Smart Grid Applied in Silicon Valley
In June 2011 Innovation Center Denmark hosted Smart Grid Applied Silicon Valley. Below you can download the program and see the speakers.
If you have any questions regarding the Silicon Valley event, please contact Innovation Center Denmark, Silicon Valley: info@innovationcenterdenmark.com or check out the webpage: http://www.siliconvalley.um.dk/en/
Program
Program for Smart Grid Applied Silicon Valley June 22 - June 23
Speakers
Lars Aagaard
CEO
Danish Energy Association
Since Mr. Aagaard was appointed CEO of the Danish Energy Association in 2009 his main focus has been on safeguarding the interests of the energy sector - and securing its position on the global market for energy technology solutions - a sector which will play a pivotal role in the struggle for implementing the ambitious political visions of becoming independent of fossil fuels in the years to come. Internationalisation of energy policy is a unifying principle in his work as well.
Communicating highly complex energy policy to a broad audience, politicians and journalists, in particular, is one of Mr. Aagaard’s skills and high priorities.
Currently, Mr. Aagaard is supervising Danish Energy Association’s work on Smart Grids in 2020. The work is aimed at forming policy recommendations within the context of the Smart Grid Network set down by the Danish Climate and Energy Minister, Lykke Friis. The Network involves strong cooperation between the electricity sector and other relevant parties, including Energinet.dk (TSO), Danish Industry Association, research institutions and numerous other interest groups.
Mr. Aagaard has obtained his professional and technical knowledge through his MSc in Public Administration and through his management career as Head of Division in The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Climate and Energy section of DI Confederation of Danish Industry, and from 2006 to 2009 Vice President of the Danish Energy Association.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lars-aagaard/5/89b/798
Lorie Wigle
Eco-Technology Program, General Manager
Intel Corporation
Lorie Wigle is the General Manager of Intel’s Eco-Technology office, which is chartered to optimize the positive environmental impact of Intel’s products.. This corporate function drives Intel’s market position across the full life cycle including energy efficient performance, design for the environment and product carbon footprint. Ms Wigle’s team is also driving new business opportunities from use of Intel technologies to address environmental challenges. This includes the Intel® Open Energy Initiative, which is aligning Intel and industry efforts to drive standards-based, open implementation of smart grid and smart building technologies globally. This work is expected to help shape the future of the world’s energy infrastructure. She and her team work extensively with the industry and policy makers including playing leadership roles in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative and The Green Grid. Ms. Wigle speaks frequently on the topics of Information Technology’s use to reduce carbon emissions, Green IT, sustainability and the confluence of IT and the electricity industry. She has been with Intel for 26 years in a wide variety of marketing and technical roles and serves on the Oregon Green Jobs Council. She has an MBA from Portland State University and a BA degree from the University of Oregon. Ms Wigle was named one of the three most powerful women in smart grid by Smart Grid Newsletter and one of top 10 women in sustainability by PINK magazine.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lorie-wigle/2/893/728
Martin Manniche
Chairman of the Board and CTO
GreenWave Reality
As a visionary Founder of GreenWave Reality, Martin Manniche is responsible for guiding the top-level technology direction of the company. Prior to founding GreenWave Reality, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems' Consumer Business Group, where he headed the Cisco Connected Home architecture team and drove Z-Wave® and ZigBee® technology over TCP/IP, HomePlug, MoCA and WiFi standards. Martin was Co-Founder and COO of Denmarks's KiSS Technology, where he helped bring the world's first DivX player to market. Other technology firsts he helped enable include the HDD recorder and the world's first connected DVD player. Martin's talent, commitment and passion for technological innovation has earned him more than 100 industry accolades, including an IT-Prisen, Denmark's most prestigious award.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/martin-manniche/3/844/668
Senior Vice President
Viridity Energy
Laura Manz is Senior Vice President - Western Region for Viridity Energy. A recognized leader in transmission system design, integration and operations, she comes to Viridity Energy from the California Independent System Operator where she successfully launched the nodal energy market, published the first renewable integration transmission plan and was the executive-in-charge of policy for smart grid and demand response. In this role she also served as the ISO industry sector representative to NERC’s Board of Trustees.
