Session chairs

Session chair	Organisation	Session title
Business & Policy Track
Steve Sawyer	GWEC – Global Wind Energy Council	UN climate talks: get on board to boost business
Jacki Buist	Windpower Monthly, United Kingdom	Industry leaders’ debate: What are you doing to get back to business?
Martí Saballs	Expansión, Spain	True or false? Testing the wind sector’s claims
Henning Kruse	Siemens Wind Power and TPWind Chairperson	Launch of TPWind Strategic Research Agenda
Robert Hornung	CanWEA – Canadian Wind Energy Association	Outside the box: finding new growth opportunities
Hardware Technology Track
Ole Kjaer	DNV GL Renewables Certification, Denmark	Advanced rotor technologies
Steffen Haslev Sorensen	RCA Engineering, Denmark	Advanced drive trains technologies
Bjoern Andresen	Siemens Wind Power, Denmark	Advanced electrical systems: From megabyte to megawatt
Jose Luis Sevillano Izarra	GES, Spain	On- and off-shore installation technologies
Luis Polo	AEE – Spanish Wind Energy Association, Spain	Storage & grid integration
Hans-Gerd Busmann	Fraunhofer Institut fuer Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik – IWES, Germany	Materials: Challenges and potentials
Resource Assessment
Wiebke Langreder	Wind Solutions, Denmark	Optimising measurement strategies to maximise project value
Peter Stuart	RES Ltd, UK	Real world power curves: A new era for wind resource assessments?
Saskia Honhoff	GE Energy, Germany	Wind turbine noise: How to avoid disturbing the neighbours
Sonia Lileo	Kjeller Vindteknikk AS, Sweden	Wind speed predictions: Are we at the limit of our knowledge or can we improve?
Peter Clive	SgurrEnergy Ltd, UK	Remote sensing: From toys to tools?
Lars Landberg	DNV GL Energy (Garrad Hassan), Denmark	Wakes: Do we need different models for onshore and offshore wind farms?
Pep Moreno	Vortex, Spain	The model chain: First steps towards tomorrow’s technology
Miguel Ezpeleta	Acciona Energia, Spain	Forecasting: Maximizing grid deliverability and leading your business processes to profitability
Science & Research
Jakob Mann	DTU Wind Energy, Danmark	Aspects for offshore and complex terrain
Joachim Peinke	Uni OldenburgGermany	How does the wind blow behind wind turbines and in wind farms?
Alvaro Cuerva	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain	Aerodynamics and rotor design
William Leithead	University of StrathclydeUK	Advanced control concepts
Feargal Brennan	Cranfield University, UK	Whole-life foundation and structure integrity
Denis Matha	University of Stuttgart, Germany	Floating wind turbines
Stavros Papathanassiou	National Technical University of Athens, Greece	Electrical aspects and grid integration
Emilio Gomez-Lazaro	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha – Renewable	Innovative concepts for drive train components
Zsolt Viharos	Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary	Advanced operation & maintenance