Event Calendar
2026 Events
Summer School in Energy Informatics 2026
Climate-Constrained Transitions: From Climate Necessity to Institutional Feasibility
Energy Informatics for Climate-Constrained Transitions: From Climate Necessity to Institutional Feasibility 2026 brings together climate science, system modeling, and institutional governance to explore how climate-constrained energy pathways are translated into real-world system transformation. Hosted in Beijing, participants move from Day 1's physical and carbon constraints to Day 2's digital, regulatory, and governance feasibility, gaining a cross-scale perspective that connects China-focused climate transition analysis with European expertise in digital energy governance.
Date: 12-13 October 2026
Location: Sino-Danish College (SDC), Beijing, China
Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2026 (EI.A 2026)
The EI.A conference series is organized by the Energy Informatics.Academy (EI.A), and aim to connect researchers and practitioners of energy informatics in various scientific, technological, engineering and social fields to disseminate original research on the application of digital technology and information management theory and practice to facilitate the global transition towards sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Date: 14-17 October 2026
Location: Sino-Danish College (SDC), Beijing, China
Past Events
2026 Events
Energy Informatics Webinar Series
Webinar “AI in Industrial Energy Systems: Optimization, Flexibility & Resilience"
Artificial intelligence and data-driven methods are reshaping industrial energy systems, enabling more efficient, flexible, and resilient industries as system complexity grows.
This webinar, hosted by the SDU Center for Energy Informatics, brings together researchers, industry experts, and students working at the forefront of AI and industrial energy innovation, highlighting recent advances including digital twin–based energy optimization, explainable and causal AI, industrial flexibility in electricity markets, risk and resilience in energy-intensive systems, and graph-based methods for system survivability. Experts from Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz, TU Wien, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and SDU will share insights across six presentations, together showing how advanced AI and system-level approaches can support more sustainable industrial decision-making.
Date: Monday, 11 May 2026, 09:00-12:15 CET
Location: Teams meeting
Energy Informatics Webinar Series
Webinar “Unlocking Industrial Flexibility: Pathways to Ancillary Service Participation"
Industrial sites have a unique opportunity to support grid stability through flexible operations, with Power-to-X and next-generation digital tools opening new pathways for participation in ancillary service markets.
This webinar, hosted by the SDU Center for Energy Informatics, will explore how industries can participate in ancillary service markets, overcome technical challenges in flexible Power-to-X operations, and leverage next-generation digital tools to automate market engagement. Experts from Energinet, DTI, and SDU will share system-level insights and practical considerations, followed by a panel discussion on how industrial flexibility can become a strategic asset for your operations and the energy system.
Date: Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 13:00-14:30 CET
Location: Teams meeting
Energy Informatics Webinar Series
Webinar “Unlocking Industrial Flexibility: Pathways to Ancillary Service Participation"
Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are transforming mining operations, but modeling their duty cycles is key to optimizing energy consumption and charging power demand.
This webinar, hosted by IEA IETS Task 22 and the SDU Center for Energy Informatics, will dive into cutting-edge simulation research supporting the decarbonization of the mining sector, exploring how BEV duty cycles are modeled for real-world mining conditions, insights into energy consumption and charging demand optimization, and pathways toward sustainable, cost-effective mining operations. Experts from CanmetMINING, Natural Resources Canada will share preliminary results from ongoing simulation research, followed by a discussion and Q&A
Date: Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 14:00-15:00 CET
Location: Teams meeting
2025 Events
Energy Informatics Webinar Series
Webinar “From Hourly to Quarter-Hourly: Flexibility Strategies for the 15-Minute Day-Ahead Market”
From 1 October 2025, the European day-ahead market will shift from hourly to 15-minute time resolution. This change will transform how electricity is traded and balanced, creating both challenges and opportunities for industrial energy users and producers.
This webinar, hosted by the SDU Center for Energy Informatics, will highlight the market impacts of this transition, explore trading challenges, and present flexibility strategies — including a Power-to-X case study. Experts from Energinet, EWII Energy, and SDU will share insights, followed by a panel discussion on how industries can adapt and benefit.
Date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 14-15.30 CET
Location: Teams meeting
Summer School in Energy Informatics 2025
Harnessing IoT and Cloud Computing for Intelligent Buildings
The Summer School in Energy Informatics 2025 focuses on building software systems that collect, store, integrate, and visualize data to support decision-making for energy optimization and sustainability. Through hands-on sessions, participants will explore IoT systems, data pipelines, cloud-based storage, and real-time visualization frameworks, gaining expertise in tools like Python, MQTT, InfluxDB, and Grafana.
