Task 43 Events
Upcoming events
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – WG4 deep dive use case demonstration
15:00-16:00 CET on January 21st, 2026
You are cordially invited to attend an upcoming webinar hosted by IEA Wind Task 43 on Working Group 4 (WG4) deep dive use case demonstration. During the webinar, the leads of each WG4 deep dive use case will provide an overview of their work, including the scope, current participants, and ongoing activities. They will also share status updates covering methodologies, case studies or research results, and insights into the value of digitalization. In addition, speakers will outline future plans, including upcoming activities and expected deliverables. The session will conclude with a live Q&A with the presenters.
Participation is open to Task 43 members and any other interested stakeholders across the entire wind plant lifecycle, such as project development, operations and maintenance (O&M), and decommissioning, from the broader wind energy research and industry community. Attendees will gain an understanding of each use case, learn whether results or tools can be applied within their own organizations, and discover opportunities to engage with the use cases moving forward. We encourage you to register for the webinar and to share this announcement with colleagues who may be interested.
IEA Wind Task 43 AGM 2026
Rapperswil, Switzerland and online
June 24th-25th, 2026
Our Annual General Meeting will take place on June 24th-25th, 2026, in Rapperswil, Switzerland and online. The first day will be dedicated to a Task update, and the second day will host the WeDoWind International Symposium. Don’t miss our legendary lake swimming activity, which we started in 2023!
Day 1, June 24th: Task update and workshop
Day 2, June 25th: The WeDoWind International Symposium 2026
Registration
Registration is open until May 31st, 2026. You can attend both days or just one day, either online or in person. We ask for the following participation fees in order to support the non-profit organisation WeDoWind:
- Large organisations: €100 per day per person
- Start-ups and non-profit organisations: €50 per day per person
- Students: free
Past events
Seminar – Immersive technologies for the wind energy workforce
Rapperswil, Switzerland and online
August 11th, 2025
In this seminar, Dr. Arvind Keprate, Professor at the Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway, talked about his work on the use of immersive technologies such as Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) for education and maintenance planning. We then heard from some companies working in the area, and followed up with drinks and networking for the people attending in person. The event took place at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Oberseestrasse 10, 8640 Rapperswil, or online in Microsoft Teams. Speakers include Sarah Collmus, Offshore Wind Academy (USA), Markus Zank, Immersive Realities Center, HSLU (CH), Charlie Behan, Irish Manufacturing Research (IRL), Rajan Wegmann, Echtzeit (CH) and Sarah Barber, OST (CH).
See the recordings below or at these links: PART 1 and PART 2.
IEA Wind Task 43 Annual General Meeting 2025
June 11th and 12th, 2025, Golden, CO, USA
The IEA Wind Task 43 Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025 took place at the hotel Denver West Marriott in Golden, CO, USA, on Tuesday, June 10th and Wednesday, June 11th, with a hybrid option. We had a total of 67 registered participants from 26 different countries, 25 of whom attended in person. About half of the attendees were from research and academia, and the other half from the industry. The male-female split was 75%-25%, slightly higher than the total wind energy workforce of 21% women.
Read the full report here.
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Connecting the Dots: An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs for Industry and Academia
16:00-17:30 CET on April 16th, 2025
Following on from the webinar on “Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector“, members of the Knowledge Graph Alliance gave a practical introduction to creating and using knowledge graphs in this workshop. The wind energy domain spans meteorology, engineering, materials science, policy, and more. Knowledge graphs are important for wind energy innovation and research because they have to potential to help organise, connect, and extract meaningful insights from large, complex, and scattered datasets. They support and enable digital twins of wind farms, predictive analytics for turbine failures or optimal site selection, better feature engineering and interpretation, explainable AI through traceable connections and semantic searches for smarter query results.
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Launch of the new “IEA Wind Task 43 data user group”: a new framework for SCADA events and alarm systems
December 6th, 2024: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
The new “IEA Wind Task 43 Data User Group” aims to serve as a catalyst in streamlining data analytics within the wind industry. We want to foster innovation and efficiency by refining and enhancing the processes involved in analysing data generated from wind energy assets. By leading advancements in this field, we strive to optimise the performance and reliability of wind energy systems, contributing to the broader goal of sustainable energy production.
Our mission is to identify and address the key challenges that impede the effectiveness of SCADA-based data analytics in the wind industry. We are committed to providing clear, actionable guidelines and recommendations that will improve the efficiency, accuracy, and overall value of data analytics activities related to the operation of wind energy assets. By doing so, we aim to empower industry stakeholders to make informed decisions that enhance the performance and longevity of wind turbines and associated infrastructure.
