Markus Mildner

CEO eMobility, Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Markus Mildner holds an engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and started his career in a management consultancy. He joined Siemens in the year 2000 and since then held several Executive Management positions in Siemens and in-between at BenQ in Germany, Colombia, and Mexico.

From 2016 on he was responsible as General Manager for Siemens Energy Management Division in China. In 2019 he took over the responsibility for global sales at Siemens Smart Infrastructure out of Berlin. Since beginning of 2022 he is the CEO of eMobility at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.

Besides several board memberships he is currently also serving as Industrial Advisor to the Low Carbon Institute of the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai and as Chairman of the Infrastructure Group of the German Asia-Pacific Business Association.

Markus Mildner

CEO eMobility, Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Markus Mildner holds an engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and started his career in a management consultancy. He joined Siemens in the year 2000 and since then held several Executive Management positions in Siemens and in-between at BenQ in Germany, Colombia, and Mexico.

From 2016 on he was responsible as General Manager for Siemens Energy Management Division in China. In 2019 he took over the responsibility for global sales at Siemens Smart Infrastructure out of Berlin. Since beginning of 2022 he is the CEO of eMobility at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.

Besides several board memberships he is currently also serving as Industrial Advisor to the Low Carbon Institute of the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai and as Chairman of the Infrastructure Group of the German Asia-Pacific Business Association.

Anja van Niersen

CEO, Milence

With a strong drive for achieving a fossil-free environment and over 10 years of experience in Electro Mobility and Energy Transition, building new business from scratch to a European scale.

Giving direction to management of new market organizations or organizations in transition towards new market developments and building new centers of expertise. Developing new markets with innovative services in a down-to-earth, realistic way.

Specialties: Building and transforming; directing teams in organizations; transforming markets and business models; building expertise in organizations; governance of innovation processes, electro mobility, charging infrastructure and services; energy transition solutions.

Pierre de Firmas

Electric Mobility Director at Enedis

Engineer and graduate of the Centrale-Supélec engineering school, Pierre de Firmas has been working in several departments of the EDF Group. He started in distribution as operational manager, then worked as senior analyst in the corporate Strategy division before joining the corporate finance division in charge of the Group's financial trajectory and then the International division, working successively to develop the Group's positions in Italy, Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe. After 5 years at Luminus in Belgium, in charge of Strategy, Business Development and Innovation, he became Director of Electric Mobility at Enedis in March 2021.

Carla Detrieux

Director of Business Development at Volta Trucks

Volta Trucks’ Director of New Business Development, Carla Detrieux, was part of the founding team and pivotal in shaping and defining the company’s mission to be the leader in zero emissions, safe and sustainably mobility. Starting her career in the hospitality sector with Best Western and Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Carla has put customer relationships and experience at the heart of the Volta Trucks’ business development strategy, spearheading partnership, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, which culminated in Europe’s two largest ever orders of electric heavy commercial vehicles, with Petit Forestier and DB Schenker.  Since Volta Trucks launched 18 months ago, the commercial team has grown exponentially, with cross-sector experience, facilitating market entry into seven European countries and customer engagement across multiple industries

Fathi Tlatli

President, Global Auto-Mobility Sector, DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation

Fathi Tlatli is the President of DHL’s Global Auto-Mobility Sector, responsible for the integrated strategy, the global EV development and global customer management for DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation.

Fathi has held several international positions.

He is with DHL for over 20 years. He has been Vice President for the EMEA Engineering & Manufacturing Sector. Then received additional responsibility for the Global Aerospace Sector, before taking global responsibility for the Auto-Mobility sector.

Fathi is the author of books on Time Management and Marketing in Emerging Markets, as well as articles in the international management and global supply chain management fields. He is also a professor at the ICHEC Brussels Management School.

Peter Handley

Head of Unit, DG Grow, European Commission

EU official, currently heading the team on energy-intensive industries, raw materials
and hydrogen at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal
Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Previously, head of policy
coordination for Energy Union, 2030 climate and energy package, low emission
mobility strategy and the circular economy at the Secretariat General. Past EU trade
negotiator (steel, WTO market access and industrial tariffs). Former UK government
official, coordinated UK preparations for 1992 UN Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED). Graduated in French and Politics from the University of
Bristol. Studied at France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).

