About the event | Audience Profile | Why attend? | Event highlights
Metering, Billing/CIS America 2009 encompasses the following key elements:
- Conference
- ExhibitionSmart sessions
- Pre-conference workshops
- Water Meter Summit
- Meter Data Management Summit
Now in its 10th year, Metering, Billing/CIS America has established itself as the industry’s foremost metering and customer service event. In 2009 we will be Dancing with Data, highlighting the fandango that utilities are dealing with - the huge quantity of information collected by smart meters. The event will attract approximately 700 industry participants; over 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, developing the smart grid, demand management and customer management for North American utilities.With four dedicated tracks (metering, grid, billing and water), a host of interactive breakfast smart sessions, comprehensive instructor-lead workshops, and a stand-alone Meter Data Management seminar, Metering, Billing/CIS America 2009 stands to deliver engrossing content in an excellent networking environment. The multi-track program enables attendees to match their information and learning needs with sessions dedicated to:
- Measuring utility data
- Data on the move
- Smart billing/CIS options
- Managing the data storm
- Collecting customer data
- Secure utility networks
- Connecting with the customer
- Profiting from data
- Smart meter-to-cash
- Revenue protection
- Data at work and at play
- Integrating data
- Systems for the smart generation
- And more...
The 10th annual Metering, Billing/CIS America conference and exhibition presents its greatest lineup yet of industry centered seminars, exhibits, panel discussions and up-front conversation. From business strategy to modern technology, this is the only place where all aspects of smart metering, the smart grid, as well as customer management and service, are covered. Come rumba with the biggest names in the business and boogie down with your peers at the industry’s foremost event to stay ahead of the pack.
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?
- Recognize a stakeholder who has made outstanding contributions to the North American metering utilities sector between 1999 and 2009 in the 10 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE AWARDS program!
- Choose from a multi-track program offering inside expertise
- Network with the best and brightest of the metering and customer management industry
- Discover the latest technologies on offer at the Exhibition
- Learn from over 200 speakers offering real-time, real-life insight and case studies during the Workshops and Conferencesessions
- Gain in-depth industry perspective and experience at the Smart Sessions debates and discussions
- Bring the family and broaden your knowledge at the conference while they have fun, fun, fun in Miami!
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 integration of CIS and billing systems for customer-focused utilities and customer management solutions.
- Water Meter Summit: A dedicated track identifying key issues relating to water AMR/AMI implementation and applications beyond conservation.
- Meter Data Management Summit post-conference workshop: A dedicated session with focused insights into 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.
- Smart sessions: Exclusively themed daybreak meetings facilitating debate and discussions.
- Pre-conference workshops: Comprehensive sessions featuring topical issues such as cyber security and data privacy.
- Exhibition: Featuring the latest technologies on offer.
Should you require any additional information please don’t hesitate to contact Ryan Matthews: ryan.matthews@spintelligent.com or phone: 888 559 8017 EXT: 3535 (USA) +27 21 700 3535 (international).
