Liz Beavis
Asset Manager
Tilt Renewables
An Asset Manager with Tilt Renewables, Liz is recognized for a collaborative leadership approach and fostering strong stakeholder relationships to drive strategic outcomes. Liz is a passionate advocate for renewable energy and diversity, empowering women through mentorship and industry engagement. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams, manage complex operations and large P&Ls, and navigate organizational growth through strategic planning and risk management.
With experience in wind energy working for OEMs, ISPs and owners, she has been involved with operations and maintenance and asset management of wind farms since 2020.
Anna Crameri
Operations Director
RPS AAP Consulting Pty Ltd
Anna is the Operations Director for RPS leading and developing our environment, marine, place-making, geospatial and metocean teams across Australia and New Zealand. She is also the Energy Transition sector leader and the Offshore Wind Leader for parent company Tetra Tech. She supports clients to conceptualise and develop their projects through to FID, including baseline studies, impact assessment and environmental approvals.
Maiken Hansen
Senior Associate
White & Case
Maiken is an associate in our Energy and Infrastructure Group in the Melbourne office. She advises developers, sponsors and private equity investors on a wide range of renewable energy matters in Australia and the Asia Pacific including acquisition, development and offtake.
Nathan Hart
Director – Advocacy & Community Engagement
Clean Energy Council
Nathan is a seasoned professional specialising in policy, advocacy, and communications, with a focus on energy and climate change. His diverse experience spans roles with members of parliament, non-governmental organisations, and peak industry bodies.
Currently, Nathan is Director Advocacy & Community Engagement at the Clean Energy Council.
Nathan holds a Master of Environment (Climate Change) from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Communications (Public Relations) from RMIT and an Advanced Diploma in Screen Production.
David Lian
Sales Director
GE Vernova
David Lian is Sales Director for GE Vernova’s Onshore Wind business in Australia. He brings 18 years of experience in the wind industry across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Since joining General Electric in 2011, David has contributed to all 3.5 GW of GE Vernova’s wind projects in Australia, serving in a range of technical and commercial roles. He also played a key role in GE Vernova’s market entry initiatives in Vietnam, Thailand, and Japan. His areas of expertise include commercial, wind engineering and grid connection management. David assumed his current role in 2018 and serves as a Board Member of GE Vernova’s Australia Wind business. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Applied Finance.
Morgan Rossiter
General Manager Offshore Wind
Clean Energy Council
Morgan is GM, Offshore Wind at the Clean Energy Council, where she champions for regulatory and legislative frameworks that will enable an accelerated deployment of offshore generation capabilities in Australia. This includes supporting transmission buildout, development of supporting industries and ensuring social licence.
Before joining the CEC, Morgan spent 10 years in the energy sector in a diverse range of roles across Australia and Singapore in shipping, strategy, infrastructure development and logistics. Morgan holds a Bachelor of International Business from RMIT University and a Master of Environment and Sustainability from Monash University.
Taraz Saba
Wind Sector Lead (APAC)
GHD
Taraz is Principal Renewable Engineer with 30 years’ experience in study, design, planning, technical advisory, and delivery of wind power projects; and 6 years of experience in R&D, detailed design and manufacturing. He has project managed numerous renewable power projects in a variety of roles spanning technical advisory, project delivery, and due diligence across the full project lifecycle. He has contributed to over100 GW of renewable energy projects globally, including more than 60 GW of wind.
Taraz has led and advised on renewable energy projects across the full project lifecycle, with extensive experience in the APAC region. His expertise spans project optimisation, bankable resource assessment, feasibility studies, technical specifications, tendering and contract negotiation, delivery models including split contract, and construction-phase Owner’s and Lender’s Engineer roles. He also brings deep experience in turbine technology reviews, factory inspections, operations advisory, decommissioning and repowering.
For this session, Taraz brings practical insight into how projects can move from optimisation to financial close, helping deliver bankable investments in uncertain markets.
Current role: GHD - Wind Sector Lead (APAC)
Katrina Swalwell
Director, Technical | Development
Windlab
For over 20 years Dr. Katrina Swalwell has worked in renewable energy from research, consultancy, wind turbine supply and now in development. At Windlab Katrina is the Director, Technical. Her team is responsible for WindScape, the proprietary wind resource software on which Windlab was founded, site finding and early-stage development, GIS, energy estimation and supporting technical contract negotiations. Katrina enjoys working with diverse teams to improve value of renewable energy projects across the project lifecycle from initial project identification through design, construction, operation, decommissioning and repowering.
Dan Taylor
Technical Director Renewable Energy
Mott MacDonald
Dan is the lead of the Mott Macdonald Offshore Wind Business in Australia, He works with developers, government and financiers to support the development of the Industry in Australia through all phases of the development cycle including Feasibility licence applications, EIA and EISA, Pre FEED, FEED design, and financial closure, He also has experience in design and construction for large complex heavy infrastructure projects.
Neil Weston
Chief Project Development Officer
Ratch Australia Corporation P/L