The Summit

There is a live question for this session in the EUW 2017 app! You can start voting during the session. Question: What are the most important trends and developments influencing the evolution of smart cities?

Thi shigh level panel will discuss:

• What are the predominant scenario’s in the development of future utility related business models in the smart city realm?
• What is the preferred and most adequate leadership model for utilities in order to anticipate future developments?

City Communication and Data Systems. Growing Impacts of Information. Information from social media, crowdsourcing and sharing economy companies will have a greater impact on cities. Cities are grappling with how to ingest this data into systems and put it to use. Not only is this data unstructured in the form of text, video, images and audio, but it also comes from a variety of sources that exist independent of government. This presents a challenge since data from these sources can be highly relevant and useful for improving government services. On the other side, how can the city leverage the value of data it already owns and how to re-aggregate and broker some of those innovative services to offer insights to commuters for journey planning?

“Unlocking the power of data: smart cities tapping into data to improve people's daily lives”. Patrick Lammers - Other Panellists to be announced

The Internet of Things (IoT) is offering opportunities for cities to become more efficient by leveraging constant connectivity and sensors from a diversity of devices. Cities today are piloting a variety of technologies, but lack comprehensive strategies to leverage intelligent end-devices. To-date cities have been slow to adopt these solutions, as utilities and telecommunications providers have taken the lead. Coordination is required to prevent these stakeholders from investing in both redundant communications systems and devices. During this panel, we will discuss how utilities and cities are achieving early project wins to create buy-in for larger IoT programs.

Governments across Europe are setting targets to achieve a zero emission vehicle future. This session will explore new approaches and market models for delivering sustainable urban mobility.

There is a live question for this session in the EUW 2017 app! You can start voting during the session. Question: Would you describe your business as?

A successful infrastructure strategy requires a strong alignment among the utility providing services around infrastructure and the participants consuming these services for value creation in this energy ‘ecosystem’. To avoid trial and error in achieving this alignment, a new approach to modeling and planning the interaction of the participants within the energy ecosystem, including the utility, is presented. This approach uses energy as the common value flow amongst ecosystem entities, maps other value flows to the relationships between entities, and enables mutually beneficial relationships, thereby increasing value generation within the community energy ecosystem.

"It’s time for the smart new Urban Solutions Providers! I look forward to the discussions at EUW how decarbonisation and digitization can help to meet Cities needs and which role Utilities can play, especially when it comes to e-mobility and how much an opportunity it really is"

“Electrifying large urban freight fleets will be key to addressing emissions from road transport. The European Utility Week 2017 will provide an important opportunity to discuss current grid infrastructure constraints, their impact on electric freight uptake, and the role utilities have to play in this transition”

“McKinsey Energy Insights’ latest analysis shows how electric trucks (eTrucks) could capture a significant share of sales as early as 2030 and assesses the impact this would have on energy markets. The new research is based on adoption curve scenario modelling of 27 truck segments in US, China, and Europe, incorporating the trends of three main drivers for electrification.”

With the electrical vehicle, the car maker is exploring new territories. Beyond the mobility, the EV will provide services to the grid. The grid operator will be able to use the EV battery as an additional affordable tool and the Driver will benefit from this service through TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reduction. The challenge for both sectors is to trust each other to create a win-win operation.  Some roadblocks need to be addressed such as local regulation, cost of new components, revenue stream organisation, but the willingness of Renault and its partners is to succeed in the near future.

There is a live question for this session in the EUW 2017 app! You can start voting during the panel. Question: What is the biggest barrier to EV adoption in your business?

"Cities are driving forward with their energy, transport and digital transformation programmes. In this session, learn how utilities are helping create the low-carbon cities of the future and the opportunities and challenges this presents"

The Infrastructure is getting more distributed, more interconnected, and more intelligent, and this convergence of infrastructure and data analytics leads to system wide synergies

Both, utilities and cities face competition in a growing extent and mayor challenges like climate change, “Energiewende”, urbanization or rising prices for social welfare.

They have to adopt their strategies and actions in order to fulfil the needs of their customers and their inhabitants. A new framework and a new culture is needed.

Is it the will to cooperate, to open the (past) secrets of business successes for partners fearlessly? Yes! ...referring to the success of the Joint Venture “ASCR” between Siemens und Wiener Stadtwerke.

Cooperation is the key!

There is a live question for this session in the EUW 2017 app! You can start voting during the panel. Question: What is the biggest barrier to creating low-carbon cities?

"This is a remarkable event to refill energy with such inspiring discussions, bridging the gap towards a more sustainable and clean energy, with empowered consumers and citizens, shaping and designing the future of the utilities industry and energy transition. It is a great opportunity to have a dynamic networking and to bring enthusiasm to our companies“

“Social innovation for the energy industry includes sustainable solutions and diversity and inclusion of employees, customers and society at large”

What do the Utility Offer to the People?