Antonella Battaglini
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Renewables Grid Initiative

Antonella Battaglini is currently a member of the European Commission’s expert group…
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on electricity interconnection targets and has previously been an expert member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s 2014-2016 Global Agenda Council on the Future of Electricity. In 2015 she was named one of Tällberg’s 2015 five Global Leaders for her commitment to a sustainable energy future and combating climate change. She was also a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) where she led the SuperSmart Grid (SSG) process, a concept she developed together with her team to reconcile different approaches to the system integration of renewables. By adopting a holistic approach, the SSG addresses the challenges of the transformation of the power sector considering generation, transmission and demand management. In this concept, both centralised and decentralised options play an undisputed role.

Karoliina Auvinen
Stakeholder Relations Director and Researcher Karoliina Auvinen, Smart Energy Transition project

Karoliina Auvinen, M.Sc. (Tech.) has more than 15 years of experience in clean energy and climate change mitigation… Read more..

work in new business sector development, market creation and societal change promotion. Her expertise consists of economical profitability analysis of clean technologies, policy recommendations, co-creation methods and public affairs. Currently, she works at Aalto University School of Business in various market creation projects promoting new energy solutions and smart energy transition towards carbon-free society.

Ville Väre
Senior Engineer, Markets, Energy Authority

Ville Väre works as senior engineer at Energy Authority`s market development team. He is mainly focused on electricity market development issues… Read more..

such as smart grids, demand flexibility, security of supply (markets) and European electricity market. Ville acts as expert secretary of Finnish Smart Grid Working group of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. Besides of that acting as a chair of demand flexibility working of NordREG (Nordic Energy Regulators) and team leader of demand flexibility working group at Energy Authority makes him quite involved in demand flexibility issues. The target of these groups is to improve security of supply, increase customers alternatives, enable reasonable energy price and environmentally energy system.

Pentti Itkonen
Sales Manager Finland
ENERCON GmbH

Pentti Itkonen is passionate about promoting clean energy and works as a Sales Manager for… Read more..

the wind power pioneer ENERCON in the Finnish market. Former positions in wind project development (Ilmatar Windpower Plc), manufacturing (Metso Automation) and international sales (ABB) grants Pentti a broad view on the wind industry. Chairing the Future Committee of the FWPA, which consists of Finnish wind industry leaders and researchers, he is able to stay on the edge of the latest technology advancements and market developments. The aim of the committee is to provide solutions for the changing energy landscape.

Jukka Kotovirta
Partner, Gearshift Group Ltd.

Jukka Kotovirta (M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering) is a founding partner of Gearshift Group, a business consultancy specialized in… Read more..

increasing customer value through innovative business models, strategies and M&A. He has witnessed the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in Europe both as a business manager at an operator (Sonera) and at an equipment vendor (Cisco Systems EMEA). At Gearshift Group he has conducted a multitude of strategy assignments, helping companies in the ICT, energy, media, cleantech, retail, and engineering sectors embrace and capitalize the new opportunities presented by digitalization. He is a popular lecturer on disruptive innovation.

Roland Magnusson
Competition Adviser, Renewable Energy, Energy Authority

Roland Magnusson, Ph.D. (Econ.), M.Sc. (Tech.), is in charge for organising the competitive bidding… Read more..

procedure for a market premium scheduled for November/December 2018. In addition, he is in charge for another bidding procedure targeted at promoting biogas and electricity in road transport. Working previously for a consultancy and a fund manager Roland has work experience of 11 years of financing renewable energy investments. He has also published some of his research on regulating the energy sector and promoting renewables in peer reviewed scientific journals.

Sten Lillienau
Key Account Manager, Neas Energy A/S

Sten Lillienau has a broad background within the green and renewable industry sector… Read more..

Apart from his position at Neas Energy he has worked for Thermia/Danfoss heat pumps, Metso Paper and has been Sector Expert Energy & Environment at the Danish Trade Council.

Raija Seppälä
Senior Originator – Nordic Power and Fuels
Vattenfall

Justin FitzHugh
Partner
Augusta & Co.

Justin FitzHugh is a Partner at Augusta and leads Augusta’s Nordic activities, with a focus on corporate PPAs. He has led over 1GW of pre-construction wind deals in Norway and Sweden… Read more..

with PPAs from Google, Facebook, Norsk Hydro and Alcoa, and has extensive experience of wind M&A transactions across the Nordic region, including Finland and the Baltic States, and beyond. Justin has over 20 years of M&A and capital raising experience of which the last 15 have been spent specialising in renewable energy and the last 10 at Augusta.  Before Augusta, he worked for Climate Change Capital, Pöyry Energy Consulting and spent six years at JPMorgan in the M&A/Investment Banking team in London. Justin holds an MSc (with Distinction) in Energy Policy from Imperial College London.

Marja Kaitaniemi
Chairperson of the board of Finnish Wind Power Association
Portfolio Development Manager, St1 Renewable Energy

Marja is the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Finnish Wind Power Association. She works at TuuliWatti… Read more..

the biggest wind power producer, where she is responsible of developing the project portfolio. Marja has wide experience in the wind power industry as well as climate and energy policy. She holds M.Sc. in environmental sciences.

Olli Hagqvist
Production Manager
Taaleri Energia

Olli works as a production manager at Taaleri Energia. He has an experience of over 8 years from wind energy… Read more..

and electricity markets and networks. He has joined Taaleri in 2011 and since then being involved in all phases of wind energy projects from green field development to asset management of operational wind farms. His technical specialties are electricity markets, integrating renewable energy to power systems and asset management concepts. He also have a broad understanding of renewable energy insurances. Olli holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Tampere University of Technology. His studies focused on renewable energy technology, power markets and networks as well as industrial economics.

Matti Rautkivi
Director, Sales & Marketing
Wartsila Energy Solutions

Matti Rautkivi is an energy industry thought leader. As an engineer for the Finnish energy technology company Wärtsilä… Read more..

his innovative, value-based ideas have helped electric utilities In North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East seize new business opportunities through flexible power generation. Matti is an active speaker and writer, who has written the book Goodbye to Deerland – Leading Your Utility Through the American Energy Transition. His blog articles on https://www.smartpowergeneration.com/powertalk about energy markets have been published In TIME magazine and in many energy industry publications. He currently lives in Helsinki, Finland, with his wife and two kids.

Registration takes place in the seminar bus during our trip to Haltia – no tickets needed. If you arrive by car or taxi, please register at the infodesk in the entrance hall. The cloakroom and lockers can be found in the entrance hall. Registration opens at 9:00 and the infodesk serves you until 19:15.

You can find our Networking Cabin from the first floor – perfect choice for private conversations. Book quiet 20 minutes in advance from Saara Jalkanen: saara.jalkanen@fwpa.fi, +358 401343336.