BOOST Edition 2022 – Empowering smart utilities
Are your ready for the connect version of our flagship BOOST event? During this event we will extend the knowledge sharing, organised in a private setting. Be sure to check out the BOOST CONNECT page : https://www.ferranti.be/news/boostconnect/
We are pleased to announce the upcoming BOOST CONNECT event. This 1.5-day event will be held on the 26-27th of September in Antwerp and will focus on connecting with peers and industry leaders in an intimate setting.
One of the highlights of BOOST CONNECT will be the small user groups, which will provide a forum for attendees to connect with peers who share similar challenges and interests. These groups will be facilitated by industry experts, who will help to facilitate discussions and share insights.
Content sessions: 09.00am till 05.30pm – Network event: 07.30pm till 23.00pm
MARQUEE | BREAKOUT EXCELSIOR | BREAKOUT HOPE | BREAKOUT CULLINAN | BREAKOUT EUREKA |
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08.00am 09.00am | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast |
09.00am 09.20am | Opening Johan VDK & Tom VH - Ferranti | ||||
09.20am 10.10am | The offer you can't refuse Steven Van Belleghem | ||||
10.10am 10.40am | Ferranti strategy and vision for MECOMS 365 Mar J. & Ellen S. Ferranti | ||||
10.40am 10.50am | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break |
10.50 am 11.20 am | How Microsoft helps in the digital transformation of organizations Ricardo Van Domburg | Towards the Internet of Energy Ian Campbell | The energy and water markets and the opportunities for innovation and servitization Samuele Penzo – Vicepresident & Head of IT CPL Concordia | Design, Build, Race. The Formula Student way of innovating. Remko S. - Formula Electric |
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11.20am 11.30am | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break |
11.30am 12.20pm | Algorithms, you better get used to it Jim Stolze | The UK energy futures Peter F. - Enstra consulting |
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12.20pm 02.00pm | Lunch break & 10-min live session | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break |
02.00pm 02.30pm | Challenges of the energy transition Sander D. - Scholt Energy | Speed up your release management process in an agile way & 3 weekly releases (session 1) Ine B. & Dennis DJ. - Ferranti | How to become an automation champion? Cindy B. & Glenn VDL. - Ferranti | The future of energy markets - A UK perspective Peter F. - Enstra consulting |
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02.30pm 03.00pm | Customer engagement for the energy transition David T. - Delta-EE | How to survive energy markets' perfect storm Andrej S. - Gen-I | Leveraging field service and asset management capabilities within MECOMS 365 Paul H. & Anton DR. - Ferranti | Local energy communities Stijn VG. & Jens V. - Ferranti |
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03.00pm 03.15pm | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break |
03.15pm 03.45pm | Warmtestad's approach to making Groningen co2 neutral by 2035 Dick T. - Warmtestad, Groningen | Understand dynamics pricing and quoting in a data driven world Neal J. & Christopher C.- Ferranti | Analyzing data with the modern data warehouse Leno A. - Ferranti | The power of microservices & Kubernetes in a modern cloud platform - Customer use case Pieterjan V. & Kjell K. - Ferranti |
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03.45pm 04.15pm | The yellow brick road to electric freedom Caro DB. - Fastned | Digital twins in the utility sector Jordan P. - Ferranti | How to enter a commercial market Sören F. & Christopher C. - Ferranti | How to get certified for MECOMS 365: understand learning tracks & opportunities Tekla M. - Ferranti |
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04.15pm 04.30pm | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break |
04.30pm 05.20pm | Adapt and innovate in a hyperconnected business Brian G.- Microsoft Andrej S.- Gen-I | ||||
07.30pm 23.00pm | Evening event @ Botanic Antwerp | Evening event @ Botanic Antwerp | Evening event @ Botanic Antwerp | Evening event @ Botanic Antwerp | Evening event @ Botanic Antwerp |
Content sessions: 09.00am till 02.30pm
MARQUEE | BREAKOUT EXCELSIOR | BREAKOUT HOPE | BREAKOUT CULLINAN | BREAKOUT EUREKA |
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08.00am 09.00am | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast | Welcome breakfast |
09.00am 09.50am | Utilities charging the net-zero economy Jean Francois S. - IDC | ||||
09.50am 10.05am | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break |
