Agenda

Agenda

Digital Utility 2022

  • 1st Day
    24 Nov. 2022
  • 2nd Day
    25 Nov. 2022

24 November 2022

09:00 am – 09:20 am

Registration, Refreshments And Networking

24 November 2022

09:20 am - 09:30 am

Conference Inaguration and Opening Speech By Chairperson

24 November 2022

09:30 am - 10:00 am

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Regulations and Policy towards Digital Technology and Renewable in the Industry

  • Mr. Ajai Garg
    Director (HoD International Cooperation & Bilateral Trade, Innovation and IPR) Sr Director at Ministry of Electronics & Information
  • Mr. Manu Srivastava - IAS
    Principal Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh
  • Mr. P.K. Agarwal
    Sr Technical Advisor Former Director & CISO, POSOCO Ltd.

24 November 2022

10:00 am - 11:00 am

PANEL DISCUSSION - 1

Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS)

  • * How to choose the right solution to improve utility’s safety, reliability, asset protection and quality of service
  • * Unified Decision Support Environment
  • * Grid Modernization
  • * Track & Restore Outages
  • * Integrating smart meter data and IOT inputs with ADMS
  • * how adms enables transition of a Discom to DSO - distributed system operations
  • * How ADMS can help in deep decarbonazation

Moderator - Amith Sharma - Director - Ernst & Young LLP

  • Mr. Abhijit Patil
    Assitant Vice President - Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd
  • Mr. Santosh Kumar Jain
    DGM, GRIID INDIA - ( Erst While POSOCO)
  • Mr. Neeraj Bisht
    Engineering Leader -Turnkey Digital Projects GE T&D India Ltd
  • Mr. Sombuddha Chaudhury
    Head (IT) - Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited
  • Mr. Abhishek Ranjan
    Sr. VP Strategy & Head - Utilities & Retail - ReNew Power
  • Dr. Shivani Sharma
    Principal Technical Consultant, Power Consulting - Hitachi Energy India Limited
  • Mr. Vikram Gandotra
    IEEMA, National Executive Council Member & Head – Utilities Sales & Strategy, Siemens Ltd.

24 November 2022

11:00 am - 11:30 am

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Strategic Approach for Asset Management For Utility

  • Mr. Alok Mishra
    Business Lead Power Grid - Asia Pacific - DNV

24 November 2022

11:30 am - 11:45 am

REFRESHMENTS - TEA BREAK

24 November 2022

11:45 am - 01:00 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION - 2

The Importance of Customer Experience and Anticipating the Expectations

  • * How is the public domain becoming more dependent on digital investments and why is this case for utilities today?
  • * Detailed analysis about how customers experience and expectations are altering as utilities become more digitalized
  • * The integration of customer experience into The Grid including real world examples.
  • * Customer expectations are growing fast for seamless digital experiences at all times.
  • * Adding energy origins to the market in order to document the origin of fuels and where energy is coming from
  • * New systems to tackle cyber threats

Moderator: Mr. Arindam Ghosh - Leader & Partner - Power Sector Advisory, Nangia Andersen LLP

  • Mr. Rajesh Bansal
    Former CEO of BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd.
  • Mr. Prabhajit Kumar Sarkar
    Power Exchange India Limited
  • Mr. Anshuman Sharma
    General Manager - Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd
  • Mr. Subrata Das
    Head of Utilities Global Business Unit (India ) , Oracle Energy and Water
  • Ms. Anjuli Chandra
    Director - Ex Member Punjab State Electricity Board and Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission.
  • Dr. Faruk Kazi
    Professor & Dean of Research & Development at VJTI, Mumbai
  • Mr. Debashis Sarkar
    Managing Director (in-charge) & Director (Technical) Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited

24 November 2022

01:00 pm - 02:00 pm

LUNCH BREAK WITH NETWORKING

24 November 2022

02:00 pm - 02:30 pm

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Key decision for every Utility: what technology, standards and architecture to select to support the energy transition into the future?

  • * How to cope with technology evolution?
  • * Standards & Architectures for Sustaniable Digital Transformation of the Utilities.

  • Mr. Akilur Rahman
    Chief Technology Officer - Hitachi Energy India Limited
  • Mr. Kishore Narang
    Principal design strategist & architect, Narnix Technolabs Pvt. Ltd.

24 November 2022

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Building cyber resilience in the utilities sector

  • Mr. Bruno Goveas
    Director, Cloud Security - Akamai Technologies

24 November 2022

03:00 pm - 04:30 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION - 3

Operational Focus: The Digital Utility

  • * How are utilities moving forward with digital transformations?
  • * How does digital transformation help utilities create value, serve customers, manage costs, optimize processes, and capture new market opportunities?
  • * New and innovative IT systems that benefit utilities, ex: automated systems
  • * Next gen solutions for today's challenges
  • * Digitalization across all channels, including, increasing speed, new assets and forecasting new leads
  • * Latest innovations for energy transmissions: Planning wisely for electricity transmission and distribution.
  • * Interoperability, IoT, Smart Grid and Smart City
  • * Organization change management requirements for a digitally transforming utility
  • * Smart Utilities: Best practices and Learning from Large Scale AMI roll out.

