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SUMMIT AGENDA 2026

DAY1

Day One Morning: Strategic Foundations for a Resilient AI-Powered Sustainable Energy System

09:00 - 09:05 (05 mins)

Welcoming Remarks by Chair

Erik Rakhou
Founder & Managing Director
Rakhou Associates

09:05 - 09:15 (10 mins)

[Opening Keynote] Digital Mandates and Markets Design: EU's AI and Data Strategy for Energy Transition

Rolf Riemenschneider
Head of Sector IoT, DG Connect
European Commission

09:15 - 09:25 (10 mins)

[Keynote] Energy Systems in Transition: Europe’s Energy Pathway in the Age of AI and Digitalisation

Stavros Stamatoukos
Policy Officer, DG Energy
European Commission

09:25 - 10:15

(50 min)

[Top Voice Panel] Shaping the Future: Strategic AI Leadership for an Integrated Energy Transition
  • Harnessing AI to enable seamless interoperability across complex energy infrastructures
  • Balancing legacy systems with innovative technologies through AI-driven insights
  • Building strategic collaborations between industry leaders and AI innovators to unlock new value
  • Navigating regulatory and ethical considerations as AI becomes central to energy systems
  • ​Driving accelerated decarbonisation with AI while maintaining system reliability and security
Moderator:

Johan van Rooij
Director Data Science
Valcon

Panelists:

Christopher d'Arcy
Chief Data and AI Officer
E.ON

Philippe Rambach
Chief AI Officer 
Schneider Electric

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Gülnaz Öneş
Group Chief Information Officer
RWE 

Pietro Caminiti
Group IT & Digital Officer
Terna SpA

Jochem van Hove 
Managing Director Energy & Resources EMEA
Microsoft

Coffee Break (30 mins)

10:45 - 11:35

(50 min)

[Panel] From Forecast to Flexibility: AI-Powered Smart Grids for a Reliable and Resilient Energy System
  • Real-time AI-enabled grid control for autonomous grid balancing and adaptive demand response
  • Coordinating distributed energy resources (DERs) into virtual power plants
  • AI-driven outage prediction, asset management, and network planning
  • ​Interoperable cross-border grid data platforms to improve AI forecasting accuracy
Moderator:

Chad Cheverier
Customer Strategy & Product Insights Lead
Optics11

Panelists:

Dr. Matthias Bucher
Head of Research & Digitalisation
Swissgrid

Arunas Jurgelaitis 
Head of Procurement 
Litgrid

Jawahar Shah
Director, Corporate Strategy 
National Grid

Kevin Walsh
Industry Principal for Power & Utilities
AVEVA

11:35 - 11:55

(20 mins)

[Keynote] AI: The Brains, Operator and Builder of the Future Participative Energy System

Vincent Tuk 
Chief Technology Officer
Eneco

Luncheon

Day One Afternoon - Unlocking AI Assets for the Net-Zero Transition

14:00 - 14:50 (50 mins)

[Panel] Digital Lifelines and Future Beyond: Preparing Decarbonization for the Next AI Wave
  • Using AI to optimise efficiency, reduce emissions, and prevent downtime in energy and industrial assets.
  • Advancing digital twins into adaptive, AI-driven decision-making platforms.
  • Establishing expert teams to prepare for disruptive AI innovations.
  • ​Aligning regulation, data, and infrastructure to ensure AI accelerates net-zero goals.
Moderator:

Arie Kuiper
Founder
Perry

Panelists:

Nick Giannakakis
Group Chief Information Officer
Motor Oil

Simon Tucker 
Group VP & Managing Partner
Publicis Sapient

Sara Amar
Chief Digital and AI Officer
Aker Solutions

14:50 - 15:10 (20 mins)

[Keynote] From Insight to Impact: Scaling Industrial AI for the Energy Transition
  • As energy systems grow more complex, operators across power, renewables, oil & gas, and digital infrastructure face increasing challenges in reliability, efficiency, and decarbonization. Built on decades of experience of embedding AI into industrial operations, AVEVA is advancing a new era of generative and agentic industrial AI solution - one that augments human engineers and operators and delivers impact at scale.
  • In this keynote, Dr Moresh Wankhede will lay out AVEVA’s AI vision and strategy for responsibly scaling AI across the industrial asset lifecycle. He will discuss how AI is actively accelerating the energy transition through real-world deployments of AVEVA’s AI, digital twin, and interoperable data platform technologies across the energy value chain. Through practical impact stories, he will show how AI transforms oil & gas operations by improving reliability and operational efficiency; accelerates renewables through AI-powered digital twins and high-accuracy forecasting and enables smarter, more resilient power grids. Together, these examples will illustrate how industrial AI, when deployed safely and at scale, moves beyond pilots to deliver measurable decarbonization, resilience, and performance outcomes essential to the energy transition.

Dr Moresh Wankhede
Director, Emerging Tech Strategy | CTO office
AVEVA

15:10 - 16:00 (50 mins)

[Panel] Intelligent Renewables: AI-Powered Optimization for Next-Generation Energy
  • Leveraging AI for advanced forecasting, predictive maintenance, and performance optimization across renewable portfolios
  • Integrating AI and digital twins to enhance planning, design, and real-time operational decision-making
  • Applying AI-driven analytics to balance variable generation with storage and grid flexibility
  • Optimizing portfolio value and market participation through AI-enabled forecasting and trading strategies
Moderator:

Girish Kumar Kizhakhe Nottiath
Head of Sustainability Market Development 
Tata Consultancy Services

Panelists:

Diana Costa
Global Digital Acceleration Consultant
EDP

Jean-Thomas Meyer
Head of Engineering Digitalisation
Ørsted

Bill McEvoy
Global Industry Principal Power & Utilities
AVEVA

Alberto Méndez Rebollo
Chief Executive Officer 
Plexigrid

Coffee Break (30 mins)

16:30 - 16:50 (20 mins)

[Keynote] Cloud Intelligence at Scale: How AWS is Powering the Next Generation of Energy Transformation

Carol Yan
General Manager, Energy & Utilities, UKI
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

16:50 - 17:10  (20 mins)

[Keynote] Leading Hybrid Human-AI Organizations in Energy

Jasper van Ooijen
Senior Manager AI & Data
Valcon

17:10 - 18:00 (50 mins)

[Panel] Smart Capital: Investing in the AI–Energy Transition Nexus
  • Capital flows across AI infrastructure, clean energy, and grid modernization projects
  • Emerging investment models for co-located digital and renewable assets
  • Financing frameworks and incentives driving AI-powered energy innovation in Europe
  • Balancing sustainability, resilience, and returns in the evolving AI–energy ecosystem
Moderator:

Willem Stitselaar
Founding Partner
DevCap

Panelists:

Csaba Robert Horvath 
Partner 
Fusion Capital Partners

Alireza Hassani
Managing Partner, Private Equity Fundraising
Maxwellian

18:00 - 19:00 (60 mins)

Cocktail Reception
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