Speakers

Eress Director and Head of Energy Trading at Bane NOR. He has been involved and responsible for the development, implementation and daily operation of the Eress systems from its beginning.  Dyre Martin holds a Master of Science in industrial economics and technology management and is certificated in financial energy analysis. He has long experience in working within the energy and railway market.   Since 2003 Mr. Gulbrandsen has been working as Energy Trading Manager at the Norwegian National Rail Administration. His areas of responsibility include energy procurement, settlement and billing in the Norwegian railway network. 

Veronika Sárik is a National Expert at the Directorate General of Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) at the European Commission, seconded from Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration. In her capacity as a Policy Officer at the unit of Rail Safety and Interoperability, she is responsible for various Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs), in particular Energy, Infrastructure, Operations and Persons with Reduced Mobility.

She holds a Bachelor´s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master´s degree in Transport and Geoinformation Technology.

He has been at CARGOUNIT for 9 years. 
24 years of experience in the railway industry, including 
15 years in locomotives fleet managing. 
He also worked at DB CARGO Polska, PCC Rail S.A., ZNLE Gliwice S.A.

Eress Chairman and Energi Director in Bane NOR. Experienced leader/engineer with 30 years of experience in energy-related business areas. Kjetil has held positions across all parts of the value chain related to electric power—from hydrological analyses and price trend evaluations to the production of various types of energy: electricity, district heating, and gas. 

Since 2008, Raimondo Orsini is the Director of the Sustainable Development Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in Rome. The Foundation is a stakeholder organization within the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is a member of the UN Global Compact Italy Network, Italian member of the association “Transport and Environment”, research partner of International Energy Agency (IEA), IFEU, International Union of Railways (UIC) and other international bodies. Raimondo has a long experience in sustainability issues: he is graduated in Environmental Law and has completed a master’s degree in Sustainable Transport Systems.

Bart Van der Spiegel started in 1992 as engineer designing the power distribution for Belgian railways. Since 2005 focus has shifted towards the integration of an open energy market into an open railway market. He is responsible for the product Your Power delivering traction energy towards the Railway Undertakings active in Belgium. He has been active on all European workgroups regarding the measuring of energy consumption on-board of trains and on the exchange of related data. He is member of Eress Steering Board and convenor of CENELEC working group Energy Metering. He is also active in field of Driving Advisory Systems, Automatic Train Operation, automating energy functions and charging of battery trains.

Esteban Coito is a project officer in the European Unio Agency for Railways ERA and, among several tasks, he is responsible for the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs), for Energy subsystems and interfaces with rolling stock subsystems. He is also in charge of several vehicles authorisations.

He has also been working in the European Parliament, for the TRAN Committee, and several years in the Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF for maintenance, monitoring and commissioning of energy, infrastructure rolling stock subsystems.

Esteban has a Master in Industrial Engineering with an Specialization Annual Course in Railways Technologies.