Speakers of World Energy Storage Day
Virtual Event held on 22nd September 2022

Rohit Laumas

Sr. Consultant Customized Energy Solutions

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)