Futuresmart 6:

new business models and innovation partnerships

enabling scaling of smart (mixed sensor) networks

A discrete workshop sharing latest thinking and best practice

The successful FutureSMART event series is associated with Smart networks development in UK Water.

So far over 140 organisations have participated in the series.

The events are very well attended with participation of the majority of UK water companies and diverse supply chain in the series so far.

The goal of the workshop:

FutureSMART events are in the the form of an ‘ideaLAB’, an open and interactive workshops designed by theteam at +ADD to facilitate sharing of ideas and latest thinking.

As with all of these to date, we are seeking to uncover shared challengers and opportunities for collaboration on innovation programmes. There are several examples of resultant initiatives in UK Water.

The event will see development of key approaches to forming innovation partnerships and new business models that enable scaling beyond ‘proof of concepts’, debate pro’s and con’s and openly explore different approaches to enabling ideal solutions.

Access support for your feasibility and Proof of concept initiatives;

In addition the event is part of a programme sponsored by Siemens offering tangible financial support and funding towards innovative projects and initiatives. For more information click here.

This event will cover 6 key topics including:

1.      Priority business cases in OT/IOT - what we know

2.      The need for community approaches in forging SOR’s (Specification of requirement)

3.      Approaches to de-risking capitalisation

4.     Deployment models enabling risk sharing

5.      Brown field approach - Avoiding vendor conflict and establishing mutual benefits

6.      Making it happen - funding/ support available

Get involved - if you feel you can contribute to the agenda, get in touch!

Venue to be confirmed

Who should attend:

Anybody working in sensor field services, IT, OT and smart networks, business intelligence in the context of developing smart networks, specialists, academics.

Places are limited, register for your free place here

THe next event:

Futuresmart 5: Cybersecurity for

scalable smart (mixed sensor) networks

A discrete workshop sharing latest thinking and best practice

The successful FutureSMART event series is associated with Smart networks development in UK Water.

So far over 140 organisations have participated in the series.

The events are very well attended with participation of the majority of UK water companies and diverse supply chain in the series so far.

The goal of the workshop:

FutureSMART events are in the the form of an ‘ideaLAB’, an open and interactive workshops designed by theteam at +ADD to facilitate sharing of ideas and latest thinking.

As with all of these to date, we are seeking to uncover shared challenges and opportunities for collaboration on innovation programmes. There are several examples of resultant initiatives in UK Water.

The event will see development of key themes in OT/IOT cybersecurity, debate pro’s and con’s and openly explore different approaches to enabling ideal solutions.

This event will cover 6 key topics including:

1.      Establishing Cybersecurity objectives for scalable networks

2.     Explore scalable and common solutions

3.     Consider impact on legacy systems and existing investments

4.    Explore data management and operational challenges and solutions

5.    Consider the impact on vendors of sensors, gateways and telemetry

6.    Making it happen - funding/ support available for feasibility and pilots

Get involved - if you feel you can contribute to the agenda, get in touch!

Access support for your feasibility and Proof of concept initiatives;

In addition the event is part of a programme sponsored by Siemens offering tangible financial support and funding towards innovative projects and initiatives. For more information click here.

Speakers include:

Cevn Vibert (UK) - Cybersecurity challenges facing UK Water

Chair and Speaker on Challenges in UK Water/ Cevn is an Industrial Cyber Security Consultant with many years in Water. IMC Institute Vice-Chair (Wessex Section)/ Co-Chair of the Industrial Cyber SIG / CITP MIET MIMC MBCS MISA MISSA MISACA aMIISP MIoD CSCCISP 19k Tech-in-Human.

Michael Richardson (Canada) - Designing IoT system to be secure from day one.

CEO Sandelman Software Works, Ottowa, Michael is a reputable speaker offering expertise is IoT security and standardisation.

Jon Geater (UK) - Establishing future proof policy compliance ...NISD/ CNI policy.

Jon is CEO of Jitsuin and experienced speaker and have presented at many of the security industry’s most prestigious conferences (RSA, Cartes, Trustech, Infosec, …) and is keynoting the security standardization track at ACM CCS next week – one of academia’s most important security conferences.

Hisham Lamei (Germany) - Trust Nothing. Authenticate Everything

COO of VIBE Cybersecurity International , Hisham will explore certificate less crypto for new age security problems and use a case study relating to 110,000 strong lamp post application.

Bill Aronson (UK) - Novel approaches to physical device security for IoT sensors

Bill is Chief Operating Officer of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group and will discuss low-cost product based on a new type of physical unclonable function (PUF).

…and more including a panel session with UK water companies led by Oliver Grierson of Z-Tech

and WIPAC (Water industry process and control group)

A great central venue

The event is being held at the prestigious Urban Innovation Centre, home of the Future Citites Catapult in central london.

The centre is an innovation hub sponsored by UK Government and easily accessible.

1 Sekforde St

Farringdon

London

EC1R 0BE

By Public Transport
The closest rail station is Farringdon, served by the underground and mainline national rail services.

The venue is a short walk from both King’s Cross and Liverpool Street.

The venue is also a two minute walk from Clerkenwell Road, which is served by various bus routes.

By Car
The venue is served by both the A1 and the A201. Sekforde Street is a one-way street and access is from the south via Clerkenwell Road.

There is limited parking available on Sekforde Street.

Who should attend:

Anybody working in Water utilities sensor field services, IT, OT and smart networks, OT cybersecurity, business intelligence in the context of developing smart networks, specialists, academics.

Places are limited, register for your free place here

joint innovation workshop with

SWIG - Sensors in water group

(November 6th/ LJMU UK)

Futuresmart 4: Exploring solution architectures that enable scaling of smart (mixed sensor) networks

A discrete workshop sharing latest thinking and best practice

The successful FutureSMART event series is associated with Smart networks development in UK Water.

So far over 130 organisations have participated in the series.

The events are very well attended with participation of the majority of UK water companies and diverse supply chain in the series so far.

The goal of the workshop:

FutureSMART events are in the the form of an ‘ideaLAB’, an open and interactive workshops designed by theteam at +ADD to facilitate sharing of ideas and latest thinking.

As with all of these to date, we are seeking to uncover shared challengers and opportunities for collaboration on innovation programmes. There are several examples of resultant initiatives in UK Water.

The event will see development of key themes in system and data architecture, debate pro’s and con’s and openly explore different approaches to enabling ideal solutions.

Access support for your feasibility and Proof of concept initiatives;

In addition the event is part of a programme sponsored by Siemens offering tangible financial support and funding towards innovative projects and initiatives. For more information click here.

This event will cover 6 key topics including:

1.      Creating a common framework – The CIO challenge

2.      Scalable and common solutions architectures

3.      Integrating with legacy systems and existing investments

4.      Data management challenges and solutions

5.      Brown field approach - Avoiding vendor lock in

6.      Making it happen - funding/ support available

Get involved - if you feel you can contribute to the agenda, get in touch!

A great central venue

The event is being held at the ATOS innovation labs in central london.

The centre is both a Technological Labs and Executive Briefing venue easily accessible.

tos
Second Floor, MidCity Place
71 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6EA

Futuresmart 3:

Customer engagement and service innovation futures in UK water

18th September

Runway East, Central London

The third in a series of interactive workshops looking at the impact of smart meter rollout on the UK water industry.

This event focusses on potential for innovative changes to customer engagement and service design.

THE CMEX Challenge

C-MeX (Customer Measure of Experience) is a process used by OfWat (The water industry regulatory body), to measure water utility customer satisfaction. A change to the processes used have formed a new commercial opportunity for creative and innovative solutions.

Sponsored by South East Water the initiative will seek out new solutions through an applied design sprint and hack aimed at prototyping new and innovative means to engage utility customers and develop both the quality and value of engagements.

The event provides a variety of opportunities to engage and commercial potential for those willing to collaborate and build solutions the water utility can invest in.

There are a number of ways to participate. Please note, spaces are limited.

FutureSMART 2 was an event focussing on realisation of smart metering programmes in the uk water sector

Moving beyond selection of hardware there are so many drivers and factors to consider in HOW to deliver data value and procure smart metering it can be challenging to develop policy and principal strategy.

This one day ideaLAB explored the different models for procuring and realising smart meter services with expert input from diverse speakers.

The goal of the day was to explore different supply and service models and their pro’s and con’s in the context of the UK.

The event was held at the Future Cities Catapult in London in May 2019 and is was free to attend. The event was attended by over 60 organisation including 11 UK water companies.

UNPACKING THE CHALLENGE AND

DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES AT IF19

Some key areas we will be exploring include:

• What is the ‘cyber-attack reality’ for utilities and the changing threats to our networks?

• What are the security ‘framework of principles’ and where are the biggest areas for development and improvement?

• How are we going to meet new cyber security directives for infrastructure?

• What are the levels of threat and key challenges we face in different aspects of network operations? 

• Which areas do we need to develop to meet the new framework requirements?

• How can we best create risk profiles for different assets and networks?

• How can we go about defining the risk of changing asset interconnectivity?

• Does IOT adoption make utility networks more vulnerable?  How do we tackle associated topical issues such as:

  • Remote device patching

  • Threats to industrial control systems

  • The rise of indiscriminate cyber attacks

• Many attacks start with a human error – such as a phishing attacks.  How do we enhance cyber security understanding, processes, skills and culture?

‘Daily Dash’ - Security Futures / 9th July

As part of Northumbrian Water’s IF19 festival we are taking a deep dive into how we can improve cyber-security.

All utilities and infrastructure operators are moving towards smart network futures with more connectivity.

Cyber and information security are increasingly crucial issues for businesses and utility network operators are no exception.

These changes mean that the way we protect our networks must change too.  We will face increasingly sophisticated threats in the years ahead and innovation will be vital to preserve and enhance both our physical and cyber security.  A new process (established in July 18) has seen utilities undertaking baseline reviews to establish which areas need attention.

Our focus on the day is to define key challenges we face now and in the medium-term future, which could be supported by different and collaborative thinking.  Specifically, NGN are seeking to define initiatives they can further develop.

Who should attend?

If you have an interest in the questions raised here, or feel you have services or solutions that can support this challenge please register.

There are a few opportunities to talk to the audience.  Please contact sarah@addstrategy.co.uk to discuss how you can get involved.

Participation is sought from specialist consultants, solