Speakers of World Energy Storage Day
Virtual Event held on 22nd September 2022
Rohit Laumas
Sr. Consultant
Stacy Osenbaugh
Commercialization Manager
Future Battery Industries CRC
Hillary Boreham
Lead Critical Minerals
Austrade
Nicholas Gurnon
Sr. Scientist, Polaris Labs
Nie Qinlong
Senior Technical Engineer
Xiamen Kehua Digital Energy Tech
Co., Ltd
Anjan Merkap
Consultant - Emerging Technologies, Customized Energy Solutions
Dr. Tom Moerenhout
Resident Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sohail Hasnie
Principal Energy Specialist, Asian Development Bank
Young-Il Lee
Professor, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Harsh Thacker
Director
Emerging Technologies,
Customized Energy Solutions
Ben Shepherd
VP Strategy
Relectrify
John Wood
Founder, NOAB ventures
Achal Sondhi
VP
Growth, APAC, Fluence
Tim Harris
Managing Director & CEO
Redflow
Jake Gamboa
Head of Business Development
Citicore
Aditya Prasad Palavi
Consultant
Customized Energy Solutions
Ohira Eiji
Director
Hydrogen & Fuel Cell, New
Energy and Industrial Technology
Development Organization (NEDO)
Knut Linnerud
CEO
Greenstat Asia
Liu, Chang Zhi
Senior Sustainable Product Engineer, Rolls-Royce Solutions (Suzhou) Co. Ltd
Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
President & Managing Director
Customized Energy Solutions (CES),
India
Sudhendu Sinha
Advisor
Infrastructure
Connectivity – Transport & Electric
Mobility, Niti Aayog
Dr. Gayatri Dadheech
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Exide Industries
Vijayanand Samudrala
President - New Energy
Amara Raja Batteries
Vikram Handa
Managing Director
Epsilon Advanced Materials Pvt. Ltd
Brieux Boisdequin
Vice President, Automotive & Materials – India, BASF
Chaitanya Kanuri
Senior Program Manager
Electric
Mobility, World Resources
Institute (WRI), India
Ashish Kundra
Principal Secretary cum
Commissioner (Transport)
GNCTD
Sumit Mittal
Chief Financial Officer
GreenCell Mobility
Tanvir Singh
Co-Founder
Mooving
Awadhesh Jha
Executive Director
Fortum Charge
& Drive India
Raja Gayam
Co-founder and President
Biliti Electric, Inc
Netra Walawalkar
Vice President
India Operations,
Customized Energy Solutions (CES)
Ghanashyam Prasad
Chairperson, Central Electricity Authority (CEA)
S. K. Mishra
Director, Solar Energy Corporation (SECI)
Dr. Rahul Tongia
Sr. Fellow
Centre for Social &
Economic Progress (CSEP)
Rupam Raja
Market Director- South Asia
Fluence
Rahul Jain
Head - Energy Storage
Renew Powe
Pawan Mulukutla
Director
Clean Mobility & Energy
Tech, World Resources Institute
(WRI), India
H. E. Hans
Jacob Frydenlund
Ambassador
Norwegian Embassy
K. R. Jyothilal
Principal Secretary (Power, Forest, and General Administration), Government of Kerala
Pawan Mehndiratta
Head – Corporate Centre – Technology & Manufacturing, L&T Green Energy
Dr. Anurag Pandey
Vice President - Hydrogen Value Chain, New Energy, Reliance Industries Ltd
Ashok Thakur
Editor in Chief, Emerging Technology News
Robert Colbourn
CEO, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Lars Carlstorm
Founder & CEO
Italvolt
Mohan Yelishetty
Co-founder, Critical Minerals Consortium
Avanthika Satheesh
Industry Research Manager
Customized Energy Solutions
Adam Panayi
Managing Director
Rho Motion
Akash Passey
President
VE Commercial Vehicles
Kristin Skofteland
Chief Commercial Officer & Legal
Counsel
Beyonder
Roberta Mugellesi Dow
Business Applications Manager
Downstream Business Applications
Department, European Space Agency
Alfons Westgeest
GM, Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers (EUROBAT)
Dr. Ole Jakob Sørdalen
Chief Innovation Officer
PIXII AS
Chandrashekhar Govindrajalu
Lead Energy Specialist
The World Bank
Akihiro Kai
Project Manager
Sodium Sulfur
Battery, NGK Insulators
Frederik Sullwald
Head of Sales Utilities & Key
Accounts
Intilion
Mark Howitt
CTO and Co-Founder
Storelectric Ltd
Cristian Carter
Director
Innovation Norway
Charles Howland
Partner, Curtis
Mallet-Prevost,
Colt & Mosle LLP
Natalie Gupta
Director
Bunkering Yara Clean
Ammonia, Yara International ASA
Bernd Frank
Director
Atotech
John Fernandes
Senior Consultant
Customized Energy Solutions
Naoki Ota
CEO, 24M Technologies
Dr Prabhakar Patil
Former CEO
LG Chem, USA
Venkat Srinivasan
