Organising committee
Dave Hewings (Co-Chair)
Head of Engineering & Asset Management (Electrification & Plant), Network Rail, UK
Rannveig Løken (Co-Chair)
Head of Team Protection, Statnett, Norway
Alexander Tsylin (Tutorial Chair)
Senior Lead Specialist for Plant Control and Protection Systems, Ørsted, Denmark
Richard Adams
Principal Engineer, PSC UK Ltd, UK
Campbell Booth
Vice Dean - Research, Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK
Bryan Gwyn
Senior Director of Solutions and Cyber Security, Doble Engineering, USA
Abraham Varghese
Next Generation Transmission Networks Advisor, GE Grid Solutions, UK
John Wright
Europe and Africa Technical Application Engineering Leader & Product Growth Leader, GE Grid Solutions, UK
Technical Programme Committee
- Ben Marshal, Technology Manager, National HVDC Centre, SSEN-Transmission, UK
- Bhavesh R Bhalja, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India
- Byju Vasantha Chandran, Senior HV Specialist, Ørsted, Denmark
- Colin Ray, Director, Colin Ray consulting, UK
- Craig McTaggart, Transmission Asset Strategy Manager, SP Energy Networks, UK
- Daniel Randles, Senior Protection Engineer, Ørsted, UK
- Deepa Shaji Kumar, R&D Engineer, PNDC, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Felipe Lopes, Professor / Researcher, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil
- Fred Steinhauser, Digital Substation Evangelist, OMICRON electronics, Austria
- Graeme Topham, Corporate Protection Specialist, Private, South Africa
- Iony Siqueira, Director, Tecnix Engineering and Architecture Ltd., Brazil
- Jennifer Mackenzie, Lead Design Engineer, SP Energy Networks, UK
- Jianping Wang, Senior Principal Scientist, Hitachi Energy Research Center, Hitachi Energy AB Sweden, Sweden
- Joerg Blumschein, Principal Key Expert Protection, SIEMENS, Germany
- Karl Gerhardt, Portfolio Manager, Siemens, UK
- Liam Beard, Business Development Manager - Energy and Utilities, Vodafone Group, UK
- Luc Uyttersprot, Expert, Cigre, Belgium
- Mark Stockton, Lead Subject Matter Expert (Secondary), SSEN Transmission, UK
- Michael Crowe, Technical Services Manager, Northern Powergrid, UK
- Mohamed Azab, Associate Professor, Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, EEET Department, Yanbu Industrial College, Royal Commission of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
- Om Malik, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary, Canada
- Qiteng Hong, Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Sarasij Das, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Simon Hussey, Senior Protection Specialist, ESB, Ireland
- Tony Yip, Technical Director, Kehui International Ltd., UK
- Venkatesh Chakrapani, Sr. Lead Design Engineer R&D, GE Grid Solutions, UK
- Vishnu charan Thippana, Lead Electrical Engineer, Worley India Ltd, India