José Luis Blanco
CEO, Nordex / Acciona Windpower
was born on 17 July 1970 and is a Spanish citizen. He started his career in 1993 at Industrias Ferri. His first management experience was at Gamesa, where he held various management and board positions from 1997 to 2002. His stations included the management of Gamesa Eolica USA. At Gamesa USA he served as COO, at Gamesa Solar as Engineering Director and CEO, and as Gamesa Offshore Director. In 2011, he was appointed Chief Customer Officer and Member of the Board at Gamesa. José Luis Blanco joined the management of Acciona Windpower in 2012. José Luis Blanco has been a member of the Management Board of Nordex SE since the acquisition of Acciona Windpower by Nordex in April 2016, initially as Chief Operating Officer (COO). José Luis Blanco was appointed Chairman of the Management Board on 17 March 2017.

Kapitän Heiko Felderhoff
Managing Director, Harren & Partner Group
has been with Harren & Partner since 1995. He has been responsible for the expansion of the company from a ship owner to a service provider in Heavylift, Projects, Logistics, Engineering and Offshore Solutions. At the present Heiko is Managing Director and shareholder of Harren & Partner. Heiko has not only a wealth of experience in the sectors of oil and gas, renewable energy, logistics and engineering but has also experience as a master on several heavy lift and offshore vessels. Expertise und Project experience • Master Mariner • Graduate Engineer • Managing Director of Harren & Partner Group • Managing Director of Atheleon • Managing Director of SAL Engineering • President of Harren & Partner Mexico

Gunnar Groebler
CEO, Salzgitter AG
is an entrepreneurial personality who has been at the helm of 7 different companies and currently holds the position of Chairman of the Executive Board of Salzgitter AG. Mr. Gröbler is also a member of the Executive Board of 5 other companies. In his career to date, he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Salzgitter Mannesmann Handel GmbH, Chairman of Peiner Träger GmbH, Chairman of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Salzgitter Mannesmann Grobblech GmbH, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH, Head of Purchasing at Vattenfall Europe AG and Head of the Wind Business Unit at Vattenfall AB. He received a bachelor’s degree from RWTH Aachen University.

Erin Beilharz
Managing Director, CleanTech Hub, Lufthansa Group
Managing Director of the Lufthansa Group CleanTech Hub, is tasked with identifying, sourcing and implementing and scaling technology to transform Lufthansa Group Airlines flight operations to reach their 2050 net zero target. The CleanTech Hub focuses on scaling and commercializing homegrown tech from within the group companies and establishing partnerships with startups and corporates in the areas of aircraft retrofits, SAF and alternative fuels, digital solutions, waste and circular economy, and everything between and beyond, comprising new powertrains, hydrogen, electric, hybrid, etc. Erin has a background in logistics, aviation, IT, and is passionate about innovation.

Ralf Schürkamp
Managing Director, ENGIE Deutschland Erneuerbare GmbH
The graduate in business mathematics and environmental engineering looks back on decades of experience in the field of renewable energies and held numerous management positions at Innogy and RWE, among others, before joining ENGIE in 2020.

Katrin Fuhrmann
Head of Origination, ENGIE Global Markets SAS
studied International Economics at the University of Maastrich and the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne and holds a Master of Arts in European Studies from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She started her career in 2005 in consultancy at Mc Kinsey & Company before joining BNP Parisbas Fortis as Energy Analyst in 2007. Since 2009 she has held various positions in the ENGIE Group (former GDF SUEZ), initially as Senior Carbon Analyst, Leader of Carbon Trading and since 2002 she is Head of Origination.

Till Schwarzlose
SVP Offshore Wind Development, RWE Renewables Germany
is SVP Offshore Development Germany. Prior leadership roles include development activities in Offshore Hydrogen as well as in Americas and Asia. Having joined RWE Renewables (formerly E.ON Climate & Renewables) at its inception in 2007, his path covers management positions in Finance, M&A, preceded by 10+ years’ experience in consulting and finance across the green and environmental industries. He holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Tim Koenemann
Managing Director and Head of COC Energy, Commerzbank AG
is heading Commerzbank‘s Center of Competence (CoC) Energy. In his current role he has global responsibility for all corporate and project finance activities in the sector renewable energies and other green infrastructure. Tim Koenemann is with the bank since 2011 and has worked in various (managerial) roles within CoC Energy. Before his time with the bank, he was working for 6 years as a strategy consultant with Accenture and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Astrid Dose
Deputy Managing Director, Renewable Energy Hamburg Clusteragentur GmbH
external representative of the cluster, head of public relations & marketing, conception of digital and analogue events for 10 years and has played a key role in leading the hydrogen issue in the cluster’s work from the very beginning.

Thomas Haukje
Managing Partner, Nordwest Assekuranzmakler GmbH & Co. KG
has held various positions in the insurance industry since 1990. He has more than 30 years of experience in the international industrial insurance business and has been recognized as a globally renowned expert in the Renewable Energy Industry for more than 20 years. In 2008 he was appointed Managing Partner of Nordwest Assekuranzmakler GmbH & Co. KG. Thomas has also been acting as president of the “BDVM”, the Association of German Insurance Brokers, in an honorary post since the end of 2019.

Niklas Mayer
Project Manager Merantix Momentum GmbH
supports companies as Technical AI Project Manager in the development and scaling of AI applications. His expertise includes identifying value-creating AI use cases, defining company-wide AI strategies, and spearheading complex transformation projects. Prior to joining Merantix Momentum, an AI solutions provider based in Berlin, he worked at the Venture Capital Fund Picus Capital, Deutsche Bank, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Prof. Dr. Martin Skiba
Vice Chairman, World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO)
has been actively involved in the expansion of renewable energies in Europe for more than 30 years, and has worked exclusively in the globally growing offshore wind market for 22 years. His professional path in the offshore wind industry led him via leading positions at Repower Systems AG and RWE Innogy to his current work as a consultant and entrepreneur. Currently, the mechanical engineer, who holds a doctorate, is also an honorary board member of the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation as well as Vice Chairman of the World Forum Offshore Wind and a lecturer at the TUHH.

Dr. Tim Fischer
Global Senior Director Wind, Ramboll Group A/S
is a well-respected international expert in the Offshore Wind sector with close to 20 years of industry expertise. He is one of Ramboll’s leading experts within Offshore Wind development, design and associated business cases and has worked on an abundance of high-profile projects worldwide. Dr. Fischer is a Global Executive Director at Ramboll, the world-leading wind consultancy, where he manages the global wind division with currently over 600 experts.

Christian Pho Duc
Chief Technology Officer, SMARTENERGY Group AG
is the CTO at Smartenergy and the Vice Chair of the Renewable Hydrogen Workstream at Solar Power Europe. He graduated as a Physicist from Munich and Cambridge University. Christian has accumulated 25 years working experience in Semiconductors (Siemens, IBM, G&D, Infineon Technologies), Renewable Energies & Hydrogen (Solyndra, Nanosolar, Smartenergy) and Electric Mobility (Torqeedo) in various management positions. With his multi-national background he speaks fluently German, English, French, Italian and some Spanish.

Giles Dickson
CEO, WindEurope, Opening Speaker and Patron
has been Chief Executive Officer of WindEurope since 2015. WindEurope is the voice of the European wind industry. The association represents the entire value chain of onshore and offshore wind energy in Europe and has more than 400 members active in over 50 countries. Dickson is also Chair of the Advisory Board of ENTSO-E and Visiting Professor at the Bucharest School of Economics. Before joining WindEurope, Giles Dickson was a UK civil servant for 16 years and then led Alstom’s public affairs activities.