10.05am 10.35am | Crafting Complexity Into An Amazing User Experience Wai Lau - Cloud energy | Speed up your release management process in an agile way & 3 weeks releases (session 2) Ine B. & Dennis DJ. - Ferranti | The roles of the grid operators as independent market facilitators Antoine T. | Demonstrating the power of all-channel communications for Utilities Ben Banks - Solgari |
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10.35am 11.05am | Evolving your customer experience with Microsoft technologyJoe Leberte - Solgari | Unlock the value of your meter data in the Azure cloud. Robin VL. & Ian B. - Ferranti | The future vision on cloud services Glenn VDL. & Paul H. - Ferranti | Data migration is a key success factor for any project - understand how you manage in a qualitative manner Gert VDH - Ferranti |
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11.05am 11.30am | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break | Roomswitch Break |
11.30am 12.00am | Customer experience transformation: delighting your modern utility customer Mar J. - Ferranti | Quality assurance through test automation in a fast evolving landscapePieter Jan H. & Tanja V.- Ferranti | Don't leave your documents to chance Daniel Maurer - Formpipe | ||
12.00am 12.30pm | The future vision of suppliers Sharon W. & Sören F.- Ferranti | The future vision of integrated utilities Werner DP. & Maaike w. - Ferranti | The future vision of a DGO Alex B. & Jurgen B. - Ferranti | ||
12.30pm 01.30pm | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break |
01.30pm 02.30 pm | Ferranti as a key partner to boost your business + ending Johan VDK & Tom VH - Ferranti | ||||
02.30pm 03.30pm | Reception | Reception | Reception | Reception | Reception |
NEWS UPDATE: 01.05.2022
With a dedicated team focussing on the grid operator customer segment, this session provides insight in the challenges we observe in the market, and how Ferranti is investing to facilitate responses to these challenges.
NEWS UPDATE: 01.05.2022
With a dedicated team focusing on the Integrated Utilities customer segment, this session provides insight in the challenges we observe in the market, and how Ferranti is investing to facilitate responses to these challenges.
NEWS UPDATE: 01.05.2022
During BOOST, Sören Feyens and Sharon Wilson will enlighten you on the short- & long-term challenges that Ferranti observes in a deregulated market and how we can help you in solving these challenges in order to stay ahead of your competition.
NEWS UPDATE: 01.05.2022
The MECOMS solution offers rich functionality via a set of different MECOMS applications on different platforms. These applications and underlying platforms evolve and are updated very rapidly. Because of this application landscape and evolution test automation becomes indispensable.
In this session, Pieter Jan Hendrickx and Tanja Verhoeven want to give you some insight in how we ensure the quality of the overall MECOMS solution via automated testing throughout the whole life cycle: Starting from the development, to the implementation and the maintenance afterwards.
NEWS UPDATE: 30.04.2022
Data migration is an essential part of any project, every implementation needs data in the system.
In this session, Gert Van Der Heyden will explain the MECOMS migration approach, for new customers as well as existing customers. Coming from older MECOMS versions or non-MECOMS products.
NEWS UPDATE: 29.04.2022
Keeping up with market evolutions, you can store your smart meter data flows in the cloud using MECOMS solutions. MECOMS specialists Ian Bruyninckx and Robin Van Loock will discuss the current approaches towards meeting this goal and technical aspects to consider.
Furthermore, they will describe future evolutions, the place and integration within the data-oriented tech stack in Azure, and the use cases that will be possible.
NEWS UPDATE: 28.04.2022
NEWS UPDATE: 27.04.2022
With the energy transition, new services and new players are emerging on the energy markets. There is a kind of urgency to accelerate and to succeed in the energy transition. All available and mean full means should be mobilized to do so.
In this context, there is a grey zone about what a grid company may and may not do as activities. Let’s have a look at what are the pro’s and the con’s to entrust new missions to monopolistic company with regulated revenues, like grid companies. Do they have to contribute and/or just to facilitate this transition?
NEWS UPDATE: 26.04.2022
We welcome Samuele Penzo at BOOST. He is the Director of the business unit dedicated to utilities market for the management of billing, CRM and outsourcing IT services for gas, water and electric energy sales companies. He is also IT & Utilities Technology Responsible & Vice President of CPL Concordia.
