CSO and Co-Founder of Enerbrain, a company founded in 2015 to reduce energy consumption and deliver better air quality and comfort in buildings. The Enerbrain system is an IoT solution based on innovative algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, which radically improves the energy management in buildings resulting in high energy savings and better indoor comfort levels for our customers. Currently I lead the company’s Innovation team and contribute to the definition of the product of tomorrow. Before Enerbrain, I worked for more than 15 years as business intelligence consultant. I have a background in applied scientific research and a degree in Cybernetic Physics. My working career makes me an expert in business intelligence and patents. I pride myself on my 20-year experience in data analysis and algorithms.

Bert Lutje Berenbroek has a 20 year experience in the semiconductor business with innovative
companies in Silicon Valley and Boston. He started NET2GRID 10 years ago with the vision that
access to real time energy data is a necessary piece of the puzzle supporting the energy transition.

Rui Martins graduated in Environmental Engineering at the University of the Azores in 2006 and then worked as Researcher/Project Manager on international projects related to energy efficiency, the integration of renewable energies and adaptation to climate changes in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) where he stayed for 6 years. In 2012, he moved to the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where he stayed for 4 years as R&D Engineer, he then moved back to Portugal to join the Sustainable Innovation Center (SIC) in ISQ with the role of Energy R&D Program Manager. In 2019 he moved to Azores as Project Officer in the Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre). Currently he is the R&D Program Manager in Smart Energy Lab, responsible for the competitive funding applications and project management. He has also been actively collaborating with the European Commission as an external expert evaluating proposals and monitoring projects from H2020 and Horizon EU programs over the last 5 years.

Jesus Sanchez-Gomez is a senior researcher at OdinS. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering and the M.Sc. degree (New Technologies) in computer science from the University of Murcia, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He worked as researcher from 2019 to 2022 in OdinS with the collaboration of the University of Murcia under the Fundación Séneca–Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología FPI Grant. In 2021, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Murcia. Currently, Jesus works as a Senior Researcher in OdinS in collaboration with the Torres Quevedo Post-Doc Grant, participating in proposal writing and project delivery. Since 2018, he has participated on international projects like CYSEMA, IoTrust, H2020 Plug-n-Harvest, SMART2B and HE REWIRE. His research interests include LPWANs, 5G and IoT applied to multiple sectors like Smart Cities and Smart Agriculture.

Stefano BIANCHI, Research & Innovation Manager in algoWatt SpA, Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Genoa. More than 20 years of experience in Research and Innovation projects: European (eContent-Worksafe, eContent-ERDDS, eTEN-EuOrphan, IST-K-Wf Grid, eTEN-EuroWorksafe, eContentPlus-AquaRing, IST-Accessibile, HEALTH-Hypergenes, ICT-TELL ME, ICT-ANASTACIA, MG-IMOVE, MG-TRUSTONOMY, H2020-VPP4ISLANDS, HORIZON-MASTERPIECE, HORIZON-FLEXCHESS, HORIZON-THUMBSUP) and national projects (CCSE RSE-SmartGen, FIMSER-GLIMS, CSEA-Podcast, CSEA-VIRTUS, POR-FESR-eSCALE, POR-FESR-PASCAL, START4.0-SAMPLE, POR-FESR-ER4SMUS). His experience ranges from user requirements analysis to system architecture design, with emphasis on complementary activities such as market analysis and business model planning, dissemination and exploitation, support of project technical and administrative coordination. He coordinated the H2020 ANASTACIA project (www.anastacia-h2020.eu) on IoT/CPS cybersecurity, the Italian CSEA projects PODCAST (www.podcast-csea.it) on smart grids and VIRTUS (www.virtus-csea.it) on Virtual Power Plants (VPP) and H2020 TRUSTONOMY (www.h2020-trustonomy.eu) on trust in autonomous driving, respectively.

