World Congress and Exhibition on Wind & Renewable Energy July 28-30, 2016 Berlin, Germany

Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Distinguished Univ. Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is Founding Director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS www.imscenter.net) which is a multi-campus NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ.of Michigan, Missouri Univ. of S&T, and Univ. of Texas-Austin. The Center has developed partnerships with over 85 companies from 15 countries since its inception in 2001. In addition, he has mentored his students and developed a spin-off company Predictronics with support from NSF Innovation ICorps Award in 2012. He also serves as an invited committee member for White House Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Advisory Group in 2013.His current research focuses on Industrial Big Data Analytics, Cyber-Physical Systems.Currently, he also serves as advisor to a number of global organizations, including a member of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council, member of International S&T Committee of Alstom Transport, France, Scientific Advisory Board of Flanders\\\\\\\' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre (FMTC) in Leuven, Belgium, Scientific Advisor Board of SIMTech, Singapore, Member of Advisory Committee of MIRDC Taiwan, etc.Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC),He is a frequently invited speaker and has delivered over 200 invited keynote speeches at major international conferences and has over 20 patents and 2 trademarks. He received a number of awards including the most recent NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize in Jan. 2014, MFPT (Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Society) Jack Frarey Award in 2014, and the Prognostics Innovation Award from National Instruments in 2012. He mentored his students to participate in PHM Data Challenge Competition and won the 1st Prize 5 times since 2008.

Industrial Big Data Analytics & Cyber-Physical Systems

Philip Totaro is the Founder and CEO of Totaro & Associates, a market research and innovation strategy consulting firm based in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Totaro is regarded worldwide as the foremost expert on wind industry technology and intellectual property matters. Mr. Totaro has a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering and over 12 years of experience in strategic planning as well as creating and protecting intellectual capital. His strategic market analysis has led to the funding justification of over US$500M in R&D investment and the development of multimillion dollar product and service offerings. He has provided legal and technical due-diligence for over US$1.5B in M&A.

Wind Industry Technology and Intellectual Property matters.

Professor Pourkashanian is the Head of University Energy Research at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Pilot-scale Advanced Capture Technology (PACT) national facilities. He is a Professor of Energy Engineering and has completed numerous major research projects on clean energy technology and has received a substantial sum of grants from RCUK-EPSRC, EU, NATO, and industry. He has published over 446 refereed research papers and has co-authored books on coal combustion. He played a leading role in developing the NOx post-processing computer codes and subsequently soot/NOx models that were later employed in the commercial CFD software. He is a member of numerous international and national scientific bodies including a member of EERA Implementation Plan 2013-2015 (contribution to CCS-EII Team, SET-PLAN), a member of Coordinating Group of UKCCSRC, an invited member of the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group, member of technical working group for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (CCS Roadmap UK2050) and Expert-Member in EU-GCC Clean Gas Energy Network.

Wind Energy Technologies

Dr.S.Gomathinayagam is now Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy-NIWE (C-WET the old name), Chennai, India. He obtained his PhD in ocean Engineering, from IIT, Madras, 2004, MS in structures from IIT, Madras 1982, B.E from Regional Engineering College, Trichirapalli Madras University, Tamil Nadu, India, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Now since 2009 He is working as an institutional Head/CEO of NIWE (C-WET the old name). He worked as a Scientist-Dy.Director in Structural engineering Research Centre, CSIR, Chennai, 1983–2009 Structural Enegineering- Software development - offshore-onshore-power-navy-space-blast-impact-wind-wave-current- Wind turbine fatigue loads measurement and design - Towers - dynamic - static and fatigue designs. Research and technology management.

He has 36 years of research experience, consultancy, FEM Software devep.and static/dynamic/stochastic analysis of structures onshore/offshore space/navy/industrial/Wind Energy & Solar Energy renewables sector. Presently He is looking for Networking.

Prof. Dr. Ali Hamzeh obtained his PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. Prior to that, Prof. Hamzeh worked from 1984 to 2012 as full professor at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in 2000, and at Erlangen-Nuernberg University, Germany many times during 1994-2014. His main research domains include electrical power systems and renewable energy systems. He published over 100 peer-reviwed article and conference papers. He authored/co-authored 17 books in the area of electric power systems, renewable energy, and computer programming.

He is member of IEEE, World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), Board of Arab Institute of Operation & Maintenance (Saudi Arabia), and Energy Committee of Arab Engineers Fedaration.

Prof. Beyene graduated with Ph.D. from Warsaw University of Tech., Warsaw. He is a Fellow member of ASME and currently serves as Director of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at SDSU. Dr. Beyene’s research integrates analytical, computational, and experimental techniques to address fundamental and practical problems of energy conversion. He has developed novel methods for wind and wave energy conversion. Over the years, Dr. Beyene has attracted several millions of dollars in funding from NSF, DOE, US Navy, CEC, and others. Professor Beyene is the recipient of many research and teaching awards. He has authored significant number of refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.

Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Ralph M. Kennel was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1955. He received the Diploma and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D) degrees from the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, in 1979 and 1984, respectively. The research activities of Prof. Kennel (b. 1955) cover the traditional field of electrical drive systems but also sensorless and encoderless control of electric drives, the predictive control of power converters and “hardware in the loop” power electronics systems. Through its wide range of teaching and lecturing topics, the Chair of Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics provides a solid base for forward-looking training in system engineering and drive technology. He held a number of positions at Robert Bosch GmbH up until 1999. From 1994 to 1999 he also held the position of visiting professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. After that, he held the Chair of Electric Machines and Drives at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2008, he was appointed full professor at TUM. Prof. Kennel is a senior member of the IEEE, an IET fellow, a chartered engineer in the UK and a member of the EPE Association and the VDE (Kurpfalz district), as well as Vice President for Meetings of the Power Electronics Society. Prof Ralph M.Kennel was awarded with these awards: Best Paper Award: 
3rd Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (IEEE-PEDSTC 2012), Keynote Paper ACEMP 2011, \"Replacement of Electrical (Load) Drives by a Hardware-in-the-Loop System\" (2011), PELS Distinguished Lecturers - ECCE 2011, \"IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2011 Awards Ceremony\" (2011).

Electrical drive systems & Sensor less and Encoder less control of electric drives.

Dr.ing.ir. P. Bauer received his Masters in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Kosice (‘85), Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology (’95) and title prof. from the president of Czech Republic at the Brno University of Technology (2008). Since 1990 he is with Delft University of Technology, teaching Power electronics and Electrical Drives. From 2002 to 2003 he was working partially at KEMA (Arnhem) on different projects related to power electronics applications in power systems. P. Bauer published over 45 journal and 200 conference papers in his field, he is an author or co-author of 5 books, he holds international patent and organized several tutorials at the international conferences.

Power Electronics

Martin Jakubowski, CEO at Sea Wind Ocean Technology is one of the pioneers in the renewable energy industry having set up unit energy europe AG in Germany in 1995 out of which a number of pathbreaking companies have been set up in various countries in the EU, such as WRE Hellas with its wind farms in Greece, the Vila do Bispo I & II wind farms in Portugal, the hydro-power plant Ancinale in Southern Italy, the Tri Chalupky hydro power plant on the Elbe river, the wind farm Lastours in Southern France, the clean energy distribution companies unit energy Stromvertrieb in Germany and Good Energy Plc in the UK. In 2002 Martin Jakubowski filed a number of patents for floating foundations and in 2004 he set up Blue H Technologies with which he installed the first floating wind turbine in the world in 2008 in the Southern Adriatic Sea in 113m deep water. In 2010 he set up Condor Wind Energy, which is building a 6.1 MW two-bladed wind turbine with yaw control (no blade pitch mechanism) on a self-installing floating foundation. Martin Jakubowski holds a number of patents for two-bladed wind turbines with Silvestro Caruso his partner in Blue H and Condor. In 2015 Martin Jakubowski and Silvestro Caruso set up Seawind Ocean Technology in the Netherlands and filed for new patents for a hybrid mechanic-elastomeric teetering hinge for two-bladed wind turbines and for a self-installing 6.2 MW offshore wind energy system for shallow waters to bring the LCOE in offshore wind below $0.08. He was Founder and Director at Condor Wind Energy, Founder and Technology Architect at Blue H Technologies BV, Founder and Director at Good Energy.

Wind Energy

Dr. Ghida received a Master’s degree in energy engineering in 2010 from Lebanese university, Lebanon. In 2011 she started her Ph.D. work in Brussels school of Engineering at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Her thesis focused on the contribution to the development of wind energy in Lebanon by analysis his potential, his environmental impact and his storage. Having been awarded her Ph.D. degree in August 2015, she joined the department of Aero-Thermo-Mechanics in Brussels school of engineering as postdoctoral research follow in October 2015 and is currently working on the techno-economic analysis of the hydro pumped storage system. She has published 3 papers in reputed journals.

