CHALLENGE PROGRAMME
How can you speed up innovation and deliver better outcomes for customers, today and tomorrow? Learn from your peers with Utility Week Live’s unmissable Challenge Programme, covering the most critical business challenges facing your business. Delivered across three stages:
- Customers & Teams Stage: Getting the most from our people and delivering the best outcomes for our customers
- Smart Stage: Delivering digital transformation with smart, intelligent approaches and extracting insight from data
- Net Zero Stage: Taking a sustainable, efficient and resourceful approach to decarbonising water and energy whilst ensuring security of supply
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- Data and digitalisation
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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...
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- Smart, flexible networks
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The roles and responsibilities of tomorrow’s local distribution system operators are becoming clearer. Now, as Ofgem sets out its final rulings on the shape and structure of DSOs ...Chairperson -
- Smart, flexible networks
SMART STAGERapidly changing dynamics in supply and demand alongside tough expectations for service reliability and efficiency mean networks need to keep challenging themselves to get smarter on network operations. This session will explore ...Chairperson -
- Asset management
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As utilities strive to meet social, regulatory and shareholder expectations for increasing efficiency and service levels innovation in asset management is essential. This session will showcase...Chairperson -
- Data and digitalisation
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Cyber security is the number one risk keeping senior UK utilities leaders awake at night according to recent research conducted by Utility Week. In an environment of international geopolitical tension and economic volatility it is inevitable that cyber aggressors ...Chairperson
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- Asset management
SMART STAGEThe merits of predictive asset management founded on condition-based monitoring have been recognised for many years now. But implementing these approaches can be challenging in an environment where regulatory reporting and risk management requirements sometimes run counter to theoretical best practice ...Chairperson -
- Smart, flexible networks
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To meet and conquer the challenges facing the water sector – from climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity through population growth and regulatory performance expectations – companies know they need to create smarter infrastructure... -
- Data and digitalisation
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The smart energy and water networks of the future – capable of delivering net zero infrastructure at least cost to consumers and of supporting innovation in system operation, products and services – will be founded on complex flows of data between multiple stakeholders and systems. To enable this, we must...
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- Data and digitalisation
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Leakage continues to be a pressing issue for the water sector as it strives to protect water security. With tough targets set to save billions of litres of water a day...
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- Decarbonisation – delivering net zero
NET ZERO STAGEIn 2022 water companies committed to deliver a net zero water supply for customers by 2030 in the world’s first sector-wide commitment of its kind. However, moving and treating water is an energy and chemical intensive process leading to ... -
- Decarbonisation – delivering net zero
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Extreme weather incidents including storms, prolonged extreme heat, and drought are on the rise as climate change takes hold. But in spite of the challenges these pose, utilities must keep essential services running...Chairperson -
- Water 2030 (Delivering the water utility of the future)
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As the climate crisis deepens, the threat of water scarcity looms and bio-diversity comes under increasing pressure, new approaches are needed to delivering sustainable and resilient water networks...Speakers -
- New approaches to capital delivery
NET ZERO STAGEProject management and capital delivery teams are responding to huge increases in the scale and speed at which new infrastructure needs to be delivered - all while driving down cost and cutting carbon emissions ...Chairperson -
- New approaches to capital delivery
NET ZERO STAGEAs utilities gear up to deliver infrastructure for a net zero and resource efficient future, it is critical that the assets and networks also represent the very best in sustainable construction techniques and use of low carbon materials ...Chairperson
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- Water 2030 (Delivering the water utility of the future)
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What are the most effective approaches to significantly reducing the use of storm overflows and improving the quality of bathing and river water? -
- Decarbonisation – delivering net zero
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This session will explore the potential for a thriving hydrogen economy – from production, transmission and storage through to a range of potential end uses, including power, transport and heating...
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- Water 2030 (Delivering the water utility of the future)
NET ZERO STAGECan the UK successfully make reuse and recycling the norm? How might it tackle the significant infrastructure, technology retrofit and cultural challenges involved ? -
- Decarbonisation – delivering net zero
NET ZERO STAGEA ban on sales for new petrol and diesel vehicles after 2030 has driven a surge of consumer interest in electric alternatives with demand for electric vehicles currently outstripping supply ...Chairperson
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- Customers
CUSTOMERS AND TEAMS STAGEAs global gas and oil prices continue to rise and the clock ticks down towards decarbonisation deadlines, getting kit into homes which can help customers generate their own clean energy and consume less overall must become a priority...
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In this dedicated session, our House of the Future partners will explore the challenges and opportunities of developing low carbon homes, and explaining how utilities and wider stakeholders can begin the journey.
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- Optimising workforce and field operations
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Utilities stand at the centre of the UK’s transition to a more sustainable future. But to play their role in that transition well, they will need...Chairperson -
- Customers
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The national rollout of smart energy meters has absorbed immense amounts of time and resource for companies for over a decade – and it’s still not done...
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- Customers
CUSTOMERS AND TEAMS STAGEA raft of innovation projects and pilot schemes have brought the idea of domestic engagement in energy flexibility to life in recent years. But the concept is still far from mainstream...
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- Decarbonisation – delivering net zero
CUSTOMERS AND TEAMS STAGEDecarbonising heat would deliver a mammoth win for the UK’s net zero goal and would also bring other big societal benefits. But huge challenges remain ...Chairperson -
- Customers
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A cost of living crisis has amplified an already critical challenge for utilities around how they ensure the most vulnerable in society remain connected to the essentials of...
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- Customers
CUSTOMERS AND TEAMS STAGEDrier summers with extended periods of drought and population growth are putting a strain on water resources in the UK. Meanwhile, spiralling energy costs combined with ...Chairperson -
- Customers
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A cost of living crisis alongside intense regulatory scrutiny and a shifting field for competition mean utilities need to keep pushing the envelope on service delivery...Chairperson
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