2015 Topics

Industry Perspectives

• Electric utility: business model transition – avoiding the death spiral

Perspectives on Smart Products and Services

• Role of energy management in smart home systems and home control platforms
• Modeling energy solutions and integrating them into smart devices
• Big data and analytics: extracting extra value from smart meters and energy services

Working Together

• Partnerships and new business model opportunities for smart home product and service providers
• Leveraging multiple smart products to enhance DR programs
• The impact of smart devices in retail energy markets
• Energy audits: expanding energy efficiency programs to whole-home solutions
• Strategies to speed up the pilot process & keep pace with market innovation
• Standards and interoperability: solutions that bring together the home's products and services
• Balancing privacy concerns and market regulations with opportunities created by big data
• The role of telecom and cable service providers as energy providers/managers

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Utilities: Benefits of Attending

1) Smart Energy Summit brings together utility leaders from across North America with smart home vendors and equipment manufacturers to discuss innovative approaches to delivering differentiated energy management solutions.

2) Convergence in the connected home creates competition and partnership opportunities to provide energy management services to the mass market. Technology trends within the connected home must be considered when developing and revising the utility home area network roadmap.

3) Understanding the adoption of smart home services and the many players entering the space is vital to utilities.

4) Gaining a firsthand account of the state of the market will help utilities understand the competition and understand partnership opportunities.

5) Adoption of electric vehicles and solar will have a substantial impact on electric utilities in the future. Smart Energy Summit assembles leading experts to provide their insights on the challenges and opportunities associated with EVs and distributed generation.

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