Director
Argonne Collaborative
Center for Energy Storage Science
Robert Galyen
Former CTO
CATL
Ann Yu
Senior Consultant
Customized Energy Solutions
Zach Woogen
Policy Manager
VGIC
Dr Steven Kaye
CTO
Our Next Energy
Aviv Tzidon
Chairman
Phinergy & eViation
Frank Wolak
President
Fuel Cell & Hydrogen
Council
Massi Miliano Cervo
Lecturer
National University of
Technology, Argentina
Dr. Nicola De Blasio
Senior Fellow
Harvard University
Roxana Bekemohammadi
Executive Director
United States
Hydrogen Alliance (USHA)
Cyrus Tingley
Director
Electrolyzer Sales,
Plug Power
Dr Yashodhan Agalgaonkar
Senior Researcher
National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Erik Paulson
VP - Wholesale Market Services, Customized Energy Solutions
Curtis Ashton
Director
Training, American
Power Systems
Jason Burwen
Vice President
Energy Storage,
American Clean Power Association
(ACPA)
Jacqueline DeRosa
VP
Energy Storage Systems,
Ameresco
John Newton
Principal Regulatory Analyst
East Bay Community Energy
Subrahmanyam Pulipaka
CEO, National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI)
Alexander Hogeveen Rutter
Private Sector Specialist
International Solar Alliance (ISA)
Bharat Reddy
Additional General Manager, Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd
Bindu Madhavi
Director
Policy & Regulatory,
India Energy Storage Alliance
Disha Agarwal
Program Lead
Renewables,
Council on Energy, Environment
and Water
Isabel Chatterton
Regional Industry Director for Global Infra, APAC, International Finance Corporation
Christine Lins
Executive Director
Global Women’s
Network for the Energy Transition
Selamawit Beneberu
Senior Energy Advisor
EnDev
Ethiopia
Jyoti Gulia
Founder
JMK Research
Vincent Boissonneault
Independent consultant
Puruvi Poddar
Chief-corporate and BD, Tirupati Graphite
Dr. Srinivas Popuri
Managing Partner
SP Consulting
Akash Saraf
Senior Analyst
Customized Energy Solutions
Bhupesh Verma
Manager
Market Research, India
Energy Storage Alliance
Dr. Claude Chanson
General Manager
Recharge
Utkarsh Singh
CEO
BatX Energies
Stephen Fernands
Founder and President
Customized Energy Solutions
Dr. Gyuk Imre
Chair-Department of Energy
USA
Juliet Pumpuni
Energy Specialist
Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program
Jens Jeager
Director
Policy and Business
Development, Alliance for Rural
Electrification
Léa Bettini
Mini-Grid Product & Commercial
Manager
ENGIE Energy Access
Kapil Seth
Director and Co-founder
Mandalay Yoma
Nitin Akhade
Consultant and Program Manager
Rural Electrification and Livelihoods,
Customized Energy Solutions
Yen T. Yeh
Executive Director
Volta
Foundation
Matt Anders
Divisional Manager
Piper Maddox
Ashoka Kumar
Senior Consultant
Axiscades
Engineering Technologies Ltd
Akshay Gill
Director
Makermax Inc.
Aditi Pathak
Assistant Manager
IESA Academy
Jatin Sarode
Senior Analyst
Emerging
Technologies Customized Energy
Solutions
Vijay C S
Senior Analyst
Emerging
Technologies, Customized Energy
Solutions
Joel Berger
Senior Consultant
Emerging
Technologies, Customized Energy
Solutions
Julia Souder
Executive Director
Long Duration
Energy Storage Council
Curtis VanWalleghem
CEO
Hydrostar
Phil Delleville
MD
Product Development,
Strategy & Operations, Malta
Pranesh Rao
VP
Engineering Control Systems,
Eos Energy Enterprises
Venkat Viswanathan
Associate Professor
Carnegie
Mellon University
Prem Kumar Vislawath
Founder & CEO
Marut Drone
Felipe Varon
Founder & CEO
Varon Vehicles Corporation
Dr. Judy Jeevarajan
Vice President & Executive Director
Electrochemical Safety Research
Institute, UL Research Institutes
Dr. Anna G. Stefanopoulou
William Clay Ford Professor of Technology, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Dr. Vinay Premnath
Lead Engineer
Particle Science
and Technology Section,
Southwest Research Institute
(SWRI)
Dr. Teresa Barone
Chemical Engineer
National
Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH)
Dr. Thomas Dubaniewicz
Lead General Engineer
National
Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH)
Christian Lejon
Research Engineer
Swedish
Defence Research Agency (FOI)
Dr. Thomas Barth
Survival Factors Investigator, Biomechanics Engineer, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
