Bio
Adri joined Eskom, South Africa’s Electricity Utility in 1976. He registered as a Professional Land Surveyor (1977), obtained his MBL degree in 1989 and registered as a Professional Geoscience Practitioner in 2006. He has been with Land Survey and Geographical Information Systems sections for his whole career. He became the project leader for the collection of the geospatial data for the Small World Automated Mapping and Facilities Management system (AM/FM) at the Eskom Distribution Head office in1996. He is part of the Eskom section providing geospatial data sets and GIS services to Eskom since 2002.

Abstract
Case Study of AM/FM/GIS in South Africa’s Electrical Utility, Eskom 1996-2012
Eskom is the vertical integrated Electricity Utility in South Africa with the following challenges but not restricted to them alone:

• Electrify customers in the vast previously disadvantage area,
• Ensure that there is enough electricity generation capacity for economic growth,
• Refurbish and extend the electrical network to keep up with the growth and maintain service levels
• Develop the human capacity to maintain and grow the system

During the late 1980’s Eskom was only a wholesaler of Electricity and the previous government instructed Eskom the Electrical Utility to start with the electrification of previously disadvantage areas. At that stage the municipalities were providing the service to the proclaimed towns and Eskom was not geared to handle 300 000 new household customers per annum. Top management made a decision to use information technology (IT) as one of the enablers to perform the electrification program. An Automated Mapping/Facility management system was selected as one of the enablers. The author was involved in the selection of the system, then the collection and capturing of core and proprietary geospatial data sets that are needed for the system. In a developing country there will be challenges in collection and maintenance of core and proprietary spatial data sets. The need for a robust core dwelling frame data set for South Africa, a developing country, to enable physical infrastructure planning, development and maintenance become apparent and the SPOT BUILDING COUNT (SBC) was developed. The development of this “new data set” will be discussed with all the lessons learnt. The benefits of having an annual update of the dwelling frame also support the organic growth away from AM/FM to a true Geographic Information section was slow but steady. The activities that are being performed by the section will be discussed and it could have some lessons for other developing countries and entities. The talk will be concluded with what is seen as the biggest challenge for the geosciences in South Africa and for that matter any developing country.

• The developing of the human capital
• The sharing and creating of sustainable core date sets to eliminate duplication
• The keeping up with Technology developments. The usage of Google Maps and Bingmap as the marketing tools for real GIS.

Bio
Jack Verouden holds a degree in Geodesy. After graduation Jack joined Shell and has now worked for 30 years in the Geospatial domain for various Shell companies and joint ventures around the world and in various leadership positions. Jack presently holds the position of Geomatics Manager for Shell Exploration & Production International and is based at the Shell Technology Centre in Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

Abstract
Geospatial Data and Analysis for the Global Business Process of Shell Exploration and Production
The portfolio is changing considerably for a Commercial International Energy company. Jack will outline what role Geomatics, Geospatial data and Geospatial technologies play and should play. He will also discuss the importance of open data and the co-operation between commercial and government organizations, where possible at global level.

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Richard joined Bentley Systems in 2006 to drive the marketing of Bentley’s geospatial and utility solutions. Richard is responsible for the strategic positioning and communicating the value of Bentley’s geospatial technology in infrastructure owner-operator and EPC/EC engineering workflows. He started his career in the world of advertising and marketing. By 1996 Richard was CEO of CLK, one of the UK’s largest and most successful strategic marketing consultancies. In 1996 Richard crossed over into the world of technology and communications, first working as VP Worldwide Marketing for Madge Networks, a $450m network technology company second only to IBM in token ring technology. Richard then moved as VP Worldwide Marketing to Visionael, a provider of network inventory and provisioning software solutions to communications companies worldwide.

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How Geospatial Technology Supports Operations and Maintenance Workflows in Energy Utilities
This presentation will look at the role that a GIS-based asset register plays in supporting optimized operations and maintenance workflows in energy and multi-utilities. This presentation is based on real-world case studies from utilities such as Essent Local Energy Services in the Netherlands and other utilities elsewhere in Europe. We will demonstrate the deep value utilities find in being able to manage network connectivity, maintenance records, and operational data to map, plan, optimize, design, and operate energy and multi-utility infrastructure.

John Shaw is CIO and Head of Information Services, based at Mainstream’s Global Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. John joined Mainstream in September 2008 to lead the company’s Business Technology Strategy. A Chartered Engineer (C Eng MIEI) and a registered European Professional Engineer (Eur Ing) with 20+ years experience. John holds an MBA in Technology Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineer from University College Dublin. A senior member of the IEEE (SMIEEE), joined Mainstream from Pfizer where he was Director of Information Services at one of Pfizer’s largest manufacturing facilities, having previously held senior IS executive positions in Accenture and General Electric

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James Weninegar is the Manager of the Transmission Line Services department for Alabama Power Company. This department is responsible for transmission line routing, GIS support, mapping, survey, and transmission right of way protection. He has over 35 years experience in transmission design, construction, and maintenance. James currently holds a Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of South Alabama in civil engineering and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Alabama.

