Speaker: Yamshid Farhat & Raffael Hilber

Yamshid Farhat received his M.Sc. degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Energy Engineering focusing on the Electric System. He worked for his Master Thesis at the Aalborg University in the field of Intelligent Control of DER for Microgrids. He joined BKW's Smart Grid Engineering department in 2013 with the focus on the development of innovative products and concepts for the Distribution Network in order to allow higher penetration of renewable energies while reducing network investments and increase the quality of supply. Nowadays, as a Grid Analytics Expert, he develops new tools for a more efficient planning and operation of the distribution grid.

Raffael Hilber received a M.Sc. degree from ETH in 2002 and an EMBA in Management of Technology from the University of Fribourg (iimt) in 2019. Together with a team of project managers, data scientists and data engineers, he initiates, develops and runs digital solutions for BKW's grid division. Before joining BKW in 2013, he was in the management team of a start-up within the Axon Active Group and responsible for analytics and projects.