Anastasis Tzoumpas is the Head of Unit of Electrical Power and Energy Systems at UBITECH ENERGY. He has studied at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. His research interests during the last 20 years include Energy, Oil and Gas, IoT Technologies, Industrial Automation, Smart Platforms, Immersive and Interactive Systems. He is the Bridge Business Models WG Task 2 Chair and Technical Coordinator of FARCROSS. In DATA CELLAR he is leading the activities for the assessment of relevant existing EU databases and how to interconnect to them and the other ENERGY Dataspace as well as the Data-Driven Energy Services Development activities.

Sarnavi Mahesh is a researcher at the Flemish Institute of Technological Research (VITO) in Belgium since October 2021. Sarnavi specializes in mathematical optimization and control engineering. He is involved in developing control, scheduling, and estimation solutions for energy management of buildings within the scope of mainly H2020 projects, such as AMBIENCE, EXCESS, INTERCONNECT, SMART2B. He is also involved in development of in-house EV charge scheduling solution at VITO. Prior to VITO, he worked at Siemens Digital Industries, Belgium, between October 2019 and September 2021 and was developing reinforcement learning based energy management solution for hybrid vehicles. Sarnavi holds a PhD in Distributed Optimization and a MSc in Control Engineering.

Ana Soares is a researcher at Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra (INESC Coimbra), Portugal, where she is also a science manager, invited Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra (teaching Intelligent Energy Management in Buildings and Electrical Energy Management) and member of the Coordination Committee of the Scientific Council of INESC Coimbra. Between June 2016 and December 2020 she worked at EnergyVille, VITO, Belgium, where she was mainly involved in H2020 projects aiming at finding optimized solutions for maximizing energy flexibility. She also contributed to project proposals writing and preliminary studies for the European Commission. Ana Soares holds a PhD degree in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Coimbra – MIT Portugal Program, a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers (Energy) and a MSc degree in Energy for Sustainability (Energy Systems and Policy).

Hermen Toersche works as an R&D/embedded software engineer at ThermoVault, a company specialised in retrofit control of residential electric storage water heaters for energy efficiency and flexibility. Hermen is responsible for developing the local functionality of the retrofit solution. He worked in a similar position on battery management systems. He has an MSc degree in computer science and a PhD degree in energy system optimization, and participated in several research projects where integration of existing devices in a smart building plays a key role, focusing on algorithm development (DREAM), device abstraction (HEGRID) and system development (RES4BUILD).

Manuel J. Fonseca is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Head of the Informatics Department, and a senior researcher at LASIGE. He holds a PhD (2004) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from IST/TULisbon. His main research areas include Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Health Systems, and Multimedia Information Retrieval. Throughout his career, he has participated or is participating in seven European projects, including FAST, SmartSketches, Eurotooling21, SATIN, ITACA, SATO, and Smart2B, being responsible for the participation of his research unit in three of them. He participated in six National projects, being Principal Investigator in three. He has published more than 120 refereed scientific papers and book chapters, has participated in more than 60 conference program committees, and has been a reviewer for several international journals and conferences. He was the supervisor of 3 PhD theses and of 50+ Master theses. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

Łukasz Wilczyński is a sociologist and researcher with over a decade of experience in international project management. Skilled in market research, social sciences, humanities, and user experience design. Presently employed at ASM Research Solutions Strategy, managing various international projects, including Horizon Europe, AAL, and Erasmus+.

Sean Layerle is the founder of CInsights and an internationally experienced Product Management leader. Prior to CInsights, Sean was Chief Product Officer at Advizzo and a Client Solutions Director at Opower. Strongly influenced by 14 years in Silicon Valley, Sean has spent his career on the cutting edge of digital solutions for B2B and B2C energy management. He has worked with many of the largest and most innovative energy suppliers across North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Sean’s digital product expertise spans the entire sector value chain : from deploying cloud platforms for the management of flexibility assets to data analytics for commercial building energy efficiency to creating digital experiences for residential customers engagement.He brings a very particular point of view on digital products from his experience with applied behavioural science, one of CInsights’ core practice areas.
Sean’s leadership in the field has also been recognised in academia: he is a lecturer to Masters students at EM Lyon and to MBA students at IFP Paris.