Marjolein Duijf works with Arcadis as account leader and global program director in the Energy sector. With over 13 years of experience with Arcadis in various environmental client related functions, she now is focused on identifying best solutions and building relationships making sure client expectations are met. Within Arcadis she is a frontrunner in international collaboration and development of ecosystems including promoting membership and active participation with CIGRE.

Alan Croes has worked for TenneT TSO in several positions since September 2004. He has an Electrical Engineering background and worked in the fields of operation, asset management, interconnectors/offshore and investment planning. 
He now works as Head System Outlook in the Department Energy System Planning (ESP), a department started in July 2020 which is a future-oriented unit, optimized to react to fast-changing external conditions. The focus is on medium (more than 1 year) and long-term planning processes. ESP develops a vision for a climate neutral energy system of the future and how our onshore/offshore electricity system can adapt to these challenges in the smartest way taken into account the increased future interactions between the different energy sources, carriers and usage.
In his actual position he is responsible for the long-term development of renewable energy, together with his team.
He enjoys the topics where society and politics meet technology in our energy system.

Saskia Jaarsma, Head Offshore Development at TenneT TSO
Often, the success of projects is measured in terms of timely delivery, within budget and according to the required quality. For TenneT, the safe and sustainable development of our offshore grid projects is an equally important driver for success. They aim to develop, build and operate the offshore grid in Germany and The Netherlands, safely and sustainable, and against lowest cost for society. Our keynote speaker will explain the corporate sustainability ambitions, and translation into sustainability criteria for offshore grid projects considering People, Planet and Profit.

Cristina Simioli is responsible for Renewables Grid Initiative’s (RGI) Offshore Energy and Nature portfolio of activities meant to find solutions to reconcile energy and nature in offshore wind and grid infrastructure planning and deployment.  At RGI, Cristina has worked on European electricity policies and on the instigation and coordination of national, regional and European cross-sectoral collaborations between TSOs and NGOs. Before joining RGI, she worked on energy and nature protection for an environmental NGO, a UN agency and an engineering consultancy.

Marieke Dirks is Program Manager offshore with a focus on the development of energy hubs in the North Sea and offshore development in the Northern Netherlands. 18 years of TenneT, of which the last 12 years in the Offshore domain as project director for HelWin2 and Hollandse Kust (zuid), among others.

Werna Udding as Manager Business Development Offshore Hydrogen and focuses on the development of energy hubs and hydrogen infrastructure in the North Sea.

Ann-Sofie Bonde Mortensen is working together with the wind turbine manufactures getting ready for the energy transition, in the effort to stave off the worst impact of climate change. She is supporting the wind turbine manufactures in the decision to settle the utmost technical suitable and sustainable solution for the electrical equipment inside the wind turbines. With the global responsibility, strategic alignment regarding capacity, local content requirements, onshore and offshore wind are buzzwords. Ann-Sofie has been working with Siemens Energy for the last 10 years. First in the regional company in Denmark and now in Germany, with the global responsibility for Wind OEMs.

Ambra Sannino is Head of Department of Power Systems Planning for region Northern Europe in DNV. Before joining DNV in 2019, Ambra held different management roles in R&D and Technology in ABB Power Grids (today part of Hitachi Energy). Within ABB, she worked with development and industrialization of HVDC, FACTS, energy storage, renewable integration, particularly offshore wind. Ambra is an Electrical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Power Engineering from the University of Palermo in Italy, and a Doctor of Science (Docent) degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she also worked for a few years as Associate Professor in Power Systems. Ambra is a CIGRE member and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Julia Peerenboom, Policy Advisor Energy System Outlook works within the Energy System Planning department in TenneT. Her main task is the Dutch energy transition scenario’s that try to capture how the world might be in the future. The purpose of these scenario’s is to determine what infrastructure and other decisions are needed to facilitate that potential future. She does this both for the Investment Plan (2025, 2030, 2035) and the II3050 (2040, 2050).

Claudia Grotz is Head of Public Affairs Europe at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and responsible for public affairs and regulatory issues in the European Union and Germany.
Claudia has close to 20 years of international experience in the wind industry. She has been involved in various issues such as the introduction of auction systems and the regulation of renewables at EU level and works on trade and industrial policy as well as on the circular economy.
Claudia is a member of the WindEurope Board and Chair of the WindEurope Working Group Sustainability. She is also active in various working groups of VDMA Power Systems in Germany.