In-Person event
Energy Innovation Summit
November 17-18, 2026
9:00 am
Greater Zurich area, Switzerland
In-Person event
Energy Innovation Summit
November 17-18, 2026
9:00 am
Greater Zurich area, Switzerland
In-Person event
Energy Innovation Summit
November 17-18, 2026
9:00 am
Greater Zurich area, Switzerland
Energy Innovation Summit
Finding Value in Volatility
Increasing volatility across energy systems is creating a new generation of decision problems. Weather, market prices, storage, flexibility, customer demand, local constraints, and new energy carriers increasingly influence one another. The challenge is no longer just understanding this complexity, but turning it into decisions that are feasible, trusted, and useful in practice. This is the focus of the Energy Innovation Summit Switzerland 2026, taking place on 17–18 November 2026 in Zurich, co-hosted by Gurobi and EMPA, in collaboration with EMPA’s Urban Energy Systems Laboratory: Finding Value in Volatility.
Energy Innovation Summit
Finding Value in Volatility
Increasing volatility across energy systems is creating a new generation of decision problems. Weather, market prices, storage, flexibility, customer demand, local constraints, and new energy carriers increasingly influence one another. The challenge is no longer just understanding this complexity, but turning it into decisions that are feasible, trusted, and useful in practice. This is the focus of the Energy Innovation Summit Switzerland 2026, taking place on 17–18 November 2026 in Zurich, co-hosted by Gurobi and EMPA, in collaboration with EMPA’s Urban Energy Systems Laboratory: Finding Value in Volatility.
Energy Innovation Summit
Finding Value in Volatility
Increasing volatility across energy systems is creating a new generation of decision problems. Weather, market prices, storage, flexibility, customer demand, local constraints, and new energy carriers increasingly influence one another. The challenge is no longer just understanding this complexity, but turning it into decisions that are feasible, trusted, and useful in practice. This is the focus of the Energy Innovation Summit Switzerland 2026, taking place on 17–18 November 2026 in Zurich, co-hosted by Gurobi and EMPA, in collaboration with EMPA’s Urban Energy Systems Laboratory: Finding Value in Volatility.
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.
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.
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.
Benefits For you
Why Attend
Benefits For you
Why Attend
Benefits For you
Why Attend
Who Should Attend
The summit is designed for energy professionals, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, researchers, software providers, and decision-makers interested in optimization and energy innovation.
Operations Researchers: Sharpen your mathematical modeling and optimization skills, with guidance from our experts.
Data Scientists: Learn how to turn your predictions into optimized business decisions.
Business Leaders: Discover how decision intelligence can help you achieve your business objectives.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders, exchange ideas, and discover what’s next in optimization.
Who Should Attend
The summit is designed for energy professionals, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, researchers, software providers, and decision-makers interested in optimization and energy innovation.
Operations Researchers: Sharpen your mathematical modeling and optimization skills, with guidance from our experts.
Data Scientists: Learn how to turn your predictions into optimized business decisions.
Business Leaders: Discover how decision intelligence can help you achieve your business objectives.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders, exchange ideas, and discover what’s next in optimization.
Who Should Attend
The summit is designed for energy professionals, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, researchers, software providers, and decision-makers interested in optimization and energy innovation.
Operations Researchers: Sharpen your mathematical modeling and optimization skills, with guidance from our experts.
Data Scientists: Learn how to turn your predictions into optimized business decisions.
Business Leaders: Discover how decision intelligence can help you achieve your business objectives.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders, exchange ideas, and discover what’s next in optimization.
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Energy Innovation Summit
Empa - Zurich, Switzerland
Energy Innovation Summit
Empa - Zurich, Switzerland
Energy Innovation Summit
Empa - Zurich, Switzerland
FAQs
Who should attend the Energy Innovation Summit?
The summit is designed for energy professionals, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, researchers, software providers, and decision-makers interested in optimization and energy innovation.
What topics will be covered?
How do I choose between the Business and Technical tracks?
Do I have to attend sessions within one track?
FAQs
Who should attend the Energy Innovation Summit?
The summit is designed for energy professionals, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, researchers, software providers, and decision-makers interested in optimization and energy innovation.
What topics will be covered?