Expected date: 1-2 December 2025
Location: Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2025 (EI.A 2025)
The EI.A conference series is organized by the Energy Informatics.Academy (IE.A), and aim to connect researchers and practitioners of energy informatics in various scientific, technological, engineering and social fields to disseminate original research on the application of digital technology and information management theory and practice to facilitate the global transition towards sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Expected date: 3-6 December 2025
Location: Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2024 Events
Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2024
The EI.A conference series is organized by Energy Informatics.Academy (IE.A), and aim to connect researchers and practitioners of energy informatics in various scientific, technological, engineering and social fields to disseminate original research on the application of digital technology and information management theory and practice to facilitate the global transition toward sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Date: 23 - 25 October 2024
Location: Bali, Indonesia
Summer school in Energy Informatics 2024
The Energy Informatics Summer School 2024 is designed to empower doctoral and master students, as well as professionals in the energy sector, by providing advanced training in managing the impacts of natural disasters on energy systems. This program draws on cutting-edge research and methodologies from the Tech-In Project, equipping participants with the skills to utilize data acquisition, visualization, and analytics to enhance the resilience of energy infrastructures. Join us to deepen your expertise and contribute to the development of sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Date: 23 - 25 October 2024
Location: Bali, Indonesia
2023 Events
Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2023
The EI.A conference series is organized by Energy Informatics.Academy (IE.A), and aim to connect researchers and practitioners of energy informatics in various scientific, technological, engineering and social fields to disseminate original research on the application of digital technology and information management theory and practice to facilitate the global transition toward sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Date: 6 - 8 December 2023
Location: Unicamp, São Paulo, Brazil
2022 Events
Webinar- Digital technologies for energy efficiency and decarbonization in mining
IEA IETS Annex Task XVIII Sub Task 3 Webinar 2022 series
Date: 14.30-15.15 CET, October 26th 2022
Abstract: Several mining companies have set targets for net zero emissions by 2050 while there is an increase in the demand for minerals to facilitate the transition towards clean energy. Concurrently, digital technologies such as automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Internet of Things (IoT) are transforming the way the mining and metals industry operates. An overview of some of the current digital technologies implemented in the mining sector and their reported benefits will be presented to highlight their potential impact on sustainability and decarbonization of the industry.
Presenter: Osama Asa’d, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Osama Asa'd is an energy technologist with the Natural Resources Canada-CanmetMINING team in Sudbury, Canada. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Dalhousie university. His focus is to improve energy efficiency/management in the mining sector. Osama has worked on several projects aiming to reduce energy use and GHG emissions in mining operations.
Industrial & PhD Summer School in Energy Informatics 2022
The industrial & PhD summer school in Energy Informatics 2022 aims to support company employees and doctoral students in their competence development. In the summer school, domain experts (pioneer companies and researchers in the domain) will offer lectures and hands-on exercises with real cases and big data. The main content of this year's summer school:
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Opportunities and challenges in the digital transformation of the energy systems
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IoT and energy management systems
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Data cloud and energy data management
Date: 22 - 24 August 2022
Location: Dandy Business Park, Vejle Denmark
Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2022
The EI.A conference series is organized by Energy Informatics.Academy (IE.A), and aim to connect researchers and practitioners of energy informatics in various scientific, technological, engineering and social fields to disseminate original research on the application of digital technology and information management theory and practice to facilitate the global transition toward sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Date: 24 - 25 August 2022
Location: Dandy Business Park, Vejle Denmark
(Due to the COVID-19 policy, the conference will be physically in Denmark and globally online participation)
2021 Events
Kick-off meeting of IEA IETS Annex XVIII sub-Task 3: Lessons learned, and value created with digitalization
Sub-task 3 is part of the IEA IETS Task XVIII: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence and Related Technologies for Energy Efficiency and GHG Emissions Reduction in Industry. The kick-off meeting introduce the main objectives in this sub-task, and invites seven speakers from industry, governmental agencies, and research institutes to share their projects related to digitalization in industry.
Date: 14 October 2021, 14-16.30 CET
Location: Zoom meeting
Energy Informatics.Academy Asia workshop 2021
The EI.A Asia worksho is co-organized with the Energy Informatics.Academy (EI.A) and the Sino-Danish Center (SDC) Sustainable Energy Systems, offers Ph.D. candidates and Master students a comprehensive collection of theoretical and practical aspects of big data, AI and digital twins in the energy domain and related sectors, especially focus on the demand side.
Expected date: 28 May 2021
Location: SDC building, Beijing China
(Due to the COVID-19 policy, the summer school might be held via a virtual (online) participation model)
Energy Informatics.Academy Conference Asia 2021
The EI.A conference series is organized by the Energy Informatics.Academy (IE.A), and aim to connect researchers and practitioners of energy informatics in various scientific, technological, engineering and social fields to disseminate original research on the application of digital technology and information management theory and practice to facilitate the global transition towards sustainable and resilient energy systems.
Expected date: 29 - 30 May 2022
Location: SDC building, Beijing China
(Due to the COVID-19 policy, the summer school might be held via a virtual (online) participation model)