Claudia Kleinert
TV presenter
Host on Stage

Already since 1999 Claudia Kleinert presented “Das Wetter” in the ARD and a few third programs, and since 2002 the weather announcements before the German daily news show “Tagesschau” and after the “Tagesthemen”. Since 2023, Claudia Kleinert has been a Holder of the Order of Merit North Rhine-Westphalia.

Michael Strugl
Chief Executive Officer at Verbund AG

is Chief Executive Officer of VERBUND AG, Austria’s leading electricity company and one of the largest hydropower producers in Europe, since 1 January 2021. He is also elected President of Oesterreichs Energie in June 2020 and President of the World Energy Council Austria. Michael Strugl studied law, social sciences and economics at the Johannes Kepler University. He holds an MBA in International Finance from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Programme of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Giles Dickson
Chief Executive Officer at WindEurope
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.

Natalia Kress
General Manager, COO at SeaRenergy
joined SeaRenergy as General Manager (ppa) in 2017. In early 2023, she was appointed as COO at SeaRenergy, overseeing the Sales & Execution department. She has 15 years of experience in the offshore industry, especially in the installation and operation phases of offshore wind farms, with a particular focus on heavy lift vessels and O&M offshore logistics.

Pierre Tardieu
Chief Policy Officer at WindEurope
is Chief Policy Officer at WindEurope. He leads WindEurope’s Policy Department covering advocacy, innovation, market intelligence and stakeholder engagement. Pierre also co-manages the Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, the Energy Storage Coalition and RE-Source. He joined WindEurope in 2011 and has a decade and a half of experience in European Climate and Energy policy. Pierre holds degrees from College of Europe, Paris Catholic Institute and Strasbourg Institute of Political Science.

Christian Pho Duc
Chief Technology Officer at 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.

Erin Beilharz
Head if ESG & IT bei Lufthansa Group, Advisor for Navon World

works at the edge of rapid innovation and complex corporate growth. She is a key influencer of innovation, technology, and sustainability in aviation. Ms. Beilharz scales and commercializes intrapreneurship from within companies and establishes partnerships with startups and corporates in the areas of AI, advanced materials, alternative fuels, future powertrains, automation, advanced air mobility, green energy, quantum computing, and alternative plastics. Ms. Beilharz established the CleanTech Hub at the Lufthansa Group, a full-fledged scouting, scaling and funding outfit for aviation tech that has brought over 20 tech projects into the Lufthansa Group companies spanning alternative fuels, alternative plastics and waste solutions, AI, lightweighting, hydrogen and future aircraft. She is currently leading Responsible AI, implementing green coding across the organization, and recently founded an applied Neuroscience Lab. Erin advises and invests in startups.

Dr. Jörg Egbers
Vice President Offshore Engineering at EnBW AG
Since 2021, he has been the head of the Offshore Engineering division at EnBW AG and has also been leading the Offshore Power Generation business unit alongside two colleagues since 2024.He studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, in Linköping, and at ETH Zurich, and he earned his Dr.-Ing. degree with a thesis in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. His professional journey to EnBW AG included positions at Lufthansa Technik and various leadership roles in service and business excellence at wind turbine manufacturers Senvion and Siemens Gamesa.

Prof. Dr. Martin Skiba
Vice Chairman at 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.

Tobias Heyen
Head of Renewables Origination BP Germany at ENGIE-GEMS
studied Business Administration at the University of Hamburg. He started his career in 2005 as Risk Manager at Vattenfall in Stockholm before joining EWE in 2007, where he held various positions, among others as Head of Short Term Trading and Head of Direct Marketing. In 2021, he joined the ENGIE Group (former GDF SUEZ), initially as Managing Director 2nd Life Wind. Since 2022, he is Head of Renewables Origination Business Plattform Germany, connecting RES producers with the industry.

Martin Degen
Senior Manager Energy & Sustainability EMEA, EMEA Energy Risk Management at Digital Realty Germany GmbH
joined Digital Realty in 2023 in the strategic energy procurement. His entry into the energy world began in 2011 as a journalist at ICIS in London, where he reported on European wholesale energy markets. From 2015 to 2022, he worked as a client manager in energy management services, supporting large consumers, first at Accenture, later at Schneider Electric. Digital Realty operates 300 data centers worldwide and is one of the global leaders in the data center industry when it comes to sustainability and responsible engagement.

Alex Schoenfeldt
Managing Director at LiBrick ESS GmbH
Since joining Siemens in the late 1990s, he has been committed to commercializing innovative technologies in the energy sector and has successfully driven new business and service models in the German and international markets. Since moving into the start-up world in 2015, Alex Schönfeldt has been traveling globally as Managing Director and CEO, developing, integrating, building, and operating electricity storage projects on every continent. As Co-Founder and Managing Director of LiBrick ESS in Norderstedt, his focus is now on providing flexibility and increasing supply security to support the energy transition in Germany.