DW 2015: Toril Nag - The Digital Society

1. The Gigabit Society
- the boring big sister
of all the new
digital whizz kids
on the block
Toril Nag
Executive Vice President Telecom
Lyse Energi

2. Infrastructure –
Society’s backbone

3. Digital infrastructure
more important
than roads?
FIBEROPTIC SUPERHIGHWAY

4. Optimal telecommunications got the most votes when
Avinor asked what the most important profitability factor is
for a company:
Optimal telecommunications
Proximity to airport
Flight routes availability
Train network availability
Road network standard
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Crucial Very important Moderately important Not important

5. Fibre penetration
Source: IDATE for FTTH Council Europe, February 2014
FTTH/B European Ranking – end 2013

6. 14 exciting years
Cable
ADSL
Total
200000
400000
600000
800000
1000000
1200000
1400000
1600000
1800000

7. Neste industrielle revolusjon
Next industrial revolution

8. What is special about the Stavanger region?
• Norways fastest-aging population due to
the oil boom in the 70’s . The group 67-79
will grow with 34% in the next five years.
• Highest no of fires per person GLOBALLY
…
• Primarily electric heating – need for
energy efficient buildings
• Europes highest density of electric
vehicles. Demanding for the power grid.
• Norways worst traffic situation – bus is
the ony public transportation and few if any
bus lanes.
• One of Europes best access to fiber
network – many public buidlings are on-net
• Green Mountain.
• AMR is an opportunity the municipalities
have chosen to take – smart controllers in
all homes by end of 2018
• UiS, industry and public management has a
culture for service innovation (trippel
helix)
• Knowledge from the oil-business that can
be nudged into new areas for growth?
Platform for development
of new business clusters

9. We are building a smarter grid. Important
building blocs are the new autoated meters that
facilitates lower energy consumption.
We develop towards a society of Prosumers.
Age of the prosumer1,3
million
Prosumers in
Germany

10. Plain Old Grid?

11. « Everything is connected!»

12. New energy
demands
from households
and businesses

13. Everything is changing
- especially the business models!

14. And it is changing faster….

16. NOW WHAT?

17. More and more devices on-net…

19. It (still) boils down to this:
What the customer
wants done!

22. ”We’re constantly looking
for important problems to solve!”
The Rise of purpose driven organizations
Survival of the fastest
Larry Page, Google

23. Scope:
To identify, develop and deploy
replicable, balanced and
integrated solutions in the
energy, transport, and ICT
actions through partnerships
between municipalities
and industries.
TRIANGULUM
THE THREE POINT PROJECT

24. ”I never attempt to make
money on the stock market.
I buy on the assumption that
they could close the market
the next day and not reopen it
for five years.”
Warren Buffet

25. 24/7/365

26. FilmThe connected society

27. Opportunity is
missed by most people
because it is
dressed in overalls
and looks like work
Thomas Alva Edison