Jonas van den Bogaard is a Digital Strategy Lead for Open Source at Alliander, a distribution system operator (DSO) in the Netherlands. Alliander provides reliable, affordable, and accessible energy transport and distribution to a large part of the Netherlands. He is involved in Alliander’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and helps Alliander to leverage the transformative, innovative and collaborative potential of open source. Also, he represents Alliander on LF Energy Technical Advisory Council.

As product owner, I am responsible for the Business Critical and Corporate platforms @Alliander. Under Business Critical, we support Public Lighting, Congestie Measurements, and Smart Metering. Our team plans to introduce a battery and non-battery powered gateway device in the near future to expand our capabilities. Here you can think of Catodic Protection, Cable Oil Pressure, and Fault detection To facilitate our business solutions, we make use of the Open Source LF Energy platform Grid eXchange Fabric (GxF), which my team maintains. We are committed to working collaboratively to develop an innovative ecosystem for the future.

Yixing is the Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Energy Strategy team, dedicated to fostering the development of a clean, reliable, and cost-effective energy system. His expertise lies in leveraging advanced modeling and optimization techniques to support the exponential growth of data centers fueled by the surging demand for cloud and AI services. Previously, Yixing served as the Research Director at Breakthrough Energy, a Bill Gates-founded organization dedicated to fostering innovation in sustainable energy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. He collaborates closely with a diverse team of professors, industry experts, investors, scientists, software and data engineers to identify and pursue expedited pathways to achieve carbon neutrality. His work involves developing both open-source and proprietary software for energy systems, with a keen focus on energy system planning, simulation, optimization, transportation and building electrification, demand flexibility and response, emerging technologies such as hydrogen and nuclear, as well as energy policy and climate tech venture capital. Yixing's academic journey includes a PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship from Texas A&M University, coupled with a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, all emphasizing clean energy.