LF Energy Summit Europe 2026: Full Schedule

15 - 16 September | Berlin, Germany
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10:30 CEST

From Open-source Models To Production-grade Energy Planning Workflows - Harry van der Weijde, Open Energy Transition

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST

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Open source tools can improve transparency, collaboration, and speed in energy system planning, but real adoption requires more than publishing code. Drawing on work with system operators and energy institutions in Europe and Africa, this session shares practical lessons on turning open source models, data, and software into trusted planning workflows that organisations can use, maintain, and scale.

The session will focus on the transition from promising open source projects to production grade use in institutional planning contexts. It will cover the technical foundations needed for adoption, including enterprise grade applications, interoperability with existing tools, planning grade data infrastructure, reproducibility, and comparability across studies. It will also cover the institutional foundations: governance, maintenance, sustainable funding, long term support, training, and local capacity building.

The central argument is that adoption depends not only on code quality, but on trust. Energy institutions need confidence that open source workflows can integrate into existing processes, remain reliable over time, and be supported by credible communities and organisations.

Speakers

Harry van der Weijde

Head of Research and Market Development, Open Energy Transition

Dr. Harry van der Weijde is Head of Research and Market Development at Open Energy Transition, a non-profit working to transform the energy planning sector with open-source solutions. He is an expert in energy systems modeling and policy, with experience advising governments and private... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

11:05 CEST

From Research To Market: The Challenge Ahead for Research and Open Source - Antonello Monti, RWTH Aachen University; Ricardo Bessa, INESC TEC; Geethu Joseph, CRESYM; Elissaios Sarmas, EPU-NTUA; Ferdinando Bosco, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:05 - 11:35 CEST

Crossover

The session will be structured as a combination of short presentations and a panel.
The idea is to debate the way through which research projects can reach commercial success with the support of open source. The debate will done with the support of experts that have been involved in relevant EU projects and that are committed to use open source as a way to build sustainable development after the funding period.
The idea is not only to debate the experiences but also to open the discussion on how to build the right conditions to have many success stories.

Speakers

Ferdinando Bosco

R&I Project Manager, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa

Ferdinando Bosco is a Project Manager at Engineering Group’s R&I Department, with over 10 years of experience in advanced IT solutions for the energy sector. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Palermo and has contributed to several European projects in... Read More →

Geethu Joseph

IT Asset- Project Manager & OSPO, CRESYM

Geethu Joseph is IT Asset Project Manager & OSPO at CRESYM, where she supports IT asset management and open-source collaboration across CRESYM and European energy-sector projects. With over 15 years of IT industry experience and a background in Computer Science and Engineering, she... Read More →

Ricardo Bessa

Coordinator of the Center for Power and Energy Systems, INESC TEC

IEEE Fellow, earned his 5-years in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006), M.Sc. in Data Analysis (2008), and Ph.D. in Sustainable Energy Systems (2013) from the University of Porto. His research is focuse don AI and smart grids. He led projects like AI4REALNET and contributed... Read More →

Elissaios Sarmas

Senior Research Associate, EPU-NTUA

Elissaios Sarmas is a Senior Research Associate with the National Technical University of Athens (EPU-NTUA), specializing in the integration of artificial intelligence within energy systems. His research encompasses the development of machine learning models for energy management... Read More →

Antonello Monti

Professor, RWTH Aachen University

Antonello Monti received his Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1994. He started his career with Ansaldo Industria and then held different academic positions in Italy and USA. Since 2008, he has been the Director of the Institute for... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:05 - 11:35 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Panel Discussion

11:40 CEST

Resilience, Redefined: What Software-Defined Grids Means for European Sovereignty - Astor Nummelin Carlberg, SUSE

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 CEST

Crossover

Grid resilience is not a new idea. European energy systems have been built for stability, interoperability, and cross-border operation for generations, long before "digital sovereignty" became a policy priority. Energy was at the very heart of European integration from the beginning.

