WindEurope 2024 | WindEurope | 19 March 2024 | BEC – Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Azkue Kalea, 1, 48902 Barakaldo, Bizkaia, Spain

When it comes to wind, Spain is one of Europe’s leading lights
In onshore wind, they’re one of the most important countries on the continent with 27 GW of installed capacity. And their Offshore Wind Roadmap aims to build up to 3 GW of floating wind by 2030. Today the industry employs 28,000 people in Spain and adds €3bn to its GDP. But their ambitions for wind continue to grow, and wind is at the heart of their long-term energy strategy.

And Bilbao is the jewel in Spain’s renewable crown
It’s the headquarters for two of Europe’s leading renewable energy leaders. Meanwhile the Basque Country aims to become a major offshore energy hub in the years ahead. When it comes to the energy transition, Bilbao’s future looks bright indeed! All the more reason why we’re thrilled to be heading back to Bilbao for this event.

What you can expect
This annual on- and offshore wind energy event is a three-day conference and exhibition. You can expect 10,000+ attendees to join us for a look at the shape of European wind energy today. There’ll be dozens of conference sessions, hundreds of speakers, and 400+ exhibitors from the whole value chain looking to showcase their innovations and seal new deals. We’ll have social events across the event for you to reach out to new colleagues and educational sessions showing you all the ins and outs of wind energy. And plenty of time in between it all to sample all the gastronomic and architectural delights Bilbao has to offer!

Aagaard, Lars
Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, Denmark

Afzelius, Matilda
CEO Nordics, RES

Ahmed Attia, Sid
Utilities & Energy Industry Manager, The MathWorks GmbH

Alonso, Maria
PhD, TECNALIA

Ananevskaia, Polina
Lead Data Scientist, GreenPowerMonitor

Anderson, Mike
Chairman, ETIPWIND Advisory Group

Angelis, Georgo
Chief Executive Officer, Sensing360 B.V.

Arjonilla, Agustin
Senior Consultant, CT Ingenieros

Artemenko, Maksym
Chief Business Development Officer, Elementum Energy

Bank, Jesper
CCO, Port of Esbjerg

Barber, Sarah
Head of Wind Energy Innovation Division, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences

Barth, Stephan
Managing Director, ForWind - University of Oldenburg

Bartok, Csilla
Acting Head of Department, ACER

Bartosik, Malgosia
Deputy CEO, WindEurope

Battaglini, Antonella
CEO, Renewables Grid Initiative

Bauer, Udo
CEO, Enercon

Bechmann, Andreas
Senior Scientist, DTU

Beck, Nicolas
Head of Community Relations, Elia Transmission Belgium, Elia

Becker, Marcus
Ph.D. Candidate in Wind Farm Control, TU Delft

Bello, Duarte
CEO Europe and Latin America, EDPR

Bergmål, Astrid
Secretary of State for Energy, Norway

Biervert, Bernd
Deputy Director Clean Planet / Head of Unit Clean Energy Transition, European Commission

Black, Andrew
Research and Applications Engineer, Vaisala

Blanco, Jose Luis
CEO, Nordex

Bondarchuk, Ivan
UWEA Board Member, Counsel, Head of Energy, LCF Law Group

Boorsma, Koen
Researcher, TNO

Borgen, Håkon
Executive Vice President Offshore development, Statnett

Borum Bojsen, Trine
SVP Europe, Renewables, Equinor

Boudry, Anaëlle
Senior Policy Advisor for Sustainable Development, Energy, and Blue Growth and EcoPorts Coordinator, European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)

Breese, Olivia
SVP Europe and CEO Power-to-X, Ørsted

Brent Davis, Todd
Head of Cyber Risk & Strategy Trends, Vestas

Brindley, Guy
Head of Market Intelligence, WindEurope

Brunner, Ariel
Regional Director, BirdLife Europe and Central Asia

Brüggemann, Karsten
Vice President Region Central & Managing Director, Nordex

Buhagiar, Daniel
CEO / Co-Founder, FLASC B.V.

