• Explore how AI, data management and digital technologies are helping energy companies accelerate sustainability goals while improving productivity, safety and operational performance.
• Examine why organisations that effectively consolidate, secure and unlock operational data are best positioned to realise value from AI and data-driven innovation.
• Discuss how technology leaders can balance decarbonisation, cost reduction and cyber resilience, while sharing practical lessons from real-world digital transformation initiatives.

Dan Hodgson, Energy Technology Advisor, Nasuni

• Identify where Europe's transition is most at risk of missing 2030 targets across clean power build-out, grid infrastructure and industrial decarbonisation.
• Pinpoint the two or three systemic barriers doing the most damage to delivery speed and investment flow across the energy system.
• Strategies for closing the gap on 2030 goals through targeted policy, investment and execution shifts, giving you a framework to pressuretest your own pipeline and capital decisions against realistic transition timelines.

• Assess whether current infrastructure plans, market structures and demand-side technology solutions are sufficient to support electrification at the pace and scale now required.
• Examine how governments, utilities and major power users can accelerate grid investment and unlock flexibility without sacrificing affordability or reliability.
• Explore strategies for building long-term confidence in Europe's electrified future across the investment, regulatory and industrial communities.

Vera Brenzel, Director Communications, Policy & Regulations, TenneT Germany

Moderator - Daan Walter, Principal, Ember

As energy systems become increasingly digital, the infrastructure that enables data sharing, consumer participation and market coordination is becoming as critical as physical networks.

This session explores whether regulators need new approaches and capabilities to oversee these emerging digital foundations while supporting innovation, interoperability and consumer trust.

• Understand the emerging digital layer of the energy system and why data platforms, interoperability frameworks and digital trust mechanisms are becoming critical infrastructure.
• Explore the regulatory challenges and opportunities created by digital energy systems, including governance, resilience, competition, consumer protection and accountability.
• Identify potential governance models and policy tools that can support innovation, enable open access and build the foundations for a flexible, consumer-centric and AI-enabled energy future.

Marzia Zafar, Deputy Director Strategy, Ofgem

• Assess where Europe truly stands on energy independence, and what it will take to close the gap between ambition and reality.
• Examine how building resilient, homegrown energy infrastructure can shift from a cost burden to a strategic and competitive advantage for European industry.
• Define what bold, coordinated leadership from government, industry and investors must look like to secure Europe's long-term energy sovereignty.

Antonio Cammisecra, CEO, ContourGlobal
Peter Stanley, CEO, Elexon
Mag. Dr. Stephan Sharma, CEO, Burgenland Energie AG
Eivind Flateland, SVP Sustainability, Statkraft
Maurits Orstein, Managing Director Benelux, Hitachi

Moderator - Selene Law, Head of Statistical Review, World Energy 

• How AI can transform grid forecasting, energy optimisation and system planning to improve Europe's affordability, security and competitiveness.
• The system-level changes needed to scale AI across electricity networks, including risk-based operations and consumer-centred grid design.
• A new framework for governing autonomous AI in the grid, and what it means for grid operators, regulators and policymakers across Europe.

Link to the review: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-deployment-in-electricity-networks-independent-review

Lucy Yu, CEO, Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group)

• Benchmark margin confidence and profitability capabilities against peers across Europe's energy retail market.
• Explore how fragmented ownership, disconnected data and siloed decision-making impact commercial performance.
• Identify practical operating model changes that improve margin visibility, speed and profitability.

Ruben Van den Bossch, CEO, Gorilla

• Assess how AI and data centre expansion could reshape Europe's power demand, where load uncertainty is creating planning challenges, and what this means for grid planning and long-term infrastructure investment.
• Examine whether renewables, storage, grid upgrades and efficiency improvements will be sufficient to support growth, or whether dispatchable low-carbon power and greater system flexibility will also be needed.
• Explore the partnerships and policy approaches required between utilities, developers, hyperscalers and governments to secure power, manage peak demand and enable digital growth without increasing emissions.

Felipe Hernández, Chief Innovation Officer, FRV
David Bjerhag, Global Business Line Manager, High speed synchronous, ABB
Abhishek Dewangan, Data & Sustainability Strategy Leader, Microsoft
Thomas Seeber, Managing Director - Data Center Power Solutions, INNIO Group
Moderator – Michael Winterson, Secretary General, European Data Centre Association

• Explore how rising power price volatility, more frequent negative pricing events, and the impact of increasing renewable energy integration are reshaping market economics across Europe.
• Examine what these dynamics mean for project bankability, revenue stability and investment appetite across generation, storage and flexible assets.
• Consider how developers, investors, utilities and industrial buyers can use hedging, contracting strategies and portfolio design to manage risk and build greater resilience.

Spiro Youakim, Global Head of Natural Resources and co-head of European Energy and Renewables, Lazard

Moderator – Jennie Dodson, Senior Director, Policy Advocacy & Member Mobilization, WBCSD

• Assess where rising digitalisation, interconnected systems and third-party dependencies are creating new cyber vulnerabilities across Europe's energy infrastructure.
• Explore what utilities, grid operators, industrial energy users and governments must do to strengthen resilience, from system design and supply chain oversight to incident response.
• Discuss how to protect critical energy operations without undermining flexibility, innovation or the pace of infrastructure modernisation.

Pippa Robertson, Deputy Director - Artificial Intelligence Programmes & Cyber Investment, Ofgem

Moderator - Peter Hulshof, Partner, Systemiq

• Explore how storage can unlock grid connectivity and relieve congestion, helping developers, utilities and system operators make better use of limited grid capacity and connect renewable projects faster.
• Understand the role of storage in strengthening system flexibility and reliability, from short-duration batteries supporting balancing services to long-duration storage and pumped hydro helping manage intermittency, peak demand and security of supply.
• Learn what is needed to make storage deployable at scale, including clearer regulation, faster grid access, investable revenue models and better coordination across storage, renewables and transmission.

Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Member of the EU Court of Auditors
Darius Maikštėnas, CEO, Ignitis
Daan Walter, Principal, Ember

Moderator – Maria de Kleijn, Partner, Europe Lead, Sustainability, Kearney

• Assess how Europe can set realistic long-term transition goals that balance affordability, competitiveness and security of supply, and align governments, industry and system planners around practical 20-year pathways.
• Explore how Europe can strengthen strategic autonomy through homegrown clean energy, domestic industrial capacity and manufacturing competitiveness to reduce exposure to geopolitical risk and supply chain dependency.
• Examine how macro instability, shifting trade dynamics and political uncertainty complicate long-term planning, and what policy and investment frameworks are needed to turn ambition into achievable outcomes over the coming decades.

Monika Zsigri, Head of Unit Energy Security and Safety, European Commission
Olav Kolbeinstveit, Chief Financial Officer, Equinor Power BA
Fuad İbrahimov, President of the Natural Gas Business Unit, SOCAR Türkiye

Moderator - Selene Law, Head of Statistical Review, World Energy

• Assess how pricing pressure, negative pricing and revenue volatility are reshaping investor appetite for renewables and storage, and what this means for financing structures going forward.
• Explore the financing models, hybrid PPAs and co-located asset strategies helping developers protect returns and fund electrification at scale.
• Discuss what policymakers, utilities and investors must do to improve bankability, strengthen market confidence and keep capital flowing into clean energy technologies.

Gerben Hieminga, Senior Economist, ING Bank

• Explore why Europe is re-embracing nuclear energy, and how utilities are translating political momentum and energy security objectives into practical new build plans.
• Examine the critical ingredients required to deliver successful nuclear programmes, from workforce development and supply chain readiness to regulatory frameworks and long-term industrial capability.
• Discuss how emerging reactor technologies, international collaboration and programme-based approaches can help build a resilient and competitive European nuclear sector for the decades ahead.

Martin Darelius, Vice President New Nuclear, Vattenfall
Moderator - Martin Freer, CEO, The Faraday Institution

• Explore whether nuclear can credibly meet fast-rising electricity demand from AI and hyperscale data centres, and whether it can deliver at the speed and scale the digital economy requires.
• Examine what is needed to make nuclear bankable and buildable, from planning reform and financing models to workforce development, fuel supply security and technology readiness.
• Discuss how nuclear's firm, low-carbon output can complement renewables, storage and flexible capacity in a power system under growing pressure, and what needs to change to make that a reality.

Neil Cooper, CFO, Great British Nuclear
Kalev Kallemets, CEO, Fermi Energia
Giordano Morichi, Founding Partner, Managing Director of Global Business Development Officer & Investor Relations, Terra Innovatum
Moderator - Jessica Johnson, Communications & Advocacy Director, Nucleareurope

• Examine how unclear or inconsistent regulation is affecting investor confidence, delaying final investment decisions and weakening supply chain commitments across the energy transition.
• Explore what a stable regulatory framework needs to deliver in practice, from longterm revenue certainty and permitting consistency to the supply chain signals that make projects financeable and buildable.
• Discuss how governments, regulators and industry can close the gap between policy ambition and real project delivery, and what it takes to maintain that stability in the face of political and market pushback.

François Beaude, Head of Strategy and Communication, ACER

Where we get our energy from impacts this trilemma. Join this session to discuss practical solutions to accelerate the deployment of homegrown clean energy sources and ensure system resilience.

• Stimulating demand: how can industry be encouraged to switch to cleaner energy sources
• Investing in assets: how to mobilise private finance
• Overcoming the perception barrier: how can the public become more engaged and less ‘opposed’
• Bringing it all together: how can policy make or break the transition?

Jessica Johnson, Communications & Advocacy Director, Nucleareurope

Victor van Hoorn, Director, Cleantech
Manus Pandey, Vice President Energy and Climate Policies, Statkraft

Moderator - Peter Hulshof, Partner, Systemiq

• Assess how far Europe can realistically reduce fossil fuel dependence by 2040 through energy efficiency, electrification, alternative molecules and secure management of residual demand.
• Identify the key barriers slowing progress, from grids and permitting to flexibility, finance and system-wide coordination, and explore the solutions that can unlock faster action.
• Examine how Europe can strengthen energy resilience and economic competitiveness while managing new dependency risks across clean technology, critical minerals and global supply chains.

Peter Hulshof, Partner, Systemiq
Boris Vergote, Senior Manager, Systemiq

• Assess what the first year of CBAM has revealed about where companies are still facing uncertainty, from compliance and reporting expectations to questions about the regulation's long-term direction.
• Explore how businesses are navigating underdeveloped systems, processes and internal capabilities - and the practical challenges this creates across data collection, reporting and complex cross-border value chains.
• Identify what clearer guidance, stronger coordination and better implementation tools are needed from policymakers, regulators and industry to make CBAM workable in practice, not just in principle.

Andriy Kitura, Head of the Green transition office, Ministry of economy of Ukraine
Moderator - Martin Freer, CEO, The Faraday Institution

• Cut through the political noise around offshore wind by examining why pushback is growing, which criticisms are gaining traction, and how the industry can respond with a more credible, fact-based narrative.
• Assess the real economics of offshore wind today, pressured returns, supply chain inflation, market volatility and the absence of a continuous project pipeline that is undermining confidence across the value chain.
• Discuss what a credible path forward looks like for offshore wind, and what governments and industry each need to deliver to make it happen.

Christian Perplies Nielsen, Director, Orsted