As the grid becomes software-defined, resilience takes on a new dimension. What does continuity of operation mean when critical infrastructure depends on software? And what does the energy sector's knowledge of large-scale, stable transitions offer to the European digital sovereignty debate?

The energy sector sits at a unique intersection: highly regulated, yet positioned to lead other critical sectors. It already operates at continental scale with common standards and complex governance. Interoperability is not a preference here—it is a structural necessity.

The Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy is part of the European Commission's Tech Sovereignty Package. This session explores what energy sector expertise in resilient, interoperable, open infrastructure can offer the EU's sovereignty agenda, and what this industry’s leadership might look like in practice.

Speakers

Astor Nummelin Carlberg

Director, Open Source Sovereignty, SUSE

Astor Nummelin Carlberg is a senior strategist operating at the intersection of digital infrastructure and European public policy. As Director of Open Source Sovereignty at SUSE, he leads engagement with European institutions to advance a secure and transparent digital future. Formerly... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

13:10 CEST

Building OSPOs in Practice: Early Lessons From Cresym, 50Hertz / Elia and TenneT - Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander; Sven Fritzsche, Elia Group - Elia Belgium and 50 Hertz; Geethu Joseph, CRESYM; Hugo Pfister, TenneT Netherlands

Tuesday September 15, 2026 13:10 - 13:40 CEST

Crossover

As the energy sector undergoes rapid digital transformation, Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are emerging as strategic enablers within grid operators. Building open source readiness requires more than just technical adoption. It demands cultural and operational transformation. From aligning legal, finance, and executive leadership to equipping engineering teams with the right tools and practices, OSPOs play a critical role in guiding this shift.

This panel brings together OSPO leaders from Cresym, 50Hertz / Elia, and TenneT to explore how open source is reshaping collaboration, innovation, and the digital landscape in the utility sector. As several of these OSPOs are relatively new, the discussion will offer fresh perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of establishing and scaling such capabilities. Panelists will share firsthand experiences in launching and growing OSPOs, navigating internal alignment, and fostering cross-organizational collaboration.

Moderator:
Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander - confirmed

Speakers:
Geethu Joseph, Cresym
Sven Fritzsche, Elia / 50Hertz
Hugo Pfister, TenneT

Speakers

Jonas van den Bogaard

Open Source Office Lead, Alliander

Jonas van den Bogaard is a Digital Strategy Lead at Alliander, a distribution system operator (DSO) in the Netherlands. Alliander provides reliable, affordable, and accessible energy transport and distribution to a large part of the Netherlands. Open source has proved to be an enabler... Read More →

Geethu Joseph

IT Asset- Project Manager & OSPO, CRESYM

Hugo Pfister

Manager Systems & Markets, TenneT Netherlands

Hugo Pfister is a people and technology leader at TenneT Netherlands, focused on simplifying complexity in mission-critical systems to enable effective, scalable, and innovative ways of working. He is an active open source advocate, driving adoption within TenneT and across international... Read More →

Sven Fritzsche

OSPO Lead, Elia Group - Elia Belgium and 50 Hertz

Dr.-Ing. Sven Fritzsche is OSPO Lead at the Elia Group (for the TSOs 50Hertz and Elia Transmission Belgium), where he drives the company’s digital agenda through open source. His work focuses on using the OSPO as a catalyst for organizational change connecting business, legal, and... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 13:10 - 13:40 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Panel Discussion

13:45 CEST

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

Crossover

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
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

14:20 CEST

Fast, Lean, Precise, Controlled: Compliance Automation With OSCAL in Our Open-Source-Program-Office - Markus Hillebrand, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST

Crossover

In the world of open-source governance, we are currently facing ‘waves the size of Nazaré’ in the form of regulatory changes, while the intensity of attacks on organizations’ digital services and supply chains continues to increase. It remains a mystery why many organizations respond by hiding behind ever-higher ‘walls of paperwork’ and creating cumbersome bureaucratic processes. We suggest a different path: to surf these waves and treat them as opportunities for progress.

This session presents a lean, developer-centric approach to governance. Instead of relying on isolated GRC tools (or spreadsheets), we treat compliance as if it were a collaboration between developers. We collect applicable and auditable requirements from open standards and transform them into human-readable data records using OSCAL (Open Security Controls Assessment Language) ... and store them in GIT. We combine classic automation with AI agents to get compliance tasks done. In this session, we will show you real-world cases along the journey through a continuous improvement iteration (PDCA cycle) and demonstrate what can be achieved with such a workbench.

Speakers

Markus Hillebrand

Software Architect: Open Source | Information Security | Compliance Automation, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH

Markus is a freelance software architect and currently works as an open-source manager for 50 Hertz (Elia Group) and CARIAD SE. With a long-term background as a software developer, product manager and entrepreneur, he mainly serves corporate clients and their suppliers. At the moment... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Crossover

Security & Compliance, Session Presentation

15:20 CEST

CapEx, OpEx, and Open Source - Michael Dorner & Maximilian Capraro, Capraro Dorner PartG

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST

Crossover

Regulatory frameworks in the energy sector often favor capital expenditures (CapEx) over operational expenses (OpEx), creating a structural disincentive for TSOs and DSOs to develop and publish open-source software. In this talk, we unpack the root causes of this bias and present preliminary findings from our Linux Foundation–funded research. Finally, we outline pathways to realign incentives and enable broader adoption of open source for energy infrastructure.

Speakers

Maximilian Capraro

Researcher & Consultant, Capraro Dorner PartG

Dr. Maximilian Capraro is a researcher, consultant, and entrepreneur focused on InnerSource and open source. He is co-founding director of the InnerSource Commons Foundation, co-founder of transfer pricing startup kolabri.io and consultant at caprarodorner.de. Max currently serves... Read More →

Michael Dorner

Professor of Software Engineering, Capraro Dorner

Michael Dorner is Professor of Software Engineering at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg and a consultant. His research focuses on regulatory compliance in software engineering, investigating how regulatory frameworks shape the development of software systems.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

15:55 CEST

Open Source ROI Framework for Grid Operators - Sam Boysel, The Linux Foundation & Dr. Mital Kanabar, PowerProfs

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 CEST

Crossover

In an era of rapid energy transition, grid operators face complex software procurement decisions. This session introduces an open-source quantitative framework enabling utilities and regulators to benchmark the total value of OSS adoption. The framework structures decision-making by enumerating benefit and cost components and distilling them into intuitive indices for relative efficiency.

Topics covered in this session:

- OSS Benefit-Cost Framework: A deep dive into the model’s four primary components: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Risk Factors (e.g., vendor lock-in, cybersecurity), Strategic Value (e.g., operational efficiency, innovation), and Social Benefits (e.g., sustainability, equity). We will demonstrate how to adapt and extend this framework for specific utility contexts.

- Ecosystem Report: A summary of the current energy software ecosystem using the framework to highlight real-world trends and the strategic advantages of public digital infrastructure.

Attendees will gain a methodology to move beyond qualitative arguments and effectively capture the diverse value OSS offers to the global power grid.

Speakers

Sam Boysel

Data Scientist, The Linux Foundation

Sam Boysel is a Data Scientist at the Linux Foundation. He has extensive empirical research experience in topics across the open source ecosystem. His work leverages microeconomic theory to explore incentives, behaviors, and place value on open source dynamics. Before joining the... Read More →

Dr. Mital Kanabar

Founder & CEO, PowerProfs

Dr. Mital Kanabar is a Founder and CEO of PowerProfs Inc., Markham, Ontario, Canada. He has 20+ years of industry experience serving the power & energy domain. Dr. Kanabar holds 25+ international patent applications; and has published 50+ journal/magazine/conference articles. Dr... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

16:30 CEST

Who Builds the Tools? Creating Pathways for Women in Open Source Energy Modelling - Tosin George, Open Energy Transition & Ekaterina Fedotova, Open Energy Transition, PyPSA-meets-Earth

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:30 - 17:00 CEST

Crossover

The open source energy community is building the tools that will shape the global energy transition. But who is building those tools and who is being left out of that conversation?