Casillas, Jorge
Director of Energy Planning and Markets, EDPR

Casuscelli, Laura
Senior Adviser - Trade & Industry, WindEurope

Cecchinato, Mattia
Senior Advisor Offshore Wind Policy, WindEurope

Centeno-Telleria, Manu
PhD Candidate, Mondragon University

Chen, Xiao
Associate Professor, DTU

Chulkov, Mykhaylo
UWEA Board Member, CEO, Eurocape Ukraine I

Clemente, Carolina
Government Affairs Manager, Siemens Energy

Cole, Phil
Diector of Industrial Affairs, WindEurope

Costanzo, Giuseppe
Analyst – Markets & Wind Energy Technology

Costeira, João
CEO, Repsol Renewables

Coultate, John
VP Advanced Sensing, ONYX Insight

Dabrisiute, Marija
Senior Advisor – Electrification & Renewable Hydrogen, WindEurope

Daneshpajouh, Abouzar
Project Director, Saitec Offshore Technologies

De Rijcke, Simon
Project Lead, Marlinks

de Santos, Héctor
Product Manager, Jiangsu Shemar Electric

Dembi, Vidushi
Senior Analyst – Power System & Market Integration, WindEurope

Diallo, Mouhamet
Wind Expert, Tractebel

Diaz Martin Forero, Oscar
Chief EPCI Officer, Ocean Winds

Diaz Montesinos, Almudena
Senior EU Regulatory Affairs, ENEL

Dickson, Giles
CEO, WindEurope

Dindarova, Nailia
Chief Market Development Officer, BlueFloat Energy

Drachmann Haag, Michael
Material Specialist, Polytech

Dykes, Katherine
Head of Excellence Center for Clean Energy (DTEC), DTU

Dyrholm, Morten
Group Senior Vice President, Marketing, Communications, Sustainability and Public Affairs, Vestas

Edin, Christian
Vice President, Strategic Customer Management, TPI Composites

Edmonds, Jacob
Head of Innovation, Ørsted

Eidsvik, Håkon
Senior Engineer Electrical System Design & Grid Integration, Mainstream Renewable Power

Eustorgi, Karin
Research Associate, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES

Evertz, Andreas
CEO, Flender GmbH

Fernandez Thomaz, Tiago
Head of Origination Iberia, Statkraft

Finé, Eric
Senior Business Development Manager, Smulders

Fleming, Jamie
Head of Offshore Renewables, AXIS Insurance

Fløtre, Alexander
Vice President, Rystad Energy

Foley, Mark
CEO, Eirgrid

Fournols, Pauline
Senior Advisor – Energy Policy, WindEurope

Frances, Enrique
Lead, Energy Strategy EMEA, Google

Fruergaard, Wadia
Head of Policy Positioning & Public Funding, Global Public Affairs, Vestas

Fuster, Carmen
Head of CPPA Origination, Southern Europe, SSE Renewables

Gallardo, Paula
Chief Consultant - Offshore Wind Advisory, Ramboll

Garbaliauskaitė, Daiva
Vice-Minister of Energy, Lithuania

Gerhardt, Martin
Head of Offshore Wind Product & Portfolio Management, Siemens Gamesa

Gil Bardaji, Marta
Director of Research, Vortex FdC

Godeiro, Monalisa
Senior Reseacher/Head of Ports, Creation Research Group (UFRN)

Gonzalez, Elena
Lead O&M Engineer, Iberdrola / ScottishPower Renewables

Gonzalez, Mario
Researcher, Creation Research Group (UFRN)

Gonzalez Vives, Federico Nestor
Regional CTO for the Mediterranean, Vestas

Gorski, Grzegorz
COO, Ocean Winds

Gottschall, Julia
Chief Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES

Grønlund, Thomas
Senior Training Project Manager, Global Wind Organisation (GWO)

Guell Pequerul, Anna
Senior Process Consultant, OWC

Guillou, Xavier
Team Leader - Marine Renewable Energies and Maritime Spatial Planning, European Commission

Gutiérrez Sánchez del Río, Carlos
Head of Technology - Repsol Renovables, Repsol

Göçmen, Tuhfe
Senior Researcher, DTU Wind Energy

Güven, Yiğit
General Manager, Offshore Wind Commercial Europe, Shell New Energies

Hadjisavvas, Constantinos
Project Officer Energy – Project Manager of EU-funded Programmes, European Defence Agency

