3rd National Smart Grids Forum

The 3rd National Smart Grids Forum will again bring a speaker faculty of senior level executives from Australia and around the globe to generate strategic discussion across industry on the transition to intelligent networks. Taking your business from trial status into full scale implementation not only involves planning the whole infrastructure of the system. Streamlining your business processes and operations is vital to achieve project success.

Collectively, expertise and practical experience in the smart grids field is growing. How will you take advantage of the opportunity to collaborate?

Energy Industry, Government and Technology Solutions Providers will meet again to analyse key developments in industry projects and discuss how to drive innovation and high performance throughout the electricity network.

Delegates and speakers can engage in lively and honest discussions around not only the critical issues currently being faced by industry, but more importantly what the strategies are that utilities are undertaking to meet the challenges presented.

This year at a glance:

• Key International Speakers:
  • Skip Ashton, Chair of ZigBee Architecture Review Committee, ZigBee Alliance (USA)
  • John Baker, Director Utility Systems Research, Pecan Street Project (USA)
  • Retha Hunsicker, General Manager Smart Energy Systems & Processes, Duke Energy (USA)
  • Bob Gilligan, Transmission & Distribution Vice President, GE Energy (USA)
  • Yoram Cohen, Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles Projects IT Director, Israel Electric Corporation (Israel)
  • Hjartarson, Manager System Reliability, Toronto Hydro (Canada)
• Key Australian Speakers:
  • George Maltabarow, Managing Director, AusGrid
  • Ian McLeod, Chief Executive, Ergon Energy
  • Colin Blair, Chief Executive Officer, Standards Australia
  • Mike Fajdiga, Chief Operating Officer, United Energy Distribution and Multinet Gas
  • Adrian Clark, General Manager Smart Grids, AusGrid
  • Mark de Laeter, General Manager Networks, Western Power
• Key Discussion areas include:
  • Gaining customer acceptance and engagement, extensively discussed on the Pre-Conference Focus Day
  • Establishing a robust and secure communications infrastructure
  • Integrating network automation systems
  • Integrating distributed generation and electric vehicles
  • Developing an open standards roadmap for Smart Grid deployment in Australia