Previously, Ms. Manz held the position of Director of Federal and CAISO Regulatory Affairs for SDG&E and Southern California Gas Companies, where she formalized reliability compliance programs with mandatory standards for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC), and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). She spent over 20 years at Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), one of the largest combined electric and gas companies in the United States, where she played key roles in forming PJM Interconnection’s nodal wholesale markets and also New Jersey’s retail choice rules. Her other experience include power plant operations, power grid operations, and interregional transmission.
Ms. Manz earned her MBA degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her BS in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ljmanz
Torben V. Holm
Consultant
Dong Energy
Torben V. Holm has spent the last four years as a consultant for DONG Energy analyzing how to create business models that can support interaction between power producers, grid companies and the transport sector with a view to absorb more variable windpower in the network.
Being an economist by training Torben started his career in banking and insurance before he moved over to the telecommunication industry in the mid 1990s. Over a period of 10 years he was head of the M&A department of TDC, the Danish incumbent telecommunications company. From 2005 to 2007 he was engaged in more operational activities as president and CEO of a fixed-line and long-distance telephone provider in Hungary now known as Invitel.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/torben-v-holm/3/51b/985
Mich Hein
CEO
Electrochaea
Mich Hein is a founding member and managing partner of Nidus Investment Partners, bringing 30 years of entrepreneurship and executive management experience in the energy, plant and life sciences arena. Mich serves as CEO of Electrochaea, one of the Nidus portfolio Companies, and previously founded two other companies, Epicyte Pharmaceutical (La Jolla) and Heliose (Chicago). Mich previously served as CEO of Chromatin, Inc (Chicago). He has assisted entrepreneurs in intellectual property development, regulatory strategy, business development and fund raising as Executive in Residence at the University of Chicago’s Office of Technology and Intellectual Property, and as Chief of Staff at the Illinois Medical District, where he managied the Univeristy of Illinois’ technology incubator at the Chicago Technology Park. Mich began his professional career as a research chemist with Monsanto and then PPG Industries, followed by 8 years of research and teachiing in the Graduate Programs in Cellular and Molecular Chemistry and Biology while serving on the faculty of The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla). Mich’s academic research, funded by industry, NIH and DARPA, focused on mucosal immunology and plant based proteins for immune protection. Mich currently serves on the Board and as an advisor of several early stage biotechnology companies, is a member of the Board of Visitors for the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, and President of the Board of the Hyde Park School of Dance. Hein holds a B.S. degree from the Honors Tutorial College of Ohio University, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Plant Physiology from the University of Minnesota.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mich-hein/9/b14/6aa
Aaron DeYonker
Global Head of Product Management
eMeter
Aaron DeYonker, Global Head of Product Management, brings over 15 years of IT product development experience to eMeter. Aaron oversees the development of eMeter's consumer engagement software suite, leading teams in strategy, design, and usability to deliver user-friendly web presentment that will enable consumers to connect with their energy usage behavior. Prior to eMeter, Aaron served as a program manager for companies such as Microsoft and WebTV. At Microsoft, Aaron implemented key engineering efficiencies through offshore development in addition to playing a key role in defining the strategic user experience roadmap for the Windows consumer platform. At WebTV, Aaron managed technical relationships with leading satellite providers Echostar and DIRECTV to develop software for some of the first PVR products on the market. Aaron is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondeyonker
Carsten Westergaard
Director, Global Technology
Vestas
Dr. Carsten Hein Westergaard earned his PhD in 1994 at the Danish Technical University. His dissertation from the physics department encompassed optical computing and optical turbulent flow measurements. Dr. Westergaard started his industrial career in wind technology as an aerodynamics blade designer participating in a number of European community funded research projects. Prior to joining Vestas, he worked for Force Technology, providing energy and flow consultancy services to industry.
Joining Vestas Technology R&D, he started Vestas’ office on the campus of the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy in Denmark (Risø). He successfully funded joint projects through the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation, while participating in Danish, European, and U.S. policy and strategy groups. He also developed a scholarship program for Vestas to sponsor PhDs, MScs, and Professors in connection with Vestas’ global research centres.
