GE Energy
Website: www.ge.com/au/
www.itsyoursmartgrid.com

GE is a diversified global infrastructure, finance and media company that's built to meet essential world needs. From energy, water, transportation and health to access to money and information, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide.

GE serves the energy sector by developing and deploying technology that helps make efficient use of natural resources. With 60,000 global employees and 2008 revenues of $38.6 billion, GE Energy www.ge.com/energy is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies. The businesses that comprise GE Energy—GE Power & Water, GE Energy Services and GE Oil & Gas—work together to provide integrated product and service solutions in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels.

For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.ge.com. GE is imagination at work.

Silver Springs
Website: www.silverspringnetworks.com

Silver Spring Networks is a leading Smart Grid solutions provider that enables utilities to achieve operational efficiencies, reduce carbon emissions and empower their customers with new ways to monitor and manage their energy consumption. Silver Spring provides the hardware, software and services that allow utilities to deploy and run unlimited advanced applications, including Smart Metering, Demand Response, Distribution Automation and Distributed Generation, over a single, unified network. Silver Spring Smart Energy Platform is based on open, Internet Protocol (IP) standards, allowing continuous, two-way communication between the utility and every device on the grid. Silver Spring has successful deployments with leading utilities in the US and abroad, including Florida Power & Light, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Inc., Jemena Electricity Networks Limited and United Energy Distribution, among others. In 2008, the World Economic Forum honored Silver Spring Networks as a Technology Pioneer. For additional information, please visit www.silverspringnetworks.com.

OSIsoft®
Website: www.osisoft.com

OSIsoft® delivers the PI System®, the world’s leading highly scalable and secure infrastructure for the management of real-time data and events, and for connecting people with the right information, at the right time, to analyze, collaborate, and act.

With more than 14,000 installations across oil & gas, power & utility, pharmaceuticals, data center, chemical, pulp & paper, metals & mining, and other process industries, the OSIsoft PI System® is the flexible foundation for establishing a culture of continuous improvement at the plant, across the enterprise, and throughout the value chain.

The PI System® brings all operational data into a single system that can deliver it to users at all levels of the company - from the plant floor to the enterprise level. The PI System keeps business-critical data always online and available in a specialized time-series database by:

• Gathering event-driven data, in real-time, from multiple sources across the plant and/or enterprise
• Applying advanced analytical calculations and business rules to contextualize and analyze this data
• Configuring smart and thin client tools to distribute and visualize knowledge/ information to display critical operational metrics and integrate the user experience across different roles within the enterprise.

The PI System functionality incorporates many features for analyzing, contextualizing, and visualizing real-time PI data.

Contact: Brett Higgins, Managing Director - OSIsoft Australia Pty Ltd
Tel: +61 8 9282 9226
Email: brett.higgins@osisoft.com

Alcatel-Lucent
Website: www.alcatel-lucent.com

Alcatel-Lucent helps power utilities customers strengthen their businesses by enabling them to successfully transform their communications networks to support grid modernization, distribution automation, AMI and smart meter deployments. We do this by providing trusted and proven communications expertise and over 10 years of experience working with utilities worldwide to develop a transformation roadmap that optimizes existing assets, reduces risks and ensures a smooth migration to next generation communications infrastructure to enable an adaptive electricity network.

Software AG
Website: www.softwareag.com

Software AG is one of the world’s leading providers of Business Infrastructure Software. We enable our 4,000 global enterprise customers to achieve business results faster by modernising, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes.

Headquartered in Germany, Software AG has 40 years of global IT experience and around 3,600 employees serving customers in 70 countries.

Solutions for Energy and Utilities

Software AG helps energy and utilities organisations manage rapid growth and change by leveraging their IT systems to optimise business operations, while protecting margins and profitability. Our integration, business process management and business activity monitoring technologies enable you to:

• Improve asset utilisation by integrating internal and external systems
• Shorten asset downtime to protect revenue
• Achieve active, easily auditable compliance
• Enable better outage management
• Predict and resolve potential issues before they occur by monitoring exceptions on business and IT Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Utilise real-time information to reduce risks and operating costs, improve customer service and facilitate better decision-making

Software AG is currently working on smart grid projects both in Australia and overseas, and our customers include many of the world’s leading energy and utilities organisations.

For more information, visit www.softwareag.com/au/utilities

Ergon Energy and Microplant
Website: www.ergon.com.au

Company Overview
Ergon Energy provides over 650,000 customers across Queensland with a range of energy services. Energy Choices is a commercial business unit of Ergon Energy, delivering innovative renewable and energy related products to government, corporate and residential clients.

MicroPlanet Low Voltage Regulation Product
Energy Choices is the Australian distributor for MicroPlanet’s Low Voltage Regulation Product (LVR). The LVR has been designed to solve common power quality problems at the point of delivery. The product is designed to save energy, lower electricity bills, improve energy services and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Products & Services

Renewable Energy Products

• On and off grid photovoltaic power systems
• Integrated air conditioning, refrigeration and hot water units
• Integration of wind and solar energy into diesel power stations
• Modular integrated renewable energy systems for small communities or emergency response

Energy Efficiency

• Energy planning
• Demand management services
• AS3598 Energy Audits Level 1-3
• Carbon footprint assessments
• Community audit programs
• Green Loan home sustainability assessments
• Installation of energy efficiency products

Product Commercialisation
Energy Choices investigates and trials cutting edge technologies for commercialisation - including load management and energy efficiency products for motors, air conditioning, refrigeration and lighting.

Contact Details
Ross Reynolds
Strategy Developer – Energy Choices
Phone: 0428 656 753
Email: ross.reynolds@ergon.com.au

Telstra
Website: www.telstra.com/enterprise

Telstra has more than a century of experience in building and maintaining complex infrastructure networks in the harshest Australian conditions. Most importantly, we understand the need to be able to deliver upgrades without a huge capital outlay -and in a way that leaves customers more satisfied with the result.

We know that in the 21st century, utility providers need to take advantage of new ICT solutions to make networks smarter and more reliable. As we're both a leading user and provider of this technology, Telstra looks forward to working with the industry to deliver solutions that will improve the productivity of our networks and Australia as a whole.

Siemens
Website: www.siemens.com.au

For over 135 years, Siemens has been providing innovative technology-based solutions in the areas of water, energy, environment, healthcare, productivity, mobility, safety and security. Through these eight solution areas, Siemens is meeting the demands placed on businesses by the four global megatrends – climate change, demographic change, globalisation and urbanisation.

The efficient and sustainable supply of energy underpins the energy portfolio. With proven local expertise and a complete spectrum of offerings, Siemens has an energy solution for the generation, transmission and distribution of power. From gas turbines and steam turbines to sustainable solutions such as wind turbines and low nitrous oxide burners, Siemens is committed to developing and maintaining steam and gas power plants in a more powerful, efficient and reliable way. Siemens technology for high and medium voltage applications, transformers, energy automation and total power solutions is all designed to meet local transmission and distribution requirements without compromising power quality.

Logica
Website: www.logica.com.au

Logica’s combination of deep industry knowledge, as well as technical excellence and global delivery expertise gives us an unparalleled track record. We have provided IT services and solutions to 11 of the 13 energy network companies in Australia and energy network businesses, gas and water companies make up over 50% of Logica Australia’s client base.

We provide leadership in consulting, implementation and ongoing IT support capabilities to address the IT needs of our clients both now and into the future. Globally we employ 40,000 people, providing business consulting, systems integration, operational systems support and IT and business process outsourcing services.

Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com. The company is a public company incorporated and domiciled in the UK.

Areva
Website: www.areva.com

All over the world, AREVA provides its customers with solutions for carbon-free power generation and electricity transmission. With its knowledge and expertise in these fields, the group has a leading role to play in meeting the world’s energy needs.

Ranked first in the global nuclear power industry, AREVA's unique integrated offering covers every stage of the fuel cycle, reactor design and construction, and related services.

In addition, the group is developing a portfolio of operations in renewable energies. AREVA is also a world leader in electricity transmission and distribution and offers its customers a complete range of solutions for greater grid stability and energy efficiency.

Sustainable development is a core component of the group’s industrial strategy. Its 75,000 employees work every day to make AREVA a responsible industrial player that is helping to supply ever cleaner, safer and more economical energy to the greatest number of people.

AREVA's T&D division is an active player around the globe. It designs, manufactures and supplies a complete range of equipment, systems and services for all stages in the transfer of electricity, from the generator to the large end-user. Via its forebears, AREVA has had a continuous presence in Australia for almost a century, including manufacture of transformer and switchgear in Brisbane for the past 60 years.

AREVA T&D Australia Limited
Level 3, Quad 3, 102 Bennelong Road
Homebush Bay NSW 2127
Tel: +61 (0)2 9739 3000
Fax: +61 (0)2 9739 3040

Contact: Gabrielle AMBRAISSE, Regional Communications Manager

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Infosys
Website: www.infosys.com

Infosys defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business solutions that help the world’s most successful companies win in a Flat World.

Our Advanced Metering/Smart Grid practice provides pre-build solutions/accelerators and a pool of subject matter experts across the utility business value chain. Infosys’ end-to-end services – including strategy consulting, program and change management, applications modernisation, application/analytics development and testing – ensure a seamless integration.

Our Utilities Centre of Expertise combines expertise in customer care and billing systems such as SAP's IS-U/CCS and Itron's IEE Smart Metering solution with three platforms designed in-house:

• Advanced Metering Infrastructure Solution (AMIS): Open standards and web services platform to integrate smart metering and customer applications
• Smart Customer Portal (SCP): Online portal providing consumers with all the information they need to actively manage their own energy usage
• Comprehensive Customer Service Solution (CCSS): Our framework enables designing and deploying changes in customer service business processes

Infosys helps you deliver a smarter customer experience at a fraction of the cost by leveraging our global delivery model and expertise of 110,000 professionals in over 70 cities around the world, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Wellington. For more information, visit www.infosys.com.

Exhibitors

Progress Software
Website: www.progresssoftware.com.au

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership.

For the electricity industry, real-time visibility and proactive control is the key to Smart Grid success. The Progress Apama Event Processing Platform provides the technology necessary to handle the increasing volume of meter events and the tools to turn meter data into meaningful events, such as a real-time view of critical meter data management strategies from full-featured dashboards. In addition, by combining smart metering events with customer service and maintenance applications, proactive notifications from event patterns across multiple sources can enhance levels of service from outage management to maintenance.

Progress Software has helped some of the world’s largest energy companies create, manage, and evolve strategies that reduce costs and improve customer service.

Landis + Gyr
Website: www.landisgyr.com

Landis+Gyr is the leading provider of integrated energy management solutions tailored to energy company needs. With a global presence and a reputation for quality and innovation, Landis+Gyr is unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid. With annualized sales of more than US$1.25 billion, Landis+Gyr operates in over 30 countries across five continents, and employs over 5,000 people with the sole mission of helping the world manage energy better.

Ventyx
Website: www.ventyx.com

The Ventyx Smart Grid Operations software suite supports the commercial and retail utility operations required to deliver effective demand response (DR) programs, distributed energy management, renewable generation and resource optimization for successful Smart Grid deployments. An integral component of the first fully integrated SmartGridCity™ in Boulder, Colorado, the solution offers the only proven technology for successful integration of the commercial operations value chain for Smart Grids from portfolio optimization to customer program management. As a result, customer Smart Grid programs can increase operational efficiencies, maximize and optimize the use of distributed energy resources and help the energy consumer make more informed choices about how and when they use power.

The solution enables utilities to aggregate customer-level DR and distributed generation into commercially actionable Virtual Power Plants. It also improves DR program management, effectively managing customer enrollment, device tracking and DR forecasting. Furthermore, Smart Grid Operations enables utilities to efficiently calculate and communicate price and environmental signals to customers, portals and load control programs – providing customers with actionable intelligence for managing their energy consumption based on their own environmental and financial preferences. In addition, the solution provides advanced reporting capabilities enabling utilities to document program- and customer-level economic and environmental benefits.

Sourcefire
Website: www.sourcefire.com

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), Snort ® creator and open source innovator, is a world leader in intelligent Cybersecurity solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks. Sourcefire’s IPS and Real-time Adaptive Security solution equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense – protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. Through the years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike – with more than 50 awards and accolades. Today, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit www.sourcefire.com

Originally released in 1998 by Sourcefire founder and CTO Martin Roesch, Snort ® is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS). Combining the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection Snort is the most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide. With more than 3.7 million downloads and over 225,000 registered users Snort has become the de facto standard for IPS. For more information about Snort, please visit www.snort.org