About

NZ’s leading Smart Grid Conference! Hear thought-leaders, pioneers and practitioners share experiences from pilots and rollouts in the field.

The first New Zealand Smart Grid conference created a great platform for the industry to come together to start to develop consensus and plans for the next one to five years.

This event will look to continue to feed into the ongoing discussions that have been taking place throughout the year and will zero in on perspectives from leading utilities, technology companies, systems integrators, and regulators.

The overarching theme will be driven by: Real-World Pilots, Technology Advances, and Directions Moving Forward.

Who will attend?
Industry executives, policy makers, regulators, consumers, and members of the financial and legal communities, along with thought leaders from outside the industry with responsibility for:
•    Transmission
•    Distribution
•    Generation
•    Planning
•    R&D
•    Strategy and Business Development
•    Metering/AMI
•    PHEV
•    Distribution Automation
•    Customer Support
•    Demand Response
•    Real-time Systems
•    Renewables
•    Regulatory Affairs
•    Outages & Utility Solutions

Key Speakers

International Speakers Include:
•   Miguel Brandao, Smart Grid Technical Solutions Director for Asia Pacific, GE Energy
Miguel has a background spanning across multiple industries, such has smart grid related R&D, consumer behaviour and energy usage related research, and IT and Telecoms engineering. Miguel holds a BSC in Telecommunications Engineering from IMPE in Lisbon - Portugal, a Postgraduate Diploma in Environment (Energy) from The University of Melbourne - Australia and a MSC in Environmental Social Science from University of East Anglia - UK. Currently, Miguel is working with utilities across Australia and South East Asia in the preparation of smart grid strategies as well as specific smart grid pilots. Current focus areas include consumer behaviour case studies and trials as well as the integration of renewable energy in the grid.

•   Bert Haskell, Technology Director, Pecan Street Project
Bert Haskell is the Technology Director for the Pecan Street Project. He has been working in technology and product development since starting his career in 1984 with Eastman Kodak, where he worked for 5 years as an electronics manufacturing process development engineer while earning his Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester. Bert then worked for 9 years at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) in Austin,TX, concluding his tenure there as Vice president of Portable Electronics Product Research. Since 2000, the has held product development, product marketing and advisory rolls at a number of start-up companies including Stellar Display Corporation, Wireless Age, Motion Computing, Portelligent and most recently, Heliovolt, where he was Director of Product Development for CIGS based thin-film photovoltaic modules.

•   John Juliano, Global Energy and Utilities Industry Lead, Institute for Business Value, IBM
John Juliano is currently the Global Energy and Utilities Lead for IBM’s Institute for Business Value, leading IBM’s current research efforts related to future utility business models and electricity consumer behavior.  He has been a management consultant in the utilities industry for over a decade with work in business strategy, operations strategy, and financial analysis across the energy value chain.  He worked prior to that as a risk assessment engineer and technical course instructor for fossil and nuclear power clients in North America, Eastern Europe, Japan, and South Korea.  John has written or co-written over 30 papers on utility business and financial issues, including two in-depth analyses of global utility consumer surveys conducted by IBM (“Plugging in the Consumer” and “Lighting the Way”), “Switching perspectives: Creating new business models for a changing world of energy,” and “Prioritizing Growth as a Key to Value Creation”.  He has also contributed to major DOE, EPRI, NEI, and EEI research efforts and publications. John holds an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, an MS in Applied Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is based in the Washington, DC.

•   Mark Rodman, Managing Director, Echelon Asia Pacific
Mark started his career in sales in South Africa with Measurex and he advanced his career to Managing Director of Measurex in Australia and New Zealand before moving on to become the Director of Measurex in Latin America Operations after 15 years with Measurex. When Measurex became part of Honeywell in 1997, Mark became the Vice President of Honeywell Asia Pacific Field Operations and then Vice President of Honeywell EMEA responsible for the Measurex business.

•   David Prins, Managing Director, Etrog Consulting Pty Ltd
David Prins is the Director of Etrog Consulting, a specialist consultancy business in energy and utilities.  David is a highly experienced consultant and project manager, with extensive international experience in legal, regulatory and commercial issues.  He has a keen understanding and twenty years of practical experience spanning four continents, specialising in the application of effective regulation and competition.  He has provided advice to private and public sector clients across Australia and New Zealand, as well as in the UK, the US, and Asia, and has worked extensively on national and jurisdictional market and regulatory arrangements.  Much of David’s most recent work in the energy and water sectors has involved advice on smart metering and smart grids, and on retail pricing and margins.

•  Rohan Jones, Manager Regulations and Government Relations, Silver Spring Networks (Australia)
Rohan has worked in the energy infrastructure industry for more than 25 years.  He has experience in all aspects of energy distribution, including design and construction, operations, commercial analysis, business and regulatory management. In 1997 Rohan was appointed Victorian Manager, Integral Energy Metering where he was responsible for setting up the Victorian operations of this contestable metering provider. From 1998 to 2008, Rohan was the Manager Regulatory Affairs, Electricity Networks for AGL and then Alinta.  In this role, he was a member of the industry and government committees that developed the framework for, firstly, the roll-out interval meters and then the roll out of AMI meters in Victoria.  Rohan was a key industry participant in the development of the Victorian AMI Functional and Service Level Specifications.  Rohan was also the Regulatory and Legal Manager for the Alinta AMI project. Rohan joined Silver Spring Networks in 2009 in the role of Manager Regulatory and Government Relations.

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