The Power of Digitalization to Address System Efficiency and Net Zero Grid

Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Time
04:30 pm - 06:00 pm
Hall
ICM München
Room
Room 13 A

Power system decarbonization is one of the most important pillars for achieving net zero ambitions and accelerating the energy transition journey.This session focuses on the key roles that digitalization plays in accelerating the realization of decarbonization and energy transition ambitions and will showcase how grid digitalization tackles challenges such as the integration of more renewables at different grid voltage levels, heat and transport electrification, and the more "weather-dependent" grid. Additionally, light will be shed on technologies enabling grid digital transformation and on effective digital transformation strategies to realize value for the system.

04:30 pm - 04:35 pmWelcome and Introduction

Gregorio Ogliaro

Managing Director, Global Utilities T&D Lead

Accenture

04:35 pm - 04:45 pmHow Technology May Enable Advanced Use Cases and Support the Resiliency

Gianni Ceneri

Head of Technology Development / CTO

Gridspertise Srl

04:45 pm - 04:55 pmMeasuring and Monitoring the High Renewables Grid

Duncan Burt

Chief Strategic Officer

Reactive Technologies Limited

04:55 pm - 05:05 pmAlliander System Operations - Unlocking Available Grid Capacity to Connect More Customers in the Heavily Congested Amsterdam Grid

Roy Crooijmans

Product Owner

Alliander

05:05 pm - 05:15 pmDigitalisation - The Fastest Route to Net Zero?

Iain Dougan

Head of IT Operations

SSEN Transmission

05:15 pm - 05:25 pmThe Urgency of Digitization to Face the 5 Megatrends of the Energy Sector

Alexis Grenon

Senior Vice President, Digital Grid Line of Business

Schneider Electric France

05:25 pm - 06:00 pmPanel Discussion

Gregorio Ogliaro

Managing Director, Global Utilities T&D Lead

Accenture

Alexis Grenon

Senior Vice President, Digital Grid Line of Business

Schneider Electric France

Iain Dougan

Head of IT Operations

SSEN Transmission

Roy Crooijmans

Product Owner

Alliander

Duncan Burt

Chief Strategic Officer

Reactive Technologies Limited

Speakers

Speaker

Gregorio Ogliaro, Accenture

Managing Director, Global Utilities T&D Lead

Italy

Gregorio Ogliaro is the Global Transmission and Distribution Lead for Accenture's Utilities business. He helps network operators transform to use the opportunities arising from the Energy Transition, Digitization, and Sustainability. Gregorio joined Accenture in 1996 and became Managing Director in 2011. Gregorio holds a degree in Engineering from Politecnico of Turin and a postgraduate education in Business Administration at SDA Bocconi University of Milan.

Speaker

Duncan Burt, Reactive Technologies Limited

Chief Strategic Officer

United Kingdom

Duncan Burt joined Reactive Technologies as Chief Strategic Growth Officer to support Reactive's strategic growth and the development of new and existing services that are key to operating power grids with growing levels of renewable generation. Previously, he was Operations Director for the GB Electricity and Gas Transmission Grids and Chief Sustainability Officer for National Grid Group. In these roles, he oversaw the development of the British Power Grid as it became the fastest decarbonizing grid in the G20, saw the first coal-free operation of the GB electricity system, and set a strategy for zero carbon operation by 2025. Alongside this, Duncan worked closely with a range of TSOs across the globe in the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow and was named one of the Global Top 100 Sustainability leaders by Sustainability Magazine

Speaker

Roy Crooijmans, Alliander

Product Owner

The Netherlands

Roy is Product Owner at Alliander System Operations building systems and new capabilities for the DSO to manage grid capacity in the Energy Transition. With a background in business and marketing, he brings many years of experience as an e-commerce entrepreneur and his enthusiasm for customer interaction to Alliander, the largest grid operator in the Netherlands, to build new products relying on new forms of customer interaction which are essential for dynamically managing grid capacity.

Speaker

Gianni Ceneri, Gridspertise Srl

Head of Technology Development / CTO

Italy

Gianni Ceneri is Chief Technology Officer at Gridspertise and currently in charge of the sustainable design and development of Gridspertise's technological solutions for the electricity distribution business with a specific focus on the implementation of smart grid frameworks and leveraging innovation in the energy business. The technologies developed along the last years represent a strong boosting factors for the DSOs that are facing the challenge of the Energy Transition accelerating the digitalization and evolution of the existing grids and including a cloud-edge approach needed to enable new use cases for the integration of DERs and complex loads. Along years, Mr. Ceneri has contributed to the extension of the organization's market leadership in the Smart Metering and Smart Grids sector through an unyielding commitment to innovation and engineering excellence. Mr. Ceneri had international professional experiences both in Europe (Spain, Netherlands), Far East (PRC) and Latin America focused on the development, manufacturing and certification of smart metering products. Mr. Ceneri has managed many massive rollouts of Smart Metering solutions around the worlds with main focus on the piloting phases in order to validate the technologies before the handover to normal operations.

Speaker

Iain Dougan, SSEN Transmission

Head of IT Operations

United Kingdom

Iain has worked in the Energy IT industry for the past decade with the last 4 years in SSEN's Transmission business. Iain has been responsible for defining and developing the IT and Digital capabilities that SSEN Transmission need to support the investments in the Transmission Network in the north of Scotland that will enable Great Britain's Net Zero ambitions. Iain is currently responsible for Strategy and Operations within SSEN Transmission IT with a key focus on both day-to-day operations and understanding the future Digital, Data and Cyber Security capabilities that will be needed to support SSEN Transmission's rapid growth plans.

Speaker

Alexis Grenon, Schneider Electric France

Senior Vice President, Digital Grid Line of Business

France

Alexis Grenon spent the first 10 years of his career in the hi-tech aerospace industry, developing innovative solutions for air traffic management on a global scale. In 2005, Alexis joined Schneider Electric to bring his software and services acumen, both technical and business, to accelerate Schneider Electric digital transformation. Since then, Alexis lead number of strategic initiatives, from the inception of the EcoStruxure company program to the creation and scale of several Lines Of Business. In July 2021, Alexis was nominated to lead the Digital Grid Line Of Business. Digital Grid aims at helping Utility companies to tackle disruptive mega trends by providing Grid, Asset and Edge Management solutions and services. Digital Grid ADMS, DERMS, ArcFM GIS and AMI are some of its core offers. Alexis has an electrical engineer background, a '05 Insead MBA alumni, a fanatic sailor, lived in 6 countries and is now based in France with his extraordinary wife and 4 children.

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