Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Graduado em Engenharia Elétrica pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Desde 2008 trabalha na Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica – ANEEL. Atualmente é Coordenador de Estrutura Tarifária e Mercado, na Superintendência de Gestão Tarifária e Regulação Econômica. Coordena 10 Sandboxes Tarifários em execução no Brasil. Responsável pelo Plano de Revisão do Modelo Tarifário para os consumidores de energia elétrica.

Dr. Cupertino received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Brazil, in 2013, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He was a Guest Ph.D. Researcher with Aalborg University, Denmark, from 2018 to 2019, and a Postdoctoral Researcher with UFMG from 2025 to 2026. Since 2023, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Energy, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil. His research interests include renewable energy conversion systems, battery energy storage systems, multilevel converters, and power electronics reliability. Dr. Cupertino received the President Bernardes Silver Medal in 2013, the SOBRAEP Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2020, and the IEEE IAS CMD Ph.D. Thesis Contest Award in 2021. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Vice President of the Brazilian Power Electronics Society (SOBRAEP), and Editor-in-Chief of Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics).

Conventional battery management systems face important trade-offs between efficiency, reliability, and flexibility. In conventional battery packs, cells are typically connected in series, making the overall system strongly dependent on the weakest elements. A failure in a single cell or associated component can compromise the operation of the entire battery pack. This challenge becomes even more pronounced in second-life battery applications, where cells may exhibit significant differences in state of charge, capacity, and aging. Smart battery architecture offers a new approach by integrating power electronics and distributed control capabilities at the battery-module level, allowing individual battery units to operate more independently while enabling advanced functionalities at the system level. This presentation discusses the concept and development of smart battery architectures, with a focus on advanced control functionalities. The proposed approaches enable coordinated state-of-charge balancing, pulsed-current operation, fault-tolerant operation, and safe operating modes while preserving the modularity and scalability of the battery system. By moving beyond the conventional BMS paradigm, smart batteries open new possibilities for more flexible, resilient, and multifunctional battery energy storage systems.

Telles Brunelli Lazzarin received the B.Sc. (2004), M.Sc. (2006), and Ph.D. (2010) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, working in the field of Power Electronics. He also has industry experience, having worked as a development engineer at WEG Automação.

Since 2013, he has been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UFSC, where he is currently Associate Professor II, carrying out teaching, research, and supervision activities at the Power Electronics Institute (INEP). He is a CNPq research productivity fellow and coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology in Power Electronics (INCT-EPTech). He has international experience as a visiting researcher at Northeastern University, in the United States, and at CentraleSupélec, in France.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJ-PEL). From 2023 to 2025, he was President of the Brazilian Power Electronics Society (SOBRAEP) and, from 2021 to 2023, Editor of the journal Eletrônica de Potência. His main research interests include switched-capacitor and hybrid converters, high-gain DC-DC converters, single-phase rectifiers, inverter paralleling, wind energy conversion systems, wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, and power electronics applications in cryogenic environments.

Cryogenics involves achieving and using extremely low temperatures, at which material properties can change significantly. Its integration with power electronics offers opportunities to reduce losses and increase converter power density, particularly in applications that already have cryogenic infrastructure. This plenary presentation will introduce the fundamentals of this integration and its main challenges, including the characterization of semiconductors and passive components, as well as converter design. Potential applications in electric mobility, electrified aviation, and superconducting systems will be discussed. The presentation draws on the speaker’s experience as a visiting professor at Centrale Supélec, part of Université Paris-Saclay, conducting research on cryogenic power electronics at the GeePs laboratory. As an application example, it will address the development of a power converter for a 1 MW ultrafast electric vehicle charging station.

Janaina Gomes da Costa received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. She has been a professor in the undergraduate Electrical Engineering program at Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais since 2005 and has also been a professor in the graduate program at IEC PUC Minas since 2020.

She has worked as a Senior Power System Projects Engineer at CEMIG Geração e Transmissão since 2007, where she is responsible for the technical coordination of the engineering team for transmission system expansion equipment, focusing on the specification, design, and technical analysis of power transformers and associated equipment.

She is also actively involved in standardization and technical cooperation activities, serving as Coordinator of the ABNT Study Commission CE 14:01, responsible for the ABNT NBR 5356 – Power Transformers standard since 2024, and as Secretary of the A2 Study Committee – Power Transformers and Reactors of CIGRE Brasil.

A palestra abordará os seguintes tópicos: Transformação do setor elétrico mundial; Crescimento acelerado das fontes renováveis; Mudança do perfil de carga e geração; Papel estratégico da transmissão na transição energética; Tendências – equipamentos de alta tensão; Normalização.

Prof. Jung received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1991, 1995, and 2002, respectively. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Informatics, UFRGS. From July 2015 to July 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Prof. Norman Badler.

His research interests include image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, with a particular focus on image segmentation and filtering, multiscale methods, vision-based driver assistance systems, object tracking, video event detection, multiview stereo matching, view interpolation, multimodal voice activity detection, and sound source localization.

A Visão Computacional passou por uma profunda revolução tecnológica, impulsionada pela evolução desde as redes neurais convolucionais (CNNs) tradicionais até os modernos Vision Transformers (ViTs) e os avançados Modelos de Linguagem e Visão (Vision-Language Models - VLMs). Esta palestra explora conceito básicos de arquiteturas visuais para extração de atributos, além de aplicações concretas como reconhecimento de placas veiculares e inspeção de interferência de vegetação em linhas de transmissão.

Dr. Prado holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, two Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (one completed, one in the final stage), and a postdoctoral research project on wireless power transfer (WPT) for electric vehicles, with research and industrial experience covering power converters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), renewable energy integration, converter optimization, thermal design, modulation techniques, and WPT systems for electric vehicles. He currently works as an R&D Engineer at the VEDECOM Institute, in France.

This talk addresses how static and dynamic wireless charging can contribute to the future of electric mobility, as well as what is still needed for their large-scale deployment. Static charging is the most mature technology and already benefits from well-established standards. The challenge lies in design and validation, as ensuring interoperability between coils from different manufacturers requires testing across a wide range of operating conditions. The solution presented involves automating test platforms, making the validation process faster and more repeatable. Dynamic charging transfers energy while the vehicle is in motion but still lacks unified standards. Its primary design challenges are coupling between coils that vary constantly with the vehicle's position, and the need to maintain system efficiency while the vehicle moves. The solutions presented address these gaps and have been validated at full scale. This talk also addresses the prospects for this technology.