Hansen, Anne Marit
Project Manager Iberian BD, Project Leader Floating Wind

Hellstern, Lene
Director & Head of Engineering & Asset Integrity, PEAK Wind

Helsen, Jan
Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Henseler, Felix
SVP & CEO, ZF Wind Power

Hille, Nikolai
Principle Engineer, DNV

Hirth, Brian
Research Professor, Texas Tech University

Howell, David
Senior Energy Policy Officer, Birdlife

Hulsman, Paul
Research Assistant/PhD Student, ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research

Hutton, Karen Anne
Technical Director, RES

Ibrahim, Omar
Industrial PhD Researcher, ORE Catapult

Iftikhar Warraich, Maham
Senior Investment Officer, Global Energy, IFC - International Finance Corporation

Iliffe, Molly
Global Head of Hydrogen, Baringa

Inghelbrecht, Petra
Senior Sustainability Leader, Owens Corning Fiberglass

Israelian, Alexandre
Project Director for Energy Consumption in Industry and Industrial Renewable Sectors, Ministry of Economics, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France

Jaarsma, Saskia
Head of Offshore Development, Large Projects Offshore, TenneT

Jackson, Katie
President, National Grid Ventures

Jacquet, Clément
Senior Researcher, EPRI

Jimenez, Alvaro
Head of Industrial Control Systems, Siemens Gamesa

Julius-Philipp, Eva
Head of Environment & Sustainability Unit, Environment & Sustainability Unit, Business Area Wind, Vattenfall

Jung, Catrin
Head of Business Unit Offshore Wind, Vattenfall

Jungk, Max
VP Global Product Strategy and Sales Support, Nordex Group

Kaendler, Gerald
System Development Committee Chair, entso-e

Kapferer, Stefan
Chairman of the Management Board, 50Hertz

Kariniotakis, Georges
Professor, Head of Renewable Energies & SmartGrids Group (ERSEI), Centre PERSEE at MINES Paris - ARMINES

Kazemi Amiri, Abbas
Research Associate Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde

Kerelska, Viktoriya
Director of Advocacy & Messaging, WindEurope

Ketil Hallan, Thor
Director of Strategy and Hydrogen Solutions, Deep Wind Offshore

Klein, Jessica
Head of Regulatory Affairs EU & Germany, RWE

Klonari, Vasiliki
Head of Energy System Integration, WindEurope

Knysh, Kateryna
Director of Business Development, MCL Group, Head of Analytics, Ukrainian Wind Energy Association

Kolinski, Lukasz
Head of Unit for Renewables and Energy System Integration Policy, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission

Kolios, Athanasios
Professor and Head of Section, DTU

Korsgaard, John
Senior Director, Engineering Excellence, LM Wind Power

Kortazar, Itziar
Full Converter Product Manager of Ingeteam Wind Energy, Ingeteam

Koukoura, Sofia
Senior Asset Performance Analysis Engineer, Iberdrola / ScottishPower Renewables

Kvittem, Marit
Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean

Lakdawala, Zahra
Research Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES

Landberg, Lars
Vice President, Group Leader, Renewables, Group Technology and Research, DNV

Le Guillou, Agathe
Sales Development Manager Sales Development Manager Sales Development Manager, Port of Brest

Leroy, Antonia
Head of Ocean Policy, WWF EPO

López, Javier
Team Manager - Advanced Engineering and Simulation, Polytech

Mancini, Simone
Wind Energy Scientist and Project Manager, TNO

Marchante Jiménez, Miriam
Chief Specialist, Asset Value Engineering, Ørsted

Martinez Martinez, Amaia
Business Development Manager, WINDTECHNIC ENGINEERING SL

Mascarenhas, Miguel
CEO, Bioinsight

Mashal, Hanif
CEO, LM Wind Power

Mateo, Rafael
CEO, ACCIONA Energía

McCutcheon, Finlay
Director of Onshore Renewables Europe, SSE Renewables

McGrail, Dan
CEO, RenewableUK

McQuade, Lindsay
Director of Energy, EMEA, Amazon Web Services

Meek, Harke Jan
Chief Commercial Officer, Seaway7

Mendez, Abel
Green Energies Commercial Director, Navantia

Mendiburu, Eider
PDI, Mondragon University

Mettler, Ann
Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy

Michel, Thomas
Chief Operating Officer (COO), RWE Offshore Wind GmbH

Ivo Milatić
State Secretary, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development

