BID 2025 Presentations

Battery Innovation Days 2025

TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER

1.1) Bridging innovation and investment in Battery Tech

Discover how batteries drive Europe’s economic growth and strategic autonomy in today’s energy transition.

1.2) Parallel Session – Exploring the development of next generation batteries

Delve into the latest breakthroughs in solid-state, sodium-ion, and emerging battery chemistries shaping the future of energy storage.

1.3) Parallel Session – Small but mighty: batteries transforming the future of electronics

Discover how innovative battery technologies are powering the next generation of compact, high-performance electronic devices.

1.4) Parallel Session – End of life, start of supply: Advancing battery recycling in Europe

A session to outline the importance of circular economy in battery production and the strategic relevance of recycling in the EU Battery Regulation.

1.5) Parallel Session – Powering Europe’s security, defense, and grid stability

Examine the critical role of batteries in strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities, energy security, and stable power infrastructure.

1.7) From ground to grid: building a resilient and sustainable battery supply chain

Explore strategies and innovation to secure sustainable sourcing and build a resilient supply chain for Europe’s battery industry—from raw materials to final products.

WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER

2.1) Powering the future: Advanced processes and equipment for battery production

Showcase how advanced processes and essential equipment form the backbone of battery production, enabling a competitive and resilient European industry.
  • Moderator: Valentina Plaskan, Journalist, TV anchor & communication strategist 
  • Toni Cristopher Voebel, Managing Director, BatteryCityMünster 
  • Isabel Hanghofer, Development Engineer, Varta
  • Panel discussion – Machinery matters: why Europe needs its own industrial backbone for batteries
    • Marcus Jahn, Business Manager, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
    • Gian Carlo Tronzano, Head of E-Mobility Global Competence Center, COMAU
    • Francesco Pagani, Product and Business Development Manager, Digatron Systems

2.2) Parallel session – The future of AI in battery innovation and production

Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming battery innovation through smarter design, faster research, and enhanced performance across the value chain.

2.3) Parallel Session – Driving change: The EU automotive action plan and its battery breakthroughs

Exploring how Europe’s mobility strategy accelerates battery innovation, scale-up, and sustainability across the value chain.

  • Moderator: Valentina Plaskan, Journalist, TV anchor & communication strategist 
  • Tomas Jezdinsky, Market Research Expert, COLLABAT
  • Jacek Truszczynski, Head of Unit Net Zero Industries, DG GROW, European Commission (online)
  • Panel Discussion: Enabling battery innovation with focused partnerships – working alongside automotive ambitions
    • Bozorg Khanbaei, Executive Director, BEPA
    • Franz Geyer, Head of Technology and Strategy, BMW
    • Lisa-Lou Gracia, R&D Projects Manager,CEA
    • Beatrice Coda, Head of Unit,Directorate-General for Research and Innovation – European Commission

2.5) Bridging innovation and investment in Battery Tech

Join entrepreneurs and investors as they tackle challenges, share insights, and unlock opportunities to accelerate battery innovation and growth. 
  • Moderator: Valentina Plaskan, Journalist, TV anchor & communication strategist
  • Andrea Alessi, Engineer, European Investment Bank
  • Magda Krakowiak, Policy Officer, Scale Up Fund
  • Michal Vonka, Co-Owner, Cape Solutions
  • Startup & Investor Roundtable: real stories, real challenges. 
    • Ian Ellerington, Technology Transfer Director, Faraday Institution
    • Beatrice Coda, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European Commission
    • Thore Sekkenes, EBA250 Program Director, InnoEnergy Scandinavia

2.6) Let’s CEE what’s new: Startups from Central and Eastern Europe

Come discover and exchange with innovative startups from Central and East Europe working on the battery value chain. Find out about the developments happening in this part of Europe, and the new ideas and technologies pathing the way to a circular, sustainable, and competitive battery value-chain.
Moderator: Elena Bonvecchio, Policy Officer, Battery European Partnership Association (BEPA), and Timothé Perruchoud, Association Officer, Battery European Partnership Association (BEPA)
Startup insights and presentations:
  • David Reiter, Founder and CEO, Lokistix
  • Lukas Pachernegg, Lead Membrane Development,  Ecolyte
  • Deepak V. Katkoria, Founder and CEO, Logiicdev
  • Max Hofer, General Manager, Green Testing Lab
  • Luigi Aiello, Co-founder and CEO, MBTS
  • Michal Vonka, Co-Owner, Cape Solutions
  • Alexa Dschulnigg, Energy Alps
  • Tobias Kopp, Co-founder, protectLib
  • Harald Autischer, Co-founder and CEO, Kite Rise Technologies
  • Matias Tiala, Founder, Tiala Design
  • Michal Sastinsky, Co-Founder and CEO, BatteryCheck
  • Marcus Jahn, Founder, Danube Cell Manufacturing
  • Jana Obernauer, ESG & Sustainability Manager, InoBat

  • Mykola Aliyev, Founder and CEO, Infinity Magnitute Batteries