Roger Atkins

Founder - Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd

From electric guitars to electric cars Roger has been on a colourful journey! After a couple of decades singing the praises of combustion engines he changed his tune a decade ago to become an EV advocate. Musician turned business consultant, his 'Electric Vehicles Outlook' consultancy has been busy with automotive, finance, mining, and energy clients, as well as publicly sharing an EV narrative on the LinkedIn platform where he now has in excess of 200,000 followers. A trio of start-ups behind him:- online car retailing at Virgin cars: amphibious vehicles with Gibbs: and electric trucks at Modec, he now acts as Brand Ambassador for SAIC Europe, and Rimac Automobili, as well as helping French start-up Paris Electric and Gao Feng Advisory in China.

Julia Poliscanova

Senior Director, Vehicles and Emobility, T&E

Julia joined T&E in June 2015 and now leads its vehicles and electrification work across light and heavy-duty road transport. This includes policy and projects on car emissions and emobility, such as EU vehicle CO2 standards, sustainable batteries, and infrastructure for electric vehicles. Julia also represents T&E on the board of the Global Battery Alliance, and is an unpaid advisor to the board of Vulcan Energy Resources.

Julia previously worked as senior EU environment expert for the Mayor of London and, as an advisor to an MEP, followed legislation on renewables, energy efficiency and sustainable transport. Hailing from Latvia, Julia studied European politics and French at Goldsmiths, University of London, and holds an MSc in energy from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, specialising in batteries and fuel cells. She speaks English, French, Latvian and Russian, and loves swimming and travelling in her spare time – as well as good red wine (with emphasis on oenology, not drinking, of course).

Ellie Gomes Callus

Metals and Mining Analyst, BloombergNEF

Ellie is a Metals and Mining Analyst at BloombergNEF. Her research covers battery metals and their sustainable extractions. Since January 2022, Ellie has also been a member on WISE's Young Professionals' Board that aims to improve gender balance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) roles in the UK.

Prior to her role at BloombergNEF, Ellie spent time as a Research Scientist with RFC Power, an energy storage start up, before joining the UK Government. During her time at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, she worked in oil and gas policy and energy innovation funding. Ellie holds a BSc in Natural Sciences from the University of Nottingham and a MRes in Green Chemistry from Imperial College London.

Ludvig Hubendick

Analytics and Bid Manager, Candela

Ludvig Hubendick works as Bid and Analytics Manager for Candela Technology, the world leader in electric hydrofoil technology and top seller of electric boats. Among other things, he works with societal and market analysis on how electrification of waterborne traffic could benefit passengers, societies, and the environment. Before Candela, he spent several years as Political Advisor to two ministers in the Swedish government. In addition, he has 15 years of international experience working on different sustainability issues for the private sector and NGOs.

Peter Handley

Head of Unit, DG Grow, European Commission

EU official, currently heading the team on energy-intensive industries, raw materials
and hydrogen at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal
Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Previously, head of policy
coordination for Energy Union, 2030 climate and energy package, low emission
mobility strategy and the circular economy at the Secretariat General. Past EU trade
negotiator (steel, WTO market access and industrial tariffs). Former UK government
official, coordinated UK preparations for 1992 UN Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED). Graduated in French and Politics from the University of
Bristol. Studied at France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).

Maribel Gomez

Heads of research in raw materials, Iberdrola

Isabel Gomez has a degree in Physics and has developed all her career at Iberdrola, first in the Power Generation area and afterwards in the Climate Change and Innovation directorate.

Her concern about the impact of Climate Change has helped her to develop her work in the area of Climate Change first and Innovation and Sustainability now, where she performs analysis about decarbonization technologies and policies in electricity generation and transport as a Senior Analyst on Energy Prospective.

One of her areas of investigation is critical minerals in energy transition technologies.

Kjetil Storset

Spark Lead, Volue

Kjetil Storset has decades of experience in the Power Grid industry from several group executive positions both on the Power Utility and Software Vendor side. For the past few years, he has been leading the growth investment program Spark by Volue. With extensive knowledge and scalable digital services, Spark by Volue will empower flexible energy resources, like EVs, to help distribution system operators enable the energy transition on neighbourhood level.

Anna Gumbau

Energy and Climate Journalist

Anna Gumbau is a freelance energy and climate journalist based in Brussels. She covers European energy, climate change and circular economy policies for outlets including Energy Monitor, Euractiv, FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, Deutsche Welle, and has published opinion pieces for media including El País and Agenda Pública. She is also an experienced event moderator at the Moderating.EU collective, and has been a mentor for journalists at the Earth Journalism Network. Prior to going freelance, she was Carbon Pulse’s Brussels correspondent, and an energy reporter with Interfax Global Energy Services in London.

