
ATA Renewables

Silvia Zumarraga
Wärtsilä Market Development Manager, Latin America and Caribbean

Jacquie Derosa
Vice President-Energy Storage, Ameresco

Laurence Keke
Managing Director, ENGIE PowerCorner Benin

Sarah Griffiths
Director
Head of Regulatory Affairs, Enel North America

Netra Walawalkar
Director – India Markets
Customized Energy Solutions

Dr. Rashi Gupta
MD, Vision Mechatronics; CBC Vice Chair- India & Chair of CBC Energy Storage Hub

Jean-Pascal Pham-Ba
Co-founder and CEO, SCALE.NGO & Mentors; CBC Chair of Financial & Investor Hub

Prof. Eicke R. Weber
Chairman
European Solar Manufacturing Council; CBC Chair of World CleanTech Awards

Harssh Chhaajer
Renewable Energy Industry Leader
Marsh India Insurance Brokers

Ankit Doshi
Director
Waaree ESS

Sandeep Chopra
Founder, CEO
Metafin Cleantech Finance Pvt Ltd

Tomasz Slusarz
Founder & Vision Streamliner
CleanTech Business Club