Name: How E.ON's OSPO Maps Energy Open Source Projects To Real World Utility Needs - Sebastian Grüner & Benjamin Rilz, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
Start: 2026-09-15T13:45:00+0200
End: 2026-09-15T14:15:00+0200

15 - 16 September | Berlin, Germany
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How E.ON's OSPO Maps Energy Open Source Projects To Real World Utility Needs - Sebastian Grüner & Benjamin Rilz, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH

Tuesday September 15, 2026 13:45 - 14:15 CEST

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LF Energy and the broader energy Open Source ecosystem offer a growing number of promising projects, but for many utilities the challenge is no longer awareness alone — it is understanding which projects are relevant for their operations, how to evaluate them, and how to connect them to real business needs .

E.ON's OSPO built a practical evaluation approach for LF Energy and other industry projects. The goal was to turn the evaluation into something internal stakeholders could understand, discuss, and base their decisions in.

The presentation will introduce the evaluation framework we used to assess selected LF Energy projects and highlight key findings. However, the focus will be on what happened after the OSPO-internal evaluation: how the insights helped us identify the most relevant business units, how we engaged with these teams through targeted user interviews, and how this created a solid baseline towards adoption.

Speakers

Sebastian Grüner

Open Source Consulting Manager, E.ON Digital Technology

Leads the OSPO initiative at the IT subsidiary of E.ON, helping transform our grid for a carbon neutral future. Before that he worked 13 years as a journalist and editor covering Open Source - technology and software as well as the sociopolitical influence of the projects and their... Read More →

Benjamin Rilz

Junior Open Source Consultant, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH

I work in the Open Source Program Office at E.ON Digital Technology GmbH, where I focus on connecting the Open Source ecosystems with practical business needs in the energy sector. I have already attended several Linux Foundation conferences, but I haven’t given a talk yet. In this... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 13:45 - 14:15 CEST
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Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

Sebastian Grüner

Benjamin Rilz

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