Powering Collaboration Across the EV Charging Ecosystem

The Official Opening of the AMPECO Ecosystem Stage

The AMPECO Ecosystem Stage opens for three days at icnc26. Baycho Georgiev, CMO at AMPECO, is joined by CEO Orlin Radev, CRO Stefan Ivanov and Christian Hahn, CEO of Hubject, to open three days of keynotes, panels and fireside chats with charge point operators, hardware makers, industry bodies and analysts from across Europe. A short look at what is on, who is speaking, and the questions running through all three days. No registration, just take a seat.

Built in Europe: Securing €200 Billion in EV Ecosystem Investment

This session will present and discuss E-Mobility Europe's new mapping of more than €200 billion in investment committed across Europe's e-mobility ecosystem.

Following a presentation of the findings, a panel of business leaders will examine what policymakers must do to secure these investments and support further growth in charging hardware manufacturing, infrastructure deployment and software.

E-Mobility Europe Board Perspectives: Navigating the Charging Landscape

Industry leaders will dive into what it takes to build a market that thrives on fair competition while delivering the seamless, reliable, and transparent charging experience EV drivers actually trust. The discussion will explore how market competition is converting committed capital into tangible innovation, operational efficiency, and rapid network scaling across Member States.

The AMPECO Marketplace: One platform, multiple specialists

Alexander Manolov, Frontier Projects Director at AMPECO, explains how the AMPECO Marketplace actually works: which capabilities AMPECO builds itself, where it deliberately stops and brings in a specialist, and how a partner gets from a first conversation to a working app within an operator's platform. Powerful APIs were never going to be enough on their own, so AMPECO built a layer of standardized integration points on top of them.

Topics covered: the three levels of integration and why the standardized middle one changes the economics for both sides; the business areas AMPECO is building out, from maps and driver support to energy management and flexibility markets; what one operator's real partner stack looks like in practice; and where the next set of apps is coming from.

Inside AppSpark: how AMPECO turns internal ideas into Marketplace products

Constantin Popov, Senior Product Manager for Marketplace and Integrations at AMPECO, on AppSpark: an internal competition that spanned 200 AMPECO employees across the world and challenged them to propose Marketplace apps. Twelve teams reached the final and pitched everything from session fraud detection and predictive maintenance to arcade games for drivers waiting on a charge.

Kaloyan Danchev, Product Manager at AMPECO, then presents the winning AppSpark challenge idea: the Embedded Web App Flow Builder, a way for an operator to build their own in-app forms, surveys, and promotions without writing code or waiting for a release.

Keys to multinational compliance: the CPMS perspective

Regulatory compliance in EV charging naturally happens across multiple aspects: technical, fiscal, data, energy and operational. This requires a platform architecture that positively impacts P&L and overall development speed for multi-country CPOs. Discover how AMPECO responds to the fast pace of change in the regulatory, compliance, and standards environment.

In conversation with MFG: what it actually took to build the UK's largest ultra-rapid network

MFG EV Power runs the UK's largest ultra-rapid charging network: more than 2,800 charge points across 550 or more locations, with £400 million committed to 3,000 ultra-rapid chargers by 2030. Martin Symes, EV Director, joins Stefan Ivanov, CRO at AMPECO, for an open conversation about how a forecourt operator built that network and what he makes of the market it now sits in. Expect a UK operator's view of consolidation, of what hundreds of different charging experiences are doing to driver trust, and of where the UK and the continent genuinely diverge. Unrehearsed, with the caveats left in.

Scale fast, stay efficient, keep customers happy: lessons from 60,000 charge points

Scale fast, stay efficient, keep customers happy. Easy to say, harder to execute. Andreas Strand, CEO of Wattif EV, shares lessons from scaling across multiple European markets. From building destination charging across different segments to integrating and migrating large charging portfolios, Wattif has grown to more than 60,000 charge points in just a few years. He is then joined on stage by CTO Øystein Tomassen to look at how a CPO builds an operating model that delivers at today’s scale and is ready for the next stage of growth.

