Cea is a transformative learner at heart, with a focus on future fuel applications reshaping our energy systems. Currently, she acts as Head of Legal at Gasgrid Finland, responsible for the legal affairs of the company while shaping policy and procedures related to the gas transmission business. Cea holds an LL.M. in EU Energy Law.
Jonas is responsible for co-ordinating Scania's global activities on Sustainable Public Transportation. Previously, he has worked as Head of Sustainability at Swedish Aviation and Stockholm Arlanda Airport, and as Sustainability Manager at Stockholm Public Transport. Jonas holds a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Management and Engineering.
Sonja is a professor in sustainable integrated energy systems and Head of School of Electrotechnical Engineering and Data Sciences at KTH. Previously, she worked at the High Voltage Laboratory of KEMA, the research institute STRI, at Statnett, and at the NMBU. Sonja is member and board member of a number of organizations.
Nanna is Co-founder of the hydrogen company IðunnH2, which is focused on exporting cost competitive green hydrogen from Iceland. Nanna has over 15 years of experience within the energy sector, with recent focus on hydrogen mobility and hydrogen export, renewable fuels, and Green Power Purchase agreements. She holds a M.Sc. in Energy Policy.
Jan Feller has studied, worked and started his own companies in Finland and Germany. He completed his doctorate in engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics. Jan had a ten-year career at Microsoft Mobile and Nokia. Jan started as Deputy CEO of the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce in 2015 and as CEO in 2019.
Reetta works as Technology & Development Manager for Wärtsilä Biogas Solutions at Wärtsilä Gas Solutions, Finland. Previously, she worked as Sales Manager for product line LNG Fuel Gas Supply Systems in North-Europe and Asia, and as Product Manager for developing new technologies for fuel gas conditioning. Reetta holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.
Marie is Professor WSR in Energy System Modeling at Technical University of Denmark. She holds a M.Sc. in Energy Planning and a Ph.D. in Energy Modeling and extensive experience within the field of energy system modeling with focus on integrated energy systems and smart sector coupling analyzing technologies producing power, heat, gas and transport fuels.
Jukka Räsänen is heading the business development of renewable H2 and Power-to-X at Neste. Jukka is an opportunity-seeking and opportunity-creating person with track record of leading strategy development and implementation, and hands-on experience from scaleup from lab to industrial-scale. He holds a M.Sc. in Innovative and Sustainable Chemical Engineering.
Suvi has over twenty years’ experience working both in the university and in the various business sectors as a RDI-team and degree programme leader as well as RD-project manager. Currently she works as a director of multidisciplinary Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre (VEBIC) at the University of Vaasa. Suvi holds a Ph.D. in Tech. material science.
Ville currently works as a leader of Reactor Analysis team at VTT's Nuclear Energy research area. He has been researching the future applications of nuclear energy, focusing on non-electric applications such as heat and hydrogen production, and coordinates the EURATOM-funded project ELSMOR. Ville holds a Ph.D. in Tech. nuclear engineering.
Laura has extensive experience of international equity and debt capital offerings, including IPOs as well as banking and structured finance transactions, and she focuses in particular on European and Finnish energy regulation and energy sector financing. Besides her Finnish LL.M. degree, Laura holds a post graduate LL.M. degree from University of Michigan.
Andreas is a Master Mariner and holds a M.Sc. in Maritime Safety and Environmental Administration. He has worked in many maritime areas such as on board ships, in the Swedish Maritime Administration and is currently employed by Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) focusing on sustainable energy carriers for ships and the development of the sustainable ports.
Jan has worked within maritime and logistics cluster and network organizations for the last 14 years. He has been head of development for 9 years at the MARITIME development center and Head of Secretariat at the Danish Association for Transport Economics. He has a M.Sc. in Technology and Socio-economic Planning from Roskilde University.
Ole has worked with business development, regional innovations systems and cooperation based innovation for 20 years, and the last 4 years as manager for the innovation cluster RENERGY. Previously he worked with distribution of energy gases and with wind energy development. He holds a degree in business and economics and has a keen interest in technology.
Petra is a researcher at the School of Marketing and Communication and VEBIC, University of Vaasa. Her research focuses on sustainability transitions, energy behavior and green digitalization. She is one of the founding board members of Nordic Energy Equality Network – NEEN.
Katja is a senior advisor at Viexpo, a non-profit organization that helps Finnish companies start and develop export and internationalization. Katja has long experience in helping companies to new markets and her special field of knowledge is Scandinavia. As NordicHub Manager she develops and implements NordicHub, a Nordic network for companies and clusters.
Lasse works for Vaasa Region Development Company, most often working in energy technology related projects. Concentrating in Nordic co-operation and networking, he has experience in steel industry and heat treatment business, which has given a good basis for his work as a business advisor for companies in the Vaasa region, focusing on internalization.