Zarko Sumic in Belgrade

Location:	Hotel Continental Beograd - New York Club
Date:	16. March 2010
Time:	10:00

Timetable

9:30-10:00	Registration & Coffee Refreshments
10:00-11:00	The Future of Energy Provisioning: Intelligent Grids and Smart Customers
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Energy Technology Consumerization: The Quest for Lean and Green
12:30-13:30	Networking Lunch
13:00-14:30	One-on-One Meetings Commence

Roles and Responsibilities

Zarko Sumic, Ph.D., is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner, where he provides innovative strategic and operational advice to Gartner energy clients using his extensive IT leadership and business experience.

Previous Experience

With more than 30 years of IT experience in academia, the energy industry and technology providers, Mr. Sumic is an established leader in applying IT in the energy industry. He joined Gartner in April 2005 with the acquisition of Meta Group. Before Meta Group, where he had worked since March 2001, Mr. Sumic was a chief technology officer of ConneXt, an unregulated subsidiary of Puget Sound Energy, responsible for design, development and deployment of a new customer information system. As a founding member of the ConneXt executive team, he held various senior management positions, including general manager of the CIS business unit. As vice president of technology and product development, he was managing and directing the development of three company product lines (CIS, OMS/GIS and C&I EBPP consolidation platform). Prior to ConneXt, Mr. Sumic was a vice president of technology and product development with Tellus, responsible for all aspects of the development process and architecting suite of software applications, which support planning, operation, engineering and mapping needs of an electric utility, using GIS technology. Before co-founding Tellus during his tenure as a university professor, his research interest included power system control, EMS and artificial intelligence application in utility networks design.

The Future of Energy Provisioning: Intelligent Grids and Smart Customers

Many of today's business models and regulatory frameworks for energy utilities were put in place back when the goal of energy policy was to provide reliable, affordable energy everywhere, with little concern over CO2 emissions or energy sustainability. Much has changed since then. While governmental energy policies and consumer attitudes are generally becoming more aligned toward addressing environmental and energy sustainability concerns, neither the regulatory frameworks for utilities nor utilities' business models are keeping pace. The fundamental method of operating power grids has not changed The fundamental method of operating power grids has not changed much in the past 100 years since the time of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, making utility industry one of the last bastions of an analog era.Faced by changing market requirements, increase consumer awareness, energy sustainability challenges and environmental implications, utilities around the world are trying to figure out how to bring their networks into the digital age and address needs of a modern society. This effort to make the power grid more intelligent is generally referred to as creating a “Smart grid” and it is the main innovation driver in the utility sector.

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