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The countdown is on to Energy Innovation Summit
The countdown is on to Energy Innovation Summit
The countdown is on to Energy Innovation Summit
Finding Value in Volatility
The summit brings together energy practitioners, researchers, software providers, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, and decision-makers from across Europe to discuss how organizations are using optimization to improve planning, trading, flexibility, asset management, infrastructure, and operational decision-making. Attendees will hear practical experiences from peers, benchmark their own thinking, and explore what separates a promising model from a decision system people actually trust and use in daily operations.
Increasing volatility across energy systems is creating a new generation of decision problems across markets, assets, infrastructure, and local energy systems. Forecasts, prices, demand, storage, flexibility, local constraints, and new energy carriers increasingly influence one another, making many decisions harder to manage with rules, spreadsheets, or isolated models.
The Energy Innovation Summit Switzerland 2026 brings together energy practitioners, researchers, software providers, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, and decision-makers from across Europe to discuss how optimization can help turn this complexity into trusted decisions. Attendees will hear practical experiences from peers, benchmark their own approach, and explore what it takes to move from promising models to decision systems that are used in daily planning, trading, flexibility management, asset operation, infrastructure planning, and operational decision-making.
Finding Value in Volatility
The summit brings together energy practitioners, researchers, software providers, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, and decision-makers from across Europe to discuss how organizations are using optimization to improve planning, trading, flexibility, asset management, infrastructure, and operational decision-making. Attendees will hear practical experiences from peers, benchmark their own thinking, and explore what separates a promising model from a decision system people actually trust and use in daily operations.
Increasing volatility across energy systems is creating a new generation of decision problems across markets, assets, infrastructure, and local energy systems. Forecasts, prices, demand, storage, flexibility, local constraints, and new energy carriers increasingly influence one another, making many decisions harder to manage with rules, spreadsheets, or isolated models.
The Energy Innovation Summit Switzerland 2026 brings together energy practitioners, researchers, software providers, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, and decision-makers from across Europe to discuss how optimization can help turn this complexity into trusted decisions. Attendees will hear practical experiences from peers, benchmark their own approach, and explore what it takes to move from promising models to decision systems that are used in daily planning, trading, flexibility management, asset operation, infrastructure planning, and operational decision-making.
Finding Value in Volatility
The summit brings together energy practitioners, researchers, software providers, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, and decision-makers from across Europe to discuss how organizations are using optimization to improve planning, trading, flexibility, asset management, infrastructure, and operational decision-making. Attendees will hear practical experiences from peers, benchmark their own thinking, and explore what separates a promising model from a decision system people actually trust and use in daily operations.
Increasing volatility across energy systems is creating a new generation of decision problems across markets, assets, infrastructure, and local energy systems. Forecasts, prices, demand, storage, flexibility, local constraints, and new energy carriers increasingly influence one another, making many decisions harder to manage with rules, spreadsheets, or isolated models.
The Energy Innovation Summit Switzerland 2026 brings together energy practitioners, researchers, software providers, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, and decision-makers from across Europe to discuss how optimization can help turn this complexity into trusted decisions. Attendees will hear practical experiences from peers, benchmark their own approach, and explore what it takes to move from promising models to decision systems that are used in daily planning, trading, flexibility management, asset operation, infrastructure planning, and operational decision-making.
What to Expect
Agenda is subject to change as speakers and sessions are confirmed.
What to Expect
Agenda is subject to change as speakers and sessions are confirmed.
What to Expect
Agenda is subject to change as speakers and sessions are confirmed.
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Agenda
Energy Innovation Summit
Sessions are designed to encourage discussion, comparison of approaches, and candid conversation—both on stage and off.
TSO-DSO Coordination: Unlocking Grid and System Value from Distributed Flexibility
How can distributed flexibility create value across both transmission and distribution grids? The TSO-DSO Coordination project explores how flexibility can be used in a grid-safe and optimal, yet pragmatic and accessible way, and how decision support facilitates the coordination between DSOs, TSO, and aggregators.
From Fragmented Decisions to Portfolio Intelligence
This session presents a vision for where the industry may be heading next: from optimizing individual decisions toward creating portfolio intelligence capable of transforming volatility into coordinated action.
When Optimization Stops Being Optional: Lessons from Planning Decentralized Energy Under Uncertainty
Energy planners today face an uncomfortable reality: the intuition and rules of thumb that guided infrastructure decisions for decades break down when systems combine district heating, local renewables, storage, and volatile markets. At what point does optimization shift from a nice-to-have analysis to a prerequisite for defensible decisions?
Agenda
Energy Innovation Summit
Sessions are designed to encourage discussion, comparison of approaches, and candid conversation—both on stage and off.
TSO-DSO Coordination: Unlocking Grid and System Value from Distributed Flexibility
How can distributed flexibility create value across both transmission and distribution grids? The TSO-DSO Coordination project explores how flexibility can be used in a grid-safe and optimal, yet pragmatic and accessible way, and how decision support facilitates the coordination between DSOs, TSO, and aggregators.
From Fragmented Decisions to Portfolio Intelligence
This session presents a vision for where the industry may be heading next: from optimizing individual decisions toward creating portfolio intelligence capable of transforming volatility into coordinated action.
When Optimization Stops Being Optional: Lessons from Planning Decentralized Energy Under Uncertainty
Energy planners today face an uncomfortable reality: the intuition and rules of thumb that guided infrastructure decisions for decades break down when systems combine district heating, local renewables, storage, and volatile markets. At what point does optimization shift from a nice-to-have analysis to a prerequisite for defensible decisions?
Agenda
Energy Innovation Summit
Sessions are designed to encourage discussion, comparison of approaches, and candid conversation—both on stage and off.
TSO-DSO Coordination: Unlocking Grid and System Value from Distributed Flexibility
How can distributed flexibility create value across both transmission and distribution grids? The TSO-DSO Coordination project explores how flexibility can be used in a grid-safe and optimal, yet pragmatic and accessible way, and how decision support facilitates the coordination between DSOs, TSO, and aggregators.
From Fragmented Decisions to Portfolio Intelligence
This session presents a vision for where the industry may be heading next: from optimizing individual decisions toward creating portfolio intelligence capable of transforming volatility into coordinated action.
When Optimization Stops Being Optional: Lessons from Planning Decentralized Energy Under Uncertainty
Energy planners today face an uncomfortable reality: the intuition and rules of thumb that guided infrastructure decisions for decades break down when systems combine district heating, local renewables, storage, and volatile markets. At what point does optimization shift from a nice-to-have analysis to a prerequisite for defensible decisions?
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the future of energy optimization.
Oliver Bastert
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Lennart Lahrs
Senior Technical Account Manager
Lennart Lahrs is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Gurobi Optimization, specializing in the practical use of mathematical optimization for complex industrial and energy applications. He holds MSc degrees from RWTH Aachen University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with a focus on electrical engineering and operations research. Prior to Gurobi, Lennart worked in software development and energy systems research, applying discrete optimization to machine operations, fleet management, and energy system design. His perspective combines technical depth with a hands-on attitude, always pushing for operational impact.
Frank Häger
Director, Power & Utilities
Frank Häger is Director, Power & Utilities for the DACH region at Gurobi, where he works with European energy companies on optimization solutions and organizes Gurobi’s Energy Innovation Summits. Before Gurobi, he led Optimization Solutions Sales at FICO in EMEA from 2010 to 2016. He began his career in optimization sales in 1998 at ILOG Germany, where he led the German operations as Managing Director until 2008. He has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise decision intelligence, optimization, and prescriptive analytics.
Christine Tawfik
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Christine holds a PhD in Economics and Management Sciences from the University of Liège in Belgium, where she focused on network pricing and design optimization for logistics applications. Before joining Gurobi, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Zuse Institute Berlin, where she led the sustainable energy planning research group, supervised MSc and PhD theses, secured research grants, and managed collaborations in the district heating sector. She then spent nearly two years in the steelmaking industry, working in consulting and professional software development.
Georgios Mavromatidis
Head of Urban Energy Systems Laboratory
I am the Head of the Urban Energy Systems Laboratory at Empa, Switzerland, and a research affiliate and lecturer at ETH Zurich, researching transformation strategies for sustainable urban energy systems in a changing climate.
Driven by the urgent need to create resilient, equitable, and sustainable urban environments, I develop advanced computational models and analysis methods to design strategies for the practical realization of sustainable urban energy transitions. My research focuses on the interconnected nature of buildings, mobility, and energy systems, exploring how their transformation can support decarbonization and long-term sustainability.
