Keynotes

Adj. Prof. Hirley Alves, leader of the Machine-type wireless communications group in the Centre for Wireless Communications at University of Oulu (Finland). Prof. Alves will discuss the design of machine-type communications within 5G and beyond technologies looking especially in energy system applications. His keynote will cover the differences between machine-type and human-type communications, indicating how the first is a necessary enabler of the energy internet.

Prof. Paul Hines, leader of the Energy and Complexity research group at University of Vermont, USA. He is Associate Professor, and the L. Richard Fisher Professor, in the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Department, with a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Computer Science, and a member of the adjunct research faculty at the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. He is also co-founder and President of the cleantech startup Packetized Energy, which provides a cyber-physical implementation of packetized energy management systems to perform demand-response. His keynote will cover his experiences in relation to his research and technological development activities that employ communication-theoretic approaches to energy systems.