Currently, he is assigned to Vestas’ new research office in Houston as Director of Global Technology, guiding the establishment of Vestas’ R&D portfolio in Houston. He is also working with University collaborations and other external partnerships, such as TheWindAlliance.org. Recently, he chaired an international review panel evaluating the United Kingdom energy research programmes.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/carstenwestergaard
Gregory Poilasne
President and CEO
Nuvve
Dr Gregory Poilasne has more than 15 years of technology development, marketing, sales, customer support, and business operations experience around the world. He has been successful bringing multiple technologies to market working very closely with customers in order to facilitate the adoption. Recently, he was Vice-President Business Development with RAYSPAN® Corp., a VC-funded RF Front End Solution start-up. He was also co-founder of Ethertronics, a VC-funded antenna startup. He has more the 45 patents. Gregory obtained his PhD in telecommunications from the University of Rennes, France and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gregory-poilasne/0/28b/687
Eric Wesoff
Senior Analyst
Green Tech Media
Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.
Eric's expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.
From 1988 to 1996, Eric served as product marketing manager for Siemens Optoelectronics, where he oversaw complex product lines and managed relationships with global customers. He then became the U.S. marketing and sales manger for Akzo Nobel Photonics, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase. Eric later served as the sales director for Dicon Fiber Optics, where he was responsible for selling millions of dollars of fiber-optic telecom-equipment. He has consulted for Merck, JDSU, Coherent, IBM and scores of other firms, governments and organizations.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-wesoff/0/63/69a
Matt Lecar
Principal consultant
GE Energy
Matt Lecar is a Principal Consultant with GE Energy’s Smart Grid Center of Excellence where he advises utility clients on the business case, strategy, and road map for the deployment of smart grid technology.
During a long career in the energy utility industry, Matt spearheaded new product development for Pacific Gas & Electric Company and developed and managed partnerships between US energy technology startups and the Electricité de France Group. Most recently, he served as Fund Manager for the California Clean Energy Angel Fund, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused exclusively on clean energy technology.
Matt is a regular contributor to Greentech Media, Energy Priorities, Smart Grid News, Smart Energy International and Metering International magazines, and wrote a chapter of “Inside the Minds: Energy Venture Capital Best Practices”. He serves on Advisory Boards for Smart Energy International, the California Integrated Renewable Energy Systems (Cal-IRES) institute at UC Davis, Fountain Blue, Green21 Media and Climate Healers. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor's degree with high honors in physics and political science from UC Berkeley.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattlecar
Mark Bailey
Managing Director
DFJ Growth Fund
Mark has been with Draper Fisher Jurvetson since 2002 serving as a Venture Partner for DFJ ePlanet Ventures (investors in Baidu [BIDU] and Skype) focusing on mid/late stage investments prior to co-founding the DFJ Growth Fund in 2006. Mark has over 25 years of experience with entrepreneurial deal making in both investment and operating roles. Mark has served as a high impact executive in both private and public high technology companies. He has played an integral role, as an executive and officer, in building two public companies whose revenues now exceed $1 billion per year: Symantec Corporation [SYMC], where he led the M&A effort through most of the 1990s, and Healtheon/WebMD [HLTH] where he led the early M&A effort pre and post-IPO. He also co-founded WebPartner and served as an executive at Portal Software. His investment experience includes interning as one of the first associates at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (during which time he first met Tim Draper and John Fisher while they were at Alex. Brown & Sons) and serving as a General Partner at Venrock Associates. Mark serves on the boards of Jobfox and WebPartner. Mark also led DFJ Growth Fund's investments in AdMob (acquired by Google - GOOG) and Silver Spring Networks. He graduated Cum Laude with a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
Erich Gunther
Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
EnerNex
Erich Gunther is the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer for EnerNex Corporation in Knoxville Tennessee where he helps EnerNex clients define their strategic direction in basic R&D, technology, and product development. Mr. Gunther has over 20 years of experience in design and development of innovative solutions to a wide array of power system problems, most notably ways to take advantage of communications networks and technology to improve the efficiency, operating practices, and security of the electric power system. He played a key role in the development and implementation of the Power Quality Data Interchange Format (IEEE 1159.3), the Utility Communication Architecture (now IEC 61850) and is a key team member on the EPRI IntelliGrid Architecture and related projects. Erich also serves on the board of directors for the Utility Communications Architecture International Users Group. He is presently consulting with the California Energy Commission and Southern California Edison on matters related to the development of a widely deployed advanced metering and demand responsive infrastructure in California, and is working with the Tennessee Valley Authority to develop a comprehensive security policy for their IED data communications infrastructure.
