Past Presentations

"The virtual conference allowed us to share knowledge and network around the globe. Smart Grid Forums found a very creative solution to continue knowledge sharing and networking during the Covid-19 pandemic." Jasper van der Bent, Business IT consultant, Alliander

"The virtual conference allowed me to discuss with people in different countries and get insights into their work. It is very helpful to see what is done in other countries. Especially for a regional company such like mine." Barbara Blöser, Senior Conusltant Stratergy & Geodata, Mainzer Netze GmbH

"The GIS4SmartGrid Conference 2020 has been a great opportunity to network with peers that strive to advance GIS technology in utilities. Through the exchange about projects, problems, and lessons learned, I gained valuable insights and contacts that are beneficial to develop next-generation GIS within my utility." Sophie Crommelinck, IT Business Analyst for Geospatial Systems, Netze BW

"It connects everyone to the IEC 61850 world" Mo Yau Sang, Engineer II, CLP Power Hong Kong

"An excellent opportunity to look further than the end of your own nose and acknowledge that other people's solutions to shared problems may be far better than yours" Julio E. Dominguez, SAS Designer, UFD

"Well represented conference from utility stakeholders & decision makers as well as major vendors worked together to align their vision of Smart Grid & solve upcoming challenges" Mital Kanabar, Chief Apps Architect, GE Grid Solutions

“High quality speakers and excellent coordination.” Siv Hilde Houmb, Senior Advisor Digital Security, Statnett

“Great conference with good specialists, interesting and relevant topics in an accessible and convenient form.” Oleksandr Kabachynskyi, Head Of System Administration & Information Security, JSC Khmelnytskoblenergo

“Great spectrum of topics, efficient timing, useful discussions.” Jiri Petko, HUB Europe Service Sales Manager, Hitachi ABB

"Fantastic investment of my time. Great topics and speakers!" Trey Hayes, Connectivity Team Leader, Alabama Power Company

"Great insights! I appreciated having a clear overview of what utilities actually do, instead of solution vendors trying to impress." Damien Wetterwald, Director Business Analytics, Depsys SA

"Best virtual conference to date. Informative content, and the spirit of sharing was great." Rena Kuwahata, Business Development Manager, Ampacimon

"This virtual conference allowed me to stay updated with some of the most innovative platforms in the smart grid industry, and understand how innovation is being applied and managed" David Lima, Engineer, EDP Distribuição

"An outstanding panel of experts and an interesting agenda of utility case-studies" Manuel Intini, Innovation Manager, a2a

"This conference has helped us stay up to date and review new options for making a smart grid more efficient, and speed up the electrification transition" Rafael San Juan, IT Innovation & Digital Platforms, Iberdrola

“I thoroughly enjoyed this conference, and learnt a lot from every talk, which I will be using to influence the business I work in.” Harshil Sumaria, Power Systems and Data Analytics Engineer, UK Power Networks

"Very interesting choice of speakers and topics. The web platform works like a charm." Pascal Bauermeister, Senior IT Operations Engineer, DEPsys

"Excellent insights on how to approach a Cloud journey in utilities." MIGUEL GASPAR SILVA, IBU Head, SAP SE

"Very interesting conference in which all programme topics are covered. The conference was performed with the top professionals who work in applying in their workplace their AI & ML skills, and applying the latest trends in these fields." Pascual Mullor Ruiz, R&D Engineer, Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía

"Great range of topics and speakers!" Robert Belcher, Senior Decision Scientist, UK Power Networks

"AI&ML for the Smart Grid is a very well targeted conference where concrete AI use-cases are discussed and challenges around ML may be discussed between grid operators and different vendors" Leclercq Guillaume, Head of AI for Energy, N-SIDE

"Lots of very technical presentations! Very interesting and diversified." Christophe Bechet, Référent télécom et cybersécurité, EDF

“A great opportunity to access energy sector trends and increase knowledge and share experiences.” Sandra Monteirn, IT Specialist, TAESA

“This conference provided an array of technically detailed presentations. Rather than being too generic and high level, the material presented facilitated much learning in a short time frame.” Cormac Long, IP Technical Consultant, ESB Ireland

