Following 2 successful workshops on AI in the energy sector, held in September 2025, the European Commission organises a third workshop on the use of AI in the renewables and buildings sectors.
While AI holds immense potential to enhance manufacturing, optimisation, and improving maintenance, several challenges hinder effective implementation. These include data silos, lack of collaboration, and varying business models. The workshop will explore the role of the Commission in facilitating the swift and safe deployment of AI technologies in these sectors, discuss the ongoing work in the matter and inform about policy actions of the future Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in the energy sector.
The event is addressing stakeholders from digital and energy value chains, including technology providers, IT suppliers, SMEs, aggregators, system integrators, digital solutions providers, data centre operators, cloud service providers, consumers, energy communities, appliance manufacturers, research community, energy intensive industries, building operators, car manufacturers and providers of e-mobility solutions.
Related links
- Digitalisation of the energy system
- Previous workshop: Workshops on AI in the energy sector
- energy policy | artificial intelligence
- Thursday 6 November 2025, 09:30 - 11:30 (CET)
- Online only
Programme
- 6 Nov 2025, 09:30 - 11:30 (CET)Workshop Agenda
9:30 – 9:40 Opening
- European Commission: DG ENER B4
9:40 – 10:30 Panel 1: AI for the Renewables Sector
- Moderation: Volker Berkhout, Research Fellow, Fraunhofer IEE
- Panellists:
- Norela Constantinescu, Acting Director of the Innovation and Technology Centre, IRENA
- Hilde Njøten, COO, Vind AI
- Shwan Lamei, Co-founder and CEO, Emulate Energy
- Matei Stratan, Founder and CEO, Ogre AI
- Guiding questions:
- What is the potential for AI solutions for renewables along the whole value chain? What is the state of play, most promising application and potential impact on manufacturing, maintenance, operations, forecasting?
- Are there foundation models expected in this field? What is the business model for this type of application (in-house solutions, players, models, ...)? Is there a need for data sharing between players?
- What are the main barriers that the sector experiences in developing and deploying AI solutions in renewables? Is there a need for further cooperation?
- How can the European Commission support accelerating the deployment of AI solutions in a safe and swift manner?
10:30 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:20 Panel 2: AI for Buildings
- Moderation: Maria Fernández Boneta, Project Manager, CENER
- Panellists:
- Marion Blayo, Principal AI Tech Lead – Digital Buildings, Schneider Electric
- José La Loggia, EMEA Group President, Trane Technologies
- Christian Rockstroh, Lead Data Scientist, Siemens
- Kees van der Veer, WE Data Europe
- Guiding questions:
- What is the potential for AI solutions for buildings, not only in smart energy services? What is the state of play, most promising application and potential impact beyond smart energy services, such as planning renovations, etc.?
- Are there foundation models expected in this field? What is the business model for this type of application (in-house solutions, players, models, ...)? Is there a need for data sharing between players? Are there existing data sharing frameworks in the EPDB fit for this purpose?
- What are the main barriers that the sector experiences in developing and deploying AI solutions in buildings? Is there a need for further cooperation?
- How can the European Commission support accelerating the deployment of AI solutions in a safe and swift manner?
11:20 –11:30 Closing Remarks
- Summary of key points and outline of next steps by the European Commission: DG ENER B4
Practical information
- When
- Thursday 6 November 2025, 09:30 - 11:30 (CET)
- Where
- Online only
- Languages
- English