Don McDonnell is the Worldwide Energy & Utilities Partner Leader at AWS, where he drives global AI-powered solutions strategy for the energy sector. His career spans executive leadership at KW International, CES International, and 14 years leading McDonnell Group. A U.S. Navy combat veteran and recognised keynote speaker, Don brings strategic vision and hands-on market expertise to the Energy Edge stage.

Neil Procter is Technical Director & Chief Architect at Inardua, specialising in enterprise Salesforce solutions for the Energy & Utilities sector. He joined Inardua from Centrica, where he led customer platforms spanning £2bn+ in revenue and five million customers across British Gas and Hive. Neil leads Inardua's technical and architecture teams, driving Salesforce innovation and agentic AI advances for some of the UK's largest energy businesses.

Ryan is a Partner at Baringa and leads their Energy Services practice providing advisory services across the low carbon energy solutions and supply markets. He is a specialist in the electricity market advising Europe’s largest energy suppliers, investors and large energy users. He has a deep understanding of the B2B energy market and led the UK Government’s policy design to support B2B customers and energy suppliers through the energy crisis.

Ben is a Director with extensive experience across both B2C and B2B retail energy markets. Ben specialises in advanced analytics and customer segmentation modelling, with particular expertise in developing Customer Lifetime Value model to drive profitability and inform next-best-action strategies. More recently, his work has centred on modelling the impact of Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS) and low-carbon solutions on margin, enabling organisations to better understand value creation in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.

Carl leads Capgemini’s Energy Retail and Central Markets business, bringing nearly four decades of experience in large‑scale digital transformation, complex sourcing and enterprise technology programmes for energy and infrastructure clients. Carl has nearly four decades of experience in digital transformation and enterprise technology for energy clients including Centrica, EDF Energy and National Grid. He champions Capgemini's partnerships across the sector, including with Gorilla.

Ruben Van den Bossche is co-founder and CEO of Gorilla, where he leads the company’s long-term strategy and drives its international growth. He is a tech innovator focused on transforming the energy retail sector, and the creator of the Energy Margin Intelligence (EMI) category, a new approach that helps retailers see, steer and protect margin across pricing, forecasting, risk and finance. Ruben holds a PhD in Cloud Computing.

Joris, a co-founder and VP of Product and Engineering at Gorilla, is responsible for shaping product strategies, driving performance, and leading teams in product development and engineering. With over 10 years of experience in the energy sector, he brings deep industry knowledge to building data-driven products for energy retailers. Before Gorilla, Joris was a Product Manager at November Five, where he was building his expertise in product portfolios and leading product teams.

Harry is a leader within the Customer team at Gorilla. With fifteen years experience across the software sector and the past year focused on energy, he helps customers demonstrate the value of the Gorilla Platform, and as the industry moves toward energy margin management, the impact that shift can have on energy retailers. Helping them truly navigate an increasingly complex and fast-changing market.