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As utilities become increasingly digitised and adopt the power of AI, the need for robust cyber resilience has never been greater. This session explores how the sector can strengthen operational resilience while safeguarding customers, assets, and critical national infrastructure. With rising threats and regulatory pressure, utilities must evolve their strategies to detect, respond to and recover from cyber incidents. Join us to examine best practices, emerging technologies, and collaborative approaches to building a secure and resilient energy future.
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Chair welcome and introduction
Tom Idle - Utility Week
Setting up for success: a transformational security programme
Bianca Cooper, Transformation and Programme Director - Cadent Gas
Securing water systems to protect availability for consumers and minimise the risk for operational technology
Matthew Greaves, Head of Cyber and Protective Security - Yorkshire Water
Protecting Britain’s smart meter backbone - the efficient way
George Osborne, SOC Manager - Smart DCC
Don’t assume resilience: demonstrate It
Gary Fildes, Cyber Security Senior Consultant - CGI
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With aging infrastructure across water, gas, and power networks, utilities must harness smart technologies to predict failures and enable proactive maintenance. This session will explore how data-driven insights, intelligent monitoring and automation can extend asset life, reduce unplanned outages and support more efficient long-term planning.
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Chair welcome and introduction
Rob Horgan, Deputy Editor - Utility Week
Building a 'digital observatory’ of the Firth of Forth catchment to test interventions and investment
Professor Andrew Tyler, Scotland Hydro Nation Chair - University of Stirling
The digital bedrock: powering intelligence through industrial-grade data
Nitesh Alagh, Head of Asset Intelligence and Digital Engineering - National Gas
Intelligence at Scale: using AI to evolve from point solutions to connected catchments
Victoria Newall, AI Architect - Severn Trent
IoT monitoring in practice: applications for existing utility infrastructure and water quality
Mick Mohan, Group Engineering Director - Telent
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Utilities need to make more decision at a faster to pace to deliver upgrades necessary for resilience and support for customers in a complex environment. Join this session to uncover the latest digital tools, data platforms and AI-powered insight tools which are transforming decision making.
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Chair welcome and introduction
Lucinda Dann, Features Editor - Utility Week
Modern meteorology meets infrastructure: the future of ice load mapping
Stuart Flint, Principal OHL Engineer - SSEN Transmission
Improving decision making through enhanced data sharing
Naomi Anderson, Head of Industry Projects - Xoserve
RDMAI: If rivers could talk, what would they be saying?
Chris Dawson - River Deep Mountain AI - Northumbrian Water Group
How utilities can move faster without taking bigger risks
Charles Harlow, Vice President of Revenue - Vitruvi
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To deliver value for customers and the wider public and reduce duplication of work, utilities require clear data sharing infrastructure. This session will delve into the collaborative work being done in the sector to improve data sharing and increase efficiency across energy and water networks and wider infrastructure sectors.
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Sarah Hayes, Chair - Data Sharing Working Group
Developing data sharing infrastructure for the energy sector to enable better consumer outcomes
Sasha Shipulina, Head of Data Sharing Infrastructure & Sector Digitalisation - NESO
Stream: sharing data sharing best practice and learning from other sectors
Melissa Tallack, Independent Co-Lead - Stream
Joining up initiatives for data sharing best practice from outside the sector
Dr George Economides - Department for Transport
From farm to fork, unlocking trusted data sharing across the UK Agri-food sector
Simon Evans, Director | Global Digital Energy Leader - Arup
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Digital twins are unlocking new levels of control and visibility for network owners and operators, but the real value is realised when they are embedded across the asset lifecycle. This session will take a deep dive into how to maximise the impact of digital twins through design, delivery and maintenance. Understand why data quality, accessibility and integration across the supply chain are critical to success.
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Alanna Gluck, CReDO Engagement Lead - Connected Places Catapult
The DfT Digital Twins Programme
Dr George Economides - Department for Transport
National Underground Asset Register: the importance of data quality for the centralised register
Marisa Hayes, Senior Account Manager - NUAR
From copper to code: digital TSOs - mastering grid complexity in a renewable energy system
Shima Mousavi Gargari, Corporate Innovation Manager - Tennet
Case study: Cadent and Veolia – AI-generated digital twins for project & asset management
Phil Weatherston, Regional Manager UK & Ireland - SAMP
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The Energy Geeks, in association with CGI, present headline findings from their report into the role of digitalisation in the energy transition. The report sets out why digitalisation is an essential building block of clean power; who should orchestrate it; how we identify value to consumers and society as a whole and the risks and opportunities inherent in the project. It will also look at the concept of building a ‘highway code’ to underpin this digital revolution. This session will explore the key themes of the report along with the provocative views of the Energy Geeks on why progress to date has been limited.
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Chair welcome and introduction
Rich Hampshire, VP | Digital Utilities - CGI
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Roger Hey - Energy Geeks
Steven Steer - Energy Geeks
Laura Sandys - Energy Geeks
Simon Harrison - Energy Geek
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AI is an enabler for utilities to delivery new assets faster, smarter and more sustainably and be more efficient with their asset management strategies. This session examines how networks operators are embracing AI to drive productivity, reduce operational risk and drive efficiency.
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Chair welcome and introduction
Lucinda Dann, Features Editor - Utility Week
The Intelligent Gas Grid: autonomous and intelligent monitoring and control for operational planning and maintenance
Ollie Machan, Innovation Delivery Manager - SGN
Predictive asset health in water networks: developing an infrastructure technology plan and a roadmap towards maturity
Keith Gardener - Isle Utilities
Combining IoT, digital twin and analytics for operational resilience and asset operations
Chris Rison, Head of Smart Network - Cadent
Optimising planning and maintenance with AI and location intelligence
Matt Piper, Global Industry Solution Director – Infrastructure - ESRI
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Utilities are sitting on a mountain of operational data - but turning that data into actionable insight requires the right people, processes and technology. Join this session to explore how utilities can leverage advanced monitoring practices and analytics to optimise performance.
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Ben Hargreaves - Utility Week
Managing data for impact: enabling engineers to make better environmental decisions
Michael Milligan, Senior Engineer - SSE
From data to decisions: why context is the missing link
Ray Hall, Vice President Business Development - Cognite
Citizen science and data for better decision making
Melissa Tallack, Independent Co-Lead - Stream
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The successful roll out of smart meters across energy and water is essential to unlocking the full potential of networks. Smart meters provide a wealth of data that can delivery unprecedented visibility into consumption patterns. Improve operational efficiency and enhance customer engagement with utilities. Join this session to learn how to successfully deploy smart meter, mine data to better understand human behaviour and gain better insights to the network.
Chair welcome and introduction
Wangmo Dorjee, Reporter - Utility Week
Living Lab - real homes, real data: insights from smart meters plus household profiles
Claire Rowland, Senior Manager: Living Lab and Whole Energy Systems Accelerator - Energy Systems Catapult
Insight that matters: reducing demand with smart meters
Heidi Knapton, Head of Universal Metering - South Staffs Water
VERIFY (SIF): using smart meter data to help identify and assist vulnerable customers
Rhys Williams, Project Manager - SSE
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