Chris Minto
Director, Indeximate Ltd

Adria Miquel
Chief Scientist, Eolos Floating Lidar Solutions

Hassan Moharram
Product Owner, DNV

Pep Moreno
CEO, Vortex

Daniel Mortensen
Defence and Security, Ørsted

Lykke Mulvad Jeppesen
Head of Energy Economics, Ørsted

Annette Nienhaus
Partner, ERM

Philipp Nimmermann
State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Germany

Carolina Novac
State Secretary in the Ministry of Energy, Moldova

Robert Nowicki
CEO, ORLEN Neptun

Tom O'Brien
Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management

Kevin O'Donovan
Senior Vice President Europe and Managing Director of UK and Ireland, Statkraft

Bart Oberink
Vice-President for Offshore Wind, Continental Europe, bp

Asier Olcoz
Project Engineer Asset Advisory, UL Solutions

Vidar Onarheim
Business Manager, Zephyros Ocean

Seda Orhan
Renewable Energy Program Manager, CAN Europe

Ben Oudman
Director and Regional Manager CEMEIA, DNV

Andrew Owens
Global Product Manager, Hitachi Energy

Saloni Palkar
Senior Structural Engineer, Van Oord

François Paquet
Impact Director, Renewable Hydrogen Coalition

Denis Parein
Sales and Marketing Director Heavy Plates Europe, ArcelorMittal

Marko Pavlovic
Assistant Professor, TU Delft

Henrik Pedersen
Senior Wind Energy Consultant, EMD International A/S

Jesper Pedersen
Project Manager, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Enrique Pedrosa
Chief Operative Officer Europe and LATAM, Repsol

Cédric Peeters
Post-Doc, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pyry Pentikäinen
Advisor, Kjeller Vindteknikk Oy

Kristian Petrick
Secretary General, Airborne Wind Europe

Yerai Peña-Sanchez
Researcher, University of the Basque Country

José Miguel Pinheiro
Country Manager - Southern Europe, Ocean Winds

Charlie Plumley
Senior Performance Engineer, Glennmont Partners

Bob Prinsen
Associate Director, Guidehouse

Giulia Privitera
Head of Sustainability, Renantis

Cristina Prună
Vice-President, Committee for Industries and Services, Assembly of Deputies, Romania / RENEW

Nicolas Quiévy
Senior Wind Technology Manager - Key Expert, ENGIE

Troels Rahbek Lindhard
Head of SCADA & Cyber Security, PEAK Wind

Thorsten Raible
Head of Global Service Engineering, Enercon

Lizet Ramirez
Senior Analyst, Wind Energy Supply Chain, WindEurope

Alex Raventos
CEO & Co-founder, X1 Wind

Emma Reiners
Global Head of Communications, Acciona Energía

Dennis Rendschmidt
Managing Director, VDMA

Laura Rol Rua
Head of Markets and Regulation, Repsol

Rob Rome
Director of Commercial, Customer & Regulation, National Grid Ventures

Beatriz Romero
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer-South Europe, GE Vernova

Yaeli Rosenberg
Head of Biology, Econcrete

Maive Rute
Deputy Director-General, DG Grow - European Commission

Eamon Ryan
Minister of Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport, Ireland

Wojciech Rybak
Senior Environmental Consultant, Ambiens

Orlando San Martin
Head of Sustainability, Europe, Statkraft

Javier Sarmiento
Senior Engineer, IHCantabria - Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

Raphael Sauter
European Commission

Annie Scanlan
Policy & Impact Director

Maximilian Schnippering
Head of Sustainability, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Mitja Schulz
CEO, Gurit