Women remain significantly underrepresented in open source energy modelling worldwide. This is not just an equity issue. It is a capability gap. When the people building energy planning tools do not reflect the diversity of the communities they serve, the solutions themselves fall short.

This session introduces a first-of-its-kind mentorship programme designed to bring more African women into open source energy modelling, developed in partnership between LF Energy, the World Resources Institute, Centre for Net Zero and Open Energy Transition.

The programme builds structured, supported pathways connecting aspiring women energy experts with experienced practitioners. Crucially, it is designed not just to prepare women for the open source community but to prepare the open source community to welcome and sustain them.

Panellists will share how the programme was conceived, how the partnership was built, what the curriculum looks like, and what the community can do to support and sustain it.

Speakers

Ekaterina Fedotova

Lead Maintainer, Open Energy Transition, PyPSA-meets-Earth

Ekaterina holds a PhD in Thermal Physics and has 10+ years of experience across industry and research, where she adopted open source tools to solve practical challenges in the decarbonisation of energy supply. She is one of the core developers of the PyPSA-Earth energy system model... Read More →

Tosin George

Project Manager, Open Energy Transition

Tosin George is a project and programme management professional specialising in the renewable energy and clean energy transition space. With experience spanning solar project delivery, capacity building, and open-source energy planning tools, she has led complex, multi-stakeholder... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:30 - 17:00 CEST
Crossover

Open Source Strategy, Session Presentation

10:30 CEST

Taming the Circus: The Future of Power System Planning Model Interoperability - Karin Wadsack, Global Power System Transformation Consortium; Bryan Palmintier, National Laboratory of the Rockies; Thomas van Dijk, TNO

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST

Crossover

Several related power system planning model interoperability initiatives will share their latest progress, challenges, and real-world applications, including consideration of the differing needs of different end users. Panelists will discuss the potential to align efforts and the challenges and opportunities in delivering both a more effective and more streamlined future modeling experience for end users, from grid operators to energy ministries to civil society. Presenters will cover where models overlap, where models diverge, and what the realistic boundaries are for interoperability, and will invite participants to consider which standards will likely align and which will remain distinct, both in the electricity/TSO/DSO domain and in the sector coupling/multi-commodity domain. Session panelists and participants will discuss the anticipated ways that system planning modeling will change in the next decade and how to future-proof interoperability.

Participants may include: NLR (Sienna/GDM), Princeton (GenX), VTT/Nodal Tools (CESM), TU Berlin (PyPSA), OET, Encoord, TZ, RTE, AFRY, Recognis, EPRI, Imperial College (OSeMOSYS), ENTSO-E, SOPTIM (CGMES), Sylvan

Speakers

Thomas van Dijk

Digital Energy Business Developer, TNO

Thomas has wondered most of his career how global challenges can be solved collectively. From a battery start-up, microgrids to an opensource NGO, he works at TNO since 2025, a Dutch research organization, to bring their long history of public collaborative innovation in the energy... Read More →

Karin Wadsack

Executive Director, Global Power System Transformation Consortium

Karin Wadsack is Executive Director of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium. She supports the development and deployment of open-source tools for power system operation and planning. She is convinced that the open-source approach provides the greatest driver for the critical... Read More →

Bryan Palmintier

Group Manager and Principle Research Engineer, National Laboratory of the Rockies

Bryan leads the T&D interactions group in Grid Planning and Analysis at the National Lab of the Rockies (NLR, formerly NREL). He researches integrated grid planning across generation, transmission, distribution, and customers, including new multi-model tools to capture DERs, grid-adjacent... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Crossover

Modeling, Panel Discussion

11:05 CEST

From Code To Models-as-Data: GEMS, a High-Level Language for Energy System Modelling - Thomas Bittar, RTE

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:05 - 11:35 CEST

Crossover

Energy systems are undergoing rapid transformation as sector coupling intensifies and variable renewable generation grows, creating a pressing need for flexible and transparent modeling tools. While many open-source frameworks offer rich features, extending them with new mathematical models typically requires writing custom software, a barrier for many analysts.

