Date: 10 - 12 November 2021
Location: Virtual
Description: The theme of the convention is "Implementing Sustainable Customer Centric Electricity Utilities in the 4th and 5th Industrial Revolution" with the following sub-themes:
- Defining New-technology Needs: Scoping Smarter Systems and Maturity Indicators;
- Re-skilling - How to Re-Skill Work Force to Work in a 4IR Environment;
- EDI Restructuring: New Business Models, Municipal Roles, and Stances of the AMEU (panel discussion);
- Cyber Security: In New-Technology (Procurements) and in Legacy Systems;
- Asset Management: New Innovations and Trends;
- Revenue Protection Innovations: Using Business Intelligence and Smart Technologies;
- Electrification and self-generation: Funding of Electrification, Self-Generation Alternatives, Tariff Signals;
- Policy Failure and the Policy-Implementation Gap in Local Government:
- How to keep the Lights on Under a Very Unfriendly MFMA and SCM Environment;
- Procurement Processes: Localisation, Interoperability, Specifications, Better value;
- Innovation topics: Solving Old Business Problems with Different and Newer Solutions (Marketing, Customer Service, Planning, Construction, Maintenance);
- Renewable Energy: Technology, Progress Updates and Case Studies.
