Annual General Meeting 2024

 

Annual General Meeting 2024

June 17th-19th 2024, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Our Annual General Meeting 2024 will take place at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil (OST), Switzerland! 

We strongly encourage in-person participation at our beautiful campus; however, online participation is also possible.

Programme

Monday, June 17th: Task progress day

The main aim of this day is to discuss progress of the activities with IEA Wind Task 43, to get to know each other, and to work on concrete problems together, based around the working groups.

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome; Knut Siercks Head of Department Technik, OST

09:10 - 09:15 Introduction to IEA Wind TCP; Ignacio Marti (Planair, CH) 

09:15 - 09:30 Overall Task update; Sarah Barber and Shawn Sheng, IEA Wind Task 43 Operating Agents

09:30 - 10:30 Panel discussion "A roadmap for digital maturity in wind energy", moderated by Shawn Sheng (NREL, USA); Speakers include Tom Clark (Octue, UK), Dimitrios Kyritsis (EPFL, CH), Rupp Carriveau (University of Windsor, CA)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 

11:00 - 12:00 Working Group 1 update and workshop; Sarah Barber

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30 Working Group 2&3 update and workshop; Sarah Barber

14:30 - 15:30 Working Group 4 update and workshop; Shawn Sheng

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 

16:00 - 17:00 Small groups - opportunities and challenges of WG overlaps 

19:00 Dinner in Rapperswil , tbd

Tuesday, June 18th: Digital skills day 

This day will focus on digital skills and wind energy. We will carry out workshops and discussions on the topic of digital skills, and how this relates to IEA Wind Task 43. 

09:00 - 09:30 Introduction and panel discussion: "What are digital skills and why are they important for the wind energy sector?" with Nikolay Dimitrov (DTU Wind, DK), Helena Solman (University of Wageningen, NL), Lisa Kortmann (OST, CH), Mariana Batista (WindEurope, BE) and Clara Wrede (Digital Switzerland, CH)

09:30 - 10:30 Skills workshop 1: culture, collaboration and communication; Helena Solman (University of Wageningen, NL); Olaf Zimmermann (OST, CH); Stefan Kammhuber (OST, CH), Eva Granwehr (OST, CH)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 

11:00 - 12:00 Skills workshop 2: ontologies, data models and knowledge graphs; Jean-Paul Calbimonte (HES-SO, CH); Stephen Holleran (Brightwind, IE); Yuriy Marykovskiy, OST (CH); Faiz Sulaiman (Microsoft, NO)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:00 DigiWind survey workshop; Nikolay Dimitrov (DTU Wind, DK)

14:00 - 15:00 Demo workshop 1: data standards and ontology publishing; Lewis Armistead (ENTR Alliance, USA); Jean-Paul Calbimonte, (HES-SO , CH); Stephen Holleran (Brightwind, IE); Faiz Sulaiman (Microsoft, NO)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 

15:30 - 16:30 Demo workshop 2: digital services and digital twins; Tom Clark (Octue, UK)

16:30 - 17:00 Summary "Digital skills and IEA Wind Task 43" and closing 

Wednesday, June 19th: WeDoWind day 

WeDoWind is a framework for bringing asset owners together with researchers and model developers in a "win-win" situation, whereby asset owners get easy access to state-of-the-art data analytics and model developers get access to relevant asset data to train and validate their models. This day will involve a panel discussion, workshops and challenge-solving exercises. NEW - We will be announcing a new data set and challenge provided by Apex Clean Energy!

09:00 - 09:30 Introduction to WeDoWind; Sarah Barber

09:30 - 10:00 Panel discussion "Data-related challenges and opportunities in wind farm operations" with Charlie Plumley (Glenmont Partners, UK); Lewis Armistead (Apex Clean Energy, USA); Phil Bradstock (Bitbloom, UK) ; Christian Jonsson (KUDO Software, UK), Agota Greičiūnienė  (Ignitis, LT)

10:00 - 10:30 "Working with WeDoWind" workshop

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 

11:00 - 12:00 New challenge announcement; Lewis Armistead, Apex Clean Energy (USA)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 16:30 Challenge-solving workshops

1. The new Apex Gearbox Bearing Issue Detection Challenge (Lewis Armistead)

2. The ODE Yaw Misalignment Challenge (Charlie Plumley)

3. Expanding WeDoWind to a holistic open innovation wind energy ecosystem (Sarah Barber, Helena Solman)

16:30 - 17:00 The future of WeDoWind; with inspiration from Charlie Henderson, Stacker Group (USA)

17:00 - 18:00 Drinks and closing

Informal dinner

Registration

You can register for all three days or individual days only using the form below. Participation fees are voluntary, and will contribute to covering the room hire and catering costs. The registration deadline is May 31st, 2024. You do not have to be a member of IEA Wind Task 43 to participate in this meeting.