CEO
TeMIX Inc.
Dr. Cazalet is a leader in (1) the design and operation of markets for electricity, (2) the design and operation of smart grid transaction services, (3) electricity storage and (4) renewables integration. For his industry contributions, Public Utilities Fortnightly magazine named Dr. Cazalet “Innovator of the Year”.
Ed is the founder and CEO of TeMIX Inc., a global transactive systems and services company. He was previously a Governor of the California Independent System Operator and is the founder or co-founder of MegaWatt Storage, Farms, Automated Power Exchange (APX), Decision Focus, Inc. and The Cazalet Group.
He advocates new electricity market designs using price responsive demand and forward transactions to support high penetration of variable renewables and coordinated operation of storage and generation. He is co-chair of the Energy Market Information Exchange (EMIX) Technical Committee of the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and is the author of the committee’s white paper on Transactive Energy Market Information Exchange (TeMIX).
Dr. Cazalet holds a PhD from Stanford University focused on economics, decision analysis and power systems and degrees in engineering from the University of Washington.
Director Product Marketing
Z-Wave
Mr Lorentsen has worked in the connected home space for almost a decade, first with Zensys and later when it became part of Sigma Designs. Soren is one of the key drivers behind Z-Wave's success. He brings a balanced technical and market driven approach in defining the future direction of the Z-Wave Solution. Has worked with all major Z-Wave partners over the years and hence understands customers needs and challenges. Has worked in both FIeld Application Engineering, Technical Sales and now in Product Marketing. Prior to Z-Wave Soren worked for Ericsson and various Silicon Valley start up companies. He holds an B.S.E.E. from Engineering College of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Managing Director
ThinkSmartGrid
Mike Coop is a 20-year high-tech veteran who has held business and technical leadership positions in the industry's most progressive startup and public companies, including Microsoft Corporation and Cisco Systems. In 2007 he turned his focus to consulting, where he has primarily addressed residential Smart Grid standards and policy issues. He is an active participant in numerous standards efforts, including NIST’s Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, Cyber Security Work Group, and Vehicle-to-Grid Domain Expert Working Group; UPnP Forum's Smart Grid Task Force; IEEE’s P2030.1 Electric Transportation Guide; the Utilities Communications Architecture International Users Group's OpenSG; and multiple Society of Automotive Engineers committees on plug-in electric vehicles, including those focused on communications, interoperability, and wireless charging. Coop also leads IEEE’s 1680.3 TV Energy Conservation Subgroup. His background in consumer electronics, telecommunications and pay-TV, and military security combine to provide a unique and ideal perspective on the challenges facing the Smart Grid industry over the next decade.
Program Manager
SRI International
Drew Hanser is a Program Manager in SRI’s MicroScience Engineering Laboratory. His research centers on materials application engineering, with a focus on power electronics device and system development using wide bandgap semiconductors for improved energy efficiency and performance.
Prior to joining SRI in 2009, he was chief technology officer and co-founder of Kyma Technologies, Inc., where he directed research and development efforts for gallium nitride materials manufacturing and applications. He was an integral member of the management team that transitioned Kyma to profitability via research and manufacturing development, strategic business planning, and venture capital financing.
Dr. Hanser has a Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the International Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Conference and a member of the Materials Research Society.
Qiuwei Wu
Assistant Professor
DTU Electrical Engineering
Qiuwei Wu obtained the B. Eng. and M. Eng. from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P. R. China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, both in Power System and Automation. He obtained the PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2009 in Power System Engineering.
He worked as a senior R&D engineer in VESTAS Technology R&D Singapore Pte. Ltd. from Mar. 2008 to Oct. 2009. He joined Centre for Electric Technology (CET), Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) as a PostDoc in Nov. 2009 and has been an assistant professor with CET since Nov. 2010.
