Summit guide now with speakers and agenda: www.cir-strategy.com/events
Dr Justin Hayward, CEO or organisers CIR, writes:
Dear colleagues,
The grand challenge of clean energy growth through innovation is our theme this year and long term passion. The full draft* programme over two very exciting days is:
10th anniversary Cleanpower Smart Grids Conference 2019
1 July Day 1 - Technology Executive Briefing Day 10:30am - 4:30pm
10.30-11.00 Registration and networking
Session 1 11.00-13.00 Introduction to clean power and smart grid energy systems
11.00 - 11.15 Gavin Jones - Chair's Opening Remarks
11.15 - 11.45 Erwin Frank-Schultz, IBM, CTO Energy, Environment and Utilities "Energy Systems and Digital Twins"
11.45 - 12.00 Mash-Hud Iqbal, Partner, Marks and Clerk "IPR and Energy innovation"
12.00 - 12.10 David Richardson, Innovation Lead - Energy Systems, InnovateUK "PFER Programme and smart local energy systems design"
12.10 - 12.35 Sylvain Vittecoq, CTO, CyanConnode "The benefits of RF mesh networks for smart metering, smart grid and IoT"
12.35 - 13.00 Discussion & Q&A
led by Gavin Jones
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
Session 2 14.00 - 15.15 Energy storage & battery technologies
14.00 - 14.20 Professor Vasant Kumar, Cambridge University "A brief sprint through battery science"
14.20 - 14.40 Dr Rumen Tomov, CJET Ltd “Novel storage and battery materials”
14.40 - 15.00 Daniella Sanchez (invited), Cambridge University Research Fellow, "Li supply chains and battery tech"
15.00 - 15.15 Panel moderated by Professor Vasant Kumar, Cambridge University Materials Science, leading battery scientist and author, with Ian Ellerington, The Faraday Institution & and the Space Catapult (invited) Mining Lithium in Cornwall (panellist)
Tea break 15.15 - 15.45
Session 3 15.45 - 16.55 Data, ML & security technology
15.45 – 15.55 Mike Handley, PolyChord, “A grounding in ML”
15.55 - 16.05 Eric Topham Business Development, T-DAB "The ML Use Case for Energy Optimisation"
16.05 – 16.20 Dr Natalie Lowery, Energy Systems Catapult “Modelling Energy Systems”
16.20 – 16.40 Dr Andrew Tsonchev, Director of Technology, Darktrace Industrial, “Using AI for Real-Time Threat Detection across OT & IT”
16.40 -17.00 Session Q&A led by Gavin Jones
17.00 Close for Day
18.30 - 21.00 Dinner evening
18.30 reception drinks networking for 19.00 - 21.00 Dinner hosted by CIR at Christ's College Cambridge
Day 2 - Innovation Conference 09:00 - 17:00
09.00 - 09.30 Registration and networking
Session 1 09.30 - 11.00 Introduction: energy system futures and innovation and threats
09.30 - 09.40 Conference Introduction & Chair's Introduction: Jeremy Nicholson, Alfa Energy Corporate Affairs & VP/Chair IFIEC Europe
09.40 - 10.00 Richard Smith, Head of Commercial, National Grid - "Operating the GB transmission system, carbon free, by 2025"
10.00 - 10.15 Anser Shakoor, ABB, "Economic Insights of the Shifting European Electricity Markets"
10.15 - 10.30 Victoria Doherty, QinetiQ, "Power, storage and human factors in cybersecurity"
10.30 - 10.50 Emily Orton, CMO, Darktrace, "Cyber AI : a new era of defence” Keynote
10.50 - 11.10 Panel with moderator Pamela Taylor, Taylor Macpherson
Coffee break 11.00 - 11.40
Session 2 11.40 - 13.00 Grids, connectivity innovation
11.40 - 12.00 Dr Sean Cochrane, Head of Technical Sales, CyanConnode, "Commercialising an IoT communication platform"
12.00 - 12.15 Nick Merricks, Landis+Gyr, "Grid edge intelligence in the smart grid", securely."
