Plenary Speakers: Tomoyo Imazu

Tomoya Imazu received a Master of Electrical Engineering at Tokyo University in 1993. He is an electrical engineer with 30 years of industry experience. Started his career at Kashima Steel Works, with Sumitomo Metals (industrial manufacturing system design) and at the joint venture, Trico Steel (Alabama, USA), in designing production process and the control of 500kV/600MVA substation, 150kW DC arc furnaces, continuous casting, and hot strip mill, which succeeded in producing world-first 1mm hot coil products, Electrically-powered vehicles, and charging systems were a natural next step for him. At Nissan Motors, he experienced the R&D of hybrid transmission and high-voltage electric components for electric vehicles, then was in charge of charging infrastructure for EVs and PHVs, infrastructure global strategy /deployments, and international /local standardization of EV charging/discharging systems. He has then shifted to the grid in 2019 and is now working at TEPCO Research Institute(TRI), Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) in their e-Mobility Group for the promotion of EVs and developments of the charging/discharging device/technical standards/management systems. He has been contributing as an expert on TC 69/MT5, EV DC charging station, since former PT 61851-23 and PT 61851-24. He is also the listed member of TC 69/JWG 11 and TC 69/PT 61851-23-1.