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2026 Speakers

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Richard Duffy

Head of Semiconductor Growth, DSIT

Tim Green

Head of Department for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College

Dr Omar Jasim

CTO, Grid Systems Integration, GE Vernova

Simon Hart

Director, and CTIO, InnCat and Honorary Associate, Professor, University of Nottingham 

Philip Mawby

Professor Head of Electronics Power and Microsystems, University of Warwick, UK

 Volker Pickert

Chair of Power Electronics and Director of Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centre, University of Newcastle

Derrick Holliday

Technical Director, DER-IC, University of Newcastle

Graham Bruce

Senior Specialist – Power Electronics, Rolls-Royce Electrical and Electronics, UK

Hadi Moztarzadeh

Head of Technology Trends, APC

Gerardo Calderon Lopez

Principal Power Electronics Engineer, CSA Catapult

Matt Boyle

Director of Electrification at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

Tao Yang

Vice President, IEEE Power Electronics Society and Professor of Electrical Power Systems, University of Nottingham

Zhengyu Zhao

Senior Innovation Engineer - Power Electronics and AI Solutions, Siemens

Ali Kazerooni

DNO Support Future Networks, Scottish Power Energy Networks, UK

Shamala Evans-Gadgil

Senior Programme Manager, Coventry City Council, UK

Paul Mitcheson

Professor of Electrical Energy Conversion, Imperial College London

Luca Peretti

Associate Professor - Electrical Machines and Drives, KTH, France

Dr Nur Sarma

Professor and EDI and Wellbeing Director, Department of Engineering, University of Durham, UK

Sharad Alerasoul

Senior Azure Architect & Team Lead, A.P. Moller – Maersk

Svein Erik Evju

System and Technology Advisor, Kongsberg Maritime, UK

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Prof. Luigi Piegari

Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), Italy

Marco Palma

Director, Motor Drives Systems and Applications at Efficient Power Conversion, Italy

Simon Hart

Director, and CTIO, InnCAT, UK

Piotr Blach

Head of RES Market Team, Transition Technologies – Systems, Poland

Giovanni Boreanaz

Program Chief Vehicle Engineer, Alfa Romeo, Italy

Herbert Pairitsch

Director Technology & Innovation, Infineon Technologies, Austria 

Al Watson

Associate Professor in High Power Electronics, University of Nottingham, UK 

Nika Piekut

Power Electronics Engineer, Nidec Drives, UK

Aino Manninen

Research scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

Steve Mountain

RR Electrical System Fellow, Rolls-Royce, UK

Pranjal  Srivastava

Strategic Market Development - Industrial Systems, Wolfspeed, Germany

Marc Henry

Future Mobility / Electrification - Sector Development Manager, The Manufacturing Technology Centre, UK