The SPi Group’s CEO, Ven Seshadri, will participate at Smart Metering Canada 2008, taking the lead in a pre-conference workshop on Monday, February 25 as well as moderating a critical panel discussion focusing on the partnerships between utilities and equipment suppliers.  

With several years experience in the industry, Seshadri spent four years with the company (and two years with its predecessor company) as chief operating officer. In that role, he led the company’s finance and operations functions, including managing the rollout of SPi’s EBT Hub services through Ontario’s retail electricity market deregulation process in 2002.

Metering International magazine presents the 3rd annual Smart Metering Canada Conference at The Westin Prince, Toronto, from February 25-27, 2008, providing the ideal executive platform to interact with key government representatives and industry level peers. This exclusive forum offers the opportunity to review the current state of leading projects, to share insight on how to resolve anticipated operational challenges and to debate the real future of smart metering in Canada.

Other program highlights include:

• The impact, clear advantages and imminent challenges to smart metering

• The strategic evolution of information systems in the era of MDM

• How utilities choose complimentary technologies

• Making the most of demand response on smart networks

• Smart metering for the environment

• Understanding and meeting the needs of the customer

Separately bookable pre-conference seminar: Home Area Networks (HAN) – an MBA workshop for the executive. Find out more about this extension of AMI. Hear from the experts how standards and practices are identified to enable information exchange between the utility and consumer networks. Witness first-hand how home entertainment applications will be a more significant driver in the evolution of HAN than energy management and how HANs will lead to a more modern intelligent grid in the future.

Have a look at our website for updates: www.metering.com/canada
Do not miss the opportunity to sign up now as a delegate. For more information, contact Ryan Matthews on +27 21 700 3535 or ryan.matthews@spintelligent.com