Fireside chat with Wattif: Andreas Strand and Øystein Tomassen

Andreas Strand and CTO Øystein Tomassen stay on stage with Andrey Tzekov to go further into the operating model behind the numbers. The conversation covers what had to change as Wattif absorbed portfolio after portfolio, which parts of the operation they deliberately kept small, and what they would build differently starting today.

Breaking grid bottlenecks: Safe and Low-cost Ultra-fast Charging via DC BESS

Capacity upgrades are costly and time-consuming. Frédéric Ridou, Director – Germany Charging Network Development, Huawei Digital Power, shows how AC- and DC-coupled battery storage system can help to assure to have required energy exactly where and when needed – and how they can optimize the usage & safety of grid and of solar energy.

V2G Scale-Up: Success factors and market leaders to win the race

Gain insights during this session into the critical components and success factors for building V2G Business Models. From the Charge Point to Energy Market Integration, learn the drivers behind building lasting, scalable solutions.

EV Charging Outlook 2026 with BloombergNEF

BloombergNEF opens day two of the AMPECO Ecosystem Stage with its 2026 outlook on charging demand and charging infrastructure. Public charging grew 28% in 2025 to 6.7 million connectors, ultra-fast connectors in Europe and the US grew by almost half, and BNEF puts the investment still needed in the network at $638 billion by 2040. Ryan Fisher covers what sits behind those numbers: electric vehicle power demand, the pace of roll-out, and the technologies now entering the forecast, including battery storage, megawatt charging, robotaxis and truck charging.

From charging networks deployment to energy platforms: the new drivers of value creation

Charging networks are becoming energy platforms, and the value is moving with them. In this session, Yasmine Assef looks at where CPO profitability stands today, the new value pools opening up around energy, and the capabilities and tools operators need to capture them. Drawing on AFRY Management Consulting’s work with operators, investors and utilities across the energy transition, she maps what it takes to turn energy capability into financial return.

Stop Counting Chargers: What Actually Drives Value in EV Charging?

The race for EV charging leadership is changing. Installed charge points alone say increasingly little about economic value: location quality, energy throughput, customer relationships and operating efficiency matter far more. As investors optimise portfolios and consolidation gathers pace, we examine what the next generation of valuable charging platforms will look like.

Powering Renewable Destination Charging Across Europe

Eranovum operates one of Europe's largest destination-charging networks, over 1,300 charge points across Spain, France and Belgium, powered by 100% renewable energy. In this session, Nicolás Rojas Correa and David Vallespín will introduce Eranovum's model, then sit down for a conversation about how they operate and scale their charging network.

In conversation with Eranovum: running renewable charging across three markets

Nicolás Rojas Correa and David Vallespín join Zurab Pertsuliani of AMPECO to go further into what it actually takes to operate one network across Spain, France and Belgium. The conversation covers migrating more than 1,100 charge points without disrupting drivers, and how roaming and interoperability became a growth lever rather than a compliance task.

Public charging utilisation rate projections: How much charging infra is enough?

Europe passed a million public charge points and utilisation did not move with them. John Murray brings LCP Delta's latest utilisation projections to the stage to answer the question that follows: how much charging infrastructure is actually enough, and where does the next charge point built earn its return? He covers how utilisation is trending by charger speed and by location, what the projections imply for build rates through the rest of the decade, and what separates the sites that fill from the sites that sit idle. The figures come from LCP Delta's EV Charging Service, the subscription research programme it has run for close to a decade.

In conversation with Ignitis ON: scaling, storage and the Baltic advantage

A few years ago the question in the Baltics was whether you would find a charger. Today it is whether you can charge quickly and conveniently wherever you need to. Eimantas Balta runs the network that had to answer both. In conversation, he covers what changed as Ignitis ON scaled across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, why he reads today's slowdown as a market maturing rather than stalling, and what mainstream adoption really requires: reliability, user experience, and integration with the energy system. The session closes on the charging hub as an energy asset, combining solar, storage, energy management and grid balancing, and on why a smaller market can be the fastest place to prove it.

Charging Made for Drivers: Moments Well Spent

In this TED-style talk, Steven Salo shares Allego's belief that charging is about more than energy. When charging is fast, reliable and available where drivers need it, it stops being a chore and becomes a moment well spent.

In conversation with INDIGO: the strategic choice to own the value, not just the parking space

INDIGO runs parking across the world, and it chose to own the charging inside its own car parks rather than hand that business to someone else. Wilfried Thierry leads the group's digital, customer experience and e-mobility work. In conversation with Glenn L'Heveder of AMPECO, he talks about why INDIGO made that call, what changes when a parking operator becomes a charging operator, and what drivers notice when it works.

Portugal's New EV Charging Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities for CPOs

Portugal's evolving regulatory framework is reshaping the electric mobility ecosystem and redefining the role of CPOs. In this session, Luís Castanheira, CEO of REMO – Powered by Mota-Engil, will explore what this transition means in practice for CPOs, from interoperability and customer experience to grid constraints and profitability, while also highlighting emerging opportunities in fleet electrification and integrated energy solutions, and how Portugal's EV charging market is converging with the broader European framework.

Unlocking value through consolidation

European charging is entering consolidation, and scale is becoming the main value driver as good locations grow scarce. EY-Parthenon count over 1,000 high-power charging operators in the EU-27 today, 34 of them active in more than one country, and expect that last group to settle at five to ten. Gianluigi Indino and Julien Drevon take the deal from the buyer's side of signing day: protecting business continuity before chasing synergies, turning two CPMS platforms into one without a bad cutover, and converting size into margin that actually reaches the P&L. They draw on EY-Parthenon's work across major European CPO transactions to explain why synergy value becomes harder to track exactly as the integration succeeds, and what keeps it visible. The session closes on their seven commandments for a successful integration.

AC is here to stay: A Dutch case study on building a smarter, DBFMO powered charging infrastructure

The next phase of e-mobility will require more than simply adding charging capacity. As EV adoption accelerates, the challenge is to build infrastructure that can scale sustainably, work within increasingly constrained energy systems and deliver value over the long term. The question is no longer simply how to charge faster, but how to build smarter. Velian, drawing on over 14 years of experience and with a network of over 17,551 charge points across the Netherlands, makes the case that AC charging is here to stay.

This session opens with a brief look at why AC remains the operational backbone of everyday charging for businesses, real estate, fleets, and governments in the Netherlands.

From there, we explore why a DBFMO (Design, Build, Finance, Maintain, Operate) approach makes long-term AC investment work. This model removes investor risk by owning the full infrastructure lifecycle, with zero upfront investment required.

Three examples from Velian's own network illustrate the benefits of this model in practice:

• Managing grid congestion challenges at scale, as the Dutch electricity network is increasingly strained
• Circularity in charging hardware, through refurbishment and return programs that extend asset lifespan and reduce cost
• Operational excellence, reflected in 99% uptime across a nationwide network

Attendees will leave with a practical, field-tested framework for evaluating AC investment models. Whether you're a CPO, investor, fleet operator, or policymaker, this session offers a grounded Dutch perspective on building a resilient, long-term AC charging ecosystem.

Migration, Unfiltered: Lessons From 300,000 Chargers

Most CPOs decide to migrate long before they say it out loud. Mariana Mota and Charlie O’Donoghue are usually in the room when that conversation starts. Between them they have seen enough of these projects to answer the question that matters. What goes wrong, and what do the operators who get it right do differently?

They cover the signals that tell you you’ve hit a ceiling, and the work that happens before any contract exists. They explain why timelines depend more on your team than on your vendor. And they show how a migration becomes a chance to purge what isn’t working instead of porting it forward.

In conversation with EDRI: what large-scale CPOs really need to scale across Europe

Running a charging network in one market is a business. Running one across Europe is a different job, and the difference is rarely the chargers. Arjan van der Eijk sits down with AMPECO CEO Orlin Radev to talk about what scaling actually demands of a large CPO: rising fiscalisation and regulatory complexity across markets, the operational realities behind uninterrupted service, and what a software platform has to do to keep growth from breaking operations. He also covers what a large CPO actually needs from its software platform, and which capabilities have mattered most as the network has grown.

Build the Machine, Don't Do the Work

One year ago, AMPECO rebuilt software development around a simple principle: instead of using AI to help engineers work faster, build a machine that does the work. Today, every line of AMPECO's code is written autonomously by an AI "factory", with no human at the keyboard. A good specification goes in, working code comes out, and engineers review and give feedback until it is ready for release.

The results: 7× more features shipped, around 80% fewer bugs, and daily releases, with the same team.

AMPECO co-founder and CTO Alexander Alexiev walks through what the factory looks like from the inside, how the roles of engineers and QA changed, and why the pattern was never really about code. The same machine now runs legal, finance and customer-service work, and through CoOperator AI it is coming to charging network operations themselves.

No programming background required.

How INDIGO goes BIG on EV charging?

INDIGO operates more than 7,000 charge points in France and 2,300 in Belgium, has rolled out the same integrated model in Switzerland, and is heading for Spain next. Claude Muller, who leads the group's e-mobility activity across Europe, sets out how a parking operator scales EV charging into a business of its own, and what that ambition asks of the organisation behind it.

Going BIG in Belgium: building an integrated EV charging model

INDIGO now runs 2,300 charge points in Belgium, operating the charging inside its own car parks rather than leaving it to a third party. Pierre Labie of AMPECO interviews Claude Muller, who leads the group's European charging activity, together with Philippe Vranckx, CEO of INDIGO Belgium, on what carried over from INDIGO's other markets, what had to be built locally, and what a driver notices.

In conversation with Sainsbury's Smart Charge: delivering a trusted charging network as a grocery retailer, and what it actually takes

Richard Hackforth-Jones leads product and operations for Smart Charge, Sainsbury's ultra-rapid EV charging network. Charles O'Donoghue asks him why Sainsbury's, as the UK's second largest grocery retailer, chose to build and run the network itself. The conversation traces how a customer-first approach shapes what Smart Charge chooses to prioritise, from the fundamentals of running a simple and reliable network, to adapting to meet evolving customer needs. It closes on what charging at supermarkets does for the business behind the chargers, not just the drivers using them.

OCPI: standardisation, migration and what CPOs need to prepare for

OCPI is moving from a community roaming protocol toward an official standard, and that shift changes what CPOs and eMSPs have to plan for. Michel Bayings, Executive Director of the EVRoaming Foundation, gives the current status of OCPI and the work behind it: where standardisation stands, how migration between versions is supported and tested, and the newest extensions covering tariff complexity, subscriptions and the National Access Point. He and AMPECO also cover what Foundation membership involves in practice, and how the two organisations work together. The session closes with audience questions.

Fireside chat with EVRoaming Foundation: Michel Bayings

In conversation with ChargeGuru: who pays for charging in an apartment block?

Most drivers want to charge where they park overnight, and most of those spaces sit in buildings somebody else owns. Dr. Christoph Heilmann, Managing Director of ChargeGuru Germany, joins Florian Ertl of AMPECO on the model behind charging in apartment blocks and office buildings: who funds the infrastructure, who carries maintenance and liability, and what has to be true before a property owner says yes.

The Mexico charging thesis: proven models and unclaimed ground

Lessons learned, market strategies and new opportunities from Mexico, Latin America's second-largest EV market. Europe is where Mexico's charging market goes to see its own future, except Mexico is not going to arrive there the same way. Eighty percent of charging sessions in Mexico happen at home, in cities that are densifying vertically at speed, with no EV-ready building mandate, four competing connector standards, and a hardware market so fragmented that fleet operators already own hundreds of chargers from vendors that no longer exist. The result is a market that looks underbuilt on paper, fewer than 4,700 public charging points for more than 235,000 plug-in vehicles, yet 92% of the country's 61,000 charging connections are already installed behind private meters, unmanaged and unmonetized. In this session, Gerónimo Martínez, co-founder and CEO of S2G Energy, sets out the structural conditions shaping charging demand in Mexico, the three opportunities they create (multifamily residential charging as a real-estate product, high-utilization hubs for ride-hailing and last-mile fleets, and a DC corridor along the busiest vehicle border on the planet) and how S2G is building against each of them, including why the border only works with roaming into US networks.

Fireside chat with S2G: Gerónimo Martínez

The Customer at the Centre: How Eldrive Is Building the Next Generation of EV Charging

Dragoș Teodorescu, Technical Director at Eldrive Romania, explores how customer needs translate into the technical and operational decisions behind a reliable, scalable EV charging network. He covers how Eldrive selects locations based on traffic flows, demand and network coverage, why key routes need larger multi-point hubs, and how availability, reliability and uptime shape the customer experience. The session also looks at the technology behind the next generation of charging infrastructure, from ultra-fast chargers to systems up to 1 MW, and at why successful hubs belong inside a wider retail and service ecosystem that turns charging time into useful time. Drawing on Eldrive's experience across Bulgaria, Romania and Lithuania, it shows how infrastructure, technology, operations and digital platforms, supported by AMPECO, build a network that is reliable today and ready for growth.

Fireside chat with Eldrive: Dragoș Teodorescu

Following his presentation, Dragoș Teodorescu takes questions from Nikolay Dobrev of AMPECO and from the audience. The conversation goes behind the slides: how Eldrive decides where to build next across Bulgaria, Romania and Lithuania, what it takes to hold reliability and uptime once a site is live, and where a fast-growing network runs into its limits.

Beyond Tap and Pay: Payment Innovations in EV Charging

Tapping a card at a charger looks simple. Behind that tap sits a payment infrastructure most drivers never think about, one that's evolving faster than most CPOs can keep up with.

Velizar Velkov (e-Mobility Payment Expert, Worldline) opens with a short presentation on where that infrastructure is heading, then joins Yavor Yordanov (Payment Technologies Director, AMPECO) for an open conversation on the two layers every CPO must manage: the credentials drivers never see, and the terminals they touch every day. They'll break down where each one is causing real headaches right now, where it's opening space to compete. Tokens, acceptance rates, OCPI's rise, and a first look at the Castles S1U2 Mini: what's changing now, and what should already be on your radar for 2027.

On the table:
• Network tokens and credentials that outlive the physical card
• Acceptance rates and processing costs, where the money leaks
• What CPOs demand from unattended terminals
• Why OCPI took over the payment's conversation
• The terminal as the charger's screen, UX not just payment
• Embedded vs. API vs. OCPI vs. Android, how to choose
• A first look at the Castles S1U2 Mini

If you manage a charging network, or build the tech behind one, this is the session that connects the payment stack you don't see to the one your drivers do.

One Truck or Forty Cars: Why Charging Trucks Needs a New Service Concept

Truck charging looks like car charging at a bigger scale, and that assumption quietly reshapes the service model most operators rely on. One truck can consume the energy of up to 40 cars in a single session, so transaction-based economics give way to a volume-driven logic that changes what drivers, CPOs and fleets need from a charging service. Johannes Mathies maps where the market is heading toward 2030, shows how different players solve different layers, and explains why heavy-duty charging calls for a service concept built around reliability, reservation and depot access. A live Q&A follows on how the industry can build charging that trucks can genuinely rely on.

Fireside chat with FLYYT: Johannes Mathies

From Charging Events to Intelligent Conversations: Agentic AI for eMobility

As eMobility platforms scale, communications must move beyond simple alerts and become intelligent, contextual, and proactive. In this talk, Infobip will explore how Agentic AI, with AgentOS at the core, can orchestrate customer and operational communications across the charging journey, from a vehicle needing charge to charge completion, payment updates, support escalation, and fleet notifications.

The session will also look at broader communications trends and what “agentic” means in practice for B2B platforms operating in high-volume, time-sensitive environments. It will highlight how AI-driven orchestration can improve reliability, reduce friction, and create better driver and partner experiences at scale, using eMobility and adjacent industry use cases to show practical business value.

Main talking points, as sent by Infobip:
• Why eMobility communications need to evolve from reactive alerts to proactive orchestration.
• What Agentic AI and AgentOS mean for communications strategy.
• Practical use cases for charging, support, payments, and fleet operations.
• How intelligent communications can improve CX, efficiency, and retention.

Fireside chat with Infobip: Kemal Kečo