How do I choose between the Business and Technical tracks?
Do I have to attend sessions within one track?
FAQs
Who should attend the Energy Innovation Summit?
The summit is designed for energy professionals, utilities, asset operators, industrial energy users, researchers, software providers, and decision-makers interested in optimization and energy innovation.
What topics will be covered?
How do I choose between the Business and Technical tracks?
Do I have to attend sessions within one track?
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Head of AI Innovation
Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck works at the intersection of AI and Optimization, with applications in energy, healthcare, logistics and supply chains, manufacturing, and transportation. He developed innovative optimization systems, including CHIP and OPL which have been in commercial use for several decades. Pascal pioneered what is now known as constraint programming, and has made seminal contributions to global, stochastic, and combinatorial optimization. His recent work focuses on AI for Optimization, to bring orders of magnitude speed-ups to solving optimization problems. Pascal is a AAAI and INFORMS fellow, and the recipient of two honorary degrees and numerous research and teaching awards. Pascal used to play soccer competitively, is an avid runner, and likes to travel the world with his family to discover new cultures and their history.
Jennifer Locke
Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager. Holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from College of the Ozarks and completed master’s courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Tennessee Space Institute.
Amandine Michalski
Account Manager
Amandine is a French native, she has a Bachelor's degree in Finance and International Business from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei and a Master's degree in Global Marketing Management from The University of Sheffield in the UK. She brings international marketing and business development experience in industrial and consumer goods in Europe and Asia. Social responsibility is a huge passion of hers and she is committed to making a positive impact on the community. As a trilingual French/English/Chinese speaker, she has gone on several volunteer missions in Asia and South America. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids, riding horses, investing in real estate, and traveling to see the world.
Dan Beran
Senior Account Manager
As part of the Hunter Team, Mr. Beran is responsible for helping Gurobi develop relationships with customers across a variety of industries. Mr. Beran has over 10 years of B2B sales and business development experience working for companies such as Wells Fargo, Certify Travel & Expense, and Dassault Systemes. Mr. Beran earned recognition at both software companies he worked for, Certify Travel & Expense and Dassault Systemes, for sales performance and ability to effectively execute an account-based marketing strategy.
Mr. Beran holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Management & Policy from the University of Arizona.
Kevin O'Connor
Senior Account Manager
Kevin has a degree in Finance and Commercial Law from Western Michigan University where he was a full scholarship hockey player. He brings 8+ years of sales and account management experience primarily in the software industry. He started his sales career at CDW, winning rookie of the year for his sales vertical in 2012 and being a consistent performer. Since CDW Kevin spent time selling software solutions at Careerbuilder before moving into the software analytics space with Minitab Statistical Software. At Minitab, he covered multiple geographic territories and managed all aspects of the existing customer’s sales cycle to ensure a high level of renewal retention and expansion.
In his free time, Kevin is an avid golfer, ingrained in him from his time spent at the Golf Academy of America where he graduated with an Associate's degree. Besides golfing when possible he is passionate about his Detroit sports teams, Real Madrid football, and enjoys travelling.
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.
Head of AI Innovation
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck works at the intersection of AI and Optimization, with applications in energy, healthcare, logistics and supply chains, manufacturing, and transportation. He developed innovative optimization systems, including CHIP and OPL which have been in commercial use for several decades. Pascal pioneered what is now known as constraint programming, and has made seminal contributions to global, stochastic, and combinatorial optimization. His recent work focuses on AI for Optimization, to bring orders of magnitude speed-ups to solving optimization problems. Pascal is a AAAI and INFORMS fellow, and the recipient of two honorary degrees and numerous research and teaching awards. Pascal used to play soccer competitively, is an avid runner, and likes to travel the world with his family to discover new cultures and their history.
Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Jennifer Locke
Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager. Holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from College of the Ozarks and completed master’s courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Tennessee Space Institute.
Account Manager
Amandine Michalski
Amandine is a French native, she has a Bachelor's degree in Finance and International Business from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei and a Master's degree in Global Marketing Management from The University of Sheffield in the UK. She brings international marketing and business development experience in industrial and consumer goods in Europe and Asia. Social responsibility is a huge passion of hers and she is committed to making a positive impact on the community. As a trilingual French/English/Chinese speaker, she has gone on several volunteer missions in Asia and South America. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids, riding horses, investing in real estate, and traveling to see the world.
Senior Account Manager
Dan Beran
As part of the Hunter Team, Mr. Beran is responsible for helping Gurobi develop relationships with customers across a variety of industries. Mr. Beran has over 10 years of B2B sales and business development experience working for companies such as Wells Fargo, Certify Travel & Expense, and Dassault Systemes. Mr. Beran earned recognition at both software companies he worked for, Certify Travel & Expense and Dassault Systemes, for sales performance and ability to effectively execute an account-based marketing strategy.
Mr. Beran holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Management & Policy from the University of Arizona.
Senior Account Manager
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin has a degree in Finance and Commercial Law from Western Michigan University where he was a full scholarship hockey player. He brings 8+ years of sales and account management experience primarily in the software industry. He started his sales career at CDW, winning rookie of the year for his sales vertical in 2012 and being a consistent performer. Since CDW Kevin spent time selling software solutions at Careerbuilder before moving into the software analytics space with Minitab Statistical Software. At Minitab, he covered multiple geographic territories and managed all aspects of the existing customer’s sales cycle to ensure a high level of renewal retention and expansion.
In his free time, Kevin is an avid golfer, ingrained in him from his time spent at the Golf Academy of America where he graduated with an Associate's degree. Besides golfing when possible he is passionate about his Detroit sports teams, Real Madrid football, and enjoys travelling.
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Head of AI Innovation
Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck works at the intersection of AI and Optimization, with applications in energy, healthcare, logistics and supply chains, manufacturing, and transportation. He developed innovative optimization systems, including CHIP and OPL which have been in commercial use for several decades. Pascal pioneered what is now known as constraint programming, and has made seminal contributions to global, stochastic, and combinatorial optimization. His recent work focuses on AI for Optimization, to bring orders of magnitude speed-ups to solving optimization problems. Pascal is a AAAI and INFORMS fellow, and the recipient of two honorary degrees and numerous research and teaching awards. Pascal used to play soccer competitively, is an avid runner, and likes to travel the world with his family to discover new cultures and their history.
Jennifer Locke
Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager. Holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from College of the Ozarks and completed master’s courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Tennessee Space Institute.
Amandine Michalski
Account Manager
Amandine is a French native, she has a Bachelor's degree in Finance and International Business from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei and a Master's degree in Global Marketing Management from The University of Sheffield in the UK. She brings international marketing and business development experience in industrial and consumer goods in Europe and Asia. Social responsibility is a huge passion of hers and she is committed to making a positive impact on the community. As a trilingual French/English/Chinese speaker, she has gone on several volunteer missions in Asia and South America. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids, riding horses, investing in real estate, and traveling to see the world.
Dan Beran
Senior Account Manager
As part of the Hunter Team, Mr. Beran is responsible for helping Gurobi develop relationships with customers across a variety of industries. Mr. Beran has over 10 years of B2B sales and business development experience working for companies such as Wells Fargo, Certify Travel & Expense, and Dassault Systemes. Mr. Beran earned recognition at both software companies he worked for, Certify Travel & Expense and Dassault Systemes, for sales performance and ability to effectively execute an account-based marketing strategy.
Mr. Beran holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Management & Policy from the University of Arizona.
Kevin O'Connor
Senior Account Manager
Kevin has a degree in Finance and Commercial Law from Western Michigan University where he was a full scholarship hockey player. He brings 8+ years of sales and account management experience primarily in the software industry. He started his sales career at CDW, winning rookie of the year for his sales vertical in 2012 and being a consistent performer. Since CDW Kevin spent time selling software solutions at Careerbuilder before moving into the software analytics space with Minitab Statistical Software. At Minitab, he covered multiple geographic territories and managed all aspects of the existing customer’s sales cycle to ensure a high level of renewal retention and expansion.
In his free time, Kevin is an avid golfer, ingrained in him from his time spent at the Golf Academy of America where he graduated with an Associate's degree. Besides golfing when possible he is passionate about his Detroit sports teams, Real Madrid football, and enjoys travelling.