The topic of this first webinar focused on identifying ways SCADA alarm codes/events can be effectively used for fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis and performance optimisation. Resent literature estimates that operations and maintenance costs for wind turbines can account for 18–30% of the cost of generation of wind power so this indicates a significant motive to investigate modern ways to improve common practices related to reducing this cost. SCADA alarm codes/events offer useful information that can be used to enhance maintenance and root cause analysis of wind turbines but it is observed that they are often underutilised.
If you work with SCADA error codes, you will know that it can be time-consuming to obtain, understand and make them machine-readable. We suggest a unified model for sharing SCADA error codes. But how should this model be built and how should it work? That’s up to the users to define! We started off this discussion today.
Access the slides and the Mentimeter survey results here, and the recording below.
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector
November 6th, 2024: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Ontologies are structured frameworks that represent knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. They are important in wind energy because they provide a standardised framework for representing and communicating complex information, enhancing interoperability among diverse systems and stakeholders. In this one-hour webinar, we introduced the concept of ontologies, gave an update on our new ontology hosting portal TechnoPortal, and then ran through the process for creating and publishing your own ontology on the TechnoPortal.
Access the slides here and recording below:
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Why does the wind energy sector need to start talking about digital twin architecture?
September 20th: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Digital twins are a key technology for the wind energy sector due to their ability to provide virtual replicas of physical wind turbines and wind farms. Understanding the architecture of digital twins is important as it ensures seamless integration, interoperability, and scalability of the digital twins. In this one-hour webinar, we first heard two examples of digital twin “use cases” from the sector, followed by two architecture design example projects, and ending with a discussion and Mentimeter quiz where the participants discussed their thoughts, needs and other inputs on the topic!
Annual General Meeting 2024
June 17th-19th 2024, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Our Annual General Meeting 2024 took place at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil (OST), Switzerland. The three days involved a “Task progress day”, a “Digital skills day” and a “WeDoWind day”. You can read the report of the event here.
Culture and coopetition for driving digitalisation
Feb. 29th 2024, 16:00 CET
In this webinar, we discussed some inspiring examples of how culture and coopetition can help drive digitalisation. After hearing IEA Wind Task 43’s vision for an holistic people-centred collaboration framework, we heard three examples of culture and coopetition, followed by a Q&A session.
Access the recording here:
Thriving in an increasingly digital ecosystem: Knowledge engineering and knowledge representation
Nov. 7th 2023, 16:00 CET with Yuriy Marykovskiy
In this webinar, we explored key insights from a new paper “Knowledge Engineering in Wind Energy” lead by the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and ETH Zurich, which addresses the pressing need for effective data management and knowledge representation in the industry.
Access the recording here:
Metadata Challenge Webinar Series
Between December 2022 and July 2023 we hosted a total of seven webinars about data and metadata. The recordings are available on our Youtube channel here.
Since November 2023, this webinar series has been replaced with the IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series (see above).
WG4 (Use case demonstration) task extension launch workshop
Jan. 24th 2024, 16:00 CET
In this webinar, we launched the new WG4 (Use Case Demonstration)! We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group and then introduced the current participants and activities. After that, participants had the opportunity to make suggestions and give their inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here:
WG1 (Data) task extension launch workshop
September 12th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST
In this webinar, we launched the new WG1 (Data)! We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group and then introduced the current participants and activities. After that, participants all had the opportunity to make suggestions and give your inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here:
WG2 (Culture) and WG3 (Coopetition) task extension launch workshop
September 14th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST
In this webinar, we will launched the new WG2 (Culture) and WG3 (Coopetition) in a joint webinar. We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group. After that, the participants made suggestions and give your inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here:
Past events
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Connecting the Dots: An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs for Industry and Academia
16:00-17:30 CET on April 16th, 2025
Following on from the webinar on “Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector“, members of the Knowledge Graph Alliance gave a practical introduction to creating and using knowledge graphs in this workshop. The wind energy domain spans meteorology, engineering, materials science, policy, and more. Knowledge graphs are important for wind energy innovation and research because they have to potential to help organise, connect, and extract meaningful insights from large, complex, and scattered datasets. They support and enable digital twins of wind farms, predictive analytics for turbine failures or optimal site selection, better feature engineering and interpretation, explainable AI through traceable connections and semantic searches for smarter query results.