At the interface of technology, policy, and economics, my current research expands on these foundations by integrating societal dimensions into modeling approaches. By bridging science, engineering, and policy, I aim to develop solutions that are not only technically and economically sound but also socially viable, accelerating the transition toward sustainable, low-carbon cities.
I hold a PhD in Urban Energy Systems from ETH Zurich, where my research focused on developing computational methods for the design of urban energy systems under uncertainty. Before that, I earned an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London and a Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Quinten de Wit
Senior Product Manager at Eneco
Quinten holds a Master's degree in Systems & Control from TU Delft and has spent four years at Eneco, where he has been lead Product Manager in building the asset optimization domain within the company's Virtual Power Plant, Myriad. One of the largest VPP of the world. In his current role as Product Manager, he leads the development of optimization tools that enable intelligent dispatch and trading of flexible energy assets at scale.
Jaromił Najman
Senior Developer
Jaromił Najman obtained his M.Sc. in Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University. He did his Ph.D. at the Institute for Process Systems Engineering (AVT.SVT) in Aachen in nonlinear programming, in particular deterministic global optimization. He is one of the two main developers of the open-source software MAiNGO. During his free-time, Jaromił likes to go rock climbing or play (board) games with his family and friends.
Matthias Miltenberger
Manager of Optimization Support
Dr. Matthias Miltenberger is a mathematician living in Berlin. He completed his PhD at the Technical University of Berlin and worked for several years developing, maintaining and supporting the SCIP Optimization Suite at the Zuse Institute Berlin with a focus on linear programming in the context of mixed-integer optimization. Dr. Miltenberger joined Gurobi in October 2019. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife and daughter.
Duke Perrucci
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Perrucci has more than 30 years of experience in roles spanning sales, marketing and analytics. He joined Gurobi in 2018 as the CRO, heading both sales and marketing. He then moved into the COO role and ultimately the CEO position in 2023. Prior to Gurobi, he held the position of CRO at Cambridge Analytica – a predictive analytics firm. Here he built the commercial practice in North America by helping companies drive better advertising through the use of artificial intelligence. Before Cambridge he spent 8 years in the MarTech space with FocusVision. Here he built a global sales organization across 6 continents and 10 offices. Prior to FocusVision, Mr. Perrucci spent a total of 9 years at Information Resources Inc. (IRI) working in various analytic consulting roles across the entire PepsiCo enterprise. After the first 4 years at IRI, he decided to gain experience on the brand side and moved into analytics at Unilever. Before long he secured a position in brand management working on the Bertolli business – a $400 million brand in the United States. When IRI came calling again, it was an offer too good to pass up – running the Pepsi Cola and Quaker businesses out of PepsiCo’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY. Before this journey, Duke earned a BA in Classical Civilization from Fordham University. While en route, he earned his MBA from Cornell University.
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the future of energy optimization.
Oliver Bastert
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Lennart Lahrs
Senior Technical Account Manager
Lennart Lahrs is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Gurobi Optimization, specializing in the practical use of mathematical optimization for complex industrial and energy applications. He holds MSc degrees from RWTH Aachen University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with a focus on electrical engineering and operations research. Prior to Gurobi, Lennart worked in software development and energy systems research, applying discrete optimization to machine operations, fleet management, and energy system design. His perspective combines technical depth with a hands-on attitude, always pushing for operational impact.
Frank Häger
Director, Power & Utilities
Frank Häger is Director, Power & Utilities for the DACH region at Gurobi, where he works with European energy companies on optimization solutions and organizes Gurobi’s Energy Innovation Summits. Before Gurobi, he led Optimization Solutions Sales at FICO in EMEA from 2010 to 2016. He began his career in optimization sales in 1998 at ILOG Germany, where he led the German operations as Managing Director until 2008. He has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise decision intelligence, optimization, and prescriptive analytics.
Christine Tawfik
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Christine holds a PhD in Economics and Management Sciences from the University of Liège in Belgium, where she focused on network pricing and design optimization for logistics applications. Before joining Gurobi, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Zuse Institute Berlin, where she led the sustainable energy planning research group, supervised MSc and PhD theses, secured research grants, and managed collaborations in the district heating sector. She then spent nearly two years in the steelmaking industry, working in consulting and professional software development.
Georgios Mavromatidis
Head of Urban Energy Systems Laboratory
I am the Head of the Urban Energy Systems Laboratory at Empa, Switzerland, and a research affiliate and lecturer at ETH Zurich, researching transformation strategies for sustainable urban energy systems in a changing climate.
Driven by the urgent need to create resilient, equitable, and sustainable urban environments, I develop advanced computational models and analysis methods to design strategies for the practical realization of sustainable urban energy transitions. My research focuses on the interconnected nature of buildings, mobility, and energy systems, exploring how their transformation can support decarbonization and long-term sustainability.
At the interface of technology, policy, and economics, my current research expands on these foundations by integrating societal dimensions into modeling approaches. By bridging science, engineering, and policy, I aim to develop solutions that are not only technically and economically sound but also socially viable, accelerating the transition toward sustainable, low-carbon cities.
I hold a PhD in Urban Energy Systems from ETH Zurich, where my research focused on developing computational methods for the design of urban energy systems under uncertainty. Before that, I earned an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London and a Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Quinten de Wit
Senior Product Manager at Eneco
Quinten holds a Master's degree in Systems & Control from TU Delft and has spent four years at Eneco, where he has been lead Product Manager in building the asset optimization domain within the company's Virtual Power Plant, Myriad. One of the largest VPP of the world. In his current role as Product Manager, he leads the development of optimization tools that enable intelligent dispatch and trading of flexible energy assets at scale.
Jaromił Najman
Senior Developer
Jaromił Najman obtained his M.Sc. in Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University. He did his Ph.D. at the Institute for Process Systems Engineering (AVT.SVT) in Aachen in nonlinear programming, in particular deterministic global optimization. He is one of the two main developers of the open-source software MAiNGO. During his free-time, Jaromił likes to go rock climbing or play (board) games with his family and friends.
Matthias Miltenberger
Manager of Optimization Support
Dr. Matthias Miltenberger is a mathematician living in Berlin. He completed his PhD at the Technical University of Berlin and worked for several years developing, maintaining and supporting the SCIP Optimization Suite at the Zuse Institute Berlin with a focus on linear programming in the context of mixed-integer optimization. Dr. Miltenberger joined Gurobi in October 2019. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife and daughter.
Duke Perrucci
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Perrucci has more than 30 years of experience in roles spanning sales, marketing and analytics. He joined Gurobi in 2018 as the CRO, heading both sales and marketing. He then moved into the COO role and ultimately the CEO position in 2023. Prior to Gurobi, he held the position of CRO at Cambridge Analytica – a predictive analytics firm. Here he built the commercial practice in North America by helping companies drive better advertising through the use of artificial intelligence. Before Cambridge he spent 8 years in the MarTech space with FocusVision. Here he built a global sales organization across 6 continents and 10 offices. Prior to FocusVision, Mr. Perrucci spent a total of 9 years at Information Resources Inc. (IRI) working in various analytic consulting roles across the entire PepsiCo enterprise. After the first 4 years at IRI, he decided to gain experience on the brand side and moved into analytics at Unilever. Before long he secured a position in brand management working on the Bertolli business – a $400 million brand in the United States. When IRI came calling again, it was an offer too good to pass up – running the Pepsi Cola and Quaker businesses out of PepsiCo’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY. Before this journey, Duke earned a BA in Classical Civilization from Fordham University. While en route, he earned his MBA from Cornell University.
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the future of energy optimization.
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver Bastert
Senior Technical Account Manager
Lennart Lahrs
Director, Power & Utilities
Frank Häger
Optimization Engineer
Christine Tawfik
Head of Urban Energy Systems Laboratory
Georgios Mavromatidis
Senior Product Manager at Eneco
Quinten de Wit
Senior Developer
Jaromił Najman
Manager of Optimization Support
Matthias Miltenberger
Chief Executive Officer
Duke Perrucci
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Speakers from Leading Companies
Trusted by top organizations worldwide
See how organizations use Gurobi to solve complex problems, improve performance, and drive measurable results.
Speakers from Leading Companies
Trusted by top organizations worldwide
See how organizations use Gurobi to solve complex problems, improve performance, and drive measurable results.
Secure Your Spot Today!
Don't miss out on these invaluable insights. Register now to secure your seat at the forefront of the energy transition. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
Secure Your Spot Today!
Don't miss out on these invaluable insights. Register now to secure your seat at the forefront of the energy transition. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
Secure Your Spot Today!
Don't miss out on these invaluable insights. Register now to secure your seat at the forefront of the energy transition. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