Moderator: Mr. Vinit Mishra - Partner -Technology Consulting, Power and Utility - Ernst & Young LLP

  • Mr. Ebin Thomas
    Regional Sales (S.A.E) APAC, Middle East and North Africa at Anyline GmbH
  • Mr. Mukesh Dadhich
    Head- Sustainability and Clean Technology, Business development and NTI -BSES
  • Mr. Ajay Sharma
    Chief Operating Officer - Reliance Energy
  • Mr. Yogesh Kumar
    Director (Commercial) - Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd
  • Mr. Manoj Kumar
    Chief Information Technology - Tata Power Western Odisha Distribution Limited.
  • Mr. R Lakshmanan IAS
    CEO - REC Power Development and Consultancy Limited
  • Mr. Abhijit Joglekar
    Assitant Vice President- Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd
  • Mr. Debasis Mohapatra
    Director - Sustainable Outreach and Universal Leadership (SOUL) Limited
  • Mr. Fabien Petitgrand
    Chief Technology Officer at Ubiik Inc. & Board Member at La French Tech Taiwan

End of Day 1

25 November 2022

09:00 am – 09:20 am

Registration, Refreshments And Networking

25 November 2022

09:20 am - 09:30 am

Conference Inaguration and Opening Speech By Chairperson

25 November 2022

09:30 am - 10:00 am

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Data Analytics by Utilities for Asset Longevity

Utilities Approach to Data Analytics and Management


  • Mr. Nihar Raj
    Vice President Head (O&M) at Adani Transmission Ltd
  • Mr. Arindam Sanyal
    Deputy General Manager (Distribution Automation) - CESC Limited

25 November 2022

10:00 am - 11:30 am

PANEL DISCUSSION - 4

Discussing the Methods of Adaptation to Decentralized Energy Networks

  • * Evaluating The paradigm shift from a CES comprising of large scale over HV network to a clean and renewable DES
  • * Decentralized networks- Providing energy supplies when The national system has tight margins, thereby enhancing security of supply
  • * Analyzing The need for a digital establishment in a decentralized world
  • * Establishing grid-friendly conduct between operator and consumer

Moderator - Mr. Somesh Kumar, - Ernst & Young LLP - Power & Leader, Power & Utilities

  • Mr. Bhaskaran Natarajan
    Director Researchs & Programme - Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE)
  • Mr. Suddhasatta Kundu
    Lead - Strategy & Transformation (Engergy & Utility) - RTI International
  • Mr. Alex Hogeveen Rutter
    Private Sector Specialist - International Solar Alliance
  • Mr. Prabhat Goel
    Industry & Technical Advisor Eurovent Certita
  • Mr. Arun Kumar Singh
    Head Of Technology & Shot-Term Power Markets - PTC INDIA
  • Mr. Vikrant Sangwan
    SE IT - The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (DHBVN)

24 November 2022

11:30 am - 11:45 am

REFRESHMENTS - TEA BREAK

25 November 2022

11:45 am - 01:00 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION - 5

Asset Life Cycle Management : Procurement to Retirement

  • * Optimize Asset Utilization
  • * Increase Asset Reliability
  • * Reduce Maintenance Costs
  • * Improve Collaboration - Procurement, Operations and Maintenance
  • * Challenges: Huge volume of Assets, Complex Asset Configuration, Tighter Regulatory Compliance, Higher Testing Standards, Complex Procurement and Inventory Management, A complex systems landscape, Interoperability and real-time integrations

Moderator: Ms. Poonam Kaura - Partner - Government and Public Sector Advisory - Nangia Andersen LLP

  • Mr. Alok Mishra
    Business Lead-Power Grid Energy Systems APAC - DNV MES India Private Limited
  • Mr. Vijayan Sr
    Principal Technical Consultant Enterprise Software, Grid Automation - Hitachi Energy
  • Dr. Arup Sinha
    Vice President – Utility Practice at Virtuoso Technologies and Consulting
  • Mr. Amit Sharmaa
    Director, Ernst & Young LLP
  • Mr. Nihar Raj
    Vice President Head (O&M) at Adani Transmission Ltd
  • Mr. Mathur Atul
    DGM Engineering - Powergrid

25 November 2022

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

LUNCH BREAK WITH NETWORKING

25 November 2022

02:00 pm - 02:30 pm

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Connectivity Trends in Digital Transformation for Utilities


  • Mr. Shobhit Jain
    Technical Manager (North, East & Central India) - Commscope

25 November 2022

02:30 pm - 04:00 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION - 6

Geo-spatial Technology and services : GIS Application Integrations with other systems

  • * Customer Care Center (CCC)
  • * Billing System
  • * Asset Management & Material Management (AM & MM)
  • * Document Management System (DMS)
  • * Meter Data Acquisition system (MDAS)

Moderator - Amit Sharma - Director, Ernst & Young LLP

  • Mr. Arijit Mitra
    Vice President, Information Technology Noida Power Company Limited
  • Mr. Devesh Jha
    Manager Sales (Digital) - GE T&D India Ltd
  • Mr. Sumit Dey
    General Manager - Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd
  • Mr. Suman Dasgupta
    Principal Consultant, Infosys Limited