Making Sound Smart Grid Choices in Light of Changing Consumer Dynamics

The development of technology for consumers is evolving at a rapid pace, and it’s impacting how residential consumers, building owners, facilities managers, and city planners are consuming and managing power. While we can’t predict with 100% certainty how these technologies will evolve, we can at least predict an increase in grid-connectivity at the consumer level -- from electric vehicles to distributed generation.

As venture-capital dollars get pumped into new innovations that will dramatically change the utility demand-side, power companies are faced with the challenge of making sound business decisions today without a clear vision of tomorrow.

In this climate of change, how do utilities make informed technology choices for the long-term? Only through exposure to the broad viewpoints from the myriad of stakeholders shaping the space.

ConnectivityWeek gathers the stakeholders impacting the consumption side of the meter -- including the IT and telecom companies entering the space, the Smart Grid vendors who have been actively innovating, and the building owners, facility managers, and city planners who are making solutions choices at the consumer level right now.

More than 200 industry-leading speakers and panelists will participate in over 30 sessions to explore the business models, value propositions, and technologies that will help utilities manage and plan for tomorrow’s changing utility customer.