Abstract
Utilities GIS Application Put to the Ultimate Test:
Southern Company’s Innovative TransView Application Enables Efficient Response to Devastating Storms Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Company is one of the largest generators of electricity in the United States. Southern Company participates in all phases of the electric utility business, with more than 42,000 megawatts of electric-generating capacity, and a grid of transmission and distribution lines that would encircle the Earth. The company operates four electric utilities - Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power, serving more than 4.4 million retail customers. In 2009, Southern Company deployed an application to encompass all four transmission networks. Dubbed TransView, the application provides a seamless and standardized view of Southern Company’s transmission assets and infrastructure. Built on Esri’s ArcGIS™ Server and leveraging the Rolta GeoSpatial Fusion™ platform and Rolta OnPoint™ web application, TransView integrates GIS with data from such diverse systems as asset management, design data, outage and SCADA data into a single application. TransView has transformed the way Southern Company accesses and analyzes operational data and has delivered tremendous value in several areas: TransView provides efficient access to engineers, management and field personnel to key asset information from a single, unified source The coordination and management of work activity had been streamlined by having a standardized view of transmission asset information · TransView enables tracking of substation maintenance crews and monitoring of personnel entering and leaving substation locations to ensure security policies are enforced and crews are dispatched in the most efficient manner TransView supports proactive planning and efficient response to emergencies and outages Presentation Overview: On April 27, 2011 a series of devastating storms swept through the southern U.S. In particular, the state of Alabama suffered substantial damage. The power and flexibility of the TransView platform was demonstrated by enabling the Alabama Power subsidiary to execute rapid Storm Response measures. TransView provided access to mission critical data so management and field crews could coordinate efforts and respond quickly to those areas most affected by the storms. In the days following the storm, Alabama Power staff was then able to monitor and assess their restoration efforts in an efficient and coordinated manner to speed the restoration of power to the area. James Weineger, senior manager of Alabama Power, will recount those critical hours leading up to the storm and how the company leveraged the TransView application to efficiently and effectively execute its Storm Response measures.

Bio
Joep Luijten has a PhD degree in agricultural and biological engineering and is a Certified GIS Professional since 2004. He has over 15 year of experience in Geospatial-ICT and has worked and lived in the United States, United Kingdom and most recently in Belgium. In 2008 he joined Capgemini as a senior manager in the Technology Services division, and has been working on a range of Geospatial projects for clients in the utility sector in Belgium. His main areas of technical expertise include geospatial enterprise architecture, spatial data management, development of web and desktop applications, and he has a keen interest in the potential of geospatial cloud services.

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Challenges faced by the utility industry: moving towards a GIS-centric enterprise
Many network operators nowadays encounter difficulties or limitations with their GIS implementations. The most common issues that are raised to management come from different parts of the operation and include, but are not limited to:

• Unavailability of single source of reliable and accurate network information throughout the company
• Missing or inaccurate end-to-end connectivity of the network model including customer connections
• A variety of graphical and non-graphical applications describe parts of the network at different stages of its lifecycle
• Full lifecycle management of the network infrastructure tends to be impossible with this inconsistent set of applications.
• Heavy paper-based update cycles of network information resulting in unacceptable backlogs between actual field situation and network documentation
• Inaccurate or poorly updated topographic base maps (including address positions).

Regulatory pressure and recent legislation in Belgium require all utilities to make available accurate information about the location of their networks as well as, in the near future, information about all planned utility works affecting public roads. This requires utility operators to address and upgrade their network information systems and implement systems for exchanging project information with external systems. In this paper we will give an overview of some projects that Capgemini as a systems integrator has been involved in for customers in the utility sector, helping them move towards GIS-centric enterprises. We will give examples of both technological and organisational hurdles that had to be overcome.

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Anirban is a Senior Consultant and Strategic Business Development Manager for the Utilities business of Infotech Enterprise Europe in the EMEA region. He has 14+ years of experience as an experienced consultant and technologist in providing geospatial and wider IT solutions. Anirban joined Infotech in 2001 and since then he has contributed to Infotech’s journey of delivering expert and innovative solutions in various capacities. Currently, he is playing an active role in developing strategy and positioning of Infotech’s offerings in the utilities sector in the EMEA region. He has lead several consulting assignments for Infotech and plays an active role as a key advisor to a team consultants in Infotech.
Abstract
Spatial Information - Enabler for Smart Grid
After a long period of relative stability, the electricity industry is undergoing a major disruption of its traditional business model. The electrical meter is no longer the network end point, home appliances are becoming the new touch point for residential customers. Power generation is coming from multiple sources, including wind, solar and hydro. Homes and business, the traditional customers of the grid, are becoming generators themselves, supplying energy back to the grid. All these changes are triggering multi-fold increase in the data than what is presently available to utilities. On the other side, utility companies own a number of critical systems to support its day-to-day operations, including Geographical Information, Outage Management, Distribution Management, Meter Data Management, Asset Management, Customer Information Management etc. But most of these systems operate independently. In this scenario, are the utility enterprise systems ready to handle the "explosion" of information after implementing Smart Grid solutions? Industry experts believe that given the nature of a GIS, it has the potential to unify various software applications in streamlining business processes. In this paper, let us discuss how GIS can enable enterprise IT systems for smart grid and what are the critical characteristics of GIS that one has to ensure to make this happen.

