Smart Utilities Australia & New Zealand 2012 is expected to attract over 600+ utility industry professionals from the region and beyond interested in the latest developments and innovative approaches in smart metering, smart grids and smart homes.

Participants include:

Electricity distribution company/smart grid professionals interested in:

• New Smart Grid policies and strategies
• The latest Smart Grid technologies and network performance
• System integration and data management, green grid and integration of renewable and Electric Vehicles to the grid
• New trends in network operations, smart grid optimization tools and successful communication strategies

Electricity retailers focusing on:

• New retailing and tariff structures
• Successful customer engagement and education programmes
• The latest billing and revenue solutions
• How to increase demand response
• How to connect the smart meter to the smart home and the latest tools to evaluate data properly

Water utilities and water industry bodies involved in:

• Water AMI developments, intelligent water networks
• Outcomes of the latest trials in smart water metering
• Intelligent water grids and looking for increased metering reading efficiency and increased billing revenue

Smart metering professionals interested in:

• New ways to increase the ROI of the smart metering rollout investment
• Learning from the latest trials and rollout results
• Finding out how to rollout the meters with a future of home automation and smart appliances in mind

Utility professionals, telecom experts, appliance manufacturers and system integrators and other stakeholders involved in:

• The latest smart homes developments and interested in the evolution of modern smart appliances for griders (smart grid consumers)
• Electric Vehicle developments
• Clean cities
• How to connect smart communication appliances to the HAN
• Standards for home networking
• Answers on who will provide and support the smart home technology to the customers

Technology and solution providers focusing on AMR/AMI systems, billing and revenue collection solutions, CRM software applications, data management and collection, system integration, meter reading and pre-payment systems, software, security systems, power & transmission systems, Grid optimization solutions, transformers, and substation automation.

Government bodies and policy makers interested in the latest electricity and water utility industry developments impacting the market and transforming the existing electricity grid and looking for increasedinsights to define their strategies.