Meter Asset Management 2015 returns this June for its 2nd year. Book by the end of the month to save money

1. 2015Holiday Inn Regents Park Hotel, London, UK
Meter Asset
Management
22nd - 23rd
JUNE
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Listen to an update on the SMDA
• Learn how to implement best
practice being used across Europe
• Understand how to train and
optimise your workforce
• Discuss how interoperability can be
implemented
• Hear how to maximise the benefits
of smart metering
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SPECIAL RATES AVAILABLE FOR UTILITIES, COMMERCIAL SECTOR AND GROUP BOOKINGS
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Wednesday 24th June, Holiday Inn Regents Park Hotel, London, UK
The Skills Agenda for SMART
Presented by: Neil Robertson, Chief Executive, Energy and Utility Skills
8.30am – 4.00pm
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
• Jeremy Yapp, Deputy Director, Smart Metering, BEAMA
• Brendan McGarry, Head of Service, SMDA Scheme Operator, Gemserv
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
• Senior Representative, Department of Energy and Climate Change
• Neil Robertson, Chief Executive, EU Skills
• Dennis Palmer, Head of GB Smart Meter Programme Liason, Smart
Energy GB
• Gavin Jones, Business Development Director, Electralink
• Stephen Dallas, Smart Meter Deployment Optimisation Manager, EDF
ENERGY
• Dirk Costrop, Project Leader Engineering of Smart Meters, Eandis
• Brian Stratton, Head of Distribution Capital Delivery, Head of Network

2. Meter Asset Management
Day One | Monday 22nd June 2015
Register online at www.meterassetmanagement.com • Alternatively
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Jeremy Yapp, Deputy Director, Smart Metering, BEAMA
OPENING ADDRESS
9.10 Optimising your workforce
• What skills will be required of your workforce?
• Ensuring your staff are fully competent
• Top tips for training and developing your workforce
Neil Robertson, Chief Executive, Energy & Utility Skills
9.50 Consumer energy data and the connected home
• Status update of equipment availability
• The role of consumer data in the connected home
• Addressing the remaining challenges to rollout
• Unlocking the power of smart energy data
Jeremy Yapp, Deputy Director, Smart Metering, BEAMA
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 How to mitigate your meter financing risks
• Meter failure – who to blame!
• Churn agreements – what you need you know
• Other lessons learnt from down-under
Phil Hack, Head of Strategic Projects and Smart Metering,
UK Power Networks
11.40 The big logistical challenge
• How to ensure assets are returned correctly
• Best methods of keeping asset records
• Ensuring logistical smoothness
Ray Bennett, Supply Chain Process Manager, National Grid
12.20 Networking Lunch
1.40 Best Practice and Case Study in Smart Metering
• Hear how Caruna Oy implemented smart metering
• Understand and learn from their experiences
• Getting the most out of your data – what can it tell you
Tommi Pyhähuhta, Head of Metering and Customer Data
Management, Customer Relations, Caruna Oy
2.20 Working together to increase efficiency
• The obstacles to a smooth roll out from the networks point
of view
• Working together in order to overcome these issues
• Optimising work between energy suppliers and energy
networks
• What UK power networks are doing to prepare
Brian Stratton, Head of Distribution Capital Delivery, Network
Operations, UK Power Networks
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 How can customer switching become a seamless
experience?
• What are the problems posed by meter interoperability
and interchangeability?
• What can we do to try and resolve these and meet the
high expectations of your customers
• Working together to achieve this goal
David Scott, Industry Relationship Manager, Smart Metering,
Scottish Power
4.10 Panel Discussion: Preparing for the key steps in the transition:
What to watch out for
• Appreciating the responsibilities of different parties
• What tricky situations could arise
• How preparation could be the key
Dirk Costrop, Project Manager Smart MEter Data Acquisition,
Smart Meter Programme, Eandis
Ray Bennett, Supply Chain Process Manager, National Grid
4.50 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
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3. fax your registration to +44 (0)870 9090 712 or call +44 (0)870 9090 711
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Brendan McGarry, Head of Sercice, SMDA Scheme
Operator, Gemserv Ltd
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9.10 An update from the Department of Energy and Climate
Change on the smart metering implementation programme
• Programme overview
• Progress and key developments in the industry-wide
delivery programme
• Preparing for Initial Live Operations
• Successful consumer engagement/ Outcome of the
Early Learning Project
Speaker to be confirmed, Department of Energy and
Climate Change
9.50 Looking towards opportunities in the future
• How will the industry develop in the future?
• Looking towards smart grids – what can be done to
prepare?
• What are the benefits to electricity consumers?
Goran Strbac, Chair Electrical Energy Systems, Imperial
College London
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Using market data to improve asset data accuracy
• Challenges of data accuracy in the British Electricity
Market
• Considerations in using market data
• How ElectraLink is helping improve Meter Asset information
Gavin Jones, Business Development Director, Electralink
11.40 Optimisation of the processes and systems to maximise
smart meter deployment
• Understanding the value chain for SMART Meter
Deployment
• Selecting where to target interventions to maximise
deployment efficiency
• Designing and testing interventions
• Applying the learning’s
Stephen Dallas, Consultant, EDF Energy
12.20 Networking Lunch
1.40 If the technology isn’t available, what’s missing?
• What do the energy suppliers and DSO’s expect from a
smart meter?
• Where do current assets leave us wanting?
• The top 7 things new meters should incorporate.
• What must be done to get these available?
Dirk Costrop, Project Manager Smart Meter Data Acquisition,
Smart Meter Programme, Eandis
2.20 SMDA overview
• Why is SMDA needed?
• How does it work?
• How and when can I start benefitting from it?
Brendan McGarry, Head of Service, SMDA Scheme
Operator, Gemserv Ltd
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Ensuring positive consumer engagement
• What the most controversial topics going be?
• What are the key messages to promote to your customers?
• How can your company get ahead and avoid backlash?
Dennis Palmer, Head of GB Smart Meter Programme Liaison,
Smart Energy GB
4.10 Optimising the energy savings from smart metering
• How can energy savings be realised
• How do these savings differ between gas and electric?
• Planning ahead to achieve these savings
• Encouraging your customers to change their behaviours
Nick Lomax, Smart Technology Manager, Energy Saving Trust
4.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Meter Asset Management
Day Two | Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Supported by
management.com

