For this event, the audience will consist of professionals from

the following types of companies:

TIME SCHEDULE

9:30 am - 10:00 am NETWORKING BREAKFAST

10:00 am - 11:30 am PANEL DISCUSSION Q&A

11:30 am - 12:30 pm NETWORKING

FORMAT

AGRION is a membership based, international

business network for energy and sustainability. We

organize webinars, roundtables and inter- national

conventions to enhance idea-sharing and business

lead generation through high-level industry discussion

and the promotion of emerging technologies.

Our roundtables consist of an hour and half panel

discussion with 4-5 speakers, a moderator and a

roundtable of between 25-35 participants in the room.

Speakers and attendees are seated at the same table

to facilitate interactive and intimate discussion.

AG R IO N E V ENT ANNOUN C EMENT

THE TRULYINTELLIGENT UTILITY

Utilities

Grid Management

DR

Metering Data Analytics

Regulatory/Policy

AMI Networking

Energy Storage

Virtual Power Generation

Grid Optimization

MARCH 27,2013 9:30AM-12:00PM

AT 10 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA

How are Utilities becoming smarter? What are

utilities doing to become smarter?

What technologies, systems operations, and

new business models are enabling this jump in

intelligence?

How has the influx of the renewable energy tech-

nologies into the energy market pushed utilities

to evolve?

Are some renewable technologies more

important than others?

What are the key infrastructure ‘sweet spots’

for grid modernization that will allow utilities to

become more intelligent?

Are utilities truly willing participants in their own

evolution or is their change being forced on

them from without?

The modern utility is transforming. The utility of the

past was resistant to change, committed to broad

sweeping controls, and weighed down with heavy regu-

lations while the transformed utility is a more flexible,

data wielding, and consumer conscious body that will

not only change how utilities interface with their con-

sumer, but the electricity distribution market across the

board.

On February 20th, at Agrion’s Energy & Sustainability

Summit, PSE&G CEO Ralph Izzo announced a new

effort on the part of the New Jersey Utility to invest

$4 billion in grid infrastructure upgrades that would

increase the utility’s ability to collect data, respond to

natural disasters, and provide increased reliability in

the face of not just unforeseen catastrophic events,

but also anticipated market changes. This is just one

way in which a utility is changing to the times and

becoming more flexible in the face of the demand for

a flexible utility. This roundtable will look at the other

methods in which utilities are changing and adapting

as they become more open, endorse a wider range of

technologies on the grid, and become an aid, not a

hindrance, to the integration of renewable energy onto

the grid.

AGR ION AGEN DA

AGRION hosts more than 400 events per year across our

office locations in New York, San Francisco, Paris, Frank-

furt, and Beijing that ranges from webinars to intimate

roundtable discussions to large multi-day international con-

ventions. Membership allows companies complimentary

access to all events, recordings and reports and gives

them the opportunity to collaborate on a tailored program

to promote new technologies, projects and partnerships.

AGRION currently has close to 200 member companies

spanning a wide spectrum of industries and sectors.

Through weekly events held online and on-site, AGRION

reaches over 200,000 professionals globally.

To find out more about membership, please contact nick.

davis@agrion.org.

About AGRION

Weekly Programs

AGRION organizes local and global meetings that span busi-

ness and technological innovations, market challenges and

competition, and policy and financing issues in the energy

and sustainability spaces. All meetings are filmed and

members have the option to attend meetings on-site (locally) or

online. Detailed meeting reports and video are available following

our events.

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