Smart Grid Forums Customer Testimonials

"The balance was just right and discussions that resulted were excellent in my opinion. The presentations were very much of interest to me as an OT cybersecurity expert while building expertise in IT systems. If you have a cybersecurity background and are interested in European insights, this is the show for you."
Kelly Stich
Chief Cyber Security Architect
SUBNET
@SGF Cybersecurity Week 2023

“A full room and a great conference as usual are the ones organized by Smart Grid Forums. Excellent program and topics and a handful of remarkable speakers. And it was a quite unique experience to have in person around 200 enthusiastic experts as we were used to see before Covid.”
Aurelio Blanquet
Secretary General
EE-ISAC
@SGTech Week 2023

“Yet another great conference with very good presentations on actual utility projects and lessons learned, good discussions and great networking opportunity.”
Bas Kruimer
Business Director Digital Grid Ops -
DNV Energy Systems
@SGTech Week 2023

“Smart Grid Forums is on the leading edge of grid security.”
Don Miller
Chief Technology Evangelist
Network Perception
@ CyberAware Webinar Series

“A great way to position our progress of our implementation of IEC61850 to other utilities across the world and see what we can improve!”
Renaud Renaud-Drouin
Automation Engineer
Hydro Quebec
@ IEC 61850 Week 2022

"I was relieved to realise that SGN are not alone in their struggle to implement IEC 62443 requirements. The delegates attending the event were incredibly supportive and patient."
Jayne Crowley
E&I Engineering Policy Manager
SGN
@ IEC 62443 Week 2022

"Definitely essential for every TSO to get the latest CIM information and talk about solutions."
Robert Franke
Data Architect
50Hertz Transmission
@ IEC CIM Week 2022

“In my opinion this is the best industrial conference about smart grid and IEC 61850.”
Andrea Bonetti
Senior Specialist
Megger Sweden AB
@ IEC 6850 Week 2021

“It is an amazing opportunity to making new connections, sharing an amazing content, improving your knowledge, and tuning up your strategy!”
Renan Augusto da Costa Leites
Relationship & IT Solutions Executive Manager
Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico
@ NextGen SCADA Global 2021

“Great opportunity to go over different projects, aspects and approaches applied in different AMI projects.”
Darius Žebrauskas
Smart Metering Infrastructure Expert
ESO
@Advanced Metering Infrastructure 2021

“Great conference where you can learn from distinguished experts in IEC 61850 and how power utilities are leveraging and implementing the standard for pilot projects and future substations.”
Jun Verzosa
Sr. Principal Consultant
Doble Engineering
@IEC 61850 USA 2021

“CIM conference 2021 is a conference with high quality speakers, cutting edge topics and organized in an excellent way.”
Miguel Escribano Rodenas
Engineer
RED ELECTRICA DE ESPAÑA
@Common Information Model 2021

“The IEC 61850 conference never fails to provide wise guidance, new ideas and a wealth of practical knowledge that be transferred into optimal design, engineering and maintenance in the day job.”
David MacDonald
System Monitoring Lead Engineer
Iberdrola
@IEC 61850 Global 2020

“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 as mine.”
Barbara Blöser
Senior Conusltant Stratergy & Geodata
Mainzer Netze GmbH
@GIS4SmartGrid 2020

"This Conference has helped us stay up to date and review new options for making a smart grid more efficient and speed the electrification transition."
Rafael San Juan
IT Innovation & Digital Platforms
Iberdrola
@Smart Grid Innovation 2020

“I am glad to see that cybersecurity gets more and more attention in the OT field, looking forward to the next event.”
Indrek Künnapuu
CISO
Elektrilevi
@Smart Grid Cybersecurity 2020

“Best virtual conference to-date. Informative content and spirit of sharing was great."
Rena Kuwahata
Business Development Manager
Ampacimon
@Grid Asset Management 2020

"Excellent insights on how to approach a Cloud journey in utilities."
Miguel Gaspar Silva
IBU Head
SAP
@Utility Cloud 2020

“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
@AI&ML for the Smart Grid 2020

"Amazing line up of utility speakers sharing very relevant and in depth NextGen SCADA project experiences."
Bas Kruimer
Business Development
DNV GL
@NextGen SCADA Global 2020

"A great combination of grid operators manufactures and consulting companies. A very a good experience."
Daniel Kemper
Asset Manager
Netze BW
@Predictive Maintenance 2020

“Great event and a single opportunity to discuss together with peers and industry of the most critical topics in the strategy agenda of a digital DSO, digital substations, telecommunications, cyber security and SCADA challenges.”
Aurelio Blanquet
Director
EDP Distribuicaō
@SGTech Europe 2019

"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
@IEC 61850 Global 2019

"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
@Smart Grid Big Data 2019

“A great vendor agnostic conference focused on utility experiences.”
Loïc Rebours
IT Engineer
Enedis
@GIS4SmartGrid 2018

“Good opportunity to share updates with colleagues in IT/OT. Discover different approaches for the same problems. Learn new market developments.”
Ton Rijnen
IT Service Officer EMS
Tennet
@NextGen SCADA Europe 2018

“Excellently organised event bringing together people from all over the world and from all fields of application for discussing really relevant topics.”
Gerhard Strauhs
DF FA AS ETM R&D-SW DE
ETM Professional Control
@IEC 61850 Europe 2018