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)