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Smart Water Systems
16 April - 17 April 2012
Smart Water Systems

Utility Companies Receive £700 Discount!

The necessity for water utilities to adopt smart metering is as pertinent as ever.  Smart meters can cut leakage levels by 20% and reduce energy consumption by a third through associated software and infrastructure.   European utilities alone will invest at least $7.8bn in smart water metering by 2020 and the market opportunities for meter manufacturers, installers, data & management organisations is clear.  With the bottom line even more pressing in today’s economic climate, the business case remains undiminished. 

Bringing you the latest business intelligence, SAE Media Group's Smart Water Systems conference provides distilled international perspectives on this exciting field.  Our line-up of international experts features a hands-on, case study-driven approach from those at the sharp end of maintaining and sustaining their customers needs.  From rethinking water provision, to harnessing M2M networks, and directing consumer behaviour, gain the insights you need to remain competitive. 

Join us for two days of strategic forecasting, metering and smart grid case studies, informed discussion and analysis

 

  • Trevor Bishop, Head of Water Resource Policy, Environment Agency
  • Fredrick Harry Royan, Global Research Director, Environment (Water) Markets, Frost & Sullivan
  • Seth Cutler, Research Analyst, Environment (Water) Markets, Frost & Sullivan

 

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

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9:10

Water privatisation and the rise of the customer – a global perspective

Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey, Managing Director, Aquastrat

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9:50

UK water utility strategies , customer priorities and regulation

Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey, Managing Director, Aquastrat

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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11:00

The new stresses threatening the customer dynamic

Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey, Managing Director, Aquastrat

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11:40

Possible futures in the UK water landscape

Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey, Managing Director, Aquastrat

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12:20

(How) can water utilities stay ahead of the wave?

Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey, Managing Director, Aquastrat

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13:00

Chairman’s Closing Remarks

Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey, Managing Director, Aquastrat

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13:30

Registration & coffee

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14:00

A framework for success, working through the ‘whole organisation’ implications

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14:30

Lessons from the energy sector - case studies from around the world

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15:10

Afternoon Tea

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15:30

Managing project scale and breadth

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The technology challenge; how do we optimise our choice?

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16:30

Managing the customer experience and avoiding the customer back lash

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17:00

Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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17:00

A checklist for success

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's opening remarks

The Earl of Selborne

The Earl of Selborne, Treasurer, All Party Parlimentary Group on Water

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9:10

The Water White Paper and future pressures on water management

Lucia Susani

Lucia Susani, Manager, Water Demand Management, Environment Agency Of England And Wales

  • The Water White Paper and future water management
  • The case for change and implications for future water supplies
  • The role of demand management in addressing supply-demand deficits
  • Metering, smart metering and demand management
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    9:45

    Smart water metering: customer concerns and expectations

    Karen Gibbs

    Karen Gibbs, Policy Manager - London and South East Region, Consumer Council for Water

  • What’s the experience of water metering to date?
  • Energy smart metering – what are the lessons?
  • What do smart water customers want?
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    10:20

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    Water technology and society

    Sarah Bell

    Sarah Bell, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Engineering, University College London

  • Water systems have been designed with the assumption that supplies are endless, and water users behave accordingly
  • Hydrological, ecological and economic constraints on supply mean that this is no longer sustainable
  • Messages to save water conflict with the customer experience of limitless water supply
  • Future water systems need to consider the messages that are 'baked in' to technologies and infrastructure, alongside efforts to change cultures and behaviours of water consumption
  • Case studies of current and proposed water systems in Australia and the UK illustrate possibilities for more sustainable water consumption in cities
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    11:25

    Towards smart(er) metering in the water sector: national and international experience

    Chad Staddon

    Chad Staddon, Director, Bristol Group for Water Research, University Of The West Of England Bristol

  • Deconstructing the ‘petrol pump’ metaphor of water metering
  • Are water meters only about saving water?
  • Implications for other elements of customer services, including billing cycles, bill design and, of course, tariffs
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    12:00

    Case study: it’s not about the meter...an alternative viewpoint?

    Doug Clarke

    Doug Clarke, Water Efficiency Manager, Severn Trent Water

  • How do we value water?
  • The case for education
  • Bringing it all together – the need for integration
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    12:35

    Networking Lunch

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    13:35

    Harnessing GIS and mobile data capture technology for smarter operational efficiency workflow management and data accuracy

    Martin Giel

    Martin Giel, Operations Systems Manager, South East Water

  • The link between customer contractor and ultimately Highways is difficult to square especially within a time constrained process
  • How can the use of a spatial interface facilitate job control?
  • How important is spatial information in linking systems and capturing data
  • Exploring some of the technical issues in delivering work to a mobile workforce
  • Volume of work
  • Examine issues related to the data synchronization process
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    14:10

    How Smart Mobile AMR will improve customer satisfaction reduce NRW and more.

