Speakers

Matti Rautkivi is heading market development for Nordic Ren-Gas Oy, a Finnish company to decarbonize the heavy-duty transportation sector with renewable synthetic gases. Matti has more than 15 years of experience in the energy sector, and his value-based ideas have helped utilities around the world to benefit from affordable renewable energy.

Matti is a man of trailblazing ideas and inspirational speeches and has also written two books.  His articles on  the  energy  markets  have  been  published,  for  example,  in  TIME  magazine and in numerous other industry publications.  Even in his  spare  time,  Matti  continues  to  seek  innovative  solutions,  often  helping  his  friends to succeed in their business ventures.

Matti holds MSc degree in Industrial Engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology. He lives in Espoo with his wife and two kids.

Leena Sivill, Dr.Sc.(Tech), is Principal at AFRY Management Consulting. She has over 20 years of experience in energy management in industries, energy markets, market design, and energy policy and regulation in the Nordics and Baltic states. She has, e.g., acted as an advisor for gas market liberalization in Finland 2016-2021, and currently manages the project ‘Hydrogen economy – opportunities and limitations’ for the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office.

Magnus Korpås received his Ph.D. degree from the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology (NTNU), Norway, in 2004 on the topic of optimizing the  use  of  energy  storage  and hydrogen for  wind  energy  in  the  power  market. He  is  currently  working  as  Professor  at  the  Department  of  Electric  Power Engineering, NTNU, covering the research areas of energy systems optimizations, power market development and integration of renewable energy in the power system. He is a former Research Director of the Department of Energy Systems at SINTEF Energy Research, Norway. He was a visiting researcher in the MIT Laboratory for  Information  &  Decision  Systems  (LIDS)  in  2018-2019.  He is part of IEA Wind Task 25 on Large-scale Integration of Wind Power in Systems where he leads the work on Market Integration. He is also in the leader group of FME NorthWind, which is a  new research centre for offshore and onshore wind energy in Norway.

Juha Känkänen, M.Sc. (Tech) works as an Investment Director at Ålandsbanken Funds, where he manages the first open-ended wind power fund in Finland, Ålandsbanken Tuulivoima. Prior to joining Ålandsbanken, Juha worked for 20 years as a consultant advising both domestic and international clients in complex investment projects. His key areas of expertise are long-term Nordic electricity markets and EU emission trading as well as finance and energy production technologies based on combustion and renewables.

With nearly 10 years’ experience from manifold ownership change arrangements, Johannes is a transaction professional, focusing on green energy infrastructure (esp. wind power) transactions at OX2. While being a forerunner among the European wind power developers, OX2 is considered a wind energy transaction powerhouse with multiple arrangements taking place each year. Working frequently in project management positions in both sell- and buy-side transactions, Johannes holds a viewpoint on the global financing and money market, as well as industry specific value-chain and project development expertise.

Johannes holds a master’s degree in law and economics.

Heidi Paalatie, M.Econ. in Corporate Environmental Management, is Director of Operations in Finnish Wind Power Association. She has been with the association over seven years with wide range of responsibilities within public relations, advocacy, and communications. FWPA is the leading industry association for wind power in Finland. The association is a key player, when it comes to providing information and forming the future of the industry in Finland.

Lieutenant Commander Matti Sirkkola (GSO) is the Senior Staff Officer in charge of Territorial Surveillance and Airspace Management at the Defence Policy Department of the Ministry of Defence.

Mr Lehtomäki works as Managing Director at the science-based consultancy company Kjeller Vindteknikk Oy (Finnish office). In addition to managing the Finnish office’s commercial operations, his technical work today focuses on wind energy topics such as energy yield assessments, icing loss evaluations, turbine SCADA analyses and wind measurement campaign planning. From 2009-2018 he worked at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd in Wind Power team having extensive international wind energy experience most within cold climate wind energy.

Mr Lehtomäki has a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering (product development) from Helsinki University of Technology.

He is on a mission to help unlock the full potential of wind energy in Finland.

Anni Mikkonen is the CEO of the Finnish Wind Power Association since 2009. During her time the association and the importance of wind power in the Finnish energy sector have increased significantly.  Anni is leading wind power experts in Finland. She holds a master’s decrees in Environmental Sciences (MSc) and  in Corporate Environmental Management (M. Econ).