Markus König studied electrical engineering at TU Munich and holds a PhD in electrical engineering / power engineering. He has been a software engineer for over 20 years now and is currently involved in a research project for CIM-based DSO data integration in a Munich-based software company.
Mohammed A. Radi received the M.Sc. degree with distinction in Sustainable Electrical Power and the Ph.D. degree in electrical power engineering from Brunel University, London, United Kingdom, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Since then, he has been with the college of engineering, design and physical sciences at Brunel University, U.K., where he is currently a full time research fellow in TDX-ASSIST project that is funded by EU Horizon 2020 and works on the coordination of transmission and distribution data exchanges for renewables integration in the European marketplace. His main areas of research interest are power systems, power electronics, renewable energy integrations and smart power networks within the boundaries of transmission and distribution network. Dr. Radi is a member of Brunel Institute of Power Systems (BIPS) and the Institute of Energy Futures, U.K., where he is active in the theme of Smart Power Networks.
Nejc Petrovič received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in the field of power engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2012. After graduation he started working as an engineer at a power distribution company Elektro Gorenjska, Slovenia. He now works as an adviser to the Chief Information Officer in Elektro Gorenjska. His work focuses on researching Smart grid technologies and solutions with the main focus on emerging technologies in the energy sector. He is also a member of IEC TC57 WG13 and WG14.
Nikola Risteski is Head of Operations and a Solution Developer at Bintegra d.o.o. He graduated from University of Maribor in the field of business application integration and has been working for several years in software development and systems integrations in different areas.
Milan Gavric, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. His research interests span both enterprise systems integration and modeling. He has integration experiences in designing and supervising more than 40 ADMS project integrations worldwide in cooperation with Schneider Electric DMS NS where he works as a Chief System Integration Architect. He serves as a member of IEC TC57 – WG 13 and WG 14, dealing with energy management system application program interface and system interfaces for distribution management.
Peter Metljak has joined Iskratel as Integration service expert. He graduated from University of Ljubljana as Telecommunication engineer. Currently he is involved with the CIM integration with emphasis on CIM repository integration. His previous experiences from multiple integration from telco segments brings added value to smooth CIM integration.
Ralph Mackiewicz is Vice President of SISCO, a developer ofcommunications and integration products for electric utility applicationslocated in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Ralph is an active participant inseveral IEC standards activities and has expertise with IEC 61850, ICCP –TASE.2, Common Information Model (CIM), OPC and ISO 9506 (MMS). Ralph participatesin CIGRÉ, IEEE and UCA International Users Group activities including the CIMUsers Group and the IEC 61850 Users Group and is currently vice-chair of theboard of directors of the UCA International Users Group. When Ralph is notpursuing his passion of interoperability, and when the water is not frozen, heand his wife enjoy their boat by fishing on beautiful Lake St. Clair which issituated between the US and Canada north of Detroit.
Rene Benassi has been working at Iskratel for one year. His previous experiences are mostly working on SCADA systems and custom data integration. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana. Currently he is involved with the CIM integration. A fan of open source software, for more than 8 years he earned an inside of the problematic involving utilities and now trying to make their lives easier.
Uroš Salobir has at ELES taken various responsibilities ranging from Assistant of Director for Asset Management, Coordinator for System Development, Director of System Operations and since May 2017 holds the current position. He has been involved in various company projects ranging from real time control systems, market developments, ancillary services projects and asset risk management. As an active member of international associations he has taken various responsibilities on international level like Convenorship of balance management group within South East TSO association and Convenorship of operational scheduling group within Central East TSO association. Since he took the responsibility for innovation ELES was successful with some remarkable innovation projects like SINCRO.GRID, Slovenian Japanese NEDO project, H2020 project FutureFlow, Defender, OSMOSE, MIGRATE and other.
Viki Petrovič is currently working for GDi d.o.o., Ljubljana as a software engineer, planning and developing GIS functionalities for different fields and industries. For over a year, she has been involved in CIM software modules development for distribution systems, specifically a configurable GIS-CIM adapter, which is able to generate network model in CIM format suitable for advanced DMS systems. She studied at Faculty of Computer and Information Science where she finished her Bachelor’s degree in 2014 and Master’s degree in 2017.
