The 2nd Smart Energy Cluster Annual Summit will take place on Tuesday, 7 July 2026, from 12:00 PM to 13:30 PM EEST / UTC+3, on the Island of Rhodes, Greece.
The event will be held as part of the 17th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications — IISA 2026, within the 6th International Workshop on AI & Data Analytics in the Energy Sector, featuring the #SmartEnergyCluster.
Bringing together the Cluster projects STUNNED, SMARTeeSTORY, AI-EFFECT, ENPOWER, REN+HOMES, and PVSmile, the Summit will focus on how smart buildings, AI-driven services, digital twins, energy communities, and citizen empowerment can accelerate Europe’s transition towards a more sustainable, flexible, and efficient energy system.
The agenda is presented down below:
Agenda text
Smart Energy Cluster, 2nd Annual Summit. 6th International Workshop on AI & Data Analytics in the Energy Sector — Advancing the Energy Transition through Smart Buildings, AI-Driven Services and Empowered Communities.
The programme image gives Tuesday, 7 July 2026, 13:30–14:30 EEST (UTC+3), Island of Rhodes, Greece, IISA 2026.
13:30–13:35 Welcome and overview — Katerina Papapostolou (NTUA). BUSINESS2ACT: motivating and empowering Businesses to Act towards the green energy transition; the new umbrella of the Smart Energy Cluster.
13:35–14:00 Session 1 — Empowering Citizens and Communities for an Inclusive Energy Transition. Participatory tools, smart contracts, blockchain-enabled services, energy citizenship models and replicable positive-energy home solutions turn passive consumers into active prosumers and energy citizens, supporting demand response, self-consumption and energy efficiency.
13:35–13:38 EMPOWER — Transforming passive consumers across sectors into active energy citizens. Ana Pereira, Project Manager, CEVE — Cooperativa Eléctrica do Vale d’Este.
13:38–13:41 STUNNED — From Complexity to Participation: Energy Community Configurations Addressed by STUNNED Approach. Emanuele Berta, Energy Transition Engineer, RINA Consulting.
13:41–13:44 REN+HOMES — A universal methodology for positive energy homes and residential districts. Dimitris Pallantzas, HPH.
13:44–14:00 Session 1 panel discussion, moderated by Katerina Papapostolou (NTUA).
14:00–14:25 Session 2 — Digital Intelligence and Smart Solutions for Buildings and Grids. AI-powered services, digital twins, data spaces, smart-readiness frameworks and dedicated AI testing facilities for building and grid intelligence, including an energy-sector European AI Testing & Experimentation Facility, historical building energy performance and large-scale photovoltaic integration through GenAI Digital Twins.
14:00–14:03 AI-EFFECT — Testing and Experimentation Facility for AI in the Energy sector. Gianluca Lipari, European Projects Coordinator, EPRI Europe.
14:03–14:06 SMARTeeSTORY — Enabling Digital Intelligence in Heritage Buildings: SMARTeeSTORY’s Approach to Smart Automation, Control and Comfort Preservation. Emanuele Berta, Energy Transition Engineer, RINA Consulting.
14:06–14:09 PVSmile — AI/ML, GenAI Digital Twins and decentralised models for community-integrated PV systems. Massimo Bertoncini, ENG.
14:09–14:25 Session 2 panel discussion, moderated by Katerina Papapostolou (NTUA). 14:25–14:30 End of the workshop: conclusions and next steps.