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Speaker line-up:
Benjamin Rice,
Operations
Engineering
Manager,
Pattern Energy
Gerry Lindauer,
Manager Of
Performance
Assurance,
Siemens
Ninochska
Maldonado-
Bosworth,
Lead Fleet
Engineer, EDF RE
Jaimeet Gulati,
Associate
Director – Global
Operations,
EDP Renewables
Biren Gandhi,
Global Renewable
Energy Solutions
Leader,
IBM Global
Energy & Utilities
Industry
Shuangwen
Sheng, Senior
Engineer,
NREL
David Korim,
Software Product
Manager – Asset
Performance,
GE Renewables
Jeffrey Wehner,
Vice President -
Operations,
Duke Energy
Chairperson
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 DAYS
OF IN-DEPTH INSIGHT
13
EXPERT/CASE STUDIES
PRESENTATIONS
1
AFTERNOON SESSION
AT OUR PRE FORUM WORKSHOP
OVER 15
INDUSTRY-LEADING SPEAKERS
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PROVOCATIVE PANEL SESSIONS
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ROUNTABLE DISCUSSIONS
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8 REASONS
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‘A great opportunity
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players in the industry’
– CONSULTANT COORDINATOR
‘Experts sharing
experience and
expectations around
data management to
optimize their business’
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LEARN ABOUT THE LATEST TRENDS
AND CHALLENGES
GET INSPIRED BY IMPACTFUL
KEYNOTES
Our data portfolio of events have become
a renowned occasion to unveil the most
crucial trends and developments in ensuring
cost-effective practices to improve power
performance and reduce OPEX.
Year after year, our Wind Data Forums are
comprised of the most prominent leaders in the
field. Distinguished keynotes will open your eyes to
meaningful industry developments, informing and
inspiring participants to think progressively and
generate ideas.
MEET COLLEAGUES FROM ACROSS
THE GLOBE
TACKLE CHALLENGES HEAD ON IN
ENGAGING DEBATES
A dedicated group of over 70 data experts from
across the world attend our Wind Data Forums.
This provides the perfect opportunity to connect
with your industry peers and meet fresh faces, all
with a shared commitment to reducing the LCOE.
The Wind Data Forum creates a superb
atmosphere, conducive to thoughtful debates
and discussions. Use our interactive panels
throughout the 2 days to raise important
questions, make your voice heard and comment
on controversial issues.
BENEFIT FROM PRACTICAL TRAINING
AND WORKSHOPS
BE A PART OF A FLAGSHIP EVENT AND
LOYAL DATA COMMUNITY
The Wind Data Forum allows you to learn from
leading experts, while also offering you the
chance to take part in focused trainings and
workshops that provide practical skills to take
away and implement in your daily role. This year
we are exploring the topic of repowering for
older wind farms.
Now in its 4th year, but building on numerous
previous editions in Europe, the Wind Data
Forum is established as the ONLY industry event
where you can mingle with the full representation
of key figures involved in all aspects of data
management and analysis.
INDULGE IN DEDICATED NETWORKING
WITH INDUSTRY PEERS
GAIN INSIGHTS FROM REAL-TIME
PROJECT UPDATES AND END USER
CASE STUDIES
We attract the most senior experts in the global
data industry from the full spectrum of players, to
allow for exclusive insights from decision makers
and deal breakers. Extensive research ensures
we identify exactly who you want to hear from,
shaping a wholly compelling agenda.
Hear from the individuals and companies at the
forefront of data innovation, through their real-
time and learnt experiences on past and present
projects. Find out what worked and why, with a
unique opportunity to identify the key to others’
top successes.
8REASONS
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PRE FORUM Afternoon Workshop
Monday 13th March
Extending Lifetime To Make The Most Of Your Wind Farm
13:00 Registration And Refreshments
13:30 The Repowering Movement
 Are performance tax credits catalysing the
repowering movement and how do they help?
 What are the solutions offered for manufacturers and
OEMs?
 How to use data to address a repower that is about
15 years old
 What types of repowering are available? And, what
are others doing?
15:00 Afternoon Refreshments And Networking Opportunities
15:30 Understanding How To Retrofit And Streamline Your
Approaches For Adopting New Technologies
 Using retrofitting to deal with data security needs
 Typical retrofitting issues and how to fix them
 The need for reference data in monitoring retrofitting
17:00 End of Workshop
To join either of these sessions please contact Dominic Coyne: dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
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17:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Delegates will select one of the following peer-to peer discussions from the strategic or technical streams listed below.