During BOOST, he will be shining a light on energy and water services in Italy. More specific on business process outsourcing as opportunity for utilities development and growth.
Register now and be part of the most exciting network event of 2022.
lively, sparkling start of #BOOST18 day #3! @xdatanet received the Rising Star #MECOMS Partner Award! then @rikvera, with an extremely enlighening talk! pic.twitter.com/VTlUBSlpeO
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— JF Segalotto (@JSegalotto) October 11, 2018
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— Formpipe Software (@Formpipe) October 9, 2018
NEWS UPDATE: 25.04.2022
To be at the fulcrum of the energy transition, utilities and energy suppliers must expand their service portfolios and empower consumers with sustainable solutions around decarbonization, electrification, conservation and efficiency.
For this transformation to scale, utilities must not only be able to innovate commercially, but also digitally transform revenue and customer operations, expanding above and beyond the traditional meter-to-cash process.
NEWS UPDATE: 24.04.2022
Digital twins at its core are rather easily explained. However, there is more to it than simply what meets the eye.
In this session, a brief introduction to Digital Twins is given by Jordan Parezys, as well as some examples of digital twins being used in industries all over the world. To finish off, we look ahead as to what Digital Twins might mean for MECOMS.
NEWS UPDATE: 23.04.2022
Understanding MECOMS 365 is key to a successful implementation.
Those who implement MECOMS 365, MECOMS partners, as well as key users project can benefit from our MECOMS product trainings and e-learnings. As an implementation partner, being able to prove you have the necessary knowledge and certifications to implement MECOMS 365 will support you even more.
After this session, given by Tekla Mortelmans, you will understand what training and e-learning materials are available and how to certify.
NEWS UPDATE: 22.04.2022
The CRM & Billing solution is for suppliers the cornerstone of their application landscape. The capabilities of this solution is a main criterion in order to enter a new commercial market. In addition, other factors come into play such as integration with local solutions, local market regulations, local market communication, etc.
In this session, Sören Feyens and Christopher Claes will explain the methodologies and approach on how a commercial supplier can enter a new market.
NEWS UPDATE: 21.04.2022
The modern data warehouse sits at the heart of enterprise analytics, as a source of centralized data, as a system of record and as a hub, serving models for reporting, business intelligence and data science.
This session, given by Leno Adriaensens showcases the MECOMS 365 DWH solution where various data sources are combined into a canonical data model. This allows you to start analysing your data to improve your operational and strategic processes.
NEWS UPDATE: 20.04.2022
In a highly competitive and fast moving market, being able to offer both new and existing customers bespoke and flexible products is a crucial part of being a successful and customer oriented supplier.
In this session, Neal Jacobs and Christopher Claes will dive into the challenges that suppliers are facing and will illustrate how MECOMS can support this with our new pricing and quotation solution.
NEWS UPDATE: 19.04.2022
In this session, Anton Dela Ruelle and Paul Hermans will give you an introduction to the field service and asset management capabilities within the MECOMS 365 application platform.
Want to attend this session? Don’t forget to pass on your preferences via this link!
NEWS UPDATE: 18.04.2022
During BOOST, Ine Busshots and Dennis De Jong will zoom in on release management. Together, they will take you on a journey through the MECOMS product and project phase, in which they will explain how they as MECOMS ensure that they are in control of their release process.
NEWS UPDATE: 16.04.2022
Jens Van De Horst and Stijn Van Goethem will enlighten you on Local Energy Communities as they are emerging in the market with the purpose to provide environmental, economic or social benefits towards energy usage. The different forms are highlighted, and they will demonstrate how MECOMS can help to manage Local Energy Communities.
NEWS UPDATE: 15.04.2022
In his presentation, Andrej Šajn discusses the resilience and flexibility of tools, operational capabilities, business processes, and employees that GEN-I is leveraging to sail through the perfect storm currently raging in the EU energy sector. He will be demonstrating real-life examples of how GEN-I is doing it, what is working, and where there is still room for improvement.
NEWS UPDATE: 12.04.2022
Learn more on how we use the microservice architecture of our MECOMS Enterprise Extensibility Platform to our advantage to easily implement our customers’ integration requirements.
During a demo, Pieterjan Vriends and Kjell Kleyn like to show you what tools they have available.
NEWS UPDATE: 11.04.2022
In his session, Peter Franklin will share the results of the Future of Energy survey conducted with 75 industry executives in the UK by Enstra Consulting. The results reveal what keeps a CEO in the Energy industry awake at night, how they see the market developing in terms of new products and services, and the prospects for new competitors. With the respondents drawn from executives within energy suppliers, energy services, and IT/Consulting companies, some interesting differences in perspective emerged.
NEWS UPDATE: 10.04.2022
We welcome Cindy Braspenning and Glenn Van De Locht as speakers at BOOST22.
These two MECOMS specialists want to take you on a journey along inspiring and automation initiatives, their crucial impact on your business and how they can partner with you to make it all happen.
Want to see this session? Don’t forget to pass on your preferences via this link!
NEWS UPDATE: 09.04.2022
Ian Campbell believes that a perfect storm of change drivers will come together in the UK over the next few years and that as a result, the much vaunted IoE (Internet of Energy) will come of age.
During BOOST he will set out the key factors likely to drive the type of radical changes which will result in the establishment of a true IoE and what this will mean for energy market participants.
NEWS UPDATE: 08.04.2022
Platform thinking has become a vital cornerstone for any enterprise to address the new way of working, enhanced customer experience, digitization and overall increased expectations of the end consumer while maintaining a healthy cost to serve.
In their session, Ellen Schrauwen and Mar Jorba will give you insights on how they envision the MECOMS 365 platform evolution and how they manage customer feedback to evolve where the market demands.
NEWS UPDATE: 13.04.2022
The calendar has been officially released! It promises to be two interesting and inspiring days. The calendar can be found here and is always kept up-to-date.
We also invite you to our evening events on the 17th and 18th of May! During these informal moments, you will get the opportunity to network in a cosy environment, with delicious food and drinks.
More information about the evening events will be published soon!
NEWS UPDATE: 09.04.2022
This boutique hotel is located in the heart of Antwerp, just 400 metres from the main shopping street, Meir, Groenplaats and the Cathedral. Guests can enjoy a meal at the on-site restaurant.
This cosy hotel is a 15-minute taxi ride from the BOOST event and is highly recommended.
Are you interested in booking your stay here? Please email to Joyce.desmit@mecoms.com to receive your discount code.
NEWS UPDATE: 05.04.2022
Mar Jorba joined Ferranti beginning of 2019 as Product Manager. Within her domains, she built strong relationships with customer and key stakeholders to transform their needs into concrete product features.
During her presentation at BOOST, Mar will elaborate on how you, as a utility provider, can transform your customer experience.
NEWS UPDATE: 06.04.2022
David Trevithick is a Principal Analyst at Delta-EE, where he leads the Digital Energy portfolio of research services. He is a digital energy customer expert with both energy retailer and research consultancy experience.
At BOOST22 he will be discussing the role of customer engagement in the energy transition, and how to engage and empower customers in their personal energy transitions whilst delivering value for energy companies.
NEWS UPDATE: 04.04.2022
We welcome Antoine Thoreau as speaker for BOOST22.
Antoine is an entrepreneur and a strategic consultant, with 20 years experience in the energy markets, in various role in regulation, market process, sourcing & pricing, product development, renewables and IT. He is now a strategic consultant.
Find out more about Antoine via this link.
NEWS UPDATE: 01.04.2022
Are you attending BOOST22, but still looking for a location to spend the night? Then we recommend the hotel Les Nuits, located in the heart of Antwerp.
This cosy hotel is a 15-minute taxi ride from the BOOST event and is highly recommended.
Are you interested in booking your stay here? Please email to jdsmit@ferranti.be to receive your discount code.
NEWS UPDATE: 30.03.2022
Ricardo is a professional with 20+ years of experience in IT helping organizations to achieve their goals by use of technology. As Director Technical Specialists he is responsible for Microsoft Business Applications in the Netherlands. He leads a diverse team of experts that guide companies through their digital transformation, unlocking new opportunities for their business.
