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Smart Grids & Cleanpower
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Cambridge, UK - June 27-28 2016
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Executive Briefing Day & Dinner Evening | Business Conference & Expo
Collaboration | Technologies | Markets | Transformation - Executive Energy & Power conferences since 2007.
Welcome
We warmly welcome to Cambridge and this 7th annual conference, anyone with interests in smart grids, IIOT and cleanpower - Dr Justin Hayward, Conference Director & CEO, CIR and Gavin Jones, Smart Grids Consultant and Conference Co-Chair.
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Reasons to attend
- The benefit for scale-ups is the presence of larger players looking to implement the technology of scale-ups.
- The benefit for larger players is the presence of scale-ups with great solutions, products and services that can be accessed and demonstrated through partnership or investment.
- There are hundreds of international smart grids projects; there are thousands of innovators to this market: we will bring some of these together;
- These are highly diverse and evolving applications of the concept;
- Smart Grids and power applications and change are happening;
- Cambridge is an IOT, Smart Grids & Cleanpower hub, just 50 minutes from London.
Discussions will cover
- Global Technologies & Strategy for Smart Grids & Power Techs (A brief overview of where the different technologies stand and what the consensus is regarding their future potential; convergence & mega-trends & drivers)
- Case Studies Devices & Software Analytics for Grids & Power Techs
- Entrepreneurship & Creativity for Grids & Power Techs
- Leadership & Change for Grids & Power Tech Enterprises
- Global Technologies for Smart Grids & Power Techs: trends, drivers, investment, consensus, growth, barriers
- Regulation
- Energy Storage for the Grid - big, distributed
- Software for Grids (IIOT, Big Data & Analytics, M2M, etc)
- Value Network for Grids & Power
- Innovation: monetising the market for innovators & making it big
Who’ll be there? Innovators, investors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, scale-ups, capital, DECC, Ofgem, National Grid, RWE, UK Power Networks, BP, Arrowhead, Capita, AMT Sybex, Sentec Sensus, National Physical Laboratory, distributors, suppliers, ecosystem partners, service providers; energy, cloud, software, industrial internet players, big data & data analytics, networking players; engineering companies.
Among the speakers are:
- Professor Jerker Delsing, Lulea, Sweden, Project Co-ordinator, Arrowhead Smart Grids
- Adriana Laguna Estopier, UK Power Networks
- Dr Erwin Frank-Schultz, Master Architect, IBM
- Ben Willis, Generation Strategy Manager, RWE
- Maxine Frerk, Senior Partner, Ofgem
- Sally Fenton, Innovation Delivery Manager, DECC
- Dr Amyas Phillips, Head of IoT Engineering, ARM plc & CTO Mango DataLabs
- Peter Atherton, Managing Director, Energy Equities, Jefferies
- Susan McDonald, SWW Submissions Manager, RIIO Delivery, National Grid
- Jeremy Nicholson, Senior Adviser, EEF EIUG, Chair
- Dr Laura Haynes, Behavioural Scientist, Capita plc
- Gavin Jones, Chair Smart Grids stream & MasterClass
- Georgina Dingley, Strategy Manager, AMT Sybex plc
- Dr David Reiner, CJBS Insights, Cambridge University
- Chris Wright, CTO, Moixa Energy
- Steve Dawson, Commercial Director, Sentec Sensus
- Fraser Durham, Commercial Director, Argand Solutions
- Jon Ferris, Head of Energy Markets, UtilityWise
- Marieke Beckmann, Research Lead, CCM, National Physical Laboratory
- Professor Peter Sharratt, Sustainability Strategy, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Agenda Smart grids & Cleanpower 2016 Executive Masterclass & Briefing Day 1
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09:40-11:00 Session 1: Introduction
Leader: Gavin Jones
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09:40 Introductions
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10:00 Definitions & Basics
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10:20 Overview of position of technologies | Megatrends & Drivers | Convergence
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10:40 Overview of future technologies: potential | Discussion
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11:00-11:30 Coffee break
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11:30-13:00 IBM Session 2: Technology - Software, Analytics & Security for Grid Technologies
Leader: Erwin Frank-Schultz, IBM Master Architect
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11:30 Demand Side Management (DSM/DSR) - the key to the smart grid
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11:50 Smart Meters & AMI | Interoperability
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12:15 How BlockChain may affect the Energy Sector
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12:25 Big Data Sharing, Privacy, Security, Dr Amyas Phillips
ARM & Mango Data Labs
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12:45-13:45 Lunch networking
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13:45-15:15 Session 3: Markets
Leader: Sentec Sensus
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13:45 Social & Innovation Mapping in grids and energy
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14:00 Key players - visions, strategies and actions
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14:15 Porter’s Market Characteristics & Forecasts
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14:30 Demand Response Economics
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14:45 Market Value Chain Structure | Energy Deficits | Consumerisation of Energy - Jon Ferris, Head of Energy Markets
UtilityWise
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15:15 Tea break
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15:45-17:15 Session 4: Transformation -
Leader: Nick Coutts, CIR & SBS & Imperial College
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15:45 Economics & Monetisation Challenge for energy management systems - Dr Amyas Phillips
Mango Data Labs
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16:00 Energy leadership, change & entrepreneurship - Nick Coutts
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16:15 Energy Storage – new business and finance models - Simon Daniel, CEO
Moixa Energy Holdings
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16:30 The value & management of innovation - Nick Coutts
CIR & Imperial College
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16:45 Discussion
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17:00 Summary of Day
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17:10 Close
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18:30-20:30 Dinner, Cambridge
Agenda 2016 Business Conference Day 2
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09:45-11:00 Session 1: Introduction
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09:45 Introduction - Dr Justin Hayward - Gavin Jones - Jeremy Nicholson
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10:00 Energy market structures for UK - Ben Willis, Generation Strategy Manager
RWE
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10:15 Oil Price Risks and Grids & Energy Futures - Peter Atherton, Managing Director, Energy Equities
Jefferies plc
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10:30 Guiding future investments for infrastructure & sustainability needs - Peter Sharratt, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
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10:40 Keynote: Engineering IOT-based System-of-Systems Automation for Smart Grids - Professor Jerker Delsing
ARROWHEAD SG (EU)
Project Leader, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden -
11:00-11:15 Panel Q&A with chair Gavin Jones
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11:15-11:45 Coffee break
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11:45-13:00 Session 2: Connectedness: software, IIOT, meters, big data, analytics
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11:40 M2M, Distributed Computing & the Dark Arts of Communications - The Software powering the real ‘Smart Grid’ Fraser Durham, Commercial Director
Argand Solutions
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11:55 Smart grid measurement - Marieke Beckmann, Centre for Carbon Measurement,
National Physical Laboratory
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12:05 Aggregating behind the meter storage for Grid services and trading revenues - Chris Wright, CTO,
Moixa Technology Ltd
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12:20 Patents: potential threat or opportunity? Pawel Piotrowicz, Partner, Venner Shipley LLP
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12:30 Keynote: Cormac O’Prey, Director,
Sentec Sensus
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12:45 Panel Q&A with Peter Drake, CEO,
Intelligent Networks
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13:00-14:00 Lunch networking and Exhibition
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14:00-16:00 Session 3: Real smart grid projects globally
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14:00 Case Study: European infrastructure stress, large-scale storage & software-Georgina Dingley, AMT Sybex
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14:15 Case Study - USA & Canada - Dr Frank-Schultz, Master Architect,
IBM
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14:30 Case Study - Grid solutions in India and Iran, Dr Sean Cochrane CTO Cyan technology plc
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14:45 Keynote: The Importance of Grid-scale Energy Storage, Christos Keramisanos
UK Power Networks
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15:00-15:30 Panel Q&A
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15:30-16:00 Coffee
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16:00-17:40 Session 4: Plenary - Innovation, regulation and futures discussion on grids and energy Chair: Jeremy Nicholson EEF
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16:00 Risks and rewards of fracturing for shale gas - Dr David Reiner,
CJBS Cambridge University
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16:15 How regulation can be a win-win for stakeholders - Susan McDonald MIET,
National Grid
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16:30 Network Price Controls and Smart Grids Flex - Maxine Frerk, Partner,
Ofgem
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16:45 UK energy management innovation - Sally Fenton, Innovation Delivery
DECC
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17:00 Long-term energy outlook & impact of emerging & disruptive technologies, Anant Prakash,
BP
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17:15 Summary of Day by Gavin Jones
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17:20-17:40 Panel Q&A with chairs & Nick Coutts
CIR
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17:59 Networking and Close
