iHEAT 2012 Conference Programme

Opening Session - Optimised thermal storage & accumulation of energy
10:00 Justin Hayward, Conference Director & Consultant, CIR Strategy
Intelligent heating systems as an optimisation problem
10:05 Graham Ford - Chairman's Opening Remarks
10:10 Keith Clarke, VP Embedded Segment at ARM Holdings plc
The Smart Energy ecosystem
10:30 Cormac McHugh & Juho Nuosmaa, Galu Ltd
Accumulating energy intelligently
10:50 Andrew Bissell, CEO, Sunamp
Phase Change Materials for Storage
11:10 Panel

11:30 Coffee break

Session 2 - Metering & Sensing products
11:50 Simon Daniel, Managing Director, Moixa Energy
A Vision for Metering Heat (Smart Home Anglia Project)
12:10 Stephen Pattenden, Director, SH&BA
Smart Homes & Buildings: Refurb for Life
12:20 Philip Gaffney, L2S2 Ltd
Heat Resource Management Systems
12:35 Panel

13:00 Lunch and Exhibitions

Session 3 - Intelligent Control Systems
14:00 Aref Taidi, New Era Controls
Controling Metered Systems
14:15 Russell Haggar, VP Business Development & Co-founder, Xsilon
In-Home M2M: Connecting up sensors for mass deployment
14:30 Will Hopkins, Technical Director, Your Smart Home UK
Smart home heating and entertainment automation
14:45 Panel Q & A
15:00 Tea break

Final Session - Smart Home Heat Automation
15:30 Marcos Pelenur, Cabinet Office BIT
Smart heating technology: survey results on energy savings
15:45 Neil Witney, Senior Manager, Heat Strategy and Policy, DECC
The Heat Strategy Framework & the role of innovation
16:00 Jeff Hardy, Senior Manager, Ofgem
Regulatory challenges in the transition to low-carbon heat
16:15 Pilgrim Beart, Founder, AlertMe
Customer Engagement or Intelligent Learning?
16:30 Fiona Saunders, Head of Investment Commercialisation, Connected Homes, British Gas
Homes are about to get smarter
16:45 Panel & Chairperson's Summary
17:15 Networking & drinks

The summary text of this conference is posted here.

We hope you enjoyed the conference and exhibition. We look forward to seeing you and colleagues again in the future.

Justin, Maya, Mike
CIR Conference Team 2012