Kjetil Storset

Spark Lead, Volue

Kjetil Storset has decades of experience in the Power Grid industry from several group executive positions both on the Power Utility and Software Vendor side. For the past few years, he has been leading the growth investment program Spark by Volue. With extensive knowledge and scalable digital services, Spark by Volue will empower flexible energy resources, like EVs, to help distribution system operators enable the energy transition on neighbourhood level.

Monique Goyens

Director General of BEUC

As Director General of BEUC, Monique represents 46 independent national consumer associations in 32 European countries, acting as a strong consumer voice in Brussels, ensuring that consumer interests are given weight in the development of policies and raising the visibility and effectiveness of the consumer movement through lobbying EU institutions and media contacts.

As a consumer expert and advocate, and on behalf of BEUC, Monique is a member of the Euro Retail Payments Board as well as of the European Commission’s Consumer Policy Advisory Group. She is also a member of the Advisory Group on Noncommunicable Diseases of WHO-Region Europe. Previously, she was a member of the expert group on “Online Disinformation” (2018), the expert group on “trade agreements” (2018-2019), the EU High Level Forum for the Capital Market Union (2020) and sub-group on Artificial Intelligence, Connected Products and other new Challenges in Product Safety (2020), and the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance and Expert Group High-Level Roundtable on Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (2021-2022). She was also Vice-Chair of the European Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations (2017-2020).

In her capacity as BEUC Director General, Monique is currently EU Co-Chair of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) a network of EU and US consumer organisations, and she also represents BEUC at Consumers International, the international consumer organisation.

Apart from championing consumers’ rights, Monique’s passions/challenges are her family & cooking for friends – including delicious veggie meals.

Olivier Dubois

E-Mobility Director, EDF Group

Previous career: Electronics engineer in 1989 (ENSERG, Grenoble) and after one year of military service for French Navy, I spent 10 years in the field of microelectronics (7 years at Texas Instruments and 3 years at Cadence Design Systems in technical and sales positions).

In 2000, I joined EDF in the Department of Key Accounts (start of energy markets deregulation) where I stayed during 6 years before moving to Brussels for 3 years as Sales Director of EDF Belgium. I returned in France end of 2009 in the East Region as Sales Regional Director for 4 years.

From 2013 to 2015, I was Director of sales activities for EDF Continental Europe, then from 2015 to 2018, Director of Synergies in the Customer & Services division.

Since end of 2018, I have been Director of Partnerships & Development at Electric Mobility Division of EDF Group.

Oliver Franz

VP European Associations at E.ON SE

Oliver Franz took up the position of Vice President European Associations at E.ON in July 2022.

Before joining E.ON SE, Oliver was Head of Regulatory Strategy and Regulatory Service within innogy SE where smart metering used to be an important part of his work.  

He previously held various positions in regulatory management of the RWE Group.

Recently, Oliver has also been working on E-Mobility.

Oliver is a regulatory expert focussing on energy markets and energy networks for the most part but also have knowledge on financial regulation.  He specializes in telco regulation; especially in the FttX environment.

He also teaches energy economics and regulatory economics at different institutions (inter alia TU Berlin).

Oliver is chair of Eurelectric Distribution & Market Facilitation Committee.

Ivan-Asen Ivanov

Energy & Climate Policy Officer, Eurelectric

Ivan-Asen Ivanov is an Energy & Climate Policy Officer at Eurelectric. Working as the advisor for all policy matters related to two high-level working groups within the association – WG E-mobility and WG Electrification & Energy Efficiency – he is representing the interests of Eurelectric’s vast body of members active in power generation, distribution, and supply across 30 European countries.

Prior to joining Eurelectric, Ivan-Asen was part of the ENVI Committee team at the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament. Furthermore, he has worked extensively on various EU public affairs topics in Brussels, covering roles from energy consulting to NGO advocacy. A Bulgarian native, Ivan-Asen has studied Political Science with a focus on European affairs and environmental policy, in Sofia University and Sciences Po Paris.

Bruce Douglas

Communications and Business Director, Eurelectric

Bruce Douglas has 25 years’ international experience in the promotion of renewable energy and electrification. He is currently Director of Communications and Business at Eurelectric based in Brussels, representing over 3000 companies active in the European power sector.

Previously he has held the following positions: Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, Coordinator of the RE-Source Platform – the European alliance for corporate sourcing of renewable energy, founding Chairman of the Global Solar Council (GSC), Chief Operating Officer at WindEurope for 10 years, founding Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Managing Director of FLiDAR, an offshore wind company. He has a Master degree in renewable energy systems technology and is fluent in English and French.