Please find here the presentations of all the sessions of IFBF 2026 in PDF
Day Zero – Monday 15 June
14:00 – PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP – MEMBRANES IN FLOW BATTERIES
A pre-conference workshop entirely dedicated to the role of membranes in flow batteries!
- Bernd Bauer, Fumatech: The Role of Membranes in Flow Batteries
- Wim Beatse, Chemours:
- Pegah Shadmanheidary, KU Leuven: Novel, Tunable, Low-Cost Anion Exchange Membrane for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
- Patrick Sullivan, Flux XII, Inc.: PPT
- Tülay İnan, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center:
- John Miller, ENTEK International: Delivering Performance and Value in the Next Generation of Redox Flow Battery Membranes
- Moderated by Kees van de Kerk, President, Flow Batteries Europe
Day One – Tuesday 16 June
09:00 – WELCOME (NO SLIDES)
- Claudia Patricolo, Journalist in energy, climate change and business. Master of Ceremony
- Patrick Clerens, Director, IFBF
- Kees van de Kerk, President, Flow Batteries Europe
09:15 – 2026 – TIME FOR FLOW BATTERIES!
Leading members of the flow battery industry give us their perspectives on the latest developments
- Kees van de Kerk, Flow Batteries Europe: The world has changed. So has the question.
- Jeehyang Huh, H2, Inc.: Vanadium Flow Battery Scaling: Operating a 1 MWh C&I System and Implementing a 20 MWh Project in Korea
- Jonathan Marren, Invinity Energy Systems: Energy Storage Without Limits: Powering VFBs Forward
- Min Tang, Rongke Power: Financial Benefits, Scalability, and Success Stories of Commercial Ready Vanadium Flow Battery
- Eugene Beh, Quino Energy: Mega-Scaling Aqueous Organic FBs: Manufacturing and Deployments
- Christoph Stelzer, CellCube Energy Storage: Long Duration Energy Storage for a Sustainable Future
- Moderated by Claudia Patricolo, Journalist
11:00 – HELPING EUROPEAN MANUFACTURERS PROGRESS BEYOND EUROPE
- Mr. Peteris Ustubs, DG International Partnerships, European Commission: Helping European Manufacturers Progress Beyond Europe
- Stefania Ciraolo, Head of the EIB Group office in Hungary, European Investment Bank: < Helping European Manufacturers Progress Beyond Europe (part II)
- Patrick Clerens, Director, IFBF:
11:45 – MARKETS TRENDS AND BANKABILITY DYNAMICS (NO SLIDES)
- Terry Perles, TTP Squared: Vanadium Market Analysis
- Michael Fischer, Boysen Energy: Confidence in industrialisation and mass production
- John Alper, CMBlue: SolidFlow batteries and beyond, scaling lab to prototype and commercial manufacturing
- Moderated by Marlene Vesterdal, Independent Vanadium Analyst
14:00 – DOES SIZE MATTER? LARGE FLOW BATTERIES AND MASS DEPLOYMENTS
- Jean-Louis Cols, Invinity Energy Systems: GWh Scale VFBs for Data Centres and Critical Infrastructure
- Jeremy Peters, Vecco Group: Electrolyte at Scale: Supplying AI Datacentres and Competing Beyond Chinese Dominance
- Antonio Zingales, SAET Spa: Large Flow Battery applications for Long Duration and AI Data Centres. The new segment between lithium and Hydrogen
- Min Tang, Rongke Power: Demonstration and Deployment of Fe-V RFB for Applications in Middle-East
- Georg Lieser, J. Schmalz GmbH: Advancing Redox Flow Stack Technology: Setting New Standards for Sustainable Energy Storage
- Shaun Vagne, Idemitsu Australia: Demonstrating the vanadium supply chain in Australia: Learnings from design and development
- Moderated by Aurelien Ballagny, Head of Policy, Flow Batteries Europe
16:00 – US AND EU PERSPECTIVES ON ENERGY STORAGE
- Abhishek Somani, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory:
- Juergen Wieshoff, Flow Batteries Europe: The EU Perspective on Energy Storage
- Moderated by Claudia Patricolo, Journalist
16:30 – MEMBRANES IN FLOW BATTERIES
16:40 – FLOW BATTERIES IN EASTERN EUROPE – THE HUNGARIAN CASE (NO SLIDES)
- Peter Kaderjak, Hungarian Battery Association:
- Sándor Herczeg, Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority:
- György Czipó, Ideona:
- Daniel Czakó, Greenergy Hungary:
- László Szabó Dr., Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Energy Committee:
- Moderated by Patrick Clerens, Director, IFBF
Day Two – Wednesday 17 June
09:00 – VANADIUM SYSTEMS
- Yuta Ochi, Sumitomo Electric Industries: Development of a new Vanadium Flow Battery
- Mike Perry, Storion Energy: High-Performance Vanadium Flow Battery (VFB) Stacks
