Directions for Power Market Development
in the Carbon-Neutral Era

Speaker

Jong-Bae Park

Konkuk University , Professor

Korea Institute of Electrical Engineers(KIEE), President-elect

Panel 1 : Resource Technology

Moderator

Ante Mikulic

CEO, Croatian Power Exchange

Speaker

Man-Geun Park

Executive Director, Korea Power Exchange (KPX)

Kennie Tsui

Chief Executive, New Zealand Geothermal Association

Daniel Wragge

Director Political & Regulatory Affairs, EEX Exchange

Injoon Oh

Senior Reasercher, H2 Korea

Jeong Yong Hoon

Professor,

Panel 2 : Planning and Efficiency in the Transmission System

Moderator

Ahmed Ali Al-Ebrahim

CEO, GCCIA

Speaker

Hong-Geun KIM

Acting CEO, Korea Power Exchange (KPX)

John Bear

CEO, MISO

Samir C. Saxena

Chairman & managing Director, Grid-India

Aftab Khan

Executive Vice President, PJM

Philippe Vassilopoulos

Director of Product Development, EPEX SPOT

Panel 3 : Demand Side Challenges

Moderator

Chantelle Bramley

Executive General Manager, Transpower

Speaker

Timothy J. Horger

Senior Director, Forward Market Operations & Performance Compliance

Alex Schoch

Group Director of Flexibility & Electrification, Octopus Energy

Xing Wang

Global Leader of Grid Modernization, AWS

Valentin Petrov

CEO and Product Architect, EnDimensions LLC

Panel 4 : Future of Power Exchanges

Moderator

Omer Haroon Malik

Head of Strategy and Power Market Development, CPPA-G

Speaker

Marcelo, Torres

Senior Principal - Energy Market Advisory, N-SIDE

Jip Kim

Assistant Professor, KENTECH

Lina Masiuliene

Director Strategic Services, Nord Pool

Rohit Bajaj

Joint Managing Director, IEX

Jorge Bircher

MRC group

Platinum Remarks

Introduction |

Electricity markets and system operations share a single mandate: deliver reliability and affordability while decarbonizing at speed. Electrification, rapid renewable growth, distributed energy resources, and more frequent extreme weather have created the three Vs of variability, volume, and velocity, increasing uncertainty and requiring scalable, high-fidelity coordination across transmission, distribution, and markets. In parallel, AI data centers are adding concentrated, around-the-clock demand that few anticipated even 24 months ago, creating local adequacy, congestion, and interconnection pressures. Data and AI have enormous potential to help with these challenges. This keynote outlines a practical path from instrumented systems to orchestrated operations and, ultimately, to an intelligent grid. It also explores the AI-augmented control room, where AI agents of the future synthesize varied data streams and perform reasoning under human-in-the-loop guardrails to support faster, safer decisions. The payoff promises to be tangible: more deliverable capacity from existing assets, shorter and fairer interconnection queues, improved frequency and restoration performance, and lower total system cost.

Speaker

Achalesh Pandey

General Manager, Market Management Software, GE Vernova

Gold Remarks

Introduction |

Abstract: Highlighting the escalating demand for electrical power driven by the exponential growth of data centers and artificial intelligence (AI). Surge in demand is transforming electricity from a simple commodity into a strategic, valuable, and increasingly scarce resource, akin to a modern-day gold rush for power

Speaker

Mohit Saigal

VP, Business Development, Markets

Gold Remarks

Introduction |

Abstract: ive a presentation on the key challenges facing Korea's power grid and Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO)'s strategies under the theme "The Era of Electricity: Clean Energy and a Stable Power Future. The main challenges include the increase in peak demand and renewable energy, regional imbalances between power supply and demand, the increasing curtailment of renewable energy, and constraints in power grid construction. The key strategies are grid optimization, timely grid construction, and maximizing the utilization of existing facilities.

Speaker

Chulsoo Seo

Member of the Board of Directors, Corporate Senior Vice President & Chief Power System Officer