Energyforum
Systems Integration
Stockholm
DAY 1, 30th September
9.00-9.15: Chairman opens the conference
SESSION: Introduction to IT strategy and enterprise architecture in the utilities industry - the current challenges for the CIO offices
9.15-10.00: An international survey on EA and implications for the utilities industry
Infosys has a yearly survey where they ask CIO's on their view on enterprise architecture and the expectations for the future.
This presentation will describe the results and pay particular attention to factors more relevant than other for the utilities industry.
Sohel Aziz, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Infosys
10.00-10.30: Networking break
10.30-11.15: Enterprise Architecture
- research and recent experiences
- Enterprise Architecture: a modelbased decision tool for
business and IT
- Can my systems be integrated?
- How should my "integration models" be designed?
Mathias Ekstedt - Ph.D Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
11.15-12.00: IT strategy development in the German energy sector using the example of Stadtwerke Düsseldorf This presentation will focus on how IT strategy is increasingly used as a management tool in the German market. The "case-study" utility at hand is Stadtwerke Düsseldorf which has been at the forefront
of this development.
Dr. Matthias Mehrtens - CIO & IT director, Stadtwerke
Düsseldorf, Germany
12.00-13.15: Lunch
SESSION: Practical experiences - case studies from large integration projects
13.15-14.00: Driving Utility Business Transformation by Business & Enterprise Architecture activities
- Energy markets in transformation
- Eneco Business strategy
- Architecting the IT landscape
- Application Portfolio strategy
- Governing execution
- Roadmap to 2012 and beyond
Peter Hermans, Chief Architect, Eneco Netherlands
14.00-14.45: Implementing SOA in Hafslund
- from Project to Operation
- Brief introduction to Hafslund
- Brief history of SOA implementation in Hafslund
- Project challenges - (covering project needs vs reusable services, project financing SOA, etc)
- From project to operation - (From surviving this day to predictable governance)
- Lessons learned/Conclusions
Aslak Poppe, Chief Architect, Hafslund Group
14.45-15.15: Networking Break
15.15-16.00: What impact will the new challenges for electrical distribution and sales companies in EU have for business and IT?
The presentation describes how different European market demands forces a change in both mindset and solutions
Casimir Artmann, Senior Project Manager, Acando
16.00-16.30: PANEL DISCUSSION:
- How to ensure successful IT projects in the future
- What CAN and what WILL be achieved over the next few years
- Users versus Suppliers views
16.30: Ending of the day
19.00: Event evening networking dinner
DAY 2, 1st of October
SESSION: Application of IT strategy to specific areas or tasks
09.00-09.45: Integration from large consolidations and new of business partners
In recent years large consolidations of energy companies has been increasingly common. These consolidations often lead to major re-structuring programs that enquire
integrations of different business units within the new group organisations. This might also be an issue when integrating new business partners. This presentation
will discuss the problems surrounding these integrations.
Bastian Fischer, Vice president and general manager EMEA, Oracle Utilities
09.45-10.15: Networking break
10.15-11.00: Gartner POV - Key IT trends in Energy / Utility Industry
Ed Rashbrooke - Managing Partner and Industry Lead Energy / Utilility
11.00-11.45: How to integrate and optimise business-processes to reduce complexity
- Microsoft experiences and projects on the European electricity market
- Overall frame for streamlining large
business operations
Andreas Berthold-van der Molen - EMEA Marketing Manager, Microsoft, Germany
11.45-13.00: Lunch
13.00-13.45: Experienses from integrations in the German and Dutch market
This presentation will share experiencies from some large integration projects on the german and dutch markets.
Rainer Weishaar, Service consultant, Trianel
13.45-14.30: System Consolidation Roadmaps in Utilities to meet strategic challenges of the industry
- Examples of system consolidations of real customers and how they reduced their system complexity
- Discussion of prerequisites to makes this happen:
- Underlying architecture and frameworks
- Integrated systems
- Business Process Management (BPM)
Miguel Gaspar, Industry leader Utilities EMEA, SAP
Peter Koop, Industry Business Development Utilities, SAP
14.30-15.15: IT infrastructure and energy efficiency
Dr. Berndt Schäppi, Austrian Energy Agency and the Efficient Servers Project
15.15: Closing of the conference and networking
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