Meet the chairpeople: Smart Grids & Cleanpower gurus lead Cambridge summit

Next week's 5th annual Smart Grids and Cleanpower Conference in Cambridge at Murray Edwards College (June 5th) will be chaired by Gavin Jones of Electralink and Alan South of Solar Century plc.

Conference Information | Buy tickets (Book now for the event next Wednesday!)

Smart Grids Chairman's Biography - Gavin Jones

Gavin Jones is Business Development Director for ElectraLink and is responsible for growing their commercial business in support of the UK Energy industry.

Gavin is involved in the UK Smart Energy arena at both customer and policy level, speaking, writing papers and meeting with policy makers across Europe.  In the UK he is a member of the DECC and Ofgem’s  Smart Grid Forum which is shaping the future UK policy in this area.  He has been influential in setting up Smart Grid Great Britain and was its first chair.  Gavin also chairs Intellect’s (the UK technology industry association) Utilities and Smart Metering and Smart Grids Working Groups.

Prior to moving to ElectraLink,  Gavin was IBM’s Future Energy Leader for UK, Ireland and Nordics and had specific responsibility for leading the team selling Smart Grid solutions in the geography.

Cleanpower Chairman's Biography

Alan South is Commercial Director of Solarcentury, a leading UK solar supplier and supply chain developer.

Alan South is responsible for driving growth at Solarcentury through proprietary products and services. His role is to lead the team, to manage innovation as a portfolio, and to maintain a five-year vision and strategic roadmap. He joined the firm in the relatively early days of solar and has witnessed its growth into a mainstream asset. In 2011 Solarcentury won the Queen’s Award for Innovation.


Alan has over 25 years technical and leadership experience in innovation. Prior to Solarcentury Alan was European head of IDEO, a company that features regularly in top ten lists of innovative companies. He is respected thinker and spokesperson, and has delivered executive learning programmes on behalf of Harvard and Said.

 

Call 01223 303500 to join this conference.

Conference Info & Speakers

Register here for excellent talks, networking and learning throughout the day at top value

This is one of the finest conferences on power and grids in the country. It has a joint exhibition for the two conference streams. Much is changing in these sectors as new technology and innovation, service design, pricing forces, and economic sluggishness cause major and smaller players to rethink their strategies.

Don't miss this extremely good value opportunity for an update and great networking.

Cambridge Network members can obtain a 20% discount from the prices given on the booking forms by contacting 01223 303500 or events@cir-strategy.com and mentioning this news story.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

5th Smart Grids & Cleanpower Conference 2013 - 5 June

Cambridge University, Murray Edwards College

Conference info at http://www.cir-strategy.com/events/cleanpower

Buy tickets at http://www.cir-strategy.com/events/register

Days: 1, in two full-day parallel streams: grids & power

Room capacities: 140/70 Total talks=25; Panels = 30 mins * 7; Total Networking = 5hrs

Expo? Yes, up to 12 3m stands

Who? C-level, Heads of x, TD, marketing directors, SMEs/MNCs

Why? Business development, marketing, briefing and strategic capital.

Type: industrial, commercial, business, briefing, networking conference

Prices

£100 (full-time sme tech entrepreneurs, call 01223 303500)

£195 (investors, government)

£325 (executives)

£520 / £325 Year Passport including HVM & iWATER on 5 November.

 

Draft Speaker List

Philip Sellwood, CEO, Energy Saving Trust

Ian Ellerington, Head of Innovation, DECC

Fiona Harvey, Environmental Correspondent, The Guardian Newspaper

Adriana Laguna, Low Carbon Programme Manager, UK Power Networks

Dominic Emergy, Chief Development Officer, BP

Keith Clarke, Embedded Marketing at ARM 

Richard Smith, Head of Energy Strategy, National Grid

Dora Guzeleva, Head of Network Policy, Ofgem

Steve Kaye, Head of Innovation, Anglian Water

Sam Bose, CEO, Intellisense 

S&C Electric tbc

Sean Cochrane VP, Cyan Technology

Gavin Jones, ex-IBM & SmartGridsGB, now Electralink

Martin Ansell, CEO, FCL Ltd formerly VP GE Smallworld

Professor Kevin Hesketh, National Nuclear Labs 

Douglas Cheung, Smart Grids & Future Cities, Hitachi Europe

Adam Cooper, Head of Regulatory Economics, Ofgem

Philip Osborn, Head of Energy, Sainsbury’s plc

Niall Mackenzie, Head of Industrial Energy Efficiency, DECC

Phil Proctor, Programme Manager, Energy Technologies Institute

Pilgrim Beart, Founder Director, AlertMe

Alasdair Young, VP, Buro Happold

Alan South, Commercial Director, Solar Century plc

Dr Phillip Grunewald, PostDoc, Oxford University CE

Martin Bloom, Chairman, Renesola & Emblem Ventures

Dr Aidan Rhodes, Assistant Director, UKERC

Professor Derek Pedley Oxford University & ESKTN

Chris Wright, Moixa Energy

Richard Parker, Principal, Adapt Commercial

Ali Lloyd, Principal Consultant, Pöyry 

Graham Ford, Mansion Partners

Michael McCreary Senior HVM Consultant, CIR Strategy

Mike Halley, VP EMEA, Trilliant Inc

Dr Justin Hayward, Strategy Consultant, CIR Strategy

Sean Cochrane, Head Smart Metering, Cyan Technology 

Russell Haggar tbc, Director, Xsilon

Ian Rose, tbc Director, PassivSystems

What about?

Year 2013: Coherent set of cleantech & HVM conferences covering key areas of the sector.

Conference Theme: Connected Intelligence & Energy Efficiency

Theme Smart Grids: Grids of Things - Embedded Connected Intelligence Everywhere

Smart meters / appliances; Automation via devices;Keeping it simple for Consumers; Responsive Regulation; Reducing need for capital expenditure; Reduction of net operating costs;Load management; Smart Demand & DSM; Water & gas.

Theme Cleanpower: Scenarios Debate & Transition Technologies 

Realistic transition technology scenarios

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