Conference Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Dean Sharafi
Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Australia

Speech Title: Challenges and Opportunities of Energy Transition
Abstract: Modern power systems are continuously integrating high levels of renewable energy and are facing several challenges due to this evolution. Power grids were designed based on concepts that are continuously changing and our operation must adapt to the new paradigm. We are seeing power systems shifting from synchronous generation to inverter-based ones, we are moving from a small number of generators located in certain parts of the grid, to very high number of generators located in many parts of the power system, we are shifting from concentrated energy resources to consumer energy resources, also known as DER. While these changes have brought about many opportunities, they have resulted in the need to understand how these changes are affecting the power systems and the way we operate them. There are many aspects to be considered and the industry resources need to join with research community to rise to these challenges and use the opportunities created. This talk will focus on challenges and the potential solutions going forward.

Bio: Dean Sharafi is the Strategic Advisor on energy transition at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Dean holds a degree in Applied Physics, a degree in Electrical Engineering and a degree in Business Management. He has around 30 years of experience in power system engineering which includes Power System Protection, High Voltage Systems, Asset Management and Power System and Electricity Market Operation.
He is a member of Australian Institute of Management, Cigre, Engineers Australia and a senior member the IEEE. Dean has been actively involved with IEEE Power and Energy Society initiatives and Cigre Working Groups over the last two decades and has served as a member of the Governing Board of the IEEE PES from 2017 to 2022.
Dean has published many papers on power system protection, condition monitoring, asset management and power system operations. He lectured for a decade as a Sessional Academic on Power System Earthing at Curtin University in Western Australia.
Dean is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Journal and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Dean is also the author of his memoire “The Unwilling Revolutionary.”

Conference Keynote Speaker II

Prof. King Jet Tseng
Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore

Speech Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA

Bio: King-Jet Tseng was born in Singapore and studied at Gan Eng Seng School and Hwa Chong Junior College before receiving his B.Eng. (First Class) and M.Eng. from National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in United Kingdom. He has more than 30 years of academic, research, industrial and professional experience in electrical power and energy systems. He has been the Head of Power Engineering Division in Nanyang Technological University and the Board Member of the Singapore Green Building Council. He co-founded the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability for the Tropics (SinBerBEST) program and the Electrical Power Systems Integration Laboratory @ NTU, a Rolls-Royce research facility. He has directly supervised and graduated about 30 PhD students and also inspired a number of technology start-up companies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET, a Fellow of IES and registered as Chartered Engineer with UK Engineering Council. Currently, he is the Professor and Advisor for Electrical Power Engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology, working on his vision of future urban electrical distribution architecture which can provide flexible and heterogeneous power quality for greater sustainability. He continues to contribute to International Electrotechnical Commission as a standardization expert for grid-integrated electrical energy storage systems. He has made important contributions to interior permanent magnet synchronous machines, resilient grid interconnection of distributed energy resources, dynamic voltage compensation, arc modeling for transient simulations and energy storage systems in utility applications.