Storage plays a crucial role in enhancing energy flexibility and creating a clean energy system. Maximising grid scale and domestic storage is essential to facilitating the integration of renewable energy and enhancing grid stability. Join this session to discover how the industry is embracing domestic and long duration storage and partnering with battery owners and operators to respond to grid needs.  

Chair welcome and introduction
Claire Miller, Mobility & Energy, Advisor, Innovator, Engineer - Tellegen

Embracing partnerships through battery contract innovation
Arthur Schillemans, Commercial Manager - Octopus Energy

The benefits & barriers to V2X & the UK V2X programme
Josey Wardle, Innovation Lead – ZEV Infrastructure - Innovate UK

Long duration storage – enabling seasonal flexibility – LDES
David Hill, Director of Global Commercial Operations - Form Energy

As the demand side response market develops, removing barriers for industrial and commercial users of energy to participate in multiple balancing markets is critical to maximising energy flexibility available. Join this session to learn how I&C consumers are engaging in energy flexibility and how interoperability between markets is enabling participation.  

Chair welcome and introduction
Natasha Mills, Policy Officer - The ADE

Engaging with I&C customers to unlock flexibility
Duncan Oliphant, Head of Commercial Flexibility - Northern Power Grid

Harnessing relationships to encourage I&C participation
Dr Somayeh Taheri, CEO and Co-founder - Urban Chain

The I&C perspective: participating in flex and reducing demand
Andrew Dixon, Head of Energy Efficiency - Welsh Water

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Providing domestic and commercial users with tangible benefits to engaging in DSR and flexibility markets is critical to scaling energy flexibility. This session will unearth novel tariff innovations which are enabling energy flexibility markets and encouraging participation.

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Chair welcome and introduction
Tom Grimwood, Insights Editor - Utility Week

MHHS: what’s next?
Sara Vaughan, Chair - Elexon

Data as the Key to Smarter Tariffs: Why Collaboration Matters
Ben Tucker, Energy Product Expert - Gorilla

Smart products and tariffs
Alexandra Meagher, Group Head of Regulation - Octopus Energy

Crowdflex: insights on consumer energy flexibility
Jack Hailstone, Energy Innovation Lead - OVO

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While scaling up energy flexibility it is essential to bring all customers on the journey and ensure vulnerable customers benefit from energy flexibility savings. Join this session to gain insight into the latest updates, best practice and lessons learnt from domestic flexibility and protecting vulnerable customers.

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Chair welcome and introduction
Claire Miller, Mobility & Energy, Advisor, Innovator, Engineer - Tellegen

Flexibility for All? Inclusive flexibility through the lens of ‘flexibility capital’
Michael Fell, Senior Researcher - University College London and Nesta

Inclusive smart solutions: making flexibility accessible to the widest range of consumers

Unlocking benefits for communities and vulnerable households through Virtual Power Plant and Vehicle to Grid schemes
Andrew Ross, Founder and Director - Centre for Energy Equality

Unlocking the flex potential of domestic decarbonised heat – Insights from Project EQUINOX
Alex Jakeman, Associate Director - Guidehouse
 

With the UK set to decarbonise heating, unlocking potential flexibility and minimising disruption to the grid is essential. Join this session to discover best practice in the rollout and adoption of low carbon heat.

Chair welcome and introduction
Tom Lowe, Founding Director - Thermal Storage UK

Automating heat pump use to match peak demand
Oli Berry, Lead Behavioural Scientist - NESTA
Andrew Schein, Director of Trials and Analysis - Centre for Net Zero

Engaging consumers in low carbon, flexible heat
Jenny Russon, Senior Research, Policy and Campaigns Officer - The MCS Foundation

The role of energy in flexible decarbonised heat
Chris Watling, Senior Commercial Manager-Low Carbon Heat - OVO
 

As the energy flexibility market becomes more established, how will the market facilitator operate alongside other planning and governing bodies? Join this session for an update from the market facilitator and insight into how regulators, industry and supply chain will come together to accelerate energy flexibility.

Chair welcome and introduction
Avi Aithal, Head of Open Networks programme - ENA

Regulating emerging markets
Marzia Zafar, Deputy Director for Governance for Data and Digitalisation - Ofgem

Market Facilitator: accelerating flexibility
Steven Gough, Head of Flexibility - Elexon

Coordinating process from transmission to distribution
Jon Wisdom, Head of Market Change Delivery - NESO

Flex Markets Unlocked
Ankit Patel, Programme Manager - Arup

DNOs need to lead the change and evolve their operations to enable flexible energy. As they shift to the DSO model, networks must adopt smart and digital tools to drive efficiency, accuracy and maximise the potential of smart energy networks. In this session, discover how smart networks, digital tools and innovations are supporting the roll out and scaling of energy flexibility.

Chair welcome and introduction
Dr Richard Dobson, Business Leader: Digital - Energy Systems Catapult

Building the energy system's data sharing infrastructure
Simon Evans, Programme Director, Virtual Energy System - NESO

Data-driven needs: how we focus flexibility where it’s required 
Jamie Bright, Data Science Lead - UK Power Networks

Data driven and digitised networks underpin DSO and flexibility at scale
Maizura Mokhtar, Senior Data Scientist & Technical Lead - SSEN Distribution
 

As participation in energy flexibility markets increases, automating response signals and removing barriers to consumers is critical to scaling up energy flexibility. Join this session to unearth how to best use data, manage assets and enable consumer participation in flex markets.

Chair welcome and introduction
Claire Miller, Mobility & energy, advisor, innovator, engineer - Tellegen

The Regulatory landscape enabling flexibility: spotlight on Flexibility Market Asset Registration
Nina Klein, Principal Policy Expert - Ofgem

Bigger and faster: automating the end-to-end customer journey for local flexibility
Alex Howard, Head of Flexibility Markets - UK Power Networks

Flexible flexibility: how customers can maximise both revenue and green impact in flexibility markets while retaining control
Laura Myers, Product Development Lead - Flexitricity

Embracing data driven decision-making
Rachel Stanley, Flexibility Market Lead - OVO

While scaling up energy flexibility it is essential to bring all customers on the journey and ensure vulnerable customers benefit from energy flexibility savings. Join this session to gain insight into the latest updates, best practice and lessons learnt from domestic flexibility and protecting vulnerable customers.

Chair welcome and introduction
Ben Hargreaves, Head of Content - Utility Week

Prioritising diversity of demand on the network
Elizabeth Porter, Senior Flexibility Markets Analyst - SSEN

Is there any value for major energy users?
Eddie Proffitt, Technical Director - MEUC

Utilising digital tools to harness the value of flexibility within networks
Keith Evans, DSO Technical Lead - Electricity North West