We present GEMS (Generic Energy Systems Modelling Schema), a high-level modelling language designed to make multi-energy system adequacy and planning studies both more expressive and more accessible. GEMS brings model definitions out of the codebase and into simple YAML configuration files, where users describe variables, parameters, and constraints using natural mathematical expressions. These expressions are parsed into abstract syntax trees and automatically expanded into a complete optimization problem. This model-agnostic architecture enables rapid experimentation, lowers development and maintenance costs, and promotes true reusability: adding a new model requires no code, only data. The language is already supported in Antares Simulator and in the Python package GemsPy.

Speakers

Thomas Bittar

R&D Researcher, RTE

Thomas Bittar is a research engineer at RTE, specializing in modeling and optimization of energy systems for long-term prospective studies. He holds a PhD in stochastic optimization from École des Ponts ParisTech. Since 2021, he contributes to the development of Antares Simulator... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:05 - 11:35 CEST
Crossover

Modeling, Session Presentation

11:40 CEST

CIM/CGMES in Real-time Knowledge Graphs for Modern Grid Control Systems - Arne Bernhardt, SOPTIM AG

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 CEST

Crossover

Modern grid control systems require interoperable, scalable, and vendor-neutral data infrastructures. While CIM/CGMES has become the standard exchange format for power system models, many implementations still treat it primarily as a file format instead of a semantic data platform.

This session presents practical experiences from building modern utility control system components using RDF, SHACL, SPARQL, Apache Jena, and open-source tooling. We will show how semantic technologies can evolve from offline model exchange into high-performance, real-time knowledge graph infrastructures for power systems.

Topics include high-performance in-memory RDF graph processing, SHACL validation for operational grid models, lessons learned from Apache Jena internals, and the development of open-source tooling such as RDFArchitect and OpenCGMES.

The session shares real-world insights from developing software for transmission system operators and discusses how open semantic infrastructures can support interoperable and future-proof digital energy systems.

Speakers

Arne Bernhardt

Division Manager for Grid Control Systems, SOPTIM AG

Arne Bernhardt is Division Manager for Grid Control Systems at SOPTIM AG, developing software for transmission system operators and digital energy infrastructures. His work focuses on CIM/CGMES, RDF, SHACL, SPARQL, semantic interoperability, and high-performance in-memory graph processing... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 CEST
Crossover

Modeling, Session Presentation

13:10 CEST

P-SWAMP (power -Stability Wide Area Monitoring Protection) Open R&D for WAMS - Speakers To Be Announced

Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:10 - 13:40 CEST

Crossover

Synchronous generation retires and renewable, converter-interfaced resources increase, modern power systems face new operational challenges. High penetration of HVDC connections, large volumes of solar and wind generation are reshaping the grid. System operators need to modernize their control rooms. p-SWAMP (Power Stability Wide Area Monitoring Protection) provides an open extensible Research & Development for future Wide Area Monitor System (WAMS). A cloud-native, open-source platform where new concepts can be integrated and demonstrated to users in a setting mimicking actual control rooms. Statnett, the Transmission System Operator (TSO) in Norway uses an open -source collaboration platform called Statnett RnDP, serves as an integration platform for p-SWAMP, RnDP contains a timeseries database to hold Phase Measurement Unit Data, for analysis and simulate Kafka streams needed. RnDP offers Jupyter, Grafana and more user interfaces, the user can control their own pods. All run on Kubernetes cluster with Kyverno for policy control, Rook/Ceph for storage and Linkerd for network observability (MtM). Harbour for hosting images allows to use Trivy for vulnerability scanning.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:10 - 13:40 CEST
Crossover

