Partners
Our rapidly growing network consists of some 2000 personally known contacts and 300 active relationships with utilities, regulators, researchers, consultants, authorities and other interest groups. We also have over 20 long-term working relationships with for instance First Data Utilities, Cap Gemini, Energyforum, Synergy Events and Energy Market Research Limited.
A brief description of some of our partners is provided below.
First Data Utilities
First Data Utilities is a global outsourcer of utility billing and payment transaction services. Utilities select from a wide portfolio of outsource services which can be deployed individually or as part of an integrated outsource solution spanning the entire meter-to-cash transaction cycle.
Unlike other outsourcers in the utility industry, First Data Utilities owns the technology assets underpinning its outsource services, including the top-rated Peace® Customer Information System (CIS) software product. This enables First Data Utilities to combine the best technologies and services in ways that achieve greater efficiency to drive down utility customer cost-to-serve.
First Data Utilities’ off-the-shelf billing software product, Peace, is used by regulated utilities, competitive energy retailers and utility distribution companies in 35 markets worldwide for acquiring, billing and serving electricity, gas and water customers. First Data Utilities is at the forefront of software development with its adoption of world-class Agile development techniques and Service Oriented Architecture.
First Data Utilities is part of First Data Corporation, a Fortune 500 company with 29,000 employees in 70 countries and annual revenue of USD 7 billion. The company has more than 300 utility clients ranging from entrepreneurial new entrant energy retailers to the largest dual-fuel utilities with millions of customers and multiple market operations.
For more information, please visit www.firstdatautilities.com
Cap Gemini
With more than 8000 consultants dedicated to energy, utilities, and chemicals projects across Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific region, Capgemini is recognized as a leader in the sector.
High commodity prices, increasing oil demand, mergers and acquisitions, operational efficiency programs, business process outsourcing, and regulatory constraints are the key drivers of the energy, utilities, and chemicals sectors’ transformation. Cap Gemini offer a wide range of industry-specific solutions to help clients succeed.
Cap Gemini counts among its clients more than 75% of the top 20 private and public utilities (Platt’s 2006 Top 250 energy company rankings) and 9 out of top 10 Oil and Gas ‘super majors’
For more information, please visit www.capgemini.com
Energyforum
Energyforum is one of the leading providers of business information to the European energy market. Since 1999 it has produced more than 200 events. Its operations are run from Stockholm, Sweden, the majority of its events are held in the capitals of Europe.
Energyforum’s business concept is to strengthen the individual customer’s competitiveness in the power market by providing knowledge, business information and a dynamic network. Energyforum works closely and exclusively with the power sector, in an international perspective and from an independent position in order to be able to provide this to its customers.
Through its extensive research and a network of the best of the best, Energyforum runs conferences that are always topical. These conferences reflect the changing needs and drivers of the industry and are in the forefront in their layout.
For more information, please visit www.energyforum.com
Synergy Events
Synergy BV is dedicated to develop and organise high quality international conferences & exhibitions for and in co-operation with the utility and energy supplying industry.
Together, our Synergy team has nearly two decades of experience in developing conferences & exhibitions on electricity, gas and water. From Bangkok, Warsaw, London and Cairo and Brussels, to Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, the team has successfully managed events throughout the world.
Synergy Conference Services is a complete, ‘one stop shopping’ PCO (professional conference organiser), with global experience in third-party event organisation. Synergy prides itself on maintaining an infrastructure and resources which together enable us to produce top level events in line with client’s objectives. Synergy’s main focus is in supplying quality, flexibility and customer care.
Through organising events worldwide, Synergy has developed an understanding of the international market and established firm relationships with a number of leading energy organisations and associations. The events which Synergy organise are mostly energy related, though not limited to this filed.
For more information, please visit www.synergy-events.com