Sponsor Profiles

Industry Leadership Partner:

Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities. 

Keynote Partners:

Itron Inc. is a leading technology provider to the global energy and water industries. Itron Inc. consists of Itron in North America and Actaris outside of North America. Our company is the world’s leading provider of metering, data collection and utility software solutions, with nearly 8,000 utilities worldwide relying on our technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. Our products include electricity, gas and water meters; data collection and communication systems, including automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); meter data management and related software applications; project management, installation, and consulting services. To know more, start here: www.itron.com.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009.

Accenture's more than 7,500 utility industry professionals include many of the industry's leading smart grid, advanced metering, sustainability, cyber-security, customer care, network communications and system operations specialists, who have worked with more than 300 clients in 43 countries to tackle the unprecedented challenges facing today's utility companies. We have been helping utilities worldwide for more than 30 years, and our expertise, thought leadership and creative problem-solving have been leveraged by 83 percent of the Fortune Global 500 utilities in their quest to achieve new levels of productivity, profitability and sustainability. Follow this link for more information.

Panelist Partners:

Elster Solutions is a world leader in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and integrated metering and utilization solutions to the gas, electricity and water industries. Elster’s high quality AMI and AMR products, systems, and solutions reflect the wealth of knowledge and experience gained from over 170 years of dedication to measuring precious resources and energy. Elster provides world class solutions and advanced technologies to help utilities more easily, efficiently and reliably obtain and use advanced metering intelligence to improve customer service, enhance operational efficiency, and increase revenues. Elster's AMI solutions enable utilities to cost-effectively generate, deliver, manage and conserve the life-essential resources of gas, electricity and water. The group has over 7,500 staff and operations in 38 countries, focused in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Silver Spring Networks is a leading Smart Grid solutions provider that enables utilities to achieve operational efficiencies, reduce carbon emissions and empower their customers with new ways to monitor and manage their energy consumption. Silver Spring provides the hardware, software and services that allow utilities to deploy and run unlimited advanced applications, including Smart Metering, Demand Response, Distribution Automation and Distributed Generation, over a single, unified network. Silver Spring Smart Energy Platform is based on open, Internet Protocol (IP) standards, allowing continuous, two-way communication between the utility and every device on the grid. Silver Spring has successful deployments with leading utilities in the US and abroad, including Florida Power & Light, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Inc., Jemena Electricity Networks Limited and United Energy Distribution, among others. In 2008, the World Economic Forum honored Silver Spring Networks as a Technology Pioneer. For additional information, please visit www.silverspringnetworks.com.

Microsoft's Worldwide Power & Utilities Group offers information technology solutions that empower utilities to thrive in today's ever-changing and demanding business atmosphere. With its many partners, Microsoft enables better relationships with co-workers, customers, vendors and regulators across the utility value chain-from generation, transmission and distribution and regulatory compliance to trading and risk management, health and safety, enterprise services and customer care. By using these solutions, utility workers are able to deliver innovative services, implement best-practice operations and detail their planning. They can create profitable customer relationships and establish high-value partner connections, each in line with the expectations of environmentally conscious consumers and regulators, and valued shareholders and business partners. For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com/utilities and our blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mspowerutilities.

Sensus provides smart metering technologies and conservation solutions for automatic meter reading, (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart grid applications, distribution automation, and communication that enable electric, gas, and water utilities to measure, manage, and control distributed resources. We also support home area networks that help households practice intelligent resource consumption. With nearly 4M endpoints deployed, utilities and consumers know that the smartest solutions start with Sensus. Measure the success of your next project with smart metering from Sensus. For more information visit, http://www.sensus.com/.

Industry Supporters:

At IBM, our priority is to help utility companies transform energy, environmental and sustainability issues into opportunities that positively impact the world. 

Today, IBM experts are working with utility companies globally to accelerate the adoption of smart grids that can make them more reliable and more efficient. IBM is involved in seven of the world's ten largest automated meter management projects. We are at the forefront of the development of an Intelligent Utility Network, which helps leading utility companies to fundamentally transform the way power is generated, distributed and used. And, IBM has developed the Smart Grid Maturity Model, a proven framework used by utilities to help plan their smart grid transformation. 

From network revitalization, to asset management, to plant operations; IBM offers smarter solutions, practices and technology that help utilities transform into new symbols of power in the 21st century. To learn more about smarter solutions for smarter energy, visit ibm.com/smarterplanet/grid .

Software AG's webMethods Integration Platform is at the heart of the largest installation of smart meters in the U.S. to date — integrating 1.2 million smart meters, collecting meter data every 15 minutes, monitoring system tolerances in real-time and helping to proactively predict system failures.

Software AG's business infrastructure software helps electric utility companies accelerate delivery of smart grid functions across generation, transmission, distribution, markets, operations and service provider domains by enabling standards-based integration, interoperability and two-way communication of data across key internal and external devices (e.g., meters, sensors, voltage controllers, mobile work units) and systems (e.g., AMI, MDMR, GIS, CIS, DMS, EMS, EAM, OMS, SCADA, etc.) resulting in scalable, reliable, resilient and secure development and roll-out of smart grid functions without disrupting ongoing operations.

As the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software, Software AG's 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services - achieving new levels of business flexibility.

Software AG's leading product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining its technology with industry expertise and best practices experience, Software AG customers improve and differentiate their businesses — faster.

Software AG — Get There Faster 

Video Partner:

Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable digital currency. Underpinning digital currency is one of the world's most advanced processing networks-VisaNet-that is capable of handling more than 10,000 transactions a second, with fraud protection for consumers and guaranteed payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank, and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com.

Cyber Lounge Sponsor:

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is a non-profit, non-partisan partnership of the industries involved in producing electricity from coal. ACCCE advocates for public policies that advance environmental improvement, economic prosperity, and energy security. Because coal is America's most abundant energy resource, ACCCE believes in energy policies that balance coal's vital role in meeting our country's growing need for affordable and reliable electricity with the need to protect the environment. Further, ACCCE is committed to continued and enhanced U.S. leadership in the funding, development and deployment of advanced clean coal technologies that will produce electricity with near-zero emissions. For more information, visit www.cleancoalusa.org or www.americaspower.org.