LF Energy Announces Keynote Lineup for 2025 Europe Summit
LF Energy is thrilled to unveil the first round of keynote speakers for LF Energy Summit Europe 2025, taking place September 10-11 in Aachen, Germany. This year’s lineup features global leaders in energy, open source, and digital transformation who are shaping the future of power systems innovation.
As the open source movement continues to accelerate the energy transition, these keynotes will offer insight into real-world deployments, successful collaboration models, and visionary strategies from across the energy ecosystem.
Keynotes You Won’t Want to Miss
Embedding Open Source in Utility Innovation
Jonny Eriksson, Global Head of Software Engineering Governance, Hitachi Energy
Renan Giovanini, CTO Energy Business, GlobalLogic
Open source isn’t just for experiments — it’s ready for real utility products. In this session, Hitachi Energy and GlobalLogic share how open source can be embedded into both existing and new solutions, enabling faster innovation and interoperability. We’ll highlight how we support utilities ready to adopt and evolve open source technologies — and contribute back to the community that powers them.
Panel: Expanding the OpenSynth Ecosystem: Open Source Data and AI for Power Systems Modelling
François Mirallès, Hydro-Québec
Sebastien Lepy, CRESYM
Pedro Vergara, Delft University of Technology
Amber Woodward, Centre for Net Zero
OpenSynth was launched as a LF Energy project in 2024 as an open source for synthetic smart meter data. Spearheaded by Centre for Net Zero, OpenSynth hosts data, model algorithms, and evaluation frameworks for AI-generated synthetic demand data. Since then, momentum has been building behind the other types of synthetic energy systems data – including grid topologies and generation data. As such, OpenSynth will be expanding its scope, acting as a repository for generation, transmission, distribution and supply data suitable for training AI models, or generated using GenAI methods.
Commercial by Design: Turning Open Source into Grid Transformation with TROLIE, LEP, and GridOS
Minh Dupuis, Global Product Lead MMS, GE Vernova
As the electric grid becomes more complex, fragmented, and decentralized, software must evolve just as radically. In this keynote, Minh Dupuis, Global Product Leader for Market Management Systems at GE Vernova, shares how open source collaboration is powering that evolution — and turning into real commercial success. Minh will walk through the journey of developing LEP (Limit Exchange Portal), a licensed product built on top of TROLIE, an open source API hosted by LF Energy. He’ll share how GE Vernova strategically decides what to open and what to monetize, and how this model accelerates adoption, lowers friction with competitors, and increases customer trust. This approach is part of a broader transformation: GridOS, GE Vernova’s next-generation grid software platform, is designed from the ground up to leverage open-source software and modular, grid-specific innovation. For anyone navigating the intersection of energy, software, and open ecosystems — this keynote offers real-world strategy and lessons.
Panel: Open Source, Open Minds: Utility Perspectives on Digital Collaboration
Kate Burson, Radia Capital
Arya Fazilat, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
Tim Breitenbach, Head of Data & Development, Swissgrid
Lucian Balea, Deputy Director of R&D and Open Source Director, RTE
Additional Speakers to Be Announced
This panel brings together leaders from utilities and investors to explore how open source is reshaping collaboration and accelerating digital innovation in grid operations.
From Ambition to Reality: How We Built the Global Open Source Community Around EVerest
Marco Möller, Co-founder and CEO, Pionix GmbH
Creating a successful open source project is about more than just code, it’s about building a thriving, sustainable community. In this talk, we’ll dive into how the EVerest project, an open source operating system for EV charging infrastructure, has evolved from an ambitious idea into a global collaboration. We’ll share what it takes to grow an open source ecosystem in a hardware-centric, standards-heavy domain like electric mobility. Drawing on our journey at PIONIX and real-world experiences working with suppliers, OEMs, and developers along the EV charging supply chain, this session will focus on the strategic and collaborative side of open source: governance, contribution models, ecosystem incentives, and how to create long-term value for everyone involved.
From Prototype to Innersource to Open Source: Lessons from a Power Grid Model Journey
Tony Xiang, Principal Scientist, Alliander N.V.
Jonas van den Bogaard, Open Source Office Lead, Alliander
How does a technical prototype evolve into a thriving open source project? In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of the Power Grid Model project — a journey that began as a small internal proof of concept and matured through inner source collaboration into a fully open source initiative.
We’ll share key lessons learned along the way, including:
• How innersource practices helped scale adoption and development internally
• The challenges and benefits of transitioning to open source
• Strategies for governance, community engagement, and product evolution
• Technical and organizational insights that shaped the project’s success
Additional keynotes will be announced in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
Register now to join us in Aachen and be part of the movement accelerating the digital transformation of energy systems through open source collaboration.
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