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IEA Wind Task 43 AGM - Annual General Meeting 2024

OST is pleased to host the IEA Wind Task Annual General Meeting 2024 in Rapperswil. IEA Wind Task 43 is part of the IEA Wind TCP and co-lead by Sarah Barber, Head of the Wind Energy Innovation Division at OST's Institute for Energy Technology (IET). The Task aims to act as a digital transformation catalyst by driving open collaboration within and beyond the wind community to deliver insights, recommendations, standards and tools in the key areas of data, culture, and coopetition.

Veranstaltungen

IEA Wind Task 43 AGM - Annual General Meeting 2024

Montag, 17. Jun 2024, Oberseestasse 10, Rapperswil (Campus Rapperswil)

The three days are planned as follows:

Monday, June 17th: Task progress day

The main aim of this day is to discuss progress of the activities with IEA Wind Task 43, to get to know each other, and to work on concrete problems together, based around the working groups.
 
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome; Knut Siercks Head of Department Technik, OST
09:10 - 09:30 Overall Task update; Sarah Barber and Shawn Sheng, IEA Wind Task 43 Operating Agents
09:30 - 10:30 Working Group 1 update and workshop; Sarah Barber
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 
11:00 - 12:00Working Group 2&3 update and workshop; Sarah Barber
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30 Working Group 4 update and workshop; Shawn Sheng
14:30 - 15:30 Small groups - opportunities and challenges of WG overlaps 
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 
16:00 - 17:00 Panel discussion "Driving digitalisation in the wind energy sector"; Speakers include Osman Ahmed, PNNL (USA), Dimitrios Kyritsis (EPFL)
19:00Dinner in Rapperswil , tbd
  

Tuesday, June 18th: Digital skills day 

This day will focus on digital skills and wind energy. We will carry out workshops and discussions on the topic of digital skills, and how this relates to IEA Wind Task 43. 
 
09:00 - 09:30 Intorduction and panel discussion: "What are digital skills and why are they important for the wind energy sector?"; Speakers include Nikolay Dimitrov, DTU Wind (DK), Olaf Zimmermann, OST (CH)
09:30 - 10:30 Skills workshop 1: culture, collaboration and communication
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 
11:00 - 12:00 Skills workshop 2: ontologies, data models and knowledge graphs; Jean-Paul Calbimonte, HES-SO (CH); Stephen Holleran, Brightwind (IE); Yuriy Marykovskiy, OST (CH)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Demo workshop 1: data standards and ontology publishing; Lewis Armistead, ENTR Alliance; Jean-Paul Calbimonte, HES-SO (CH); Stephen Holleran, Brightwind (IE)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 
15:30 - 16:30 Demo workshop 2: digital services and digital twins; Tom Clark, Octue
16:30 - 17:00 Summary "Digital skills and IEA Wind Task 43" and closing 
  

Wednesday, June 19th: WeDoWind day 

WeDoWind is a framework for bringing asset owners together with researchers and model developers in a "win-win" situation, whereby asset owners get easy access to state-of-the-art data analytics and model developers get access to relevant asset data to train and validate their models. This day will involve a panel discussion, workshops and challenge-solving exercises. NEW - We will be announcing a new data set and challenge provided by Apex Clean Energy!
 
09:00 - 09:30 Introduction to WeDoWind; Sarah Barber
09:30 - 10:00 Panel discussion "Data-related challenges and opportunities in wind farm operations"; Speakers include Charlie Plumley, Glenmont Partners (UK); Lewis Armistead, Apex Clean Energy (USA)
10:00 - 10:30 "Working with WeDoWind" workshop
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 
11:00 - 12:00 New challenge announcement; Lewis Armistead, Apex Clean Energy (USA)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 17:00 Challenge-solving workshops: 1. RTDT (Imad Abdallah), 2. ODE (Charlie Plumley), 3. EAWE (tbd), 4. Turbine performance analyis (Sarah Barber)
17:00 - 18:00 Drinks and closing

 

You do not have to be a member of IEA Wind Task 43 to participate in this meeting.

 

Registration

You can register for all three days or individual days only using the form below. Participation fees are voluntary, and will contribute to covering the room hire and catering costs. The registration deadline is May 31st, 2024.

 

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Oberseestasse 10, Rapperswil (Campus Rapperswil)