He strongly believes that Technology should empower people to achieve more and can be applied to make the world a better place for all. Important personal core values are respect, integrity and curiosity to learn from others as these are key factors to succeed.
NEWS UPDATE: 28.03.2022
We welcome Brian Galicia from Microsoft as speaker for BOOST22. Brian, leads the Global Business Applications ISV partner/sales team at Microsoft. He and his team empowers partners to grow their revenue with line-of-business applications built on Dynamics 365.
At BOOST, hear from Microsoft about the need for connecting data, processes and teams to deliver on a hyperconnected business, including the partnership with MECOMS.
NEWS UPDATE: 25.03.2022
Sander Drissen, Innovation Director at Scholt Energy, discusses the challenges of the energy transition. The traditional energy market with consumers and producers is evolving rapidly, with increasingly weather-dependent decentralized production of wind and solar energy. This makes it increasingly challenging to keep supply and demand in balance and is increasing price volatility.
Scholt Energy is taking action on this with solutions around energy storage and demand management.
NEWS UPDATE: 15.03.2022
WarmteStad Groningen is one of the first to really implement the heat transition in the Netherlands. Since 2017, a new-generation heat network with various sustainable sources is under construction in three older city districts in the Northern part of town. A path characterized by ambitions and challenges, setbacks and successes.
In his presentation, director Dick Takkebos goes into the Groningen approach to explain how his company contributes to making the city of Groningen CO2-neutral in 2035.
NEWS UPDATE: 03.03.2022
We are pleased to announce that Jim Stolze will be speaking at BOOST on the 18th of May.
Jim is known as the face for TED.com and is the founder of TEDxAmsterdam. Since 2017, he has been co-founder of Aigency which implements artificial intelligence at companies and governments.
During BOOST he will inspire us with his insights on AI.
It promises to be a must-see keynote session!
NEWS UPDATE: 16.02.2022
Jean Francois is the Associate Research Director at IDC and head of IDC Energy Insights Europe.
He is always looking for utilities technology across his region and beyond. Jean Francois conducts research focused on providing full coverage of technology macro-trends across the utilities industry value chain and covers a wide range of industry-specific themes, including IT-OT convergence, smart grids and smart metering, IoT, meter-to-cash solutions, …
At BOOST Jean Francois will be bringing you some of their latest thing around what is hot in the utilities retailers place.
NEWS UPDATE: 02.02.2022
Caro De Brouwer, Country Manager at Fastned Belgium, will also be exhibiting at BOOST22. She will give you a look behind the scenes of this rapidly-growing company, which focuses on fast charging of EVs.
During her presentation, she will elaborate on the importance of an excellent customer experience before, during and after charging.
Don’t miss it!
NEWS UPDATE: 31.01.2022
As tradition goes, we provide an exclusive stay for our guests coming from abroad.
This year, we are offering you the opportunity to relax at the magnificent hotel Botanic, located in the heart of Antwerp. On top of that, we will host our first evening event, in one of Botanic’s enchanting venues.
Aren’t that two birds with one stone!
NEWS UPDATE: 27.01.2022
We are pleased to acquire Enstra Consulting at the new edition of BOOST. Enstra is mainly active in the UK market and helps focussing on organisations to grow their footprint in the Energy and Utilities sector.
NEWS UPDATE: 24.01.2022
We welcome Steven Van Belleghem as speaker for BOOST22. Steven, is a global thought leader in the field of Customer Experience.
At BOOST he will be shining a light on ideas about the future of customer experience. Don’t miss it, as it is a unique opportunity to see this highly coveted man at work!
NEWS UPDATE: 11.01.2022
We are happy to announce that the Belgian Formula Electric student team will be one of the speakers during BOOST.
They will enlighten you by giving insights about the innovations they use when engineering their fully electric racing car, which they build from the ground up.
Read more about Formula Electric Belgium, student team here!
NEWS UPDATE: 03.01.2022
It is official! BOOST 22 will take place on the 17th, 18th and 19th of May. Block these dates in your agenda, because we would love to welcome you to an unforgettable edition of BOOST.
During these three days, we will immerse you in the wonderful world of technology and inspire you with the latest news.
For your convenience, we created an agenda link, which you can download here.
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