PELS Mentorship Event: Entrepreneurship for All at ECCE Europe 2025
Date: Monday, 1 September 2025
Time: 12:50 – 14:50 BST
Location: Birmingham, UK
This event is aimed at anyone considering moving into entrepreneurship or already on that journey, who would like to share experiences and talk to mentors. This event will consist of networking opportunities, plus a panel session, with an open Q&A session to discuss entrepreneurship challenges and ask questions of experienced colleagues who have already taken this route.
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Since 2017, the PELS Mentorship events have facilitated access to distinguished leaders in the power electronics field. Covering non-technical topics essential for professional growth, the Roundtables event is an intimate setting comprised of the mentor who leads the topical discussion and a small group of mentees. The event is open to anyone at any stage of their career.
This event, co-sponsored by the PELS Industry and Standards and Collaboration and Engagement committees, will consist of a networking lunch, and a panel session with Q&A from experienced PELS members with experience of entrepreneurship and an opportunity for wider discussion at this round table event with mentees from PELS. Please make sure you reserve your space using the link below:
Panelists and Mentors:
We are delighted to have Dr. Kevin Hermanns from PE-Systems as one of our mentors and panelists. As a PELS member at large, previous chair and founder of TC10 (Design Methodologies) and chair of the Design Methodologies conference (DMC) he has been heavily involved in PELS for many years, and has founded his own company PE-Systems, https://www.pe-systems.de/, specializing in power device measurements and software tools relating to automated data sheet digitization.
We are also delighted to have Dr. Jelena Popovic as one of our mentors and panelists. Jelena Popovic received her Ph.D. degree from the Delft University of Technology, and is with the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. From 2005 to 2011, she was with the European Center for Power Electronics as a technology transfer coordinator. In 2018, she co-founded a start-up in energy access, Klimop Energy. She has published more than 80 publications in scientific journals, magazines, and conferences. Her research interests are bottom-up solutions for energy access, appropriate technology, and socio-technical integration.
We are also delighted to have a variety of PELS leaders including Peter Wilson, IEEE PELS Vice President of Industry and Standards, who will chair the panel session, and has a background in the Aerospace and Design Automation industries, founded several start-ups and in addition to academic publications holds several patents in various aspects of circuit design and power electronics.