Data + AI, Session Presentation

13:45 CEST

OpenEnergyTwin: Building Open, Interoperable Digital Twin Infrastructure for DSO Grid Operations - Jürgen Meister, OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology

Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:45 - 14:15 CEST

Crossover

Distribution system operators (DSOs) must manage increasingly complex grids with renewable generation, electrification, sector coupling, and active assets, especially at the low voltage level. Today’s grid control systems, however, are often monolithic, proprietary, and hard to extend, limiting interoperability and innovation. OpenEnergyTwin addresses this issue as an open source reference implementation for modular grid control systems. It provides a modular, event-driven digital twin infrastructure, capable of integrating all grid levels of a DSO, thereby creating a runtime environment for next-generation grid control services, including AI-based assistance and automation. The platform connects operational technology to a CIM-based digital twin core through flexible protocol adapters for topology, measurements, and state assessment, and exposes standardized interfaces for HMIs, alerting, forecasting, and control applications. Using publish-subscribe communication and CIM/JSON-LD, OpenEnergyTwin enables event-driven, standardized data exchange across all services. This talk presents key results of the research project, in which the OpenEnergyTwin platform has been developed.

Speakers

Jürgen Meister

Director R+D Division Energy, OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology

Dr. Jürgen Meister earned his doctorate in software product lines and has worked in the energy sector since 2006. He started out as a software architect and team lead, developing software products for offshore wind farms and virtual power plants at BTC AG. He now manages the Energy... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:45 - 14:15 CEST
Crossover

Data + AI, Session Presentation

14:20 CEST

DT4Energy: Open AI-Driven Digital Twins for Energy Systems - DT4EC Use Case - Ferdinando Bosco, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa & Vincenzo Croce, Engineering

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST

Crossover

The increasing complexity of energy systems calls for new approaches to design, develop, and operate secure and interoperable Digital Twins across heterogeneous environments.
Within the IPCEI-CIS AVANT project, DT4ENERGY is developed as an open platform enabling the creation of Digital Twins for energy systems, supporting real-time monitoring, simulation, and data-driven services. It provides a modular and extensible foundation for integrating distributed data, models, and applications, while ensuring interoperability and enabling the scalable deployment of AI capabilities.
In this session we present DT4EC, a real-world implementation for Energy Communities, demonstrating how DT4ENERGY supports operational use cases. DT4EC integrates Machine Learning models for day-ahead production and consumption prediction, as well as self-consumption optimization, combined with Generative AI services for KPI analysis, explainability and decision support.
By sharing implementation insights, this session shows how open Digital Twin platforms can move from architecture to operation, enabling secure, interoperable, and AI-driven energy applications, with DT4EC as a concrete and validated example.

Speakers

Ferdinando Bosco

R&I Project Manager, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa

Vincenzo Croce

Mr, Engineering

Is an Engineer in Computer Science. Since February 2001, he worked as senior researcher in Engineering’s R&D laboratory.
Main focus of his research activities is in energy efficiency in district and local communities.
Since 2007 his main research interest includes efficiency... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Crossover

Data + AI, Session Presentation

15:20 CEST

Monitoring Communication Networks of Energy Grids With the Open-source Framework Malcolm - Jens Wiesner, German Federal Office for Information Security & Klaus Hunsänger, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST

Crossover

While the world depends on the unimpaired generation and transmission of electrical power, the systems controlling the critical services stay – from a security point of view – often in the shadows. Many assumptions of the past – especially in times of fast redispatch – need to be challenged, and the communication systems have to be monitored more closely. You will learn from real world cases and successful attacks the necessity of looking deeper into the communication of every system to system of systems, from substations up to the control room. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is supporting the usage of the Open-source Framework Malcolm in several ways, and this talk will show you the benefits by adopting it.