You will move into small break-out groups where discussions will be off the record and led by an expert on the given
topic. Delegates are encouraged to bring along their considered ideas and questions in order to facilitate a meaningful
and in-depth discussion
STREAM 1 - STRATEGIC STREAM 2 - TECHNICAL
How operators tend to take unnecessary risk from
limited data campaigns
Host: Josh Fausset, Manager – Renewable Energy, OGE
Energy
Utilising your analytics team to create your own
reference data
Host: TBC
Real concrete examples and ways to encourage
investment in data from upper level executives
Host: Ninochska Maldonado-Bosthworth, Lead Fleet
Engineer, EDF RE
Risk mitigation techniques for wind turbines?
Host: Shantanu Mahajan, Asset Performance Manager,
EDP Renewables
How to manage data teams and monitoring systems for
best results?
Host: Dushyant Tank, Reliability Engineer, Pattern Energy
Streamlining the adoption of artificial neural networks
Host: TBC
08:15 Registration And Refreshments
08:45 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
HOW TO HANDLE BIG DATA AND USE
IT EFFECTIVELY TO ACHIEVE GREATER
EFFICIENCY FOR AEP
9:00 How Have We Used Big Data So Far And What Else
Can We Do To Improve Efficiency?
 Examples of breakthrough moments with data sets
 Why data modelling will continue to exponentially
increase efficiency
 What role is data likely to play in future construction
of wind farms?
Participants include:
Jaimeet Gulati, Associate Director – Global
Operations Performance Management, EDPR
Gerry Lindauer, Manager of Performance assurance,
Siemens
9:45 Making The Most Of Your Big Data To Ensure Maximum Use
 Ensuring you get reliable data and knowing what
the limitations are
 How to get more data out of OEMs and increase
the number of tags
 Getting data that is representative of your site for
scalable figures
 Integrating external data and extracting its value
for added analysis in fleet efficiency
David Korim, Software Product Manager – Asset
Performance, GE Renewables
10:15 How To Be Smart With Your Data To Reduce Downtime
 Improving site and maintenance workflow with
OM data
 How to reduce down time and plan operations for
least impact
 Weather forecasting to avoid bad conditions and
aborted maintenance operations
 Predictive maintenance to reduce visits and
choosing the least disruptive times
 Using historical data and feedback loops to save
on time and cost
Gerry Lindauer, Manager of Performance Assurance,
Siemens
10:45 Networking Break And Morning Refreshments
11:15 Data Networks: Blending And Integrating Data from
Multiple Sources
 Getting Data from turbines to provide full
transparency for reporting purposes
 Exploring data enabled remaining useful life predictions
 Validating human data to eradicate errors
 Supervisory controls being used today
Shawn Sheng, Senior Engineer, NREL
Prof. Dr Jan Helsen, Coordinator Big Data Analytics,
OWI-lab
BIG ANALYTICS MADE EASIER: THE
INCREASING TREND OF AUTOMATION
AND PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
11:45 Digitalization Of The Wind Energy Industry
 What do we understand by ‘digitalization of wind?
and why it is important?
 What are key ingredients of digitalization in the
wind industry?
 Application of the cognitive technology in other
industries
 What are the key learning points from applying
cognitive technologies in other industries?
Biren Gandhi, Global Renewable Energy Solutions
Leader, IBM Global Energy Utilities Industry
12:15 The Analytical Value In Remote Monitoring And Sensing
 Using Historical Data to re-prioritise
troubleshooting steps
 Creating feedback loops for new reference data
 Ensuring a future knowledge base for ‘go to fixes’ in
the future
To join this session please contact Dominic Coyne:
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
12:45 Networking Lunch
13:45 The Automation Arms Race, Creating Solutions for
Asset Managers
With the increasing numbers of solutions and analytical
firms, asset managers are faced with big choices:
 What are the software and platforms are available?
 What is the right information to bring to a
performance engineers dashboard?
 What data should be standardised or automated
and how does this vary with each task?
 How do firms offering automation/analytics
propose to help?
Participants include:
Josh Fausset, Manager – Renewable Energy, OGE Energy
Biren Gandhi, Global Renewable Energy Solutions
Leader, IBM Global Energy Utilities Industry
14:30 Specific Approaches For Failure Forecasting And
Predictive Maintenance
 Finding failures and different types of discovery
methods, configurations and failure modes
 What happens pre failure: creating data for future
cycles
 Challenges of setting up systems to tag the data
 Closing the loop to use failure data to feedback for
more effective operation and maintenance in the
future
Ninochska Maldonado-Bosthworth, Lead Fleet
Engineer, EDF RE
15:00 Condition Monitoring And Artificial Neural Networks
 Building an array of sensors that can measure
vibrations across the drive train
 Using the array to detect anomalous behaviour
and indentify faults
 Automation in determining severity of faults
 What really is condition monitoring: time domain vs.