Vincent was born in France in 1986. He possesses a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics as well as a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His current work at Vattenfall comprises studies related to smart grids and smart grid applications, data governance and big data applications and microgrid related questions.
Marcel Olij is a Data Architect at DSO Enexis BV in the Netherlands.
Past experience include Geographic Information Systems and Integration (SOA, ESB) at large.
He has known about CIM for over 10 years and though it is not used ‘out of the box’,
parts of it are mixed into the Integration Common Data Model.
Currently cooperating in implementing a mature Data Management discipline in our organization and participating in things like the LinkED project ( publishing Linked Open (Energy) Data ) and implementation of the new European Regulation on Transmission System Operation.
Data architect at Alliander. Interested in exploring use cases for linked data applications within our data architecture. Working with CIM for two years. Since last year’s meeting we used CIM at Alliander as the information model for modeling business events that form the basis for our streaming (real time) data platform, for one of our daughter company’s asset databases (in progress), and for the redevelopment of our trouble ticketing system.
Mr. Dotson is a registered professional engineer with over thirty years of experience in developing and delivering complex systems in support of telecommunications and electric utility operations. For the past fifteen years Mr. Dotson has held various roles focusing on Solution Architecture and Systems Engineering. He provides consulting services to utility industry clients. Mr. Dotson’s business expertise includes standards-based (TOGAF) Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design and governance, standards-based data architecture (IEC CIM), and standards-based (IEC CIM) integration of utility operations systems. Mr. Dotson currently serves as the co-model manager for WG14 and is active in developing IEC 61968 standards.
At Solvera Lynx, the energy management company, Gašper Lakota is responsible for solutions enabling distributed energy resources, microgrids and industrial grids to provide energy flexibility for stable operation of the power grid.
Throughout his professional career he has been designing and implementing software solutions for the challenges of the modern electric power grid.
He holds a bachelor degree from Power system engineering. He is a member of IEEE and CIGRE organizations and has been cooperating in CIGRE working groups.
David Erol joined Vattenfall, R&D in 2010. Since then he has worked mainly towards Vattenfall business area Wind and Distribution with ICT related questions. He received his M.Sc. in Computer science at the Royal institute of technology (KTH). His current work is to manage a R&D program called Digital Substation that aims to provide the Distribution company with sustainable solutions for the next generation of primary substations. He is also working inside that program to develop an reference architecture for information exchange from the substation to central level systems to enable asset health analytics.
Darko Vidinikj has been working at Iskratel for a year and a half. His previous experiences are in electrical design and teaching. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Sts. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje and is working on his master thesis for renewable energy resources in the same university. Currently he is involved with the CIM integration as a product manager for the CIM repository. He is a fan of the latest trends in electrical engineering, distributed generation, electrical vehicles and clean energy in general. He believes that standardizing data in one network model will help analytics and predictions thus improving the management of the electrical grid challenging facing these (DER, EV…) challenges.
Since 2014, Mr. Kondzialka has been a Scientific Assistant at the University of Applied Science Ulm, Smart Grid Research Group. The work carried out fits mainly to the field of energy informatics, with the main focuses on DSO system integration, data transformation and domain modelling (DSO). This field of work was embedded into the public research projects “SmartSolarGrid”, “NathanPV” and the ongoing “ESOSEG”.
From 2006 – 2014 he was a Software-Developer (Embedded Systems) with 8 years of experience in embedded software development and testing by participating multiple industrial projects. That includes projects in the field of avionic software development and testing as well as implementing automotive control modules.
He graduated with his diploma engineer in the technical informatics degree program from the University of Applied Science Ulm, Germany.
Boštjan Rožič, Chief Technology Officer at GDB d.o.o., started working as an application engineer for SCADA and DMS projects for Slovenian utilities before moving on to developing interfaces from SCADA, DMS and Asset Management to CIM as well as developing the WEB.CIM integration platform itself. Having experience in both the application of IT systems in power system utilities as well as CIM development and implementation, he understands the need for IT system integration and the benefits CIM has to offer.
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