Speakers 2025

Pierre Tran-Van is a chemistry engineer (Chimie Paristech school, 1996) and PhD in materials science (Versailles University, 2000, funded by Corning). He was assistant professor at Versailles university and witnessed the new spark in electric vehicle interest whilst creating and coordinating a Master course on photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries. He joined Renault in 2011 in the research division and was involved in academic collaborations and responsible for start-up screening. In 2016 he was team leader for battery research. Since 2020 he is senior electrochemistry expert and kept this position at Ampere since 2023.

Anna Sosnowik joined Ascend Elements in July 2022 to lead the company’s European and UK business development activities, bringing over 10 years of experience in the lithium-ion battery industry. Prior to joining Ascend Elements, Anna spent 9 years at Johnson Matthey as Head of Business Development, Sales/Marketing and Strategy in the Lithium-Ion Battery Division. She held responsibilities for product development and both the technical and commercial strategies to extend Johnson Matthey Battery’s leadership position into different lithium-ion battery industry segments. Before joining Johnson Matthey, she spent 8 years in the automotive industry in several commercial, project development and purchasing positions for [...]

Christophe has built up considerable expertise in the area of battery market. He joined AVICENNE 30 years ago and spent 3 years in Japan making analysis on the Electronic, Mobile Japanese battery market. Christophe gained large experience in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial studies for the battery and power management fields. He developed the Battery market analysis for AVICENNE which counts more than 300 customers worldwide. Christophe publishes annual study "The rechargeable battery market trend”. Christophe is now Director of AVICENNE ENERGY. He has also been founder chairman of Batteries Event in France since 1999.

Patrick PÉLATA, after 5 years of research, joined the Renault group in 1984 in manufacturing and, later, in engineering. He left for Japan in 1999 as Nissan Board member and global EVP in charge of Design, Products, and Programs. He returned to Renault in 2005 and became Deputy CEO in 2008. Since 2002, he has been involved in the study of the decarbonization of road mobility, first in Nissan, then in Renault where he drove Renault's electric vehicle program announced in 2009. In 2012, he became Chief Automobile Officer of Salesforce in San Francisco. From 2018, he has been operating Meta [...]

After spending 8 years in the Semiconductor industry, Christophe moved to Lithium Ion battery business in 2009. He first started by setting up then managed the battery cell pilot line at the CEA. In 2011, Tesla hired him to build a small cell manufacturing line and then produced the first prototype cells in-house with his team. He also actively contributed to ramping up Module production lines for the Model S and Model X vehicles and paving the path for Model 3. Christophe also worked on a range of mechanical cell designs, developed innovative manufacturing processes, and led the phase 1 layout [...]

Benoit Lemaignan is the co-founder and CEO of Verkor, a new venture launched to accelerate the production capacity of low-carbon batteries in southern Europe, in collaboration with EIT InnoEnergy, Schneider Electric, Capgemini and the Groupe IDEC. Prior to the launch, EIT InnoEnergy brought Benoit on board to build synergies with the European Battery Alliance. An aerospace engineer by training, Benoit is a serial entrepreneur. He previously founded and financed Waga Energy in 2015 and Aniah in 2019. He was also Managing Director of OSER ENR from 2015 to 2019 - a public-private partnership supporting the development of renewable projects. Earlier in [...]

Co-founder of LEMON ENERGY Inc. for Li-ion battery anode and cathode materials development. Working as a Chief Engineer and hold 40 patents application in Korea, USA, Chian, and EU as an inventor. Academic background for master’s degree in computer science from George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, and Ph. D. candidate in material science and engineering from Inha University, Incheon, Korea. Member of Korea Ceramic Society, The Electrochemical Society, The American Ceramic Society.

Stellantis is an automotive manufacturer, operating worldwide. With a constellation of 14 iconic automotive brands, Stellantis paves the way to transition to a sustainable mobility, leading the charge in electrification and software development, with cutting-edge technologies at the heart of products and services. Within the Charging & Energy business unit, Nicolas Leclère coordinates the global technological strategy, to propose to customers the best and seamless charging experience. The main challenge : Identify futures technologies and trends to build the next generation of products and services, leveraging on the intersection between mobility and energies. Nicolas Leclère is a mechanical engineer, graduated from [...]