frequency domain
Abstracts welcome, to join this session please contact
Dominic Coyne:
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
15:30 Afternoon Networking And Refreshments
FINDING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR
INVESTMENT FROM PRE CONSTRUCTION
SITE DATA AND UNDERSTANDING
PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS
16:00 Using Preconstruction And Wind Resource Assessment
Data To Reduce Risk In Projects And Create Further
Investment
 Why it is important to properly understand and
reconcile differences from prediction and actual
operating site data
 How do you validate models and lower accuracy
uncertainty for predictions
 Creating scalable data for forecasting
performance output once wind farm is built
 Positively correlated relationship of preconstruction
data and level of investment
Chad Ringley, Director – Energy Analytics, Pattern
Energy
16:30 Data Analytics Method For Understanding Turbine
Underperformance
 Why do site specifics differ from the warranted
power curve?
 The power deviation matrix approach and a few
others in discussion
 What can a machine learning/data analytics
method offer?
 Kernel PLUS method for understanding and
predicting site-specific turbine performance
Yu Ding, Professor, Texas AM University
Hoon Hwangbo, Ph.D. Student, Texas AM University
17:30 Roundtable Feedback
17:50 Chairs Closing Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
18:00 End Of Day 1
FORUM day one
tuesday 14th March
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08:30 Registration And Refreshments
09:00 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
MERGING THE NEEDS OF SECURITY, DATA
TEAMS COMPLIANCE AND THE SUPPLY
CHAIN SHIFT
09:15 How Security Impacts Analytics: A Guide From A-Z
 How to get quick and secure data through co-operation
 Logistical issues of transferable data
 Dealing with multiple securities for different
customers data
 Merging the needs of security and data teams
 How latest security measures will change the
vendor/operator relationship
Jeff Wehner, Vice President – Operations, Duke Energy
09:45 The Changing Supply Chain: A Need To Rethink The
Owner/Operator And OEM Relationship
 Discussion on how security measures and have
adjusted the supply chain
 How have security requirements affected the
Owner/OEM relationship?
 Can technology and cloud storage make
permissions and access easier
 What will the landscape look like in the future?
Participants include:
Ashok Naik, Operations, Siemens
Dushyant Tank, Reliability Engineer, Pattern Energy
10:30 Morning Refreshments Networking Opportunity
11:00 Strengthening The Relationship Between Data And
Cyber Security
 How to make the network secure?
 Choosing and designing the right infrastructure
and security architecture
 Security solutions for problem solving
 Reliability and data recovery
11:30 Feedback On GADS Reporting And Integration
Solutions (Generating Availability Data Systems)
 Grid Integration Solutions and the active power support
 The future of electrical systems for wind
 Facility services available to owner operations
To join this session please contact Dominic Coyne;
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
12:00 ‘Spotlight On’ With Audience Participation: In the Hot
seat With OEMs On NERC Compliance
This session will involve an open audience forum from
which the audience can submit/ask questions (via
slido) to be put to a panel of OEMs. An independent
chair will mediate each discussion for the best results
To join this session please contact Raihan Chowdhury:
raihan.chowdhury@haymarket.com
12:45 Networking Lunch
BEST PRACTICES OF SHARING,ACCESSING
DATA AND STORING DATA
13:45 Accessing Data Given Ownership And Security Level
Contraints
 Why there is need for building a new relationship between
suppliers and operators for smooth maintenance
 How heightened security levels and issues over
data security and ownership created a need for
further integration
 Working together in new and more secure ways to
ensure each party gets what they need to perform
their tasks
 The challenge for OEM’s in servicing their products in
line with warranty agreements whilst dealing with their
different customers and their varying levels of security.
Participants include:
Jeff Wehner, Vice President – Operations, Duke Energy
David Korim, Software Product Manager – Asset
Performance, GE Renewables
14:30 Why Haven’t You Moved To The Cloud Yet?
 Why it is better for storage and retrieval
 How to meet security requirements with the cloud
 How the cloud could alleviate customer concerns
and OEMs from getting locked out of the network
 Operating examples of cloud use in action
To join this session please contact Raihan Chowdhury:
raihan.chowdhury@haymarket.com
15:00 Data Standardization For Better Communication And
Monitoring
 Making the case for a global standard IEC6400-25
 Where it is being utilised already and by who
 What problems will this measure solve?
 Building the standardisation model without
decreasing competition
To join this session please contact Dominic Coyne;
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
15:30 Chairs Closing Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
15:45 Afternoon Refreshments And Extended Networking
Opportunities
16:15 End Of Forum
FORUM day two
wednesday 15th March
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