Getting fit for the digital future – organisational readiness
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To meet the challenges of the future utilities need to embrace digital innovation and use it to create intelligent, dynamic energy and water systems. The prize will be critical national infrastructure which is smarter, more agile, more sustainable, cheaper to run and capable of supporting smart new products and services for consumers. But there is a long road towards this vision which must begin with some hard work on the readiness of individual organisations for an explosion in the volume of data they handle and in the number and variety of use case and users for data. This session will explore the key building blocks that need to be in place for organisations to be confident of their data readiness and highlight the major steps forward that some have recently taken. Join to hear:
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The case for open data
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The essentials for complete, accurate, usable and shareable data in utilities
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Progress on identifying use cases and deriving value from data
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Expert experiences of managing risk while opening up access to data
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How to handle cultural and process challenges
Chair and overview: How and why we need to open up our data
Dr Richard Dobson, Energy Digitalisation Task Force
Evolution of data governance and Best Practice Guidance
Charles Clark, Senior manager - Data policy and regulation, Ofgem
Approaches to data quality – overcoming the barriers and making good use of your data
Tom Pollock, Northern Gas Networks
Standardisation and driving common terminology – making data accessible and usable
Melissa Tallack, Head of intelligence & analytics, Northumbrian Water Group
Agility and organisational readiness for open data
David Elliott, Director and head of solutions architecture, AWS
