Professor Sergio Ramos participated as session chair for “Renewable Energy in Action: Building Sustainable Communities,” where he also presented the paper “Virtual Energy Sharing: Collective Self-Consumption and Allocation Coefficients in Solar Communities.” His presentation explored innovative models for virtual energy exchange, highlighting new approaches for collective self-consumption and fair distribution mechanisms within solar communities.

Dr. Joao Soares participated as Keynote Speaker, delivering the invited lecture “Scalable and Explainable AI-driven Optimization for Complex Energy Problems.” His keynote focused on how artificial intelligence can enhance decision-making in modern energy systems, ensuring solutions that are not only powerful and computationally scalable but also transparent and interpretable for real-world decision-makers. Dr. Soares addressed how explainable AI is becoming a crucial component in promoting trust and adoption in critical energy infrastructure.