    Thomas Kressin

    Thomas Kressin, Sr. Product Manager Mobile AMR, Itron France Water & Heat

  • Meter sizing, peakflows & peak hour monitoring
  • Nightline consumption & tamper data
  • DMA metering with time accurate interval data
  • GPS based reading & data analytics
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    14:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:20

    Case study: the Southern Water universal metering programme

    Jon Crooke

    Jon Crooke, Deputy Director, Southern Water Services Ltd

  • Southern Water’s region is classified as ‘water stressed’
  • Programme objective is to save 10% of domestic water consumption
  • Customer engagement is the major challenge & opportunity to help customers understand and reduce their water use
  • New “change over” and “support” tariffs introduced
  • April 2010 to March 2015 customer meter base grows from 40% to 92%
  • Install approx 500,000 new AMR meters and exchange 100,000 ‘dumb’ meters with AMRs
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    15:55

    How Smart Water Services Platform answers water utilities' challenges with smart metering programs

    Robert Burns

    Robert Burns, Chief Executive Officer, Capgemini Skvader

  • Capgemini, business partner of choice for Utilities
  • Introducing Smart Water Services Platform
  • Smart Water Services Platform at the heart of your AMI/AMR program
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    16:35

    Panel discussion: what does the term ‘smart’ mean for customers and how can we influence demand?

    Topics discussed will include: defining the term ‘smart’, consumer attitudes towards water metering, and influencing their understanding of water’s value.  Can, for example, encouraging consumers to link water usage with power consumption lead to a win-win scenario of reduced demand and lower monthly bills?  The software, infrastructure and costing requirements for universal metering will also be explored, together with the feasibility of linking these to other smart utility meters.

    Sarah Bell

    Sarah Bell, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Engineering, University College London

    Chad Staddon

    Chad Staddon, Director, Bristol Group for Water Research, University Of The West Of England Bristol

    Doug Clarke

    Doug Clarke, Water Efficiency Manager, Severn Trent Water

    Andrew  Tucker

    Andrew Tucker, Water Strategy Manager , Energy Savings Trust

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    17:15

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    The Earl of Selborne

    The Earl of Selborne, Treasurer, All Party Parlimentary Group on Water

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dominique Gatel

    Dominique Gatel, Deputy Technical Director for Drinking Water, Veolia Eau

    Dimitra Christakou

    Dimitra Christakou, Head of Water Services, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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    9:10

    European utilities perspective on water savings

    Dominique Gatel

    Dominique Gatel, Chairman, Eureau

  • European legislative environment
  • Future strategy: the blueprint for European waters
  • Leakage reduction possibilities
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    9:50

    Water utilities plagued by inefficiencies stand to benefit from investments into the smart water grid

    Frederick Royan

    Frederick Royan, Global Research Director Environment Water Markets, Frost and Sullivan

    Seth Cutler

    Seth Cutler, Research Analyst Environment Water Markets, Frost & Sullivan

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    Lessons and implications from smart grid roll-outs around the world

    Stephen Knight

    Stephen Knight, UK Smart Infrastructure Lead, PwC

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    11:30

    Case study: installing smart networks and smart monitoring systems at Thames Water

  • Why Thames have adopted ‘smart’ technology and how it works
  • The trial and subsequent roll-out to inner London
  • Searching for continuous improvements and future plans
  • Rob Casey

    Rob Casey, Water Modelling Manager , Thames Water

    Tim McMahon

    Tim McMahon, Leakage Optimisation Manager, Thames Water Plc

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    12:10

    Networking Lunch

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    Case study: smart grids and smart water metering in Toronto

    Claude Williams

    Claude Williams, Senior Project Manager, EMA Canada

  • IT  architecture requirements for smart grids and smart metering
  • Smart water metering- a business perspective 
  • Operational challenges and outcomes
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    Bringing the consumer into the smart grid for water – strategies for engaging the consumer in conservation

    Trevor Hill

    Trevor Hill, President & Chief Executive Officer, Global Water FATHOM

  • The increasing cost of providing water services will make consumers more proactive about managing their costs
  • Utilities cannot provide the granularity of data necessary for consumers to make active decisions about their own consumption
  • Changing utility-consumer interactions: switching the smart grid for water from a utility-facing tool, to a consumer-facing tool
  • Improving the operational condition of the utility, and self-financing through the discovery of ‘found revenue’
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    14:50

    The smart water network: today tomorrow and beyond

  • What is a smart water network? What are its components?
  • Benefits and applications of smart water network technologies
  • Smart  networks in 2012 – early examples of real-world implementations from around the globe
  • The future: developments, technology trends and predictions
  • Guy Horowitz

    Guy Horowitz, Chairman, Smart Water Networks Forum

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    15:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:50

    Multi applications of smart water networks for increased profitability and quality of service

  • Designing and operating machine-to-machine networks
  • A turnkey service based on an ultralow consumption radio network
  • Improving service quality, performance and safeguarding resources
  • Dominique  Seze

    Dominique Seze, Chairman, HomeRider Systems

    Xavier  Mathieu

    Xavier Mathieu, Director of International Business Development, HomeRider Systems

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    16:30

    Integrating smart meter technology into the supply chain

    Dene Marshallsay

    Dene Marshallsay, Director, Artesia Consulting

  • Funding R&D in an age of austerity
  • Mechanisms to value and reward innovation through new technology
  • Stimulating the wider supply chain to develop low-carbon solutions
  • Meeting the needs of the 25 year Strategic Direction Statements and periodic review in 2014
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    Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day two

    Dimitra Christakou

    Dimitra Christakou, Head of Water Services, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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