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About the event | Audience Profile | Why attend? | Event highlights
Metering, Billing/CIS America 2008 encompasses the following key elements:
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Conference
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Exhibition
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Smart sessions
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Pre-conference workshops
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Partner events
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Vendor showcases
 There’s no better way for electricity, water and gas utilities to piece it all together – learn, connect, explore and gain
the edge in the metering and customer-end technology sector. Think smarter – bring your smart
metering and customer management experience full circle.
The event will attract approximately 700 industry participants; 100 high-level speakers and 50 exhibitors. The audience includes a cross-section of North American and international electricity, water and gas utilities, who will give strategic and technological insight for advanced/smart metering, AMI, demand response management and customer management for North American utilities.
The multi-track program enables attendees to match their information and learning needs with sessions dedicated to:
- Regulatory issues (WHY?)
- Transitory issues (HOW?)
- Dedicated water track
- Smart sessions: Themed daybreak meetings, facilitating debate
- Home Area Networks (HAN) pre-conference seminar
- AMI Star Wars: Featuring isses around cyber-security and data privacy
The forum will capture the stories behind the increasing complexities involved in the customer-end technology sector. It is designed specifically for utility professionals to learn from their peers how to approach process improvements, solution integration and vendor partnerships as a means to improve the metering, billing and customer management function overall, while providing direction for the future. The event also allows for ample opportunities to network and for informal discussion.
Audience profile/who should attend?
Professionals who fulfill metering and customer management functions within electricity, gas and water utilities, municipalities and cooperatives, including:
- AMR / Smart metering and metering project directors / managers / supervisors
- AMI directors / managers / supervisors
- Data and MDM directors / managers / supervisors
- Revenue protection and assurance directors / managers / supervisors.
- IT professionals within utilities (senior and mid-management)
- Customer services people within utilities (senior and mid-management)
- Commercial people within utilities
- Consultants
- Vendors of billing, CRM / CIS products and solutions
- CEOs, CIOs, CTOs
Vendors wishing to sell their products and services to utilities, municipalities and cooperatives, including:
- Consultants
- Meter service providers
- Vendors of metering products and solutions
Professionals who fulfill regulatory and project planning functions within utilities, municipalities and cooperatives as well as within government agencies, including:
- Regulators
- Demand response directors / managers / supervisors
- Financial directors / managers / supervisors
- Regulatory affairs directors / managers / supervisors
- Tariff / pricing professionals within utilities and regulators.
Other functions, including:
- Academics with an interest in utilities IT and/or metering
- Associations and the media
- Energy service providers / Energy marketers
- Venture capitalist
Why attend?
8 reasons why you can not afford not to participate in the singular must-attend event for the utilities metering, billing and CIS industry:
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Choose from a multi-track program offering inside expertise. |
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Match your information and learning needs to help you tackle everyday smart metering, AMI, MDM, billing, CIS and customer management challenges. |
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Gain perspective through strategic keynote addresses focusing on the state of the industry as well as emerging trends. |
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Discover and evaluate products and services to help you make smart metering and customer management decisions. |
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Get the “scoop” on a stunning showcase of technology put on by leading technology vendors. |
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Take advantage of being in the same place with the best and brightest of the metering and customer management industry. |
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Get a first-hand look at the innovation driving the industry and meet the people working to make it happen. |
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Bring the family! Gain more knowledge at the conference while your family has fun. |
Event highlights
- Metering America: The premier metering forum for utility leaders, covering issues such as optimizing integrated systems, AMR, AMI, TOU, BPL, demand response, energy management and efficiency, and more.
- Billing/CIS America: Focused on the optimization of CIS and billing systems for customer-focused utilities and customer management solutions.
- Water track: A dedicated track identifying key issues relating to water AMR/AMI implementation and enabling you to engage with peers experiencing mutual concerns.
- Smart sessions: Exclusively themed daybreak meetings facilitating debate and discussions.
- Home Area Networks (HAN) pre-conference workshop: A forward-looking workshop investigating the prospective smart home.
- AMI Star Wars pre-conference workshop: Featuring issues around cyber security and data privacy.
- MDM America post-conference workshop: A dedicated session with focused insight on MDM challenges and solutions for utilities including MDM and the customer, data repositories and how to manage them, data analytics, MDM and CIS, and data mining.
- Exhibition: Featuring the latest technologies on offer
Should you require any additional information please don’t hesitate to contact Julia Barton-Hill at telephone: 888 559 8017 (USA), +27 21 700 3500 (international) or via email:
julia@spintelligent.com |
