The Smart Grids and Energy Markets research group (SGEM) attended the DACH+ Energy Informatics Conference in Vienna. Kim K. Miskiw received the Best Poster award for her doctoral workshop submission “Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Optimisations: An Analysis of the Usage in Short-Term Electricity Multi-Market Bidding”, Leo Semmelmann received the Best Short Paper award for his article “Generating synthetic load profiles of residential heat pumps: a k-means clustering approach”, with Patrick Jaquart and Christof Weinhardt). As part of the submission, the open-source tool http://www.heatpump.ninja was published, enabling the synthetic generation of heat pump load profiles.