4. FULL DAY POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Wednesday 24th June 2015
Holiday Inn Regents Park Hotel, London
8.30am - 4.00pm
The Skills Agenda for SMART
Hosted by:
Neil Robertson, Chief Executive, Energy and Utility Skills
Overview:
The workshop will offer an introduction to the skills agenda for
the utility sector and the transition to employers assuming
responsibility for skilling their workforce. It will cover the
phasing in of new apprenticeship schemes that enable you
the employer to develop apprenticeships for your sector. In
addition, traineeships will provide opportunities for NEETs to
enter the jobs market. We will guide you through recruiting,
retaining and reskilling your future and existing workforce.
Why you should attend:
To discover the new agenda for skills and participate in
developing and shaping ways framed around smart
metering for you to bring new people into your industry.
Programme:
8.30 Registration and Coffee
9.00 Opening remarks
9.10 Session 1: The Skills Agenda
9.55 Session 2: The Energy & Efficiency Industrial
Partnership
10.45 Morning Coffee
11.15 Session 3: Independent Assessment Service
• Assessment Function
• Quality Framework
• Affiliate Community
11.45 Session 4: SMART metering
• Trailblazer Apprenticeships
• Traineeships
1.00 Lunch
2.10 Session 5: EUSR – A platform for Skills
2.50 Afternoon Tea
3.20 Session 6: Talent Source Network
• Attract
• Retain
• Reskill
4.00 End of Workshop
About the workshop leader:
Neil Robertson
Neil has been the Chief Executive of Energy & Utility Skills
Group since May 2012.
Neil has recently led and secured a £55m collaboration bid
in energy and utilities aimed at diversifying the workforce
and filling vacancies.
Prior to joining the Energy & Utility Skills Group, he was Director
of Training at Babcock International. His main focus in this role
was to lead the Apprenticeships training function.
Earlier in his career, Neil served as a senior civil servant at DfES
and DIUS (now the Department for Business, Innovation and
Skills (BIS)) on skills issues with responsibility for Public Service
Agreement targets, basic skills, employability, qualifications,
adult learning, English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL) and migration. He completed a one year
secondment to Government Office North East where he led
on economic development and European funding.
Neil has also worked with City & Guilds where he held
management responsibilities in customer relations, quality
assurance and business development. In January 2003, Neil
was appointed to lead vocational qualification
development across all occupational sectors at the Scottish
Qualifications Authority. In this he initiated a number of
international programmes.
About Energy & Utility Skills:
Energy & Utility Skills is an employer-led membership
organisation that helps ensure the gas, power, waste
management and water industries have the skills they need
- now and in the future.
We are the UK authority on professional development and
employment in the energy and utilities industries. Through a
range of products and services we help employers attract
new talent, develop their workforces, and assure a high level
of competence across their businesses.

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6. METER ASSET MANAGEMENT
Conference: 22nd - 23rd June 2015 | Holiday Inn Regents Park Hotel | London, UK Workshop: 24th June 2015, London, UK
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