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Francesco Frontini appointed as Conference Chair
of the Integrated PV Conference 2025
Integrated PV: Powering a Sustainable Renaissance
Our cities and built environments must transform if we want to tackle the major challenges of our time. For the energy transition to succeed, we need to unlock every opportunity to integrate renewable energy — especially photovoltaics — into the very fabric of our surroundings, moving beyond standalone systems.
To integrate means more than to install; it is the act of completing, enhancing, and making an element truly functional by embedding it within an existing system. For photovoltaics, integration means designing solar technologies to be structurally, aesthetically, and functionally part of the objects and environments they serve, rather than being treated as add-ons.
When shaping the program for this conference, we emphasized four main areas of integration architecture (buildings), infrastructure, agriculture, and transport (vehicles).
The challenge ahead is both technical and cultural. Technically, we must advance module design, structural integration, systems engineering, materials science, digital tools, and lifecycle approaches. Culturally, we must bridge disciplines — bringing together architects, planners, engineers, manufacturers, industries, policymakers, and communities — to reimagine how PV can become a natural part of daily life.
This year’s program reflects that ambition. You will find sessions on building-integrated PV, urban applications and agrivoltaics, vehicle-integrated solutions, digital modelling, policy frameworks, and resource efficiency strategies. We have shaped a format not only to showcase outstanding projects and lessons learned, but also to foster dialogue that leads to practical, impactful solutions — beyond purely technical constraints.
Let this gathering be a spark for new ideas, collaborations, and innovations that ripple outward, advancing integrated photovoltaics at scale.
We look forward to welcoming you in Florence, Italy — the cradle of the Renaissance, home to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Brunelleschi — on 25–26 November 2025. You won’t regret it!
Prof. Francesco Frontini
Director of ISAAC
SUPSI, Switzerland
Integrated PV Conference Chair
Director of ISAAC (www.isaac.supsi.ch) Graduated in Construction Engineering and Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. After collaborating with engineering and architecture firms as project manager he obtained a PhD with distinction developing a new multifunctional BIPV façade for solar control. He worked as a post-doc in the Solar façades group at Fraunhofer ISE (Germany), one of the world's largest research institutes. Since 2011, he has been working at SUPSI, first as a researcher and team leader, then as head of the Building System Sector at ISAAC before becoming the director of the institute. In 2019, obtained a professorship in Innovative Building Technology and Sustainable Design. In 2021, he received an EMBA with distinction from USI Lugano. Passionate about innovation in construction and buildings in 2029 he founded with two colleagues iWin - innovative Windows SA, an innovative start-up that develops and produces an integrated photovoltaic blind.
His research activity has always been supported by experimental work on the design of real buildings and solar envelopes. He is a member of the standardisation bodies SIA, CENELEC, ISO. Since 2021 he has been appointed by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy as Co-Manager of the IEA PVPS Task 15 (https://iea-pvps.org/research-tasks/enabling-framework-for-the-development-of-bipv/) a collaborative program of the IEA that involve more than 80 experts worldwide to create an enabling framework to accelerate the penetration of BIPV products in the global market of renewables.
About the Integrated PV Conference – IPVC 2025
The Integrated PV Conference is a vibrant meeting point for architects, PV manufacturers, researchers, engineers, developers, and policymakers committed to scaling up photovoltaic integration in the built environment and landscape. Building on the promising and enthusiastic start of its 2024 launch, the second edition will further momentum by showcasing innovative solutions, real-world applications, and knowledge exchange among key stakeholders.
Participation is free of charge, with mandatory registration.
Organised by ETA Florence.
Follow us on
www.ipv-conference.com
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