Laurent Schmitt
Head of Utilities & European Developments, Dcbel
Laurent Schmitt is listed as Head of Utilities & European Developments, Dcbel. Laurent spoke at Enlit Europe 2026 in November 2026 (speaker, “From Energy Data to Action: Industry perspectives, architecture and value creation for the Common European Energy Data Space”). Speaks mainly at Energy and Utilities events.
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- Sector: Energy and Utilities
About
Laurent Schmitt has joined dcbel early January 2022 as CEO of Dcbel Europe as well as head of Utility vertical while funding Digital4Grids. He has been working for the last 25 years through the Automation, IT and Digitisation of the Power Industry. Before joining Dcbel, he was the Secretary General of ENTSO-E for the past 4 years and Global Smart Grid Strategy Leader at General Electric Grid Solutions. Laurent worked in Europe, the United States and Asia, on all sectors of the electricity value chain from power generation controls, intro trading and market, Grid management as well as DER integration and Microgrid community. Laurent has contributed to several strategic committees in CIGRE, IEC, EPRI and ETIPSnet and is now the Chair of the Digital Committee of SmartEn (the European association for Demand Side Flexibility) as well as Co chair through the European V2X coalition of willing and represents SolarPowerEurope through the Demand Response European Stakeholder meeting. He is also
Sessions at 1 conference
Enlit Europe 2026 10 November 2026 – 12 November 2026
- From Energy Data to Action: Industry perspectives, architecture and value creation for the Common European Energy Data Space Speaker · 10 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Laurent at events on B2DB.
- Michael Villa President · FlexIT 1 shared session
- Georg Hartner Technical Coordinator and Chairman of System Scope Expert Group · Project INSIEME 1 shared session
- Daniela Cuadra Projects Officer · European Distribution System Operators 1 shared session
- Leo Kammerdiener EDA · Austrian Energy Data Exchange 1 shared session
- Natalie Samovich Head of R&I · Enercoutim 1 shared session
- Ferdinando Bosco R&I Project Manager · Engineering Group 1 shared session
- Henrik Madsen Professor, Head of Centre · DTU 1 shared session
- Oliver Hödl Project Coordinator · University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH OÖ) 1 shared session
- Witold Krasny Head of Product & Operations · Digital4Grids 1 shared session