Energy Engineering

Dr.PKC Bose, CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR of SAERTEX INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED (a wholly owned subsidiary of SAERTEX Group, Germany) has completed his Ph.D. from Washington International University, USA. He is an alumnus of IIM-A, and also Wharton-SMU, USA, ISB, Hyderabad India and Kellogg Business School, USA. He has an M.Phil. in Business Management, MLM, Advance Management Diploma, in his credentials. He was conferred with the UDYOG RATNA Award by Institute of Economic Studies, India. He was conferred with the ASIA PACIFIC OUTSTANDING ENTREPRENUER AWARD by Enterprise Asia, Malaysia. He has been invited as a visiting/guest faculty in over 30 universities and business schools in the world. which includes International University in Germany, GISMA, ESMT in Germany, University of Hungary, Budapest, Adelphi University, New York, Rossevelt University, USA, Frankfurt University (Oder), Hamburg School of Business Administration, Germany and Symbiosis Institute of Management and many more. He was also an advisory Board Member of University of Denver, USA & Global Leadership School, Germany. Recently.Dr. Bose has been invited by one of the oldest universities of Italy Universita Bocconi, Milan, and German University in Cairo for their Executive MBA program. Dr.Bose was featured in FORBES INDIA Magazine in May 2011 and in June 2012 as well. Dr. PKC Bose has been bestowed with the CEO OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 by India Leadership Conclave in Mumbai on 18th July 2014.

Business Development & International Business

Marc Costa Ros is Senior Manager in the Carbon Trust´s Offshore Wind team, Present London, United Kingdom. focused in the delivery of the Offshore Wind Accelerator, a joint R&D program with 9 of the major offshore wind developers, which aims to reduce the LCOE by 10% for UK Round 3 sites through a wide R&D project portfolio, gaining a deep Offshore wind lifecycle understanding and focus in LCOE reduction. Chartered MSc Civil Engineer specialized in both “Structural Design and Analysis” and “Construction Engineering” and with knowledge in Naval Architecture and Finance, very motivated in developing my career in the Offshore Wind sector. Extensive work experience background in wind energy, with high knowledge of the offshore wind business and lifecycle; and structural civil engineering specialised consulting and construction companies. Besides, being fluent in different languages, with strong management and technical skills, problem-solving, multitasking, well-organised and hardworking (both in team work and on standalone basis) are some of the characteristics that describe me. Head of Offshore Wind Division - MSc Civil Engineer (Structural designer) ESTEYCO, July 2010 – February 2013 (2 years 8 months) Barcelona Area, Spain. Responsible of the development of self-buoyant and completely crane-less Gravity Base Structure, including the structural design, manufacturing, transport, installation and final operation. Management of a resource-pooling team, with up to 7 people working simultaneously in a multidisciplinary team (structural engineers, geotechnical experts, naval architects, draftsmen). Strong communication skills as a sales engineer, giving commercial speeches across the EU. Supervision and approval of both internal and subcontracted works, with strong attention to detail. Design of onshore concrete towers for multi-megawatt turbines.

Off Shore Wind Energy, Structural Design and Analysis, Construction Engineering.

Dr. J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and international research projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

V. Venkitachalam is the Director- Business Development of EFENP Automation Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India, a Total Solution provider for Food and Pharmaceutical & Energy industry sectors. Completed the post graduation in Business management with specialization in International Marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune and B.Tech from Regional Engineering College, Calicut. He is an Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India), the National organization of Engineers in India. He has been bestowed with the Vijay Shree Award and Certificate of Excellence by IIFS, India. He has worked in the capacity of Managing Director of CVC Technologies Inc and handled their Indian operations. He was a member of National Advisory Board Pharma WORLD EXPO 2005.

Business Development and Manufacturing

Dr. Mahmood Shafiee is a Lecturer in Engineering Risk Analysis at Cranfield University, UK. His expertise is in the fields of Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Optimisation, Inspection Planning, Structural Health Assessment, Aging and Degradation Modelling, Probabilistic Risk Analysis, Asset Management, and Warranty & Service Reliability. He has over ten years of experience in the area of Risk and Reliability Engineering within the Oil and Gas, Renewable Wind, Railway, and Manufacturing industry sectors. He has also published more than forty papers in top tier journals and conference proceedings. He has been plenary speaker and program committee member of more than twenty international Conferences.

Energy Asset Integrity Management

Padmanaban Sanjeevikumar (Member 2012, Senior Member 2015, IEEE) received Bachelor of Engineering (first class), Master of Technology (with distinction), and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Madras (India), Pondicherry University (India), and University of Bologna (Italy), in 2002, 2006, and 2012 respectively. After completing his Ph.D degree he worked as Associate Professor with VIT University from August 2012 to May 2013. Furthermore he joined as Faculty with National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry, from July 2013 to December 2013. He was invited as visiting fellow at Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar from January 2014 to February 2014. He continued his research activities with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland from April 2014 to November 2014. Presently, from September 2014, he is Project Head in Research & Development and Consultant with Ohm Technologies, Chennai, India. He has published scientific papers in the field of power elec¬tronics, with particular reference to multi¬phase and multilevel converters. He has received the Most Excellent Research Paper Award of IET-4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Intelligent System in 2013.Dr.Sanjeevikumar is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Power and Energy Societies.

Power Electronics and drives