Alexandra Sdoukou
Deputy Minister of Energy and Environment, Greece

Rebecca Sedler
Managing Director - Interconnectors, National Grid

Oleksandr Selyshchev
CEO, DTEK Renewables

Inês Serras Pereira
LCOE and Business Intelligence Lead, Principle Power

Gunnar Siebert
Chief Security Advisor DACH, AON

Marta Sierra Castanon
BoP Technical Manager, PEAK Wind

Victor Signes
Senior Analyst, Renewables & Power, Rystad Energy

Catharina Sikow-Magny
Director, European Commission

Cristina Simioli
Director Offshore Energy and Nature, Renewables Grid Initiative

José Simón-Donaire
Principal Specialist, DNV

Nicolas Smadja
Head of Legal Affairs, ERG

Nicki Small
Lead Environment Manager Onshore, SSE Renewables

Aaron Smith
Chief Commercial Officer, Principle Power

Steve Smith
Thales Global Surveillance & Windfarm Sector Lead, Thales UK

Rafael Solis
Public Affairs & Community Relations Director - EU&LATAM, EDPR

Hongbiao Song
Global Technical Leader, Offshore Wind, GE Grid Solutions

Jan Suchorzewski
Unit Director dep. Infrastructure and Concrete Technology, Research Institutes of Sweden

Evdokia Tapoglou
Project Officer, JRC - European Commission

Jan Teuwsen
Head of Offshore Grid Projects, Amprion GmbH

Adrian Timbus
Chairman, ETIP Wind - Vice President Portfolio and Market Strategy, Hitachi Energy

Vasileios Tsianos
Director of Corporate Development & Assistant Corporate Secretary, Neo Performance Materials

Volker Türk
Head of Sustainability, RWE Offshore

Pablo Unanua
Chief Engineer, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Pieter van Aartsen
Board Member, GIE

Manon van Beek
CEO, TenneT

Diederik van Binsbergen
PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tinne Van Der Straeten
Federal Minister of Energy, Belgium

Ewout van Galen
Head of Programmes, North Sea Foundation

Jeroen Van Overloop
Policy Advisor Maritime Security to the Belgian Ministry of Transport, Reserve Officer for the Belgian Navy

Huygen van Steen
Programme Manager Offshore Wind and Energy Systems, RVO

Jef Van Valckenborgh
WTG Asset Performance Engineer, Parkwind

Marcus van Zutphen
Environmental Lead Europe Renewable and Energy Solutions, Shell

Alexander Vandenberghe
Head of Innovation, WindEurope

Catherine Vandenborre
CEO ad interim, Elia Group

Remco Verzijlbergh
CEO, Whiffle

João Vidal
Environmental Manager, Casa dos Ventos Energias Renováveis

Mireia Vila Trunes
Global CIO, EDPR

Javier Villalba
Senior Vice President for New Markets, Corio Generation

Jan Vos
Chairman, NWEA

Simon Watson
Professor of Wind Energy Systems and Director of DUWIND, TU Delft

Clément Weber
Founder and Managing Director, Green Giraffe

Kathy Wen
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford

Heikki Willstedt
Director, Energy Policy & Climate Change, AEE - Asociación Empresarial Eólica

Katja Wünschel
CEO Onshore Wind/PV Europe & Australia, RWE

Sara Xoubanova
Global Advisory Services Lead at Brown and May Marine Ltd - Marine Renewables, Environment and Fisheries, Brown & May Marine Ltd

Salma Yahiaoui
R&D Engineer, AKROCEAN

Carol Yan
Sector Lead - Energy Transition and Renewables (EMEA), Amazon Web Services

Linda Zeilina-Cross
CEO, International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC)

Christoph Zipf
Press and Communications Manager, WindEurope

Maroš Šefčovič
Executive Vice-President in charge of the Green Deal, European Commission

2024 Sponsors & Partners

BIODIVERSITY PARTNER:
• BirdLife

DIGITALISATION PARTNER:
• AwS

FINANCE & INVESTMENT PARTNER:
• Statkraft

FLOATING WIND PARTNER:
• OW

SPONSORS:
• 50hertz
• ABB
• Bilbao
• Bizkaia
• bp
• Cluster Energia
• Corio
• The Pavilion
• Elia Group
• Enercon
• Macquarie
• Ignitis
• LM
• LKAB
• MegaJoule
• SEA
• Ormazabal
• Orsted
• Prysmian Group
• Renantis
• Shell
• SPP Development Ukraine
• Svendborg Brakes
• VDMA
• WPD
• Xrotor