2025 Speakers Search Toby Poston Director of Corporate Affairs BVRLA Tommaso Difonzo eMobility Manager ENGIE Laborelec Ton Abbenhuis Sales ChargeArm Dr. Truong Dinh Associate Professor WMG, University of Warwick Victoria Saunders Innovation Lead for Hydrogen in Transport Innovate UK 1 2 3 4 5 Tommaso Difonzo eMobility Manager ENGIE Laborelec Tommaso, a native of Puglia, Italy, is a dynamic energy and electric vehicle manager. His journey in e-mobility began 14y ago with his 2011 thesis at the Polytechnic of Milan. After his studies, he joined Enel Group, where he held various roles in e-mobility, including functional analyst, tester of charging station and software solutions, project manager, and business developer. His experience at Enel's EU Affairs office, in charge of Enel’s relationship with the European Parliament deepened his knowledge of electricity markets and EU clean energy legislation. During this period he also attended a summer school at the Florence School of Regulation, the centre of excellence European regulation and policy on the energy sector. In September 2019, Tommaso joined ENGIE Laborelec, initially as Business and Product Manager for SMATCH Smart Charging for EVs, and since June 2022, he has been the Research Programme Manager on e-Mobility for the ENGIE Group, responsible for the Group’’s Research&Innovation activities on e-mobility Ton Abbenhuis Sales ChargeArm Dr. Truong Dinh Associate Professor WMG, University of Warwick Visit LinkedIn Dr Truong Dinh is an Associate Professor of Energy Management and Control Systems within Energy Applications Group in WMG, the University of Warwick. He is an HEA Fellow, an IEEE senior member. He has led/involved in CR&D projects and published over 200 scientific papers (including 90+ high quality journal papers, 04 patents, 03 books and book chapters) in areas of mechatronics, automation and control, energy management and optimisation, and applications to intelligent energy and transportation systems. He has delivered more than 25 keynote and invited talks at renowned conferences and industrial events. He has received 14 journal and conference paper awards. He is technical committee member of IEEE-IES – Motion and Control Section; chapter vice-chair of IEEE-CIS Region 8; editorial members of several international journals and IEEE Trans. He is the general co-chair and publication co-chair of the IEEE IES International Conference on Mechatronic Technology (ICMT) 2019 to 2025 across countries and chair of ICMT2026 at Warwick. Victoria Saunders Innovation Lead for Hydrogen in Transport Innovate UK Visit LinkedIn Innovation Lead for Hydrogen in Transport at Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation.
Tommaso Difonzo eMobility Manager ENGIE Laborelec Tommaso, a native of Puglia, Italy, is a dynamic energy and electric vehicle manager. His journey in e-mobility began 14y ago with his 2011 thesis at the Polytechnic of Milan. After his studies, he joined Enel Group, where he held various roles in e-mobility, including functional analyst, tester of charging station and software solutions, project manager, and business developer. His experience at Enel's EU Affairs office, in charge of Enel’s relationship with the European Parliament deepened his knowledge of electricity markets and EU clean energy legislation. During this period he also attended a summer school at the Florence School of Regulation, the centre of excellence European regulation and policy on the energy sector. In September 2019, Tommaso joined ENGIE Laborelec, initially as Business and Product Manager for SMATCH Smart Charging for EVs, and since June 2022, he has been the Research Programme Manager on e-Mobility for the ENGIE Group, responsible for the Group’’s Research&Innovation activities on e-mobility
Dr. Truong Dinh Associate Professor WMG, University of Warwick Visit LinkedIn Dr Truong Dinh is an Associate Professor of Energy Management and Control Systems within Energy Applications Group in WMG, the University of Warwick. He is an HEA Fellow, an IEEE senior member. He has led/involved in CR&D projects and published over 200 scientific papers (including 90+ high quality journal papers, 04 patents, 03 books and book chapters) in areas of mechatronics, automation and control, energy management and optimisation, and applications to intelligent energy and transportation systems. He has delivered more than 25 keynote and invited talks at renowned conferences and industrial events. He has received 14 journal and conference paper awards. He is technical committee member of IEEE-IES – Motion and Control Section; chapter vice-chair of IEEE-CIS Region 8; editorial members of several international journals and IEEE Trans. He is the general co-chair and publication co-chair of the IEEE IES International Conference on Mechatronic Technology (ICMT) 2019 to 2025 across countries and chair of ICMT2026 at Warwick.
Victoria Saunders Innovation Lead for Hydrogen in Transport Innovate UK Visit LinkedIn Innovation Lead for Hydrogen in Transport at Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation.