"Amazing line up of utility speakers sharing very relevant and in depth NextGen SCADA project experiences" Bas Kruimer, Business Development, DNV GL

"Open atmosphere, deep technical knowledge of participants and a good sharing of the same" Anders Hellkvist, VP Business Development - Network Control, ABB Powergrids

“Every idea was presented about how to solve the new challenges that system operators must face regarding FACTs devices, HVDCs or DERs.” Juan Piero, Engineer, REE

"A place where you can share challenges from your organisation and learn about the possibilities from others" Ramnath Ambathy, BIM Program Manager, Statnett SF

"An excellent opportunity to find more ideas, get insights on the cutting edge and foster networking with colleagues with different approaches to the same problems" Ricardo Prata, Subdirector of Assets and Data Analysis, EDP Distribuicao

"A great forum to see how other utilities are approaching similar problems in different ways. A more efficient way to learn from other people's experiences" Carl Johnstone, Director, i4 Asset Management

"It was very interesting to hear about developments in Predictive Maintenance issues by different utilities (DSOs) and I am pretty sure that this opportunity will. Help our decision team to take actions in the right directions" Andreas Kyprianou, Senior Network Engineer, Electricity Authority of Cyprus

"General overall knowledge of possibilities and challenges that help me to direct more accurate questions in my organisation, where the experts are. My objective of participating was to learn more about the field in general" Anne-Marie Gellus, Manager AM division, Svenska Kraftnat

"A more focused conference than others, able to bring different viewpoints from Engineers to Data Scientists for a single aim, and sharing practices" Carl Johnstone, Technical Director, i4 Asset Management

"Good case studies. Explained some of the issues with top-down IEC 61850 modelling with enthusiastic presenters!" Andrew West, Regional Technical Director, SUBNET

“Large diversity of subjects presented regarding intelligent substations, which gave me a more concrete image of future smart grids than I have previously seen” Alexander Schouwenaar, Data Scientist, Enexis

“A very informative and entertaining event. Good networking opportunities” Ray Zhang, Technical Leader, Protection, Control & Automation, National Grid

"Excellent possibilities to exchange the latest developments concerning Substation automation and DER modelling" Jan Voltmann, Consultant, Alliander

"IEC 61850 Global conference was an interesting opportunity to exchange experiences, I could see how the companies are implementing the IEC 61850 standard and which are their challenges in the future." Marco Salado, Service Engineer, ESIA

"Exchanging information between vendor and customer helping each other with the problems" Robbert Koendermann, Senior Engineer, Qirion/Alliander

“Excellent conference, excellent programme, excellent networking, and a great opportunity to learn and share about cyber security. The hottest topic in the digital transformation of the energy sector.” Aurelio Blanquet, Director, EDP

"This conference provided an array of technically detailed presentations. Rather than being too generic and high level, the material presented facilitated much learning in a short time frame. There was also an excellent level of informal interaction among participants. A couple of days well spent." Cormac Long, Technical Consultant, ESB Ireland

“Good opportunity to share updates with colleagues in IT/OT. Discover different approaches for the same problems. Learn new market developments.” Ton Rijnan, Application Manager, TenneT

"A mature conference that build bridges among the European utilities for a GIS centric digitalization platform" Yiannakis Ioannou, GIS Coordinator and Engineering, Electricity Authority of Cyprus

‘’A great conference was vendor meet the business and IT. A perfect mix of interesting discussions’’ Eric Straalman, Director International Sales, GEOCOM

"A vendor agnostic conference focused on utility experiences" Löic Rebours, DSI, ENEDIS

‘’The presentations were very insightful to know the main challenges of the T and D companies and how data analytics help in solving those challenges. Some use cases showed could lead to how projects or ideas that could be developed in our company in the future ‘’ Sergio Hernan Ortega Moreno, Reliability and Risk Analyst, Transelec S.A.

‘’The combination of presentations related for smart grids and machine learning analytics is probably the most relevant for any data scientist within the grid utilities’’ Tobias Haumann, Data Scientist, Agder Energi Nett

‘’The smart grid big data 2019 showed to have not only high level speakers and presentations but also to be a place for perfect networking regarding topics like big data and smart grid." Rita Viegas, Data Analyst, EDP Distribuicao

“Good opportunity to share updates with colleagues in IT/OT. Discover different approaches for the same problems. Learn new market developments.” Ton Rijnan, Application Manager, TenneT

"A very useful time, open exchange of ideas and information. Excellent real-world presentations.” Allan Wales, Distribution Systems Specialist, SP Energy Networks

“A combination of very knowledgeable experts, panel discussions and round table discussions were useful.” Maryam Al-fadhala, Planning Engineer, Public Works Authority Qatar

“It was great to hear the development and challenges of other utilities on this new environment. There were really great presentations including inspirational messages, impressive pilots and great innovative ideas. Yamshid Farhat, Smart Grid Engineer, BKW

“A really great forum to see how other utilities are approaching similar problems in different ways. A more efficient way to learn that from other people’s experiences” Carl Johnstone, Director, i4 Asset Management

“The conference provided a very integration insight on the main concerns that utilities have when they manage there asset/ it provided a great environment to share experiences” Claudio Silva, Product Manager, Efacec

"You can get new ideas from presentations and talking with colleagues and use them to solve problems and implement new solutions in your work" Ramio Lilletai, SCADA Team Leader, Elektrilevi oU

"Good mixture of already modified projects in field of digital substation and future challenges , Networking with people and companies" Fredi Belavic, Asset Manager, Austrian Power Grid

"The most useful thing about SGTech is the information about the new developments visions and experiences of other companies" Hans Slootjes, Information Consultant, Stedin

"A great event focused on cyber security in the energy sector, great networking and collaboration. The attendees are knowledgeable and fully participate in the subjects discussed." David Willacy, Global Head Digital Risk and External UK\EU Engagement, National Grid

“Excellent conference, excellent programme, excellent networking, and a great opportunity to learn and share about cyber security. The most hot topic in the digital transformation of the energy sector.” Aurelio Blanquet, Director, Division of Automation and Telecommunications & Chair EE-ISAC, EDP Distribuição

“A good platform to share experiences, know-how and ideas to get cyber security efforts in the same direction in the energy sector.” Markus Lenzin, Head of Substation Automation Systems, Swissgrid AG

“A very well targeted conference where concrete AI use cases are discussed and challenges around ML may be discussed between grid operators and different vendors.” Guillaume Leclercq, Head of AI for Energy, N-SIDE

“Great insights! I appreciated having a clear overview of what utilities actually do, instead of solution vendors trying to impress.” Damien Wetterwald, Director Business Analytics, Depsys SA

“Informative international insights from world leaders” Yves Hertig, New Business Manager, BKW Energie AG

"Well planned conference with prepared presentations, competent presenters and an active audience." Mika Loukkalahti, Leading Expert, Helen Electricity Network

"Quality speakers and quality presentations providing valuable insight into the subject matter" Ian Gilbert, Technology Intelligence, T&D Europe

"There's the possibility to present yourself as a person, like a small version of LinkedIn. Chatrooms and video conferences make it much easier to get in contact with other people" David Böhm, Asset Management - Grid Planning, Austrian Power Grid AG

“I thoroughly enjoyed this conference, and learnt a lot from every talk, which I will be using to influence the business I work in.” Harshil Sumaria, Power Systems and Data Analytics Engineer, UK Power Networks

“The conference has been performed with the top professionals who work every applying in their workplace their AI & ML skills, applying the latest trends in these fields.” Pascual Mullor Ruiz, R&D Engineer, Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía

“Excellent virtual conference platform with surprisingly good opportunity to network.” Brian Finkel, Product Manager, Software & Services, Analog Devices

“I hadn't expected that a virtual conference can get so close to a "real" conference!” Ajdin Halilovic, Data Scientist, E.ON

“Nice presentations with specific use-cases using AI, event platform works properly and offers interesting functionalities.” Yamshid Farhat, Data Scientist, BKW Energie AG

“Interesting topics organised in good virtual conferencing concept.” Mirko Pracht, Head of Process Management and Digitalisation, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH