Natalie Samovich
Natalie is heading Research and Innovation projects at Enercoutim within digitalisation in the energy domain. She is based in Lisbon, with the Solar Demonstration platform and Solar Lab projects located in the Algarve region. She is developing spin-off ventures in digitalisation of energy. The Solar Demonstration Platform was co-founded in 2011 and established an innovative shared renewable infrastructures awards nominated model.
Natalie contributes her expertise as a chair of WG 1 on Grids ETIP-SNET and Chairs Working group Energy in the Alliance of IoT Innovation (AIOTI). She is actively engaged in HorizonEurope program and manages a number of projects related to big data in energy and interoperability. She also serves as an advisory board member for R&I projects and through mentorship programs. www.smarterschool.eu is a spin-off solution focused on bringing digital energy solutions and IEQ solutions within public and private sectors - spin off from the H2020 research project.
Natalie holds MBA from U of Rochester, Simon school and U of Bern; MSEng in Sustainable Energy Systems from MIT Portugal Program (IST/MIT). The research interests are within renewable energy systems digitalisation, Internet of Things impact on energy systems and the related socio-economic impact issues within energy communities.
Sessions in which Natalie Samovich participates
Monday 17 June, 2019
Privacy in the IoT is driven by the wish of consumers, enabled (or not) by standards, enforced by law, and can be a threat for business models. This session consists of presentations that give an introduction into the topic, introduce business models for IoT platforms that do not necessarily rely on exploiting the user's personal data, and show standards and solutions that pave the path towards an IoT and business models that d...
Digital Signatures for services (banking, payment, energy, education, care, mobility, connectivity…) and Digital Signatures for architectures (virtual and analogue enablers of connectivity) are defined by stakeholders that organize themselves, ICANN style, without any commercial intent to take profit elsewhere. They are a tool to complement current actions on procurement and local agency as in this kind of SLA it does not matter that the original data sets and ...
Security and privacy are major concerns for the use and acceptance of the IoT, especially in cases where private, non-aggregated data are concerned. The use of VICINITY Platform combined with secure storage and authorized data transactions respecting GDPR regulations, aims to address privacy challenges of applications. To ensure that the IoT users are fully aware to whom, for which data and what purpose, they give consent ...
Thursday 20 June, 2019
What market incentives do we have and need to reach the goals of “DDD” - Decarbonisation, Digitalisation and Decentralisation? What ecosystem enablement, what investment, what level of scale-ups, and tools do we need to build Energy Marketplaces? What are the requirements form the investment community? Are enabling technologies ready for the challenge? Are communities, citizens and the public sector ready for the challenge?