12.15 - 12.30 Jane Lucy, CEO, Labrador Energy
12.30 - 12.40 Jon Horsley, Technical Lead - Energy, InnovateUK " Smart local energy systems & PfER"
12.40 - 13.00 Panel with moderator Gavin Jones
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Networking
Session 3 14.00 - 15.20 Storage / battery innovation and commercialisation
14.00 - 14.05 Ian Ellerington, Head of Tech Transfer, The Faraday Institution - "Introduction & the importance of storage"
14.05 - 14.20 Richard Druce, Associate Director of Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, NERA "Distributed energy resources and how to monetise them"
14.20 - 14.35 Georgina Dingley, Director of Innovation and Business Strategy, Anesco, "Utility scale energy storage"
14.35 - 14.45 Simon Daniel, CEO Moixa Energy "Local grid balancing from aggregated storage and electric vehicles"
14.45 - 15.00 Dr Athan Fox, CEO, Aurelius Environmental "Out of the furnace and into the leaching tank"
15.00 - 15.20 Panel moderated by Isobel Sheldon, UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (confirmed)
Tea break 15.20 - 15.45
Session 4
15.45 - 17.00 Clean energy policy & strategy - final panel
15.45 - 16.00 Centrica/SSE Strategy/Grids Speaker tbc
16.00 - 16.15 Sally Fenton MA, Innovation Manager, Dept of BEIS, "Delivering innovation to the Grand Challenge of Clean Growth"
16.15 - 16.30 Louise van Rensburg, Deputy Director, Energy Systems Transition, Ofgem “Regulation enabling the energy transition"
16.30 - 16.55 Panel with moderator Judith Ward, Sustainability First
16.55 - 17.00 Chair closing remarks by Jeremy Nicholson, Alfa Energy and Gavin Jones
Summit Close
*subject to minor changes.
Join other excellent energy technology innovators and investors for 1 & 2 July 2019 for our 10th Anniversary Cleanpower Smart Grids Conference & B2B Showcase in Cambridge at the beautiful Robinson Wordsworth Executive Conference Centre this summer.
The #CPSG19 Conference is sponsored this year by Darktrace, CyanConnode, Landis & Gyr, Moixa Energy, FLEXIS, Potter Clarkson, Marks & Clerk, Basck and media-partnered with Cambridge Network and CIR to reach hundreds of thousands of people.
National Grid, Ofgem, UK government BEIS, Energy Systems Catapult, InnovateUK, IBM Energy, Environment & Utilities, QinetiQ, Faraday Institution and leading invited energy players like Centrica, SSE, Alfa Energy and upcoming energy, grids and storage scale-ups such as Anesco, Sigma Lithium, CJet, Aurelius, Labrador and others. 6 experts helped form our best programme ever!
Join us all for the 10th anniversary celebration!
Google: "Cleanpower Smart Grids"
To sponsor or exhibit: call 07720047402
To read summit brochure/FAQs: http://www.cir-strategy.com/c4ir/cpsg19/cpsg19.pdf
To buy tickets of 11 kinds: https://mysplink.com/cir/shop
To buy modular tickets of 18 kinds (Eventbrite) such as "pm day 1, dinner, hotel and am day 2" and also where energy startup/student level low cost pricings are available.
Book now and exhibit your great products and services! Ask us for special low cost attendance if you are a very young unfunded scale-up innovator.
This is part of a varied independent technology innovation network for utilities, energy & storage companies, OEMs & supply chains, innovators and engineers enabling productivity with data analytics, automation & system integration, digital twins & virtualisation AR/VR, AI/ML & cybersecurity, IOT & cloud, and sustainability. Leaders will grapple with these complex questions updating from 9 years of previous series conferences and learning points.