Europe's leading Metering, Billing/CRM conference and exhibition is back for its 11th year!

Changes in the metering industry are happening so fast that most industry observers are having difficulty keeping up with the rapid evolution. Over the past months, the US, China and some European countries announced massive investments in smart metering and smart grids. Smart metering has become a worldwide phenomenon.

Against this background, Metering, Billing/CRM Europe is organized to provide a forum which discusses the current industry challenges and the way forward. Industry experts from around the world will come together and discuss the latest issues in the field.

Conference Focus – Learn more from global metering projects
To prepare your business for a smart meter roll-out, it is paramount to learn from the experience of utilities already running a smart metering project.  Several projects will be showcased and questions to be addressed include:

• What have been the drivers behind the projects?
• What technologies have been chosen, why and how have they chosen them?
• Which technology has worked best and which has provided the most challenges?
• What are the lessons learned/learnt?
• What are the next decision points to progress and how will they be addressed?
• What is the ROI?
• How move to smart grid management?
• How did the organization structure and processes change?

Representatives from the following utilities have already confirmed to present their cases:

Endesa’s roll-out of smart metering for over 11 million domestic customers
Representative Endesa, Spain

Experience of a 2.3 million smart meter roll-out at PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Jim Meadows, Director Smart Metering Projects, PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Company, USA

Large scale smart meter customer trials from the retailer perspective
Paul Cullen, Manager Business Process & IT, ESB, Ireland

 AMI implementation at Göteborg Energi – World’s First ZigBee City
Anette Winter, Business Unit Director, Göteborg Energi, Sweden and Tomas Arnewid, Project Manager, Göteborg Energi, Sweden

Meter data management in support of large scale smart metering deployments
Delio Svaluto Moreolo, Metering Department, ACEA Distribuzione, Italy

First smart grid deployments in Iberdrola distribution network
Inigo Larumbe, Engineer, Iberdrola, Spain

Rolling out smart metering projects throughout Europe
Simone Chiappi, Head Global Smart Metering Programme, E.ON Group, UK

Using AMR data to improve outage and network planning
Jouni Pylvänäinen, Manager Strategic Network Planning, Vattenfall Verkko Oy, Sweden

Smart meters - moving beyond the installation
David O’Brien, President & CEO, Toronto Hydro, Canada

The British Gas Vision for Smart Deployment
Petter Allison, Director Smart Meter Programme, British Gas, UK

The transition from pilot to full production
Bram Reinders, Manager Technology Smart Metering, Alliander, The Netherlands 

Roll-out strategy for ERDF’s Linky project
Christine Saincy, Chef de Department Deployment AMM, ERDF, France

For more information on the conference focus, please click here.