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Addressing the challenges of reliability and energy convergence, the DC Bus architecture transcends traditional AC limitations, creating a direct DC energy exchange platform for EVs, grids, storage, and renewables. This not only reduces system complexity and costs but also dismantles technical barriers between stakeholders—automakers, Charge Point Operators (CPOs), and utilities. We will share insights on leveraging standardized DC Bus frameworks to accelerate Plug&Charge deployment, transforming the charging experience from "daunting" to "intuitive," thereby underpinning the deep convergence of transport and energy systems.

The EV industry has agreed on the destination — an open, interoperable smart charging ecosystem — but the path from ambition to delivery is where most initiatives stall. This opening panel brings together leaders from across the value chain to take stock of where collaboration has actually translated into real featuresand soluttions and where it's still stuck at the whitepaper stage. Expect a detailled look at what's genuinely been delivered so far, what's still just roadmap, and what needs to change for the next wave of collaboration to move faster.

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) can only scale through collaboration between OEMs, energy retailers, charge point manufacturers, aggregators, and grid operators. This session will share practical lessons from deploying V2G services in Europe, covering interoperability challenges, ISO 15118-20 readiness, customer onboarding, and ecosystem integration. The presentation aligns with the icnc26 theme by demonstrating how industry stakeholders must work together to establish an open and scalable smart charging ecosystem.

Smart charging depends on four things: grid capacity, energy contracts, charge station capabilities, and EV-driver demand. We've cracked the first three over the past fifteen years, but the moment a charge station is publicly accessible, we fail to establish a connection with the driver. This isn't a technical problem. It's rooted in the commercial agreements between CPOs and EMSPs, and closing that gap is exactly what "Collaboration at Scale" is about: fixing the ecosystem without reinventing the market model. This presentation coins an idea on how CPO’s and EMSP’s could collaborate in a way that financially benefits both of them, while still being able to provide lower prices for EV-drivers.

Every big CPO deployment — with smart charging, roaming, price-responsive scheduling, dynamic load management, and soon V2G — is, underneath, a messaging problem: hundreds of thousands of chargers holding persistent connections, with control messages that must reach entire fleets reliably and within seconds when energy prices or grid signals change. Yet most platforms still handle OCPP through custom gateways and closed middleware, so every manufacturer, CPO, and CSMS provider rebuilds and maintains the same integration layer alone.

We took a different route: we made OCPP a native protocol of RabbitMQ. Starting from the battle-tested architecture of RabbitMQ's Web MQTT plugin scalling to millions of connections (one can read read their blog post about MQTT), our open-source plugin lets EV chargers connect directly to the broker, with OCPP messages translated and exposed natively over AMQP. Backend services in any programming language simply consume from queues — inheriting RabbitMQ's routing, mutual TLS, monitoring, and horizontal scalability without another proprietary gateway in the middle.

This session shares what we learned building the plugin in Erlang: adapting an existing protocol plugin, handling connection deduplication across a cluster, terminating mutual TLS for OCPP Security Profile 3 why BEAM-style concurrency is a natural fit for fleets of devices that never disconnect and how to undergo OCA certification for it. We will show how the architecture supports real charging workloads — including integrating multiple variables like the day-ahead price, weather and sun, grid signals and user departure schedule, naturally fitting inside a message broker.

The connection to this year's theme is clear: an open smart charging ecosystem cannot scale if the foundational OCPP layer is not distributed. By moving charger connectivity into proven open-source messaging infrastructure, this project offers a reusable, secure, certifiable,  vendor-neutral foundation that hardware manufacturers, CPOs, CSMS providers, and energy companies can build on.

Europe's EV charging market is entering a decisive new phase. As investment tightens and consolidation accelerates, operators must decide not only where they are going, but whether their businesses are ready to move.

Orlin Radev, CEO of AMPECO, opens icnc26 with the choice this market now puts in front of every operator: get big, get niche, or get out.

All three paths can work. What has stopped working is the middle: too big to stay focused and too small to carry real weight. Drawing on what AMPECO sees across operators in more than 70 countries, he explores what each path requires, why utilization determines which acquisitions are worth making, and why operators preparing to move are first fixing the foundations beneath their businesses.

This is a session for the operators, boards, CEOs and investors weighing which direction to take, and what must be true underneath the business before that choice is even available. No operator controls the market. Every operator controls whether its business can move when the market does.

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Looking further out, this panel steps back from near-term deployment questions to ask what the full Renewable and EV ecosystem needs to look like by 2040 to support a fully electrified, renewables-heavy grid. Panelists will discuss how smart grids, clean energy integration, and mass EV adoption need to co-evolve — and, critically, how that long-term system stays designed around the driver rather than becoming purely a grid-management exercise. A forward-looking session bridging energy strategy and everyday charging experience.

