From Fossil to Future: Reimagining the Grid for a Clean Energy Era

This is not your typical keynote. It’s a high-voltage crash-course that rewires how you think about power, climate and tech in just 30 minutes. Nina Möger lifts the lid on April’s Iberian blackout to show, in plain language and vivid metaphors, why a grid built for coal can’t withstand the explosive growth of rooftop solar, EVs and AI. You’ll feel the crackle of live energy as she reveals how software, data and human-centred design can turn blackouts into breakthroughs. Expect light-bulb moments about an industry you use every day yet rarely understand—then leave fired-up and ready to help build the resilient, renewable energy system of tomorrow.

The Why: Energy underpins every digital product, data-center, factory and home our audience cares about. Yet most leaders still assume “the grid will cope.” The Spanish-Portuguese blackout proved otherwise: a fossil-era architecture can’t support a renewables-driven economy. Understanding why it failed — and how software-enabled flexibility prevents the next outage — empowers attendees to future-proof their businesses, products and personal choices while accelerating decarbonisation.

Key Takeaways:

• Energy flipped on its head: The 20th-century model of “power plants chase our demand” is over; with renewables, demand must flex to nature’s rhythm, and yesterday’s mindset won’t keep the lights on.
• Demand can dance: Real-world stories of households and companies earning money—and slashing emissions—by shifting consumption to the greenest, most abundant hours of the day.
• Spend your time right: Don’t waste your own talent building software to optimise clicks; channel it into the technology that form the bedrock of a resilient, zero-carbon energy future.

This session is for...

• You build or invest in tech that relies on stable, affordable electricity.
• You lead sustainability or product strategy and need to translate “grid talk” into business advantage.
• You’re curious, climate-minded and want dinner-table mastery of terms like virtual inertia, flexibility markets and smart tariffs—without an electrical-engineering degree.