Andreas spent several years at EWE, one of the largest utilities in Germany, introducing heating as a service in B2C segment. He later became Commercial Director of SOLIDpower, who developed, manufactures and sells the BlueGEN fuel cell. Since June 2019 he has been Managing Director of Viessmann Solution & Services.

Ed Hunt is a Service Design Lead Consultant at Energy Systems Catapult whose goal is to bring industry, academia and government together to accelerate the development of new products and services in the energy sector. Ed’s work focuses on the design of digital energy services and he leads a team of user experience specialists to help industry stakeholders develop and prototype user-centred propositions to gather unique insight.

CEO and co-founder of Eliq, a SaaS-company based in the UK and Sweden, providing utilities with customer engagement software such as energy insights, digital self-service tools and mobile apps.

Ian has over 20 years’ experience in the utilities sector delivering innovative technology and service solutions. He manages PassivSystems' innovation projects and products, with a focus on extracting energy system value from flexible heat, power and transport solutions to support the net zero transition.

John Tillema (CTO) graduated as product designer, but co-founded TWTG shortly after (2012). TWTG is I-IoT. For us, the Industrial Internet of Things is much more than just technology. It is the methodological innovation of monitoring, tracking and activating critical assets within a business. We focus on Industry, Logistics and Energy.

A pioneer with a keen eye for technological potential. Being the creator of smart thermostat Toon he’s truly a man who shapes the future.

Justin is the VP of Product at Modern Electron and leads all product development and technology commercialization. He is a serial entrepreneur and prior to joining Modern Electron, he co-founded and grew the leading electrified powertrain technology company in the USA for commercial vehicles, XL Fleet, as well as a fast-growing consumer e-commerce company. Justin earned an MBA from MIT and studied electrical engineering / machine learning at UC San Diego.

Kristofer is one of the founders of Berlin-based ecoworks. Before that, he co-founded Thermondo and worked as a management consultant for the energy industry. He is a active business angel in early stage startups and venture partner at PropTech1 Ventures.

Lucas joined Thermondo as a manager for strategic projects in 2018. Within four months his team managed to launch Thermondo's very first product line "Thermondo t1." along with four products. Thermondo has a reputation as a pioneer by fostering its deep vertical integration. After being the first digitized heating installer in Germany, Thermondo became the first installer with their own product line giving them more and more options to serve their clients with additional services.

Marco J. Bijkerk (1972) studied mechanical engineering with the specialism energy technique. For the past 22 years he has been working in the energy and heating industry and is professionally involved in long-term strategy in which technique, innovation, the consumer, politics, geopolitics and business economics are to be connected with each other in order to bring new techniques on the market successfully. It is his personal passion to contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide.

Margot Loudon began her career with the gas industry in the capacity of Financial Analyst with British Gas plc. In 1990 she was appointed Deputy Secretary General of Eurogas, then the organization representing integrated gas sector interests. Today Eurogas mainly represents the interests of wholesale and retail suppliers and distribution operators.

Ms. Loudon has contributed to shaping the legislative and regulatory framework that underpins the increasingly robust and liquid European gas market. She has knowledge of and has worked with the key EU institutions and has participated in the Madrid Gas Regulatory Forum, and the Citizens Energy Forum.

Ms Loudon retired from Eurogas in December 2017 to set up her own consultancy and is retained by Eurogas to advise on retail market issues.

Ms Loudon is Honorary lecturer at the University of Dundee (Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy).

Nicolas joined GEO PLC as a first job after graduating from Business School. He is in charge of analysing European markets and developing relationships with partners in Europe in order to take GEO PLC global. 

Dr Paul Chambers is the head of the Buildings, Electrification and Heat System Transformation team in BEIS’ Clean Heat Directorate. His team lead on policies to demonstrate and deploy clean heat technologies in buildings as well as developing evidence and plans for the Heat Policy Roadmap due to be published in 2020. He has worked on energy and climate change in BEIS and its predecessors for over 15 years.

Rachel has worked in the energy and climate change arena for the past 9 years, and for the past 2 has been the analytical lead for the Committee on Climate Change’s advice to Government on residential building emissions. Prior to this she worked at Ofgem for 7 years, where she specialised in smart systems and flexibility.

Rik Temmink is geo's Chief Product Officer, responsible for the company's data, cloud services and apps. Rik’s experience is in product management and business strategy in the high-tech industry, predominantly in the smart home, energy and geo-location domains, having worked previously for companies including TomTom and Microsoft.

Steve is responsible for business development at ENGIE Digital, leading partnerships with global technology companies through innovative and unique integrations. He also works with the ENGIE Business Units around the world to understand their needs and help them launch new digital offers using ENGIE’s Smart Home Platform, eCare, to quickly and successfully deploy home solutions for customers living in smart homes.