Søren heads up offshore wind research for Wood Mackenzie. He tracks, analyses and forecasts value chain dynamics, technological advancements and policy developments across the global offshore wind industry. Søren has also supported key stakeholders across the offshore wind value chain through advisory projects, workshops, conferences and presentations.

Having started his career with Vestas Wind Systems 13 years ago, Gian dedicated his entire career to the energy transition for Wind, Solar, BESS and Energy Efficiency in mostly global Business Development, Sales and Product Management roles for both OEMs and a utility. He’s also a member of Wind Europe’s Wind Grid Integration taskforce. In his contributions to offshore wind growth since the sectors’ early days with pioneering offshore wind leaders, he now sees major O&G players entering the market beyond minority investments, leveraging on decades of experience built up in offshore wind whilst contributing their own experience to make Offshore Wind even more safe and secure.

Kalina started her career 15 year ago in emergency communication consulting and engineering focusing on radio frequency solutions, after which she specialized in WCDMA, LTE, 5G and Wi-Fi, as well as 3GPP/ IEEE E2E Interworking. With 10 years of international work in APAC, EU and NAM, Kalina has built a broad and global experience based on close collaboration with OFS operator engineering and business development teams, as well as their clients. She spent over a decade in a globally leading OEM as a solution and presales architect, enabling customers from various industries like O&G, power networks, marine applications and shipping. Kalina is currently working with various OFS wind clients to harvest cross-industry learnings and take the next step in lowering OFS wind LCOE and execution risks, whilst ensuring mission-critical communications uptime that enable reliable asset operations throughout the wind park lifecycle.

Steve Kunsman leads Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ Grid Automation technical team in North America for the industrial and utility segments. He is a recognized Substation Automation Specialist with over 38 years in substation automation, protection and control applications, communications technologies (IEC 61850 and DNP), cybersecurity for substations, and the Relion product family of protection and control relays. Steve’s ABB career began in 1984 as an Electrical Designer for the protective relay group. He has held various engineering, technology and product management positions within the North American and global substation automation organizations. Steve holds 5 patents related to protection, control and automation applications and has published over 30 articles and conference papers on Digital Substation, Substation Automation & Communications, Protection and Substation Cybersecurity. Steve has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College and an MBA in Management of Technology from Lehigh University.

Guy started his career 32 years ago executing projects and selling systems in Industrial Automation. In the last 11 years, his focus moved to Grid Automation, promoting Substation Automation, protection and communication and cyber security. He developed the activity in Offshore wind, with successes in APAC, Europe and NAM. Guy is very active in the collaboration with the main Offshore Wind Developers and EPCs, to define and promote the best-in-class solutions ensuring the appropriate functionality, availability, safety and security. Guy has a Master of Sc in Automation from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France).