Our recent research with utility senior managers and technical specialists for SGT25 revealed an ever-widening gap between the CEO’s vision and their technical team’s engagement with change projects!
This gap is not only stalling new technology projects that were intended to drive grid modernisation, renewables integration, and ensure future energy security, but it is draining the sector of the fresh new talent it needs to navigate and conquer a complex digital landscape with all of its opportunities and risks.
Add to this an intensifying geopolitical environment creating doubt over trade allies and supply chain reliability, a punishing cost-base that is increasing at a rate of 30% or more per year, and a cyber vulnerable OT asset base, and you have the perfect storm that could either lead to the greatest power sector success in the next 2-3 years, or the most devasting failure in the grid’s history.
If this message resonates, it will be a relief to know that you are not alone! The vast majority of European utilities that we have spoken with in the last 3 months are grappling with workforce issues right now. That is why we will be placing workforce engagement at the heart of the SGT25 programme, with crucial conversation planned in multiple formats:
✅ Strategic Plenary Sessions – a panel of utility senior managers who are charged with talent acquisition and retention will be discussing the issues, challenges, opportunities and strategies for re-engaging, re-aligning, and re-energising the workforce to drive change projects with greater ferocity.
✅ Practical Case-Studies – across the technical programme, project leaders will discuss the team structures, educational programmes, and ambassador-led communication frameworks that they are leveraging to firm up commitment and drive new technology adoption at an unprecedented pace.
✅ Roundtable Discussions – these informal discussions will enable you to raise your specific questions around workforce engagement, no matter how thorny or how unique to your organisation they may seem, and benefit from the brainstorming, insights and support of the entire power grid ecosystem.
Don’t leave workforce issues to chance! There is opportunity in the gap. Join us at SGT25 and play an active role in clarifying the challenges and formulating the solutions, with the power of your power grid peer group behind you.
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