Day 2
28 June 2018
09:00AM
Smart Energy and Cities: Chair’s welcome and opening comments
Smart Energy & Utilities
09:20AM
Keynote: Smart Metering – accelerating new business models?
- Discussing smart metering technologies in consumer water, gas and electricity monitoring and the new emerging business models in this sector.
- The influence of government led schemes worldwide in adoption of smart metering – mandatory vs voluntary.
- What will be the role of technologies like Blockchain be for the future of smart meters?
- Who is benefiting most from smart metering tech? The consumer or the energy provider?
09:50AM
Panel: Smart Grids for safer, more secure and reliable energy
Anna Dimitrova
Energy Policy and Innovation Advisor
Eurelectric
Aoife Gallagher MIEI PMP
Energy Innovation Specialist
ESB

09:50AM - Day 2
View Panel: Smart Grids for safer, more secure and reliable energy
Dr. Robert Thomann
Innovation Manager
MVV Energie

09:50AM - Day 2
View Panel: Smart Grids for safer, more secure and reliable energy
- Comparing smart grids across all scales, from microgrids inside mixed energy use buildings and the home to country wide smart grids.
- What are the big benefits of implementing smart grids for distributed energy resources such as those generating, storing and using energy? What role does supply and demand play within smart and micro grids and how are these demands managed?
- Using smart grids to track and automate distribution of energy across these resources and increase operational efficiency.
- How can smart grids help improve the safety of power distribution – predictive maintenance and beyond.
10:30AM
Solo: Will the IoT help the widespread adoption of renewable energy sources?
Renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and solar farms are going to be a key part of our future. How will the IoT impact their adoption, and what role will data play in this? Analysing historic and current meteorological data can help provide accurate forecasting to ensure less downtime by renewable energy sources, and also provide important operational intelligence to energy grids as to when they need to redistribute other sources to their consumers. This talk will also address future directions and advances storage technologies and the important role in plays in implementing smart renewable technology for everyone.
11:00AM
Panel: Utility monitoring using IoT – benefits to energy suppliers
- Analysing the benefits that IOT sensors and data analytics can bring to water and gas companies.
- Discussing pipe condition, flow and pressure monitoring, leak detection and predictive maintenance.
- How can utility monitoring technologies improve the service delivered to customers?
- The role of this new technology in emergency situations.
11:40AM
Smart Electric Heat: Kickstarting a Revolution in Heat
Johan du Plessis
Head of Smart Heat
OVO Energy

11:40AM - Day 2
View Smart Electric Heat: Kickstarting a Revolution in Heat
To follow soon…
11:55AM
Case Study: Southern Water
Peter Jackson
Chief Data Officer
Southern Water

11:55AM - Day 2
View Case Study: Southern Water

10:00AM - Day 1
View Panel: IoT and AI data analytics for intelligent decision making
To follow soon…
12:10PM
Networking Break
Smart Cities
01:20PM
Afternoon Keynote: Managing energy usage in cities
This talk will address how technologies such as smart and virtual grids, virtual powerplants and connected renewables are being used in today’s cities to manage energy usage. Discussions will include the challenges and benefits in managing energy across the city such as the complex nature of the energy systems across different scales (home vs street vs entire city). What is the role of utility companies within this changing ecosystem and how can renewable energies be incorporated?
01:50PM
Panel: Building a Smart City business case
Frans-Anton Vermast
Amsterdam Smart City Ambassador
Amsterdam Smart City
Miquel Estapé
Deputy CEO - Strategy & Innovation
Open Government of Catalonia

01:50PM - Day 2
View Panel: Building a Smart City business case
What issues do cities around the Globe need to consider when wanting to make their cities smart?
- Funding and potential ROI.
- Political cycles and the role of government
- Interoperability with other cities, states and countries.
- Outcomes for citizens, both short term and long term.
02:30PM
Case Study: LoRaWan and the City
Due to its long range and low power requirements, LoRaWAN is being touted as the perfect connectivity solution for smart cities, being used to connect everything from smart lighting to environmental monitoring. This talk will address the positives and negatives of this type of connectivity over other options (such as 5G) and give some real life examples of projects from across the world successfully using LoRaWAN connectivity.
03:00PM
Networking Break
03:20PM
Case Study: Will global city partnerships change the development of smart city solutions?
As cities are responsible for two thirds of the worlds overall energy consumption and around 70% of all greenhouse gas emissions, global regulation standards are being called for. This has resulted in the development of global private-public partnerships. This talk will look at, how these are set to mutually benefit both cities, their citizens, and their respective commercial ventures.
03:50PM
Panel: How can we effectively measure sustainable smart cities?
Wilfried Pimenta de Miranda
Head of Business Development
IOTA Foundation

03:50PM - Day 2
View Panel: How can we effectively measure sustainable smart cities?
Silje Bareksten
Head of Smart City
Oslo Business Region

03:50PM - Day 2
View Panel: How can we effectively measure sustainable smart cities?
- How can cities apply smart solutions to help them become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, even moving towards carbon neutral – and what are the key KPIs to monitor?
- How the IoT can be used to help cities achieve their Sustainability Development Goals?
- Cities need to be growing smarter and more sustainable in balance, will it reach a point where the KPI’s for these two are mutually exclusive?
- Estimating how energy management will reduce wastage and cut global emissions in areas such as electricity, water and waste management vs. monitoring actual outcomes.
04:30PM
Case Study: Crime Prevention using the IoT
This case study will focus on how connected devices, coupled with advanced data analytic techniques can help aid crime prevention and counter terrorism. Hear how technologies such as connected surveillance, gunshot sensors and crime statistics analytics can be combined with real life results.