Marina García Alonso is an official of the European Commission, working in the European carbon market for 7 years. Trained as a lawyer, with a Master´s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession and a double degree in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Cristina Oyón is Director of Technology, Innovation and Sustainability at SPRI, the Basque Business Development Agency in Spain. She is currently responsible for the design and implementation of the technology development strategy in the Basque region, that proposes a new industrial model that creates economic, social and sustainable environmental value, and manages the public funds for fostering industrial R&D&I in the region. She is member of the Industrial Forum, which assesses the European Commission in the implementation of the industrial strategy and vicepresident of Eurada, the Europan Association of Development Agencies, She leads the Net Zero Basque Industrial Super Cluster that aims to accelerate the path to net zero emissions in the Basque Country and the Women in Manufacturing expert group of the World Manufacturing Foundation that was set up in 2020 with the aims to add to the momentum for closing the gender gap in the manufacturing industry and beyond.

Civil Engineer by the University Alfonso X el Sabio of Madrid, Master in Renewable Energies and Energy Market by the School of Industrial Organization and Executive MBA by IESE Business School.

He has developed his professional career in the area of infrastructure and energy, participating in civil works construction projects, renewable energy business development, electricity transport infrastructure concessions and renewable energy asset management, work done mainly in the Elecnor Group in the markets of Spain and Chile. Due to his background, he has experience in the complete development of projects, from their origin with the location of sites and administrative and environmental procedures to their commercial operation and sale, including construction, financing, commissioning and operation.

He is currently Director of ASEALEN, the Spanish Energy Storage Association, having previously held the position of Secretary General of PROTERMOSOLAR, the Spanish Association for the Promotion of the Solar Thermal Industry.

Martin Schichtel graduated with a doctorate degree in Chemistry from the University of Saarland with a focus on Nanoparticle Composites and Smart Coatings. He led the Department of Ceramics at the Institute for New Materials and has 20 years of experience in material development for multiple industries. Martin co-founded Kraftblock to enable the energy transition and the decarbonization of the industrial sector with a sustainable and cost-efficient high-temperature energy storage.

Dr.  Andreas Hauer studied Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He made his PhD at the Technical University in Berlin. Now he is the Chair of the Board at the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, ZAE Bayern, with about 60 scientists. There he is responsible for all national and international research and development projects focussed on thermal and electrical energy storage, thermal driven heat pumps / chillers for industrial and building applications. Dr. Hauer is an international known expert on sector coupling, energy storage in general and specialized on thermal energy storage. Today he is leading working groups on material development for thermal energy storage, “Flexible Sector Coupling by the Implementation of Energy Storage” and “Economic Evaluation of Energy Storage” within Energy Storage Programme of technology network of the International Energy Agency, IEA, where he is member of the Executive Committee. He is since 2024 Vice-President of the International Solar Energy Society, ISES. Within the World Banks partnership on energy storage (ESMAP/ESP) he leads a working group on “"Energy Storage for C&I – Decarbonizing Commerce and Industry by Implementing Energy Storage Capacities in Developing Countries". He is also active in the “Investors Dialogue on Energy” of the European Union, member of the steering committee of the working group on energy storage. On the national level, he is Vice-President of the 2012 established Bundesverband Energiespeichersysteme (BVES), German Energy Storage Systems Association, and member of the board of directors of the Forschungsverbund Erneuerbare Energien, FVEE, the renewable energy research association. He is Editor in Chief for the Wiley publication “Advances in Energy Storage”, which was published in May 2022.

Egoitz San Miguel Carrancio is an Industrial Technical Engineer with a specialization in mechanics from the University School of Industrial Technical Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, completing his training as an Industrial Engineer at the School of Industrial Engineering of Bilbao in 2006.

As for his most recent work experience, since November 2023, he has been working at Cener as a Product and Solution Development Engineer, with a focus on SHIP plant engineering and parabolic trough development. Previously, from May 2022 to November 2023, he was Project and Technology Manager at Azteq - Solarlite, leading Heineken´s CST project and optimizing parabolic troughs, as well as coordinating plant assembly.

Sonia holds a master´s degree in International Relations and Development Cooperation and has been working on EU-funded projects since 2021. In August 2022, she joined the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA), where she currently works as EU Projects Manager. At EHPA, she leads the communication, dissemination, and policy tasks for SPIRIT, a research project funded under the Horizon Europe programme that aims to foster the decarbonisation of the food and paper industries through high-temperature heat pumps.

Davide Rizzi is an Application Engineer at Turboden, responsible for Large Heat Pump application in industrial processes.

He started his journey in Turboden as engineer in charge of energy efficiency projects in the O&G industry, in charge of projects in North America and Middle East.

Now, together with the Large Heat Pump team, he develops energy efficiency solutions based on Large Heat Pump implementation in industrial processes, helping industries to decarbonize their assets and processes. 

Davide Rizzi holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Università degli Studi di Brescia with major in industrial processes. During his studies, he joined the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan as research fellow working with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Julio Casal holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. He has extensive experience in the field of engineering, particularly in finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Currently, Julio works as a CAE Project Engineer at SDEA Solutions in Spain, where he tackles challenging engineering simulations and manages pilot plant designs, both technically and administratively. Julio has led significant projects, including seismic and wind analysis for industrial installations following Eurocode criteria, and the design of pilot plants for hydrogen production and exhaust gas utilization in steel mills, demonstrating his commitment to innovation and sustainable development in the industrial sector.

Co-founder and innovation director of ENERBASQUE. He has developed his professional life as an engineer in the water and energy sectors. In the water sector as founding partner and Technical Director of QV4 Quality Laboratory and as logistics manager for MSF in Colombia and Mozambique. In the energy sector as project manager at Guascor R&D and as Innovation Director at Guascor Engineering. Master in Technologies and environmental management, collaborating as a teacher in Masters of UPV/EHU and University of Zaragoza.

Xabier López de Landeta is an Industrial Organization Engineer with an outstanding professional career in project management, business development and sustainability. Between 2012 and 2020, he was part of VINCI Energies Spain, where he performed different functions. From 2012 to 2014, he led as Project Manager the implementation of a CMMS program, designed to optimize outdoor and indoor lighting maintenances. Subsequently, between 2014 and 2019, he assumed the position of Country Manager of Spain for the Facility Management business unit, managing operations at a national level.

Since 2019, Xabier López de Landeta has been working at ATEGI S.Coop, MONDRAGON´s central purchasing office, where he was initially Head of the Services and Energy Efficiency Area until 2022. From that year, she assumed responsibility for the Sustainability Area, playing a key role in this strategic area. In addition, since 2019, she has managed projects of great relevance, such as the supply of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the analysis and breakdown of costs, and the organization of the MONDRAGON Maintenance Forum.