The conference is hosted by FPT Motorenforschung (IVECO Group)
Conference Programme
09:30 – 10:00 | Arrival Coffee & Croissants · Registration
10:00 – 10:05 | Opening & Welcome
Prof. Dr. Corsin Battaglia, Empa, iBAT President
10:05 – 10:30 | Welcome by the Host
Alessandro Bernardini, Iveco Group, VP/Head of Zero Emission Propulsion & Energy
10:30 – 12:00 | Battery Energy Storage Systems
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Priscilla Caliandro, BFH, iBAT ExeCom
The Road to GW Scale: Lessons from Building a BESS Portfolio
Baptiste Bel & Emil Namor, Alpiq
Sodium-Ion Batteries in Practice: Advantages, Trade-Offs and Target Applications
Roger Nyffenegger, Inesco
Battery Storage as Key to a Flexible Energy System
Maja Schoch, Swissolar
12:00 – 13:15 | Standing Lunch & Networking
13:15 – 13:45 | Keynote Talk
Session Chair: Dr. Manasa Sridhar, Iveco Group, iBAT ExeCom
Battery Innovation Across Industries: Europe’s Path to Competitiveness
Bozorg Khanbaei, Battery European Partnership Association
13:45 – 15:15 | Batteries in Flight: From High-Power Drones to Electric Aviation
Session Chair: Christian Ochsenbein, SIPBB, iBAT Vice-President
Silicon Anodes in High-Power Drone Packs: Field Implications for Swelling, Hysteresis and State of Charge
Federico Pastore, Flyability
Functional Safety of High-Voltage Battery Propulsion Systems for Aircraft Applications
Klaus Pokorny & Fredi Durot, Durot Electric
15 Years of Electric Aviation: Where We Started and Where We’re Going
Calin Gologan, Elektra Solar
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:25 | Highlights of Swiss Industry–Academia Collaborations
Session Chair: Dr. Andreas Hutter, CSEM, iBAT ExeCom
Turning Black Mass direct into new Cathode Active Material
Dr. Nora Bartolomé, Green Science Alliance & Dr. Gabriel Hidalgo, SIPBB
Onboard Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Multistate Estimation in eLCV Applications
Dr. Tian Liu, Iveco Group & Dr. Gaël Mourouga, CSEM
A Rapid Methodology for Battery Ageing Assessment and Cross-Scale Correlation in LFP and LMFP Systems
Dr. Matthias Baur, ABB & Alessia Bisconti, PSI
New Coin Cell Microcalorimeter – Seeing the Chemistry That Voltage Can’t Show
Raphael Carigiet, OST & Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Empa
16:25 – 16:30 | Conference Summary
16:30 – 18:00 | Networking Apéro