Speakers

Jens Wiesner

Team Lead ICS, German Federal Office for Information Security

Since 2016 heads Jens Wiesner the section 'Cyber Security in Industrial Control Systems' of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). He and his team cover many aspects of Operational Technology – the systems that keep a nation running: energy, water and many more... Read More →

Klaus Hunsänger

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Electrical Engineering, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Starting in 1999 as an Electrical Engineer in the ICS-World (sector water). Since 2018 part of the BSI-Team.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Crossover

Security & Compliance, Session Presentation

15:55 CEST

Pre-Packaging CRA and NIS2 Compliance: The SEAPATH Approach - Mathieu Dupré, Savoir-faire Linux

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 CEST

Crossover

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and NIS2 directive impose stringent cybersecurity obligations on industrial deployments, leaving organizations to navigate complex requirements around vulnerability management and supply chain transparency. For LF Energy projects, the challenge is to actively facilitate compliance for downstream users.

Building directly upon the foundations presented at the LF Energy Summit 2025 regarding SBOMs and vulnerabilities in SEAPATH, this session demonstrates how the project proactively addresses European regulations to alleviate the compliance burden on industrial users.

We will detail the implementation of robust security practices: restricted reporting channels, clear security governance guidelines, and automated SBOM generation. Furthermore, we will highlight the integration of VulnScout an open-source vulnerability analysis tool within SEAPATH’s CI pipeline for real-time tracking. Attendees will gain a clear blueprint of how open-source projects can deliver pre-packaged compliance artifacts.

Speakers

Mathieu Dupré

Linux expert. LF Energy SEAPATH maintainer, Savoir-faire Linux

Mathieu is a senior free software consultant and has a wide knowledge of Linux system from low layers such as Kernel space to higher layers like containers / virtualization. He has valuable experience on Linux system security, for both embedded systems and servers. Mathieu is one... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 CEST
Crossover

Security & Compliance, Session Presentation

16:30 CEST

Decommissioning the Kill Switch:Securing the Energy Grid’s Software Supply Chain With Open Standards - Rossella Sblendido & Andreas Prins Prins, SUSE

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:30 - 17:00 CEST

Crossover

The European energy grid's modernization embeds physical and digital "kill switches" within smart assets and their software supply chains.
True digital sovereignty cannot be purchased as a proprietary product; it is an ongoing operational discipline. In this session we will dissect how the principles of open source, open standards, and reproducible builds directly mitigate the risk of both physical and logical kill switches. We will move beyond the theoretical to explore the concrete architectural patterns required to build a "Sovereign Stack" for energy systems, providing real examples. Specifically, we will demonstrate how to enforce:
Supply Chain Attestation: Generating and validating cryptographically signed Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) from source to production edge.
Immutable and Reproducible Edge Environments: Ensuring that operating systems and container platforms deployed on grid edge nodes can be fully audited, rebuilt from source, and run completely air-gapped.
Decoupled Control Planes: Architectural designs that separate software delivery from operational runtime, ensuring that a vendor cannot unilaterally "kill the switch" on a running grid system.

Speakers

Andreas Prins

Global head sovereign solutions, SUSE

Andreas works with enterprises, critical infrastructure providers, and public-sector organizations that are moving toward more sovereign IT and cloud-native platforms. His work focuses on connecting business-level sovereignty decisions with their real operational impact across the... Read More →

Rossella Sblendido

Director of Engineering, SUSE

Rossella is a Director of Engineering in SUSE’s Rancher group, with extensive experience leading engineering teams in startups and large organizations. Her work is deeply rooted in open source, including significant contributions as a Core Reviewer for OpenStack Neutron and service... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:30 - 17:00 CEST
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Security & Compliance, Session Presentation

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