Speakers

Dr. Laurens Mackay is the founder of DC Opportunities, a Netherlands-based technology company specializing in direct current microgrids and distribution systems. His work bridges academic research and practical engineering, with a focus on direct current distribution, power electronics and protection. Laurens conducted research on DC power distribution grids at ETH Zurich and Delft University of Technology and holds a PhD from TU Delft, where his dissertation focused on the development of universal direct current distribution systems. He is also a workstream leader within the Open Compute Project’s Data Center Facility Power Distribution initiative, contributing his expertise to the development of Low Voltage Direct Current architectures for data centers.