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Radu Negoita currently serving as Senior GIS Specialist in GDF Suez Energy Romania. At this moment, among other responsibilities, he gives expertise for future development of the GIS in the IT department. He is responsible for planning, development and implementation of the projects related to the GIS and the integration with other operational systems (SAP, SCADA, hydraulic modeling system). Also, he has the responsibilities to the implementation of business processes improvement. In 2009 he was Project Manager for the implementation of GIS in GDF. Radu has more than 12 year of experience in range of GIS solutions and 5 year in field measurement devices. As a project manager, one of his responsibilities was to create and apply procedures for field data acquisition and topographic data processing. Also, he was responsible to train the technicians in use of software and topographic devices. Additionally, he has responsibility to build and implement hardware architecture, including active Disaster recovery site. His area of expertise is extending not only in GIS, but in different segment. He was Project Manager for implementing SCADA System and technical advisor for implementing Fleet management system and gas leak detection software, all this project was in GDF. Before GDF he has participate at one major project related to a Fleet Management system (over 3000 cars, across many country) and has been consultant for management systems of designing electrical, gas and water installations.

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GIS Project: Business Process Optimizations with GIS system in GDF SUEZ
GDF SUEZ Energy Romania has a leader position in utility segment of distribution and delivery of gas. In the late of year 2009, because of changing of many processes in the company one of the requirements was to implement a GIS solution and capture all data related of gas network from the field. Main Goals for implementing a GIS Solution: There was a few targets in the scope of implementing this kind of project. -Develop a reliable system for managing, maintaining and sharing gas network and geographical information to the internal user; -Increase efficiency related to access of data and eliminates redundant data; -Single software platform; -Increase value of services to internal user; -Easy access via enterprise solutions of critical business processes like interventions, investment, and network development; Organization GIS department is made up of 30 dedicated employees with mission is to capture field data related to gas network , maintenance GIS data and provide information to Operational services. Area of operations is half of Romanian country. GIS platform We chose Autodesk platform Map3D Enterprise and AIMS base on Oracle Spatial Database; After testing few solution, the reason behind this choosing was taken based on some factor in the evaluation process: open platform , open database model, web based application with editing possibilities, low bandwidth requirements, fat client with workflows, SAP integration possibility . Main functionality covers by the application: Navigation and easy access to information and graphical information; New creation of feature with editing geometrical and technical attribute; Network analysis; Easy search for a feature; Custom reports; Business process cover by the application: Development for new gas pipe network; Investment; Network maintenance; Optimization of gas network; Replacement of pipe; Integration requirement cover by the solution: SAP Plant Maintenance integration; Hydraulic calculation integration; SCADA integration which is not actually in place;

Joe Coldrick is a Principal Business Advisor for Energy and Utilities. He has over 25 years experience of successfully designing and managing delivery of business transformation solutions covering a wide variety of business processes and technologies. His in-depth subject-matter expertise covers Enterprise Asset Management, Supply-Chain, Spatial Enablement, Operations Management and Financial Management. He specialises in enterprise solutions in the Energy/Utilities sector, where he has led many projects in delivering significant business benefits and cost savings. Joe has wide-ranging international exposure to business environments and cultures.

Abstract
Evolution of Smart frameworks in Power Utilities
Power Utilities are embracing the recent SmartGrid technologies to establish a complete Command-and-Control environment for electric distribution. A Command-and-Control center integrates with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Distribution Network Analysis (DNA) to create an advanced Distribution Management System (DMS). DMS transcends traditional outage management systems (OMS) by delivering outage analysis, integrated workforce management, advanced visualization, and real-time monitoring. TCS Smart Frameworks deal with the technological advancements in this field and provide new dimensions to enhancing their potential.

Prasanta Saha leads the Business Development of Engineering solutions of TCS to utilities and telecom industries in Europe. With about 20 years industry experience, he has led the roll out of innovative business focussed solutions for power utilities and telcos including the GeoSpatial and SmartGrid domains. Prasanta has travelled widely, interacted at various levels in a customer’s organization and presented lectures and papers at several global events and seminars.

Abstract
Evolution of Smart frameworks in Power Utilities
Power Utilities are embracing the recent SmartGrid technologies to establish a complete Command-and-Control environment for electric distribution. A Command-and-Control center integrates with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Distribution Network Analysis (DNA) to create an advanced Distribution Management System (DMS). DMS transcends traditional outage management systems (OMS) by delivering outage analysis, integrated workforce management, advanced visualization, and real-time monitoring. TCS Smart Frameworks deal with the technological advancements in this field and provide new dimensions to enhancing their potential.