Keynote & Featured Presenters

Dr Cristiano Marantes
Chief Executive, Ara Ake, NZ

Alison Andrew
CEO, Transpower, Director of Ports of Tauranga & Genesis Energy

Michael Whaley
Chief Engineer, Powerco, NZ

 

 

 

Charles Hanley
Sandia National Labs, USA

Dr Dushan Boroyevich
Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, USA

Dr Thahirah Jalal
Analytics Practice Manager, Transpower, NZ

 

 

 

Chantelle Tomon
System Coordinator, Transpower, NZ

Dr Ben Kroposki
Director Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Lab, USA

Dr Jack Flicker
Principal Member, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

 

 

 

Dr Stuart Macdonald
Power System Dynamic Modelling, Transpower, NZ

Patrick Cheffins
Head of Product, Vector, NZ

Dr Alexander Apostolov
Principal Engineer, OMICRON Electronics, USA

 

 

 

David Seymour
ACT Leader, NZ

Richard Fioravanti
Director, Transportation Electrification, Quanta Technology, USA

Dr Nikki Newham
Project Director – Grid Service Contracts, Transpower, NZ

 

 

 

Lekshmi Jaya Mohan
Manager, GHD, Australia

Simon Mackenzie
Group CEO, Vector Limited, NZ

Waqar Qureshi
GM Asset Management, Wellington Electricity, NZ

 

 

 

Nicole Kirkham
Senior Policy Advisor, MBIE, NZ

Dr Johan H Enslin
Professor, Clemson University, US

Amrita Sharma
Principal Infrastructure Lead, Auckland Transport, NZ

 

 

 

 

Stephen Zhao
Senior Development Engineer, Lodestone Energy, NZ

Emma Lloyd
Design Engineer, Connetics, NZ

Dr Jian Sun
Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

 

 

 

Dr Minh Kieu
Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ

Dr Chin-Long Lee
Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, NZ

Kitty Li
Machine Learning Engineer, University of Auckland, NZ

 

 

Dr Gerard Rowe
Professor, University of Auckland, NZ

Dr Nirmal Nair
Associate Professor, University of Auckland, NZ

Dr Raj Prasanna
Associate Professor, Massey University, NZ