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Interoperability has a blind spot: the moment a driver stands in front of a charger that will not start. Enera has analysed more than 5,000 real driver support calls from live UK and Irish charging networks, and this session presents the resulting failure taxonomy: authentication and roaming failures, session-start and connector issues, and the recurring cases where backend telemetry reported a healthy charger while the driver could not charge.

Support conversations are the ecosystem's missing error log: ground truth that OCPP status codes and CPMS dashboards do not capture, and a pool of data that CPOs, CPMS providers, and OEMs have historically never had access to, because it sat trapped in call centre notes.

We will walk through where the open charging ecosystem actually breaks in the field, and make the case that collaboration at scale requires one more open data loop: driver-experience data shared across the ecosystem as common infrastructure.

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Selling electricity used to be the core of the EV charging business. Now it's just the base layer. Next is orchestrating demand by influencing where and when drivers charge. MSP and CPO 2.0 mark the evolution of both sides of the network, working on two levers instead of one: more value from each session and more sessions from each charger.

Join the panel to find out how the MSP-CPO partnership model makes EV charging pay off for everyone: driving utilisation for CPOs, increasing loyalty for MSPs, easing grid congestion for DSOs and lowering charging costs for drivers.

Fifty electric trucks, one depot, and a grid connection that cannot feed them all at once. Yet every truck has to roll out charged by dawn. The answer is not a bigger grid connection but orchestration: a single real-time plan that coordinates trucks, chargers, on-site solar and battery, electricity prices and the site's power limit, so that every vehicle is ready on time at the lowest energy cost. Under the hood, this is a continuous optimization problem. Departure times and required charge come from the fleet's own systems, each charger behaves a little differently, the available headroom shifts with the sun and the battery, and prices change by the hour. The plan is recomputed continuously and translated into OCPP charging profiles every charger will actually follow. That is collaboration at scale made physical: an open smart charging ecosystem is not only chargers speaking a common language, but every system at a depot speaking to every other, so a site can electrify by using energy and infrastructure smarter instead of waiting for grid expansion. This talk walks through that control loop on a real depot and closes with a live demo of the whole site running as one system.

As DC fleet charging rolls out for trucks and buses across Europe, CPOs and fleet operators face the same old constraints. Grid connections are still limited, energy prices are still volatile – and now we’re charging MWs per vehicle, not 32 kW. Intelligent load management is more important than ever, but where should it actually happen, in the cloud or locally? This session takes a clear position on that debate, and what’s at risk for operators when it’s underestimated. At the protocol layer, that means examining how OCPP and Modbus fit together in practice, and whether OCPP proxy setups support interoperability. The core argument is that a smart charging ecosystem thrives when every component focuses on what it does best, while working closely with the others.

Smart charging doesn't happen by itself — every smart charging session sits between grid constraints, regulatory requirements, and driver expectations as well as commercial expectations , and those forces don't always pull in the same direction. This panel examines how that tension plays out in real deployments: what grid operators need to see, what regulation currently allows or blocks, and what drivers will actually tolerate before smart charging starts to feel like a compromise rather than a benefit. Panelists will share where practice has forced a rethink of theory.

EV charging reliability is often a story of death by a thousand cuts. Small, seemingly isolated issues across chargers, networks, software, and operations compound over time - eroding Charge Success, increasing operating costs, and leaving revenue unrealized.  And too often, drivers feel those cuts before operators even know there’s a problem, leaving revenue on the table.  

In this session, Andrea will use real-world operator experiences, data, and use cases to expose the reliability problems hiding beneath traditional uptime metrics. She’ll show how issues that appear minor - or remain completely invisible in conventional monitoring - can accumulate into failed or frustrating charging experiences and significant operational and financial impact.

Attendees will see how connecting fragmented data and looking at reliability through the lens of Charge Success can surface these hidden problems earlier, uncover their root causes, and help operators act before their customers become the first warning system.

In this session, Andrea will use real-world operator experiences, data, and use cases to expose the reliability problems hiding beneath traditional uptime metrics. She’ll show how issues that appear minor - or remain completely invisible in conventional monitoring - can accumulate into failed or frustrating charging experiences and significant operational and financial impact.

Attendees will see how connecting fragmented data and looking at reliability through the lens of Charge Success can surface these hidden problems earlier, uncover their root causes, and help operators act before their customers become the first warning system.

Small and mid-sized fleets need reliable access to charging along their routes. While public charging infrastructure is growing, coverage is still limited in many areas and can come at a higher cost.

One way to close this gap faster is to make better use of depot charging infrastructure that already exists. That’s why Spirii has partnered with Daimler Truck to build the TruckCharge network – enabling fleets to open their depot chargers to trusted partners.

The result is a shared charging network where depot owners can generate revenue from available capacity, while other fleets gain access to reliable and cost-effective charging where they need it.

ISO 15118-20 is one of the relevant technical enablers of an open smart charging ecosystem, extending Plug & Charge capabilities toward smart and bidirectional charging . This panel brings together implementers who are putting the standard into practice to discuss real-world interoperability experience: where the standard delivers cross-vendor compatibility out of the box, where implementation choices still create friction, and what's needed for -20 adoption to scale beyond early movers.

Heavy transport charging moves quickly from kilowatts to megawatts, and grid connections cannot keep pace. High-capacity connections can take years to secure, creating a structural mismatch between fleet electrification timelines and network delivery. This session takes an engineering view of how battery-integrated, grid-smart charging architecture resolves that mismatch: centralised power conversion for multi-megawatt sites, integrated storage to operate within constrained connections, and smart load management that treats the site as a coordinated energy system rather than a collection of chargers.

The topic of this session connects directly to the icnc26 theme. Deploying this architecture at scale is not something any single player can do alone. It requires open interfaces between chargers, storage, energy management, and network operators, and shared technical standards that let CPOs, fleet operators, and OEMs build on common ground. The talk sets out where open collaboration is already working in high-power charging, where the technical gaps remain, and what the ecosystem needs to agree on next to make megawatt charging deployable today rather than after the grid catches up.

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As ISO 15118-20 lays the foundation for the next generation of smart charging, it is also transforming collaboration across vehicles, charging stations, and digital services. By enabling more advanced and standardized communication between EVs and chargers, the standard plays a central role in establishing an open smart charging ecosystem.

At the same time, growing regulatory pressure from NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is making robust cybersecurity a necessity for both vehicles and charging stations. As critical and highly exposed assets, they must be protected against evolving cyber threats to ensure trust, resilience, and secure ecosystem growth.

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A change of pace from the industry and infrastructure conversations: this session centers the EV driver's own experience of vehicle-to-grid charging — what it's actually like day to day, what surprised them, and whether the promised benefits held up in practice. A grounded, personal counterpoint to the panels on standards, investment, and policy — a reminder of who the ecosystem is ultimately being built for.

Smart and bidirectional charging are repeatingly  framed as the next big value pool in eMobility — but the investment case isn't uniform across the fragmented EV ecosystem. This panel takes a critical look at if and where the money is actually flowing, where returns are proving harder to realize than the pitch decks suggested, and which parts of the smart charging stack are genuinely investable today versus still speculative. Expect a frank, occasionally skeptical conversation aimed at separating durable opportunity from hype.

Approximately 50% of EVs today cannot participate in public smart charging because their API is not able to steer the session. Smart charging needs another way to reach the other 50% if it is going to scale and provide the flexibility the grid needs to support the energy transition. This session presents how OCPI 2.2.1 Charging Profiles open that route, scaling public smart charging through interoperability between the MSP and the CPO. With OCPI 2.2.1 Charging Profiles, the MSP builds an optimised profile from the driver’s departure time and state of charge and sends it to the charge point, which allows the CPO to keep control of the session. Steering now happens at the charger rather than through the vehicle API, so it works for any car plugged in, with or without one. Live across 1,500 charge points in the Netherlands from August 2026, Charging Profiles raise the scope of steerable sessions from roughly 50% to 70% OEMs, and potentially to 100% as more are set to adopt the standard.

In this session you’ll learn how charger-side steering works end to end, why it achieves the reliable charging execution that drives wider adoption, and above all, how MSP-CPO interoperability is the mechanism for scaling smart charging across all networks.

The protocol jungle is familiar to everyone here: inconsistent OCPP and ISO 15118 implementations, error codes that mean different things per vendor, interoperability that only breaks on site. EVerest, the open firmware baseline most of this room already knows, is the shared answer to it, now running on hundreds of thousands of charging stations in the field from dozens of vendors. This is not another stack introduction. It focuses on the problem every CPO and CPMS vendor hits the moment they scale: how do you actually test and validate charging interoperability, fast and at scale, without a warehouse full of hardware. The core of the talk is testing on true digital twins. The same open stack runs in the cloud as a virtual charger park, where each virtual charger executes 100% production EVerest firmware rather than a mocked OCPP endpoint: a virtual EVSE and a virtual EV inside one EVerest instance exchange real ISO 15118 traffic and drive the real state machines, while it connects with OCPP to the CPMS under test. Engineers get two control modes. Interactively, you get a UI to the dockerized EVerest instances, override charger states, plug and unplug cars, inject errors, and read live logs to catch hidden bugs. Programmatically, side-channel APIs can trigger the same plug and unplug events, steer EV behavior (arrival, SOC, authentication), and inject faults and

timeouts, all scriptable from CI/CD with ephemeral instances spun up per run and cleaned up automatically. You can pin specific EVerest versions, edit configuration and certificates, and model anything from a single AC port to load-balanced HPC satellites across AC, DC, bidirectional, and MCS, with OCPP 1.6/2.0.1/2.1, ISO 15118-2/-20, DIN 70121, and Plug & Charge, scaling from one charger to thousands in minutes. This is also the approach the Open Charge Alliance relies on as a Golden System under Test for its OCTT compliance tool. The same setup lets anyone build digital replicas of their real in-field charger parks and run detailed tests virtually. The shorter second thread is where those test results and field issues turn into shared priorities: the EVerest CPO Forum, EVerest's new end-user group, where operators and vendors align on their field needs, from harmonized error codes and reliability KPIs to open tender templates that give "EVerest-inside" real technical meaning.

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Smart charging is usually implemented as a feature inside a single CPMS. Every operator rebuilds the same logic, and switching platforms means losing it. In this session we show a different architecture: smart charging as an independent app layer that plugs into any CPMS through open protocols. Using our ihomer smart charging implementation on public charging networks in the Netherlands as a live case, we walk through how setpoints and charge point behaviour are orchestrated across platform boundaries, including the failure modes we hit in production and how we solved them. This is "Collaboration at Scale" in practice: an open ecosystem only works if smart charging capabilities are interoperable building blocks rather than platform lock-in features.

Flexible Fleets: Turning EV Mobility into a Grid Asset
Fleet electrification is emerging as one of the fastest‑growing sources of new demand on Europe’s electricity systems. Corporate, municipal and logistics fleets are electrifying at scale, driven by decarbonisation targets, total‑cost‑of‑ownership advantages and regulatory pressure. At the same time, these fleets concentrate charging demand in specific locations and time windows, placing growing pressure on distribution grids.

Yet fleets also represent a unique opportunity. Vehicles are predictable, controllable, and often parked for extended periods. With the right digital tools, charging strategies and market conditions, fleet EVs can shift demand, optimise connection capacity, and provide flexibility services that support grid stability rather than strain it. Unlocking this potential will be critical as electricity networks face simultaneous load growth from EVs, electrified industry and digital infrastructure.

This EVision Business Hub session explores how fleet electrification can evolve from a grid constraint into a system asset — and what is needed to make this transition viable at scale.

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OCPP and ISO 15118 are often presented as complementary building blocks of the smart charging ecosystem: ISO 15118 for EV-to-charger communication and OCPP for charger-to-backend operation, monitoring, and control. In practice, however, there is still a significant operational gap between both worlds. Even with OCPP v2.1, only selected ISO 15118 data structures are transported through OCPP. The remaining operational aspects of ISO 15118 including SLAC, SDP, low-level communication setup, certificate-handling details, and protocol-state diagnostics remain largely invisible to OCPP. As a result, they cannot be configured, monitored, managed, or live-debugged from the CSMS side in a standardized way. Interoperability issues between EVs and charging stations are difficult to diagnose. Security-relevant anomalies are hard to distinguish from harmless protocol failures. Manufacturers, operators, roaming platforms, and service providers often lack a shared, standardized view of what actually happened during the ISO 15118 session setup. As a result, debugging remains vendor-specific, slow, expensive, and often dependent on local packet captures or proprietary support access.

This gap may become a serious operational and compliance issue for CPOs under the NIS2 regime. Operators are increasingly expected to understand, monitor, and secure the full lifecycle of their critical infrastructure, including failure analysis, incident response, evidence collection, and supplier-dependent remote access paths. If key ISO 15118 functions remain hidden behind vendor-specific implementations, CPOs may struggle to demonstrate effective control over security-relevant charging processes at scale.

The session proposes an approach for securely exposing ISO 15118 operational state, diagnostics, and selected live-debugging capabilities through OCPP, its Device Model and some extensions. The goal is not just to tunnel arbitrary low-level traffic and by this to create new backdoors, but to define controlled, role-based, auditable, and privacy-aware management interfaces for ISO 15118 components. Large-scale smart charging will only work if the ecosystem can operate, diagnose, and secure complex multi-protocol deployments across organizational boundaries. Open standards must not stop at the happy path. They also need to cover failure analysis, security monitoring, remote diagnostics, and lifecycle management.

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The first phase of the open charging ecosystem focused on connecting vehicles, chargers, platforms, payment systems and roaming networks. As charging infrastructure grows, openness must also extend to energy management and day-to-day operations.

This session explores how digital tools, energy storage and intelligent energy management can help operators address grid constraints, improve infrastructure utilization and manage charging sites more efficiently throughout their lifecycle.

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As the EV infrastructure sector pivots toward a unified, open smart charging ecosystem, technical execution faces unprecedented VUCA challenges (Volatility, Uncertainty,Complexity, and Ambiguity). This session explores the critical intersection of technical interoperability and strategic agility. It provides a practical roadmap for engineers, developers, and product leaders to design resilient frameworks that support "Collaboration at Scale," ensuring that multi-partner networks remain stable, adaptive, and scalable under operational pressure.

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As the EV infrastructure sector pivots toward a unified, open smart charging ecosystem, technical execution faces unprecedented VUCA challenges (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). This session explores the critical intersection of technical interoperability and strategic agility. It provides a practical roadmap for engineers, developers, and product leaders to design resilient frameworks that support "Collaboration at Scale," ensuring that multi-partner networks remain stable, adaptive, and scalable under operational pressure.

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Scaling heavy-duty EV adoption requires seamless collaboration between fleet operators, charging networks, and energy providers. In this session, we explore how Libergy's AI-driven route and charge planning combines charge point, pricing, and vehicle data to optimize public and semi-private charging for e-trucks. As a provider-neutral platform — no vehicle OEM, no CPO, no energy supplier — we show why an interoperable ecosystem is the foundation needed to guarantee reliable charging away from home depots and achieve TCO parity with diesel. For charge point operators, this also means more predictable, bookable demand. We will share practical insights and aggregated experience from our ongoing pilots with logistics operators running e-trucks in long-haul transport.

Every big CPO deployment — with smart charging, roaming, price-responsive scheduling, dynamic load management, and soon V2G — is, underneath, a messaging problem: hundreds of thousands of chargers holding persistent connections, with control messages that must reach entire fleets reliably and within seconds when energy prices or grid signals change. Yet most platforms still handle OCPP through custom gateways and closed middleware, so every manufacturer, CPO, and CSMS provider rebuilds and maintains the same integration layer alone.

We took a different route: we made OCPP a native protocol of RabbitMQ. Starting from the battle-tested architecture of RabbitMQ's Web MQTT plugin scalling to millions of connections (one can read read their blog post about MQTT), our open-source plugin lets EV chargers connect directly to the broker, with OCPP messages translated and exposed natively over AMQP. Backend services in any programming language simply consume from queues — inheriting RabbitMQ's routing, mutual TLS, monitoring, and horizontal scalability without another proprietary gateway in the middle.

This session shares what we learned building the plugin in Erlang: adapting an existing protocol plugin, handling connection deduplication across a cluster, terminating mutual TLS for OCPP Security Profile 3 why BEAM-style concurrency is a natural fit for fleets of devices that never disconnect and how to undergo OCA certification for it. We will show how the architecture supports real charging workloads — including integrating multiple variables like the day-ahead price, weather and sun, grid signals and user departure schedule, naturally fitting inside a message broker.

The connection to this year's theme is clear: an open smart charging ecosystem cannot scale if the foundational OCPP layer is not distributed. By moving charger connectivity into proven open-source messaging infrastructure, this project offers a reusable, secure, certifiable,  vendor-neutral foundation that hardware manufacturers, CPOs, CSMS providers, and energy companies can build on.

Today's RFID cards in EV charging authenticate with static identifiers that anyone can clone in seconds, a security model that fails the RED Directive and cannot scale across roaming networks. This session introduces nextGen RFID: certificate-backed RFID cards that bring PKI-grade authentication to the same tap-and-charge experience drivers already know. The design is built for collaboration at scale: it eliminates the need for bilateral secret-sharing between CPOs and eMSPs, enabling secure roaming through shared root certificates and protocol-level interoperability rather than proprietary agreements. Certificate validation, offline fallback, and revocation all rely on open standards already adopted by the ecosystem. The session will walk through the technical architecture, the layered security implementation levels (from identifier-only migration up to fully distributed certificate authorization), and the cross-stakeholder migration path needed to bring this to production across Europe and beyond.

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Sharing our experience adopting Plug and Charge from an EMSP perspective. Celebrating industry developments which have enabled interoperability and widespread use of the feature. Looking at the current and future state of Plug and Charge, the role it may play in the public EV charging industry and the technical solutions we can implement today to accelerate adoption.

Wrap up day 2!

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Festival of eMobility

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