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The conference management team is searching for industry thought leaders who can share new and innovative experiences and visions. Submissions are subject to approval by the Metering, Billing/CRM Europe 2010 Programme Committee.
• Have you recently planned, piloted, launched or completed a smart metering roll out?
• Are you able to share new and innovative visions?
• Are you able to present real time experiences?
• Are you representing a utility or is there a utility involved in the project?
Than the programme committee invites you to submit an abstract.
Abstracts can be submitted for one of the following conference themes:
Implementing smart metering
- Policy & regulatory aspects of smart metering
- Project planning for a full-scale smart metering roll-out
- How to efficiently roll-out smart metering?
- Overcoming operational challenges after a smart metering roll-out
- Smart metering projects for the gas & water industry
Smart communication infrastructures & data management
- Standardization & interoperability
- Choosing the right communication infrastructure for your project
- The importance of data security & privacy
- Meter data management strategies
Active customer participation
- Marketing your smart metering project
- Customer engagement in your smart metering roll-out
- Smart metering, what is the business case for your customer?
- Demand response programmes
Advanced billing solutions
- The bill is more than just an invoice
- Consumption management through acurate billing
- Best practices in national bill presentment
- Customer retention through advanced billing solutions
The next step in smart metering
- What will the future meter look like?
- Moving from smart metering to a smart business
- Developing a future proof smart home
- Energy management innovations
- Anticipating smart grid deployment
- The onset of electric vehicles
Guidelines:
- Speaking slots are 30 minutes in length: 5 minute introduction by the chairman, 20 minutes for the PowerPoint presentation and 5 minutes for questions from the audience
- Presentations can only be accepted if presented by a utility or together with a utility customer
- Sales and marketing presentations are not appropriate for this conference and will not be accepted
- Presentation of more than one paper by the same organisation during the conference is not possible
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Review process:
- All abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee on 23 & 24 March 2010.
- Deadline for submission is 19 March 2010.
- Applicants will be notified of their status by email.
- By submitting an abstract authors are agreeing to provide Metering, Billing/CRM Europe a copyright release and final publication of their presentation for publication in the conference proceedings.
Selection criteria:
Abstracts will be reviewed and judged on the basis of the following criteria:
- Relevance to the conference theme and theme of the individual sessions
- Significance of the work/project to a broad audience
- Originality of work/project, including new concept, innovations or data
- The completeness of the work/project
Deadlines:
19 March 2010 Submission of abstracts
17 May 2010 Notification of selected abstracts
6 September 2010 Submission of final PowerPoint presentation
Please submit your abstract, before 19 March 2010 to:
Elisabeth Brusse
Head of Conference Development
Email: elisabeth@synergy-events.com
Phone: +31 346 290775
Fax: +31 346 590601
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