- Yannick Bachirou Seiler, Fraunhofer ICT: Current status and outlook of the 2 MW / 20 MWh vanadium redox-flow-battery at Fraunhofer ICT
- Fraser Hughson, Allegro Energy: Microemulsion electrolytes
- Alasdair Robertson, Invinity Energy Systems: Inside a VFB: Investigating Real-Time Materials Ageing
- Yin Zhang, Wontai Power: From materials to systems: Independent innovation throughout the entire chain of high-power and low-cost flow batteries
- Moderated by Adam Whitehead, Teamlead Material Science, CellCube Energy Storage
11:00 – OTHER INORGANIC SYSTEMS
- Luca Magagnin, Politecnico di Milano: Scaling Assessment of a Zinc-Manganese Flow Battery
- Phalguni Anurag, University of Southampton: System-Level Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of a novel Converter-less Hybrid Soluble Lead Flow and Lithium-Ion Battery System
- Alena Neudert, University of Bayreuth: Investigation of Hybrid all-Iron Redox Flow Batteries
- Andrii Bondar, R.Flo: Why iron flow batteries fail, and what actually makes them work
- Ahmad Alem, Technical University of Leoben: Impact of Activation Methods on Fouling Resistance and Durability of Carbon Felt Electrodes in Organic Flow Batteries
- Kathryn Toghill, University of Lancaster: Stabilisation of Iron-Ligand Complexes for Use in Redox Flow Batteries
- Moderated by Bret Adams, Management Consultant, Kainos Consulting
14:00 – ORGANIC SYSTEMS
- Anu Jacob, CIC Energigune: A Molecularly Engineered Phenazine Anolyte for Long-Term Stability in Neutral Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
- Jan Girshick, Fraunhofer UMSICHT: Charging the City on Demand: Scalable Flow Battery Terminals for Emission-Free Urban Transit
- Kathryn Toghill, Lancaster University: A Hybrid Redox Flow Battery for Energy Storage and On-Demand Hydrogen Generation
- Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Insights into Crossover in Membrane Separators for Flow Batteries
- Kees Stigter, Hendor Pumps & Filters: The Hendor Flow Battery Pump Concept: Engineering Reliability
- Moderated by Anthony Price, Programme Coordinator, IFBF
16:00 – NEW FORMS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS AND CHALLENGES IN LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION
- Ryoichi Kanega, NIAIST Japan: New aqueous Flow Battery
- Maik Heuer, DILICO: In situ characterization of temperature, current and impedance
- Detlef Jannes, NTUST: Reliability in scaling of flow batteries
- Moderated by Claudia Patricolo, Journalist
16:30 – POSTER SPEED PITCH “JUST A MINUTE”!
As a prelude to the IFBF Poster session, invited poster presenters will have ”just a minute” to convince you visiting their poster!
Day Three – Thursday 18 June
09:00 – MANUFACTURING, PERFORMANCE, AND RELIABILITY
- Jiří Charvát, Pinflow: Electrode Durability and Performance in Electrochemical Vanadium Electrolyte Production
- Crispin Hawes, AMG Titanium: Building a Scalable VFB Future: High-Performance Electrolyte Driving Cost Reduction, Optimised Supply Chains and Large-Scale Recyclability
- Min Kang, JNTG: Improving Performance and Durability of VRFB Using N,O Co-Doped Graphite Felt Electrodes
- Fabian Brandes, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences:Towards cost efficient production of tubular flow battery stacks
- Thorsten Seipp, Volterion: Operational performance of a scalable 30 kW Flow-Battery Stack
- Rick Winter, Enduro Corp: Insights into delivering unbreakable, turnkey and cost-effective flow batteries with exceptional availability, flexibility and safety
- Jan Grosse Austing, VANEVO: Performance evaluation of VANEVOs glued stacks
- Moderated by Anthony Price, Programme Coordinator, IFBF
11:30 – BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONS
- Wei Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: High level view of PNNL activity, explanation of Launch pad Alternative chemistries, and motivation
- Scott Watkins, Kyung-In Synthetic Corporation (KISCO): Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry: Scalable Hydrocarbon Ionomers for Next-Generation Flow Batteries
- Jens Noack, Fraunhofer ICT: Current Flow Battery Projects, Research and Developments at Fraunhofer ICT
- Scott Childers, Stryten Energy: Global Flow Battery Initiative
- Moderated by Claudia Patricolo, Journalist
12:30 – CLOSING REMARKS AND POSTER SESSION AWARDS
- Claudia Patricolo, Journalist