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Launch of the new “IEA Wind Task 43 data user group”: a new framework for SCADA events and alarm systems
December 6th, 2024: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
The new “IEA Wind Task 43 Data User Group” aims to serve as a catalyst in streamlining data analytics within the wind industry. We want to foster innovation and efficiency by refining and enhancing the processes involved in analysing data generated from wind energy assets. By leading advancements in this field, we strive to optimise the performance and reliability of wind energy systems, contributing to the broader goal of sustainable energy production.
Our mission is to identify and address the key challenges that impede the effectiveness of SCADA-based data analytics in the wind industry. We are committed to providing clear, actionable guidelines and recommendations that will improve the efficiency, accuracy, and overall value of data analytics activities related to the operation of wind energy assets. By doing so, we aim to empower industry stakeholders to make informed decisions that enhance the performance and longevity of wind turbines and associated infrastructure.
The topic of this first webinar focused on identifying ways SCADA alarm codes/events can be effectively used for fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis and performance optimisation. Resent literature estimates that operations and maintenance costs for wind turbines can account for 18–30% of the cost of generation of wind power so this indicates a significant motive to investigate modern ways to improve common practices related to reducing this cost. SCADA alarm codes/events offer useful information that can be used to enhance maintenance and root cause analysis of wind turbines but it is observed that they are often underutilised.
If you work with SCADA error codes, you will know that it can be time-consuming to obtain, understand and make them machine-readable. We suggest a unified model for sharing SCADA error codes. But how should this model be built and how should it work? That’s up to the users to define! We started off this discussion today.
Access the slides and the Mentimeter survey results here, and the recording below.
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector
November 6th, 2024: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Ontologies are structured frameworks that represent knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. They are important in wind energy because they provide a standardised framework for representing and communicating complex information, enhancing interoperability among diverse systems and stakeholders. In this one-hour webinar, we introduced the concept of ontologies, gave an update on our new ontology hosting portal TechnoPortal, and then ran through the process for creating and publishing your own ontology on the TechnoPortal.
Access the slides here and recording below:
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Why does the wind energy sector need to start talking about digital twin architecture?
September 20th: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Digital twins are a key technology for the wind energy sector due to their ability to provide virtual replicas of physical wind turbines and wind farms. Understanding the architecture of digital twins is important as it ensures seamless integration, interoperability, and scalability of the digital twins. In this one-hour webinar, we first heard two examples of digital twin “use cases” from the sector, followed by two architecture design example projects, and ending with a discussion and Mentimeter quiz where the participants discussed their thoughts, needs and other inputs on the topic!
Annual General Meeting 2024
June 17th-19th 2024, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Our Annual General Meeting 2024 took place at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil (OST), Switzerland. The three days involved a “Task progress day”, a “Digital skills day” and a “WeDoWind day”. You can read the report of the event here.
Culture and coopetition for driving digitalisation
Feb. 29th 2024, 16:00 CET
In this webinar, we discussed some inspiring examples of how culture and coopetition can help drive digitalisation. After hearing IEA Wind Task 43’s vision for an holistic people-centred collaboration framework, we heard three examples of culture and coopetition, followed by a Q&A session.
Access the recording here:
Thriving in an increasingly digital ecosystem: Knowledge engineering and knowledge representation
Nov. 7th 2023, 16:00 CET with Yuriy Marykovskiy
In this webinar, we explored key insights from a new paper “Knowledge Engineering in Wind Energy” lead by the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and ETH Zurich, which addresses the pressing need for effective data management and knowledge representation in the industry.
Access the recording here:
Metadata Challenge Webinar Series
Between December 2022 and July 2023 we hosted a total of seven webinars about data and metadata. The recordings are available on our Youtube channel here.
Since November 2023, this webinar series has been replaced with the IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series (see above).
WG4 (Use case demonstration) task extension launch workshop
Jan. 24th 2024, 16:00 CET
In this webinar, we launched the new WG4 (Use Case Demonstration)! We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group and then introduced the current participants and activities. After that, participants had the opportunity to make suggestions and give their inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here:
WG1 (Data) task extension launch workshop
September 12th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST
In this webinar, we launched the new WG1 (Data)! We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group and then introduced the current participants and activities. After that, participants all had the opportunity to make suggestions and give your inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here:
WG2 (Culture) and WG3 (Coopetition) task extension launch workshop
September 14th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST
In this webinar, we will launched the new WG2 (Culture) and WG3 (Coopetition) in a joint webinar. We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group. After that, the participants made suggestions and give your inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here: