全体演讲嘉宾1
1.荷兰DNV GL的KEMA实验室的RenéPeter Paul Smeets
演讲题目：欧洲T＆D交换技术的发展和趋势
RenéPeter Paul Smeets获得了硕士学位。埃因霍温大学物理学学位。1981年获得荷兰技术博士学位，并获得开关设备研究工作的博士学位。在1995年之前，他是埃因霍温大学的助理教授。1991年，他与日本东芝公司合作开发了开关设备。
1995年，他加入了荷兰KEMA。目前，他是DNV GL的KEMA实验室的服务区域负责人。2001年，他被任命为荷兰埃因霍温大学兼职教授，从事大功率开关领域的研究。他获得了六个国际奖项。2013年，他成为中国西安交通大学的兼职教授。
Smeets博士是CIGRE在新兴高压设备领域（例如高压真空和HVDC开关设备）的召集人和工作组以及研究/咨询委员会的成员。他是IEC高压开关设备的两个维护团队的召集人。他出版和编辑了三本书，并撰写了超过250篇有关电力系统测试和开关的国际论文。2008年，他被选为IEEE院士，并自2008年以来，他是“当前零点俱乐部”，目前interruption.All科学研究委员会在世界各地的董事长，他进行了高压设备的众多国际研讨会和培训，包括技术，应用，要求，测试和认证。
2.日本金泽大学田中康则（Yasunori Tanaka）演讲
题目：
电弧切换的基础研究- 实验和数值方法-
田中康则（Yasunori Tanaka）获得了理学学士，硕士学位和博士学位。分别于1993年，1995年和1998年获得日本名古屋大学电气工程学士学位。1998年4月，他被任命为日本金泽大学研究助理。从2002年8月到2010年3月，他是副教授。目前，他自2010年4月起在那所大学担任教授。他的研究兴趣包括断路器中的电弧中断现象，以及电弧/热等离子体的基础和应用：热等离子体的数值模拟，纳米粉末合成，等离子电弧切割，表面改性等。
3.李汉旭，韩国汉阳大学
Title of the Talk: HVDC Circuit Breaker - Design Considerations and Application Issues
Prof. Bang-Wook Lee is a Professor, School of Electrical engineering of Hanyang university Korea.
He received B.S, M.S. and PH.D degree from Hanyang university, Seoul, Korea in 1991, 1993, 1998. Before he joined Hanyang university, he worked for LS Industrial Systems as a senior researcher for 10 years in the research field of high voltgage electric equipment. Affer joining Hanayng university as a professor since 2008. His main research interests include HVDC insulation design, HVDC protection systems, transient phenomena analysis and the development of electrical equipment for HVDC system. He is now the member of CIGRE SC D1 representing Korea. And he also actively works for several working groups in CIGRE.
4. Jianying Zhong, State Grid Pinggao Group Co. LTD., China
Title of the Talk: Introduction on the Switchgear of DC Transmission System
Zhong Jianying, Ph.D., professorate senior engineer, doctoral supervisor, deputy to the twelfth National People's Congress, was born in 1975. She is currently the general manager assistant of State Grid Pinggao Group Co., Ltd., China.
Her research focuses on the power transmission and transformation equipment. She has led and accomplished 36 national and provincial key scientific and technological projects, and obtained 35 national, provincial (or ministerial), municipal scientific and technological achievements. She has won 4 first prizes and 15 second prizes at provincial and ministerial level, and 3 national outstanding patent awards. She has published 42 technical papers including 15 indexed by SCI or EI, and edited 2 books. She has been awarded many honorary titles, such as China Power Excellent Young Engineer Award, Henan Province Outstanding Science and Technology Talent, Henan Province Top Ten Outstanding Science and Technology Female, Pingdingshan Science and Technology Hero, State Grid Corporation of China’s Outstanding Expert, etc.
Invited Speakers
1. Satoru Yanabu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Title of the Talk: DC Current Interruption of CO2 and SF6 Beased on Self-excited Oscillation Under Transverse Magnetic Field
Satoru Yanabu was born on July 15, 1941. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1964, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., in 1971.After graduation from The University of Tokyo, he was with Toshiba, where he worked on high-voltage equipment. Since 2000, he has been with Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, where he is currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering and is engaged in high-voltage and high-current research. He is currently Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2012.
Dr. Yanabu is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, U.K., and a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. He is also a member of the Japan Engineering Academy and the Current Zero Club and is a Fellow Engineer of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., and a member of various international societies. His research interests are vacuum arcs and post arc phenomena, the axial magnetic field vacuum circuit breaker and SF6 puffer breaker, gas-insulated substation (GIS), DC circuit breaker and superconducting current limiting technology.
2. John Shea, Schneider-Electric, USA
Title of the Talk: Low Voltage Power Distribution Level DC Circuit Breaking
Received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1989. He is currently the Scientific Advisor for Schneider-Electric, based in Raleigh, North Carolina where he is involved in advanced distribution circuit protection technology and distributed energy systems. He is the chairman of the Raleigh IEEE Power Electronics Society chapter, associate editor for IEEE Electronics and Packaging Society and a longtime member of the IEEE Holm conference steering, operating and technical committees.
He was awarded the 2008 Holm Scientific Awardee for electrical contact erosion mechanisms, four prize papers, the Ralph Armington award for service to the electric contact community, and the E.O Forester service award for long time contributions to the IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society magazine. He presently holds 72 patents on various arc interruption and power distribution component designs, and written 30 journal articles and has made 30 conference presentations on various arc interruption power distribution component topics.
3. Riccardo Bini, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
Title of the Talk: DC Interruption Technologies for HVDC Transmission: State-of-Art and Outlook
Riccardo Bini在米兰理工大学获得机械工程硕士学位（2001年）和博士学位（2006年），他对焊接电弧进行了数值和实验研究。
他于2006年以科学家身份加入ABB公司研究，专注于开关电弧和高压断路器的开发。从2010年到2012年，他领导瑞士企业实验室的气体断路器小组，自2013年以来，他在全球范围内管理有关整个电压范围内交流和直流开关技术的企业研究产品组合。他是二十多位作者或合著者国际期刊或会议论文和四项专利。