Building the Backbone of Electric Freight, From Depots to Highways

Christian is a Senior Innovation Manager at E.ON Group Innovation, leading strategic innovation initiatives with a clear focus on e-mobility and new energy. He is responsible for piloting new business models, technologies, and partnerships, managing projects from business case development to implementation. Prior to E.ON, Christian headed the Product Portfolio Team at Webasto Charging Solutions. On top of that, he can draw on 4 years of experience in management consulting, lastly at Arthur D. Little, where he specialized in automotive strategy, electric mobility, and digital transformation.

Oliver leads the Grid Edge Europe team. He brings a rigorous approach to research with a focus on EV charging modelling and analytics. He is responsible for conducting analyses on the electricvehicle charging market in Europe. He supports research on the competitive market landscape and business models while maintaining relationships with EV charging infrastructure developers,aggregators, utilities, the public sector and other e-mobility stakeholders. Oliver is passionate about providing insights on the E-mobility market through critical assessment of business models anddata scrutiny.

Jussi Vanhanen is Kempower's Chief Markets Officer (CMO) and member of the Global Leadership Team since 2021. Jussi has over 20 years of international B2B sales and marketing experience working for various cleantech, electronic and transportation businesses. His extensive track record means he possesses a wide range of expertise in electricity, renewable energy, power electronics, motors, and generators. Jussi holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Jussi has led Kempower's marketing and innovation activities during rapid growth, helping transform the organization from a Finnish start-up to one of the world's fastest-growing DC fast-charging companies in the past few years.

Carla Ribeiro is a mobility and energy transition leader. A founding member of Volta Trucks, she played a key role in building and scaling one of Europe's most ambitious electric truck companies, leading major strategic partnerships with top logistics players.She is now responsible for Zero Emission Sales in Area Europe at MAN Truck & Bus, driving the adoption of electric transport across the region. Carla brings a strong track record in commercial strategy, ecosystem building, and high-impact dealmaking.

Raphaël Héliot is Senior Policy Manager at E-Mobility Europe - the trade association uniting the entire European e-mobility ecosystem. Within his work, he advocates for the promotion of legislative and non-legislative European initiatives which aim at supporting the deployment of e-mobility. He is also involved in several expert groups/ forums of the European Commission (EAFO, Sustainable Transport Forum, etc) where he leads the work on charging infrastructure's deployment, EV's roll out and more sectoral issues including fire safety, skills, grid and urban mobility. Prior to that, Raphaël Héliot has worked in consultancies on transport related topics.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Kressner is a professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at DHBW Stuttgart, where he specializes in the electrification of commercial vehicle fleets, AI-based fleet and charging infrastructure optimization, and supply chain digitalization. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Operations Research & Supply Chain Management from the University of Hohenheim, where he also completed his doctorate. Before entering academia, Kressner spent five years at Mercedes-Benz AG - first as a Data Science & Operations Research expert and later as a manager driving digitalization projects in logistics - giving him deep industry insight into the practical challenges of fleet transformation. Since joining DHBW Stuttgart in 2021, he has built a research focus on the real-world transition to zero-emission logistics, combining machine learning with operations research to model optimal e-fleet configurations and charging infrastructure deployment.Kressner is also the organizer of practitioner-oriented conferences on fleet electrification that attract significant industry interest, bringing together fleet operators, energy providers, and charging infrastructure companies to share strategies and lessons learned from the field. He is a member of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL).