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#dutchinnovationcafé
Let’s make Sofia a Smart City by enabling Smart (Bulgarian) People!

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Jeroen van Hertum
• Studied at the University of The Hague
• Started as a software developer in 1997
• Entrepreneur since 2002
• Opened an office in Sofia in 2006
• Lives full time in Bulgaria since 2010
Currently:
- Director People Operations @ Strypes EOOD
- Chairman of “Dutch Tech”

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ICT at a glance
Founded in 1978 and listed on the Euronext Amsterdam
since 1997 (AEX: ICT.AS)
Industrial technology solutions and services provider
Over 1000 highly educated professionals
Turnover in 2016: € 89.7 million

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OUR CHALLENGE:
MAKING THE WORLD
A LITTLE SMARTER

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Focus on smart
Areas in which ICT’s unique range of expertise has the highest impact and
where its solutions provide the highest added value for its customers.
ICT focuses on:
Smarter Industries, Smarter Cities, Smarter Healthcare.

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This Key Note
• Smart …. : Everyone talks about it.
I will show some projects we implemented and how sharing and
collaboration helps the industry to come up with new market ideas.
• How to implement a flexible energy market model?
Can it help Bulgaria?
• A look in the Future with Gartner:
The Hype Cycle for Smart Cities

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Green Flux

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Mobility

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Yet our current market system is not designed to facilitate
more interaction  we need to add flexibility

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To create an effective market we should all play
together by the same rules
Which may
lead to e.g.
different
aggregation
models
Regulation differs
Market
characteristics
differ
Requirements of flex
products differ
One size does not fit all – yet harmonization is needed

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How working along a new common standard
enhances value creation

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Producers
Large Industry
Central Generation
Local demand and
supply
TSO
Balancing Capacity
Commercial & Industrial
Residential
Aggregated
BRP
Portfolio
Optimisation
Grid
Management
DSO
Flexibility
Suppliers
Flexibility
Users
x x

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USEF describes the market for flexibility and provides access to
A reference
implementation to
accelerate large
scale deployments
A set of specifications,
designs and
implementation
guidelines
Pilot results &
insights

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• Unfortunately the Gartner Hype Cycle for Smart Cities has a
copyright. It cannot be shared.