Don’t miss out on the first international wind energy digitalisation workshop!
Wind energy is one of the key technologies for achieving our ambitious net zero goals. For this, a significant expansion is needed, which poses several technical, political and social challenges. Digitalisation is one of the key drivers for reducing the costs and risks of wind energy and thus achieving these goals.
This one-day hybrid workshop will take place at the KV Business School Zürich, Bildungszentrum Sihlpost, Sihlpostgasse 2, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland. You should attend if you want to learn about the opportunities and challenges related to digitalisation in wind energy, as well as to meet some digitalisation leaders from all industries and to work on solutions together with other like-minded people. You don’t need a background in wind energy or in digitalisation. Don’t miss out!
Registration
Live participation CHF 200 (CHF 75 for students) / online participation CHF 75
(note that 1 CHF is approximately equal to 1 €)
Note: clicking on this button will take you to a registration page of the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science in the ost.ch domain.
Programme
08:30 – 09:00 Arrival and coffee
09:00 – 09:15 What is digitalisation and why is it important in wind energy?
Sarah Barber (Head of the Wind Energy Innovation Division at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences)
09:15 – 09:45 Robust monitoring for wind energy infrastructure: toward augmented twins
Eleni Chatzi (Head of the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich):
09:45 – 10:30 Challenges of digitalisation in wind energy
Andy Clifton (CEO and founder, enviConnect)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break with “speed networking”
11:00 – 12:00 Examples of digitalisation in wind energy from research and industry
Imad Abdallah (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Damage diagnostics via an ensemble of collaborative analysis models
Daniel Heid (WinJi AG, Switzerland): Using the vast amounts of existing data to generate new insights
Tom Clark (Octue, UK): Powerful power curves
Christopher Gray (I4see, Austria): Wind turbine fleet optimisation: simple solutions for solving complex problems at scale
Nikolay Krasimirov Dimitrov (DTU Wind, Denmark): From doing digitalisation to solving challenges by digital means
Peter Enevoldsen (Vestas, Denmark)
plus two-minute presentations from the workshop participants
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break sponsored by WinJi AG
13:00 – 14:00 Relevant examples from other industries
Gionata Ferroni (EnergyVue, UK): An Innovative Platform Architecture Enables to Integrate Energy Data from Multiple Solar Plants
Charlie Henderson (Stacker Group, USA) : Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Open Access to Collaboration Networks
Daniel Wesierski (Gdansk University of Technology, PL): Deep video enhancement of intraoral scenes
Kevin Shields (#Zukunftsmenschen, CH): It’s all about people!
Guido Schuster (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science, CH): A short history of the only EASA qualified 6DOF VR helicopter pilot training simulator
Djamel Lakehal (Afry, CH): Advanced engineering and analytics of plant data using e-DAP
plus two-minute presentations from the workshop participants
14:00 – 16:00 Developing new solutions together
Small group work on the challenges from the previous talks, including coffee break. Split into online and live groups.
16:00 – 16:30 Presentation of results and voting
16:30 – 17:00 The business case “digitalisation” - and how to move forward (online talk)
Jason Fields (National Renewable Energy Laboratories, USA; Operating Agent of IEA Wind Task 43)
17:00 – 18:00 Informal drinks
