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KEY TRENDS/ISSUES
Questions/Topics:
• What are the key trends relating to the use of IT
in the Indian power sector?
• What are the main issues and challenges? How can
they be addressed? What are the key IT-infrastructure requirements?
• Presentation by Power Line Research
KEYNOTE SESSION
Questions/Topics:
• What are the new IT requirements of the power sector
in general and your organisation in particular?
• What are the biggest issues and challenges? What
are the initiatives that your organisation is undertaking
over the next few years?
Remarks by (in alphabetic order):
• Pankaj Kumar, Executive Director, ERP and IT, Power
Grid Corporation of India Limited
• K.B. Singh, Vice-President, IT and Chief Information
Officer, BSES
• Plus Q&A
SPECIAL SESSION: UPDATE ON SMART GRIDS – UTILITY
PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
• What is the roadmap towards a smart grid? What are
the key milestones and targets?
• What are the key upcoming projects? How will these
projects be funded?
• Presentation by N.S. Sodha, Executive Director,
Load Despatch & Communication, Power Grid Corporation
of India Limited
• plus Q&A
SPECIAL SESSION: UPDATE ON R-APDRP
Questions/Topics:
• What is the current status of the R-APDRP programme?
• Has the progress on R-APDRP been satisfactory so
far? What have been the key issues and challenges in this
regard?
• Presentation by Vijay Kumar Shah, Executive Director,
Power Finance Corporation
• plus Q&A
WORD FROM LEAD SPONSORS
Presentations by (in alphabetic order):
• Ajay Kaul, National Sales Head, India, ClickSoftware
• Manu R. Puri, Senior Managing Consultant , Global
Business Services, Energy & Utility Industry, IBM
• plus Q&A
DATA STORAGE, RETRIEVAL AND ANALYTICS
Questions/Topics:
• What are the key needs of distribution utilities
with regard to effective data storage, retrieval and analytics?
• What are the key issues and challenges faced by them?
What are the potential products, solutions and technologies
available?
• Presentation by Satyajit Dwivedi, Principal Consultant,
Energy Business Unit, SAS Institute (India)
• plus Q&A
CYBER SECURITY
Questions/Topics:
• What is expected level of preparedness in addressing
the issue of cyber security?
• What are the key challenges that they envisage? What
are the specific solutions on offer to power utilities?
• Presentation by Sharath Jeppu, Practice Manager,
Enterprise Security Solutions, Wipro Technologies
• plus Q&A
ERP EXPERIENCE
Questions/Topics:
• What has been the ERP experience with Indian power
utilities?
• What have been the key issues and challenges? What
should be the roadmap for utilities considering ERP?
• Presentation by Rupendra Bhatnagar, Industry Director,
Utilities, SAP India
• plus Q&A
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT - IN-HOUSE AND OUTSOURCED
Questions/Topics:
• What should the utilities do to develop in-house
capacity? What are the best outsourcing models?
• What is the best way forward – In-house capacity
development or outsourcing?
• Baseline presentation by Rahul Handa, Senior Manager,
IT Transformation, Ernst and Young
Panel discussion amongst (in alphabetic order):
• S.K. Choudhary, Director, Centre for Advanced Management
and Power Studies, National Power Training Institute
• Rahul Handa, Senior Manager, IT Transformation, Ernst
and Young
• Neeraj Singh, Senior Manager, HR, Power Finance Corporation
• Jayant Sinha, Associate Vice-president and Head,
Power-IT, Spanco
• Plus Q&A
SMART GRIDS – TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
Presentations by:
• Navodit Kumar Garg, Deputy Director , Vertical Solutions
Market, Huawei Enterprise Group on “Smart Grid and
Advanced metering solutions (e-power)”
• Bharath Kumar, Managing Director, International Business,
OSI Inc on “Situational Awareness Technology –
Critical component of Smart Grid Systems”
• Plus Q&A
PARALLEL TRACKS ON TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION AND
GENERATION
TRACK I: TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION
TRANSMISSION
Questions/Topics:
• What are the most promising technologies/applications
in transmission?
• What has been the experience so far among the transcos?
What can we learn from that experience?
Presentations by (in alphabetic order):
• P.K. Agarwal, Deputy General Manager, Power System
Operation Corporation
• M.G. Gadhvi, Deputy Engineer, Telecom, Gujarat Energy
Transmission Corporation
• R.K. Kaushik, Executive Engineer, SCADA-EMS, Haryana
Vidyut Prasaran Nigam
• Rajesh Lad, Manager, Corporate IT, Reliance Infrastructure
• Rajneesh Kumar Srivastava, Associate Project Director,
ERP, Delhi Transco
• Plus Q&A
DISTRIBUTION
Questions/Topics:
• What are the most promising technologies/applications
in distribution?
• What has been the experience so far among the discoms?
What can we learn from that experience?
Presentations by (in alphabetic order):
• Amit Gupta, Executive Engineer, IT-ERP, M.P. Madhya
Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company
• Prasenjit Mukherjee, General Manager, IT, BSES
• S. Murali, Executive Engineer, TANGEDCO
• S.L. Soni, Deputy General Manager, IT, NDPL
• Plus Q&A
TRACK II: GENERATION
Questions/Topics:
• What are the most promising technologies/applications
in generation?
• What has been the experience so far among Indian
power generators? What can we learn from that experience?
Presentations by (in alphabetic order):
• Rajagopalan Balasubramanian, Practice Head, Utility
and Telecom, IFS Solutions
• Vijay W. Deshpande, General Manager, IT, Maharashtra
State Power Generation Company
• Rahul Lele, Program Manager, Global Business Services,
Energy & Utility Industry, IBM India
• Nimesh Mehta, Head, IT Operations, CLP India
• Rajeev Singh, Head, Energy & Utilities and Asset
Management, Ramco Systems
• Savitri Srivastav, Chief, IT, NHPC
• Plus Q&A
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