His research interests are integration of electrical vehicles (EVs) to power systems for high penetration of renewable energy sources (RES), integration studies for wind power plants, dynamic performance of power systems with high penetration of RES, real time simulation of power systems with RTDS and reliability analysis and improvement of restructured power systems using demand response programs.
Morten Karulf
Grid Connection Specialist
Siemens Wind Power
Morten Karulf, 38 years old, graduated as Power Engineer in 1999 and is currently studying for a Master degree in Management of Technology Executive MBA at Aalborg University, Denmark.
During Morten’s 11 years of experience as engineer, he has been working in the wind industry for 6 years. The main tasks have been as project manager for international R&D projects with impacts from gearbox to Grid Connections. 2008 Morten was a co-writer on “Wind Power – from gearbox to grid connection – options and necessities”, a paper for the EWEC Conference in Bruxelles. Today, Morten works as Grid connection specialist for Siemens Wind Power, where his main focus is on the demands for grid connections worldwide
Michael Guldbaek Arentsen
Chief Consultant
Danish Energy Assosiation
Mr. Arentsen has expert knowledge about the economic regulation of the energy sector and the dynamics of the Nordic electricity market. Currently, Mr. Arentsen is anchoring Danish Energy Association’s work on Smart Grids in 2020. The work is aimed at forming policy recommendations within the context of the Smart Grid Network set down by the Danish Climate and Energy Minister, Lykke Friis.
Previously, Mr. Arentsen has been employed at the Danish Energy Regulatory Authority. Hence, he has obtained a solid foundation for recognizing perspectives and challenges from both the authorities’ and the sector’s points of views.
Peter Asmus
Senior Analyst
Pike Research
Consultant/Analyst/Author with more than 20 years of experience in sustainable energy solutions, smart grid technologies and corporate social responsibility. My skills include public policy and market analysis, public relations, media strategy, advocacy journalism, stakeholder engagement, website development, and writing of commentaries, journal articles and books.
Executive Director of materials and clean technology commercialization
SRI International
Alex Beavers is the executive director of materials and clean technology commercialization at SRI International. He is a 30-year veteran high-technology executive and entrepreneur.
Previously, Beavers was the founding CEO of Artificial Muscle, Inc., where he led the company for two years after it was spun out of SRI. Prior to founding Artificial Muscle, he was CEO of Thomson Industries, a global linear motion systems company based in New York. Beavers has also been CEO of ITP Systems, a factory floor systems integration company, CEO of Applicon, Inc., one of the original CAD/CAM systems companies, CEO of Schlumberger Automation Systems Asia, and General Manager of the General Electric Vision Systems Business. In addition to these CEO positions, he was a Managing Partner in the Consulting Business at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he led the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management practices. He has also served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech startup companies.
Beavers has more than 25 papers published in technical journals and trade magazines. In addition, he has written a book, Roadmap to the e-Factory, and served as the editor for the book, Life Wins! He received a B.S. from Vanderbilt University, an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Houston, and an MBA from Boston University.
Richard Lowenthal
CTO
Coulomb Technologies
Richard Lowenthal is the Chief Technical Officer of Coulomb Technologies, which he co-founded in 2007. He was the CEO of Coulomb from 2007 until 2011. From 1998 until 2007 he was instrumental in starting several companies, including Lightera, Pipal Systems and Procket Networks. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Lowenthal was a vice president and general manager at Cisco. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president of research and development for StrataCom, a telecommunications equipment company. Prior to StrataCom, Mr. Lowenthal was co-founder and vice president of engineering for Stardent Computers, and vice president of engineering for Convergent Technologies.
Mr. Lowenthal is also a former Mayor of Cupertino, California, and has been heavily involved in the non-profit world. He has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Managing Director
Smart Grid Library
Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid technologies and solutions. She has two decades of experience helping companies that range from small start-ups to multi-national corporations deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions and services to customers. Christine is the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary and Smart Grid educational courseware, serves on media advisory boards, and participates in the NIST Cyber Security subgroup focused on data privacy standards recommendations.
Søren Peter Nielsen
Chief Architect
Danish National IT and Telecom Agency
Søren Peter Nielsen is Chief IT Architect in the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency. His work centers around getting the most out of cloud, mobile, open data, social, sensors and big data on top of a robust broadband infrastructure. Soren's focus in the first half of 2011 has been on Smart Grid. Soren is a member of the network commissioned by Danish Minister of Climate and Energy Lykke Friis to give recommendations about how best to implement Smart Grid in Denmark. In this effort Soren chairs a workgroup focused on new services and consumers. Earlier work for the Danish government include establishing public sector IT infrastructure solutionsand international standardization initiatives. Prior to working for the Danish government Soren worked at IBM for more than 20 years designing and implementing solutions for customers in many different industries. Additional business biographic information about Soren can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sorenp
Frank Elefsen
CTO Energy & Climate
Danish Technological Institute
Frank Elefsen has his master degree and Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1983 and 1992. Since 1988 he has been at the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) working with R&D in the energy area. He has been managing several different projects and technical centres at DTI and been stationed in Australia setting up a branch office for the Institute. He has a broad knowledge about energy systems, energy production, distribution and consumption, energy efficiency and integration of renewable energy. Currently he is responsible for R&D within Energy and Climate at the DTI.
Christian Von Scholten
Founder and VP of Sales and Marketing
NorthQ Aps
Christian von Scholten has 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship and 10 years of experience in OEM/ODM product development of PC-components. For the last 3 years he has focused on developing a retrofit kit meter reader solution which can collect meter data from any electricity, gas or water meter and where energy consumption can be transferred and displayed on PC's, mobile phones, LCD-TV’s and can be sharedSave & Close between users on social media like Face Book and Twitter. This development required intensive research on consumer behavior/involvement and the development led to various business models that could be the driver for kick starting the Smart Grid.
Head of Program
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy
Anders Troi is dedicated to the development of the future smart energy system through several activities and boards. He has a long experience in leading Engineering and Development activities from Siemens and ABB. Since 2010 he has been with Risø DTU, leading the newly established Intelligent Energy Systems research group. Anders Troi is leader of the iPower platform, a 120 Mio. DKK/22 Mio US$ research and innovation project and consortium where he focuses on developing a strong national platform through his large network in industry, research and the public sector. He is also member of the Danish Smart Grid Network set down by the Danish Climate and Energy Minister, Lykke Friis. In the network his primary focus is forming recommendations for National Research, Innovation and Demonstration projects.
Paul Dawes
Co-Chief Executive Officer
iControl
Paul has spent 20 years in Silicon Valley creating, managing, and selling high-tech products and services. He has led sales teams in the broadband, enterprise and entertainment markets, and driven product management for both embedded systems and enterprise. Most recently, Paul was a partner at Lockwood Capital, a technology investment team where he held the role of SVP, Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Liberate Technologies and helped drive the sale of Liberate to Comcast and Cox. Paul also led the sales team that closed deals with the largest US cable operators, enabling Liberate's 1999 IPO.
Prior to Liberate, Paul was VP, Sales & Marketing for VerdiSoft, a mobile software provider that has become the foundation of Yahoo's Connected Life division (2005 acquisition). Earlier, Paul held product and business development roles at Gain Technologies, Tom Siebel's multimedia software company (1997 Sybase purchase). Paul started his career in software engineering, product marketing and sales at Integrated Systems, Inc., an embedded systems company (1990 IPO).
Paul holds a BSME degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MSME from Stanford University.
Erfan Ibrahim
Technical Executive
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Erfan Ibrahim is a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. He manages the Security Program within Intelligrid that covers transmission, distribution and end use cyber security issues. In October 2010, Dr. Ibrahim was made the EPRI lead on the Department of Energy funded NESCOR (National Electric Sector Cyber Security Organization Resources) project – a 3 year public private partnership established to secure the electric sector. He also leads the Intelligrid research program that focuses on the communications and systems management for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet based Wide Area Networking.
Before joining EPRI, Dr. Ibrahim founded and managed The Bit Bazaar LLC (TBB), a full service IT and business consulting firm, offering services to clients in the High Tech, Financial Services, and Energy sectors. At TBB Dr. Ibrahim focused on communications and cyber security issues with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage.
Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Dr. Ibrahim’s career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Dr. Ibrahim received a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of California Berkeley, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, and a B.S. Honors in Physics from Syracuse University (Suma Cum Laude).
Dr. Ibrahim is a Phi Beta Kappa, a Tau Beta Pi, Who’s Who amongst American Colleges & Universities and Who’s Who amongst IT professionals.
Lars Overgaard
Program Manager, Sustainable Transport
Danish Technological Institute
Lars Overgaard has been involved in several projects related to advanced powertrain technologies for heavy buses and trucks. From 2001-2007 he was responsible for Swedish Scania’s long-term R&D within the division of bus chassis development and from 2005 he did head the Scania hybrid concept. Since 2008 he has held a position as Program Manager for Sustainable Transport at the Danish Technological Institute and since 2009 as Scientific coordinator for land transport in the national transport innovation network (TINV). Lately he has coordinated the Danish effort to become a major stakeholder in the largest ever pan European demonstration project on electromobility – Green eMotion
Kaj Skov Nielsen
Electronics Engineer
Siemens Wind Power SCADA software group
Kaj Skov has been involved in grid code compliance testing in the UK and participated in the process from the design of the test equipment to the coordination and collaboration of field testing with National Grid, the local authority for grid code compliance. Kaj Skov Nielsen started working in the wind industry in 1984 in Denmark and has in addition to grid code compliance worked on the IEC communication working group for the IEC 61400-25 and has contributed to a number of Siemens patent applications related to wind power plant controls.
Associate Professor of Software Engineering, Ph.D.
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen is associate professor in Software Engineering at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark. His current research areas include reflective middleware systems, component-based software development and the design of programming language technologies for dynamic adaptation.
Martin Greiner
Professor of System Engineering
Centre for Applied Sciences
Aarhus School of Engineering (ASE)
Renewable Energy Systems: Modelling, design and planning of sustainable
macro energy systems with a very large share of weather-dependent
renewables. Based on highly resolved spatio-temporal weather data,
spatiotemporal modeling, time-series analysis and, again, the science of
complex networks, the characteristics of future fully renewable power systems are determined. Amongst such characteristics are the optimal share of wind and solar power generation, the optimal combination of storage, balancing and power transmission, as well as the optimal ramp down of fossil and nuclear power generation during the transitional phase.
Andy Zetlan
VP of Product Management
Aclara
Andy Zetlan is the Vice President of Product Management at Aclara Software, one of the leading companies providing Smart Grid solutions to utilities and their customers. Andy has spent his entire 35-year career in the utility industry, working for a utility, for utility industry consultancies, and for technology firms who serve the utility industry. He is a recognized expert in utility information systems and on Smart Grid solutions.
After beginning his career at Delmarva Power, Andy’s consulting experience has included Coopers & Lybrand, where he managed Utility Consulting projects, and Skipping Stone, where he served as a Principal. He has also served in senior positions at several prominent technology companies, including most recently at Oracle (as Executive Director of Utility Industry Solutions), at SAP, at Indus (now Ventyx/ABB) and at Telvent, (as Smart Grid Executive).
Andy is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is often a presenter for industry seminars regarding Smart Grid and related topics. He has also spent a good deal of his career focusing on utility industry solutions based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and served as instructor in GIS at the University of Delaware prior to his relocation to California in 1999.
Andy has both a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Applied Science from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. He also has an MBA from the University of Delaware.
Andy resides in Mountain View, California.
Julie Zinn Patti
Chief Operation Officer
Spirae
Julie Zinn Patti, PMP®, is Chief Operations Officer at Spirae, a company founded in 2002 by Sunil Cherian to develop systems-level solutions for the large-scale integration of renewable and distributed energy into electric power systems and end-use applications. At Spirae, Julie is responsible for building infrastructure to facilitate Spirae’s rapid growth, including business development and operational activities. Julie also leads Spirae’s Center for Smart Grid Advancement, an education and outreach initiative geared toward training smart grid stakeholders.
Prior to working at Spirae, Julie held various positions at ESI International, a global project management training and consulting firm, including Vice President of Product Development for ESI’s worldwide curriculums where she reengineered product management functions and processes to support ESI’s globalization initiatives which resulted in multiple awards from the American Society of Training and Development. She has managed many special projects including organization development initiatives that address communications, personnel reorganization, and business process reengineering.
Julie holds a B.A. in music and a B.S. in business, both from the University of Colorado at Boulder; an M.A. in education, with an emphasis on human resources development, from The George Washington University; a Master's Certificate from The George Washington University in Project Management and a training specialist certificate from The Georgetown University.
Kimberly Getgen
Director of Utility Solutions
Echelon
Kimberly Getgen is Director of Utility Solutions at Echelon Corporation, the world's leading open-standard energy control networking company connecting more than 35 million homes, 300,000 buildings and 100 million devices to the smart grid. Prior to Echelon, Ms. Getgen spent nearly 15 years in the network and computer security industry where she founded a consulting business and co-founded Reconnex, a data protection company, which was acquired by McAfee in 2008. Ms. Getgen graduated from Wake Forest University and received a Master’s degree from Oxford University studying environmental issues in developing economies.
Jennifer Lin
Senior Director of Product Marketing
Cisco
Based in San Jose, CA, Jennifer Lin is a Senior Director in Cisco’s Connected Energy Group. She leads the product management and technical marketing teams that drive Cisco’s global Smart Grid product roadmap, strategy and market delivery.
Prior to joining the Smart Grid team, Jennifer served as Director of Product Marketing in Cisco’s Wireless Networking BU. She was responsible for the enterprise wireless and mobility services portfolio, including security services, wireless standards efforts and key mobility services partnerships such as Apple, Intel and RIM.
Prior to Cisco, Jennifer led technical and operations programs at Intel, AT&T and Merck, and worked as a consultant in Palo Alto, CA to deliver e-business and marketing strategies for numerous semiconductor, software and communications startups.
Jennifer earned her BSE from Princeton University and her Masters degree from Stanford University.
Mozhi Habibi
Strategy Manager
IBM
Mozhi Habibi is a member of the Global Energy & Utilities Strategy & Solutions team, responsible for leading IBM’s energy and utility solutions strategy worldwide. Mozhi focuses on IBM’s strategy around emerging solutions in the industry, including smarter generation, intelligent utility network, distributed generation and business analytics & optimization. The strategy encompasses client & partner interactions, solution strategy, as well as M&A activities.
Previously, Mozhi was the head of Product Management at Space-Time Insight, a provider of geospatial situational awareness software, responsible for overall product strategy. Prior to this, she was Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing at Ventyx a company in the energy, utility and telecommunication industries providing asset and workforce management and smart grid operations solutions.
Prior to its acquisition by Ventyx in 2007, Mozhi was responsible for market strategy, new product innovation and product management at Global Energy Decisions and Henwood Energy, providers of energy operations, analytics and ETRM software for the energy and utility industry. Mozhi started her career in the energy industry as a field engineer, with General Electric Energy.
Mozhi serves on the board of a number of non-profit organizations in the education field focusing on Science & Math for girls, and is a member of Society of Women Engineers. She received her Bachelors degree in aeronautical engineering from California Polytechnic State University, in San Luis Obispo and her masters in business administration from San Jose State University. Mozhi lives with her husband and 2 children in San Carlos, California.
Antropologist
The Alexandra Institute
Ms. Entwistle is an anthropologist who has specialized in researching end-user interaction with home automation and smart grid technology, most recently in the project "Minimum Configuration Home Automation". Here the objective was to develop automation systems, making them relevant and convenient for consumers to monitor and manage the local energy system and thereby reduce their energy consumption. In her work she has identified a number of needs, motivations and barriers for end users related to energy and home automation and currently she works on how to translate this new-gained knowledge into different concepts and products through a user-driven innovation process.
Ms. Entwistle is also an External lecturer in anthropology and user driven innovation at the University of Aarhus and the Kolding School of Design
Lene Grønning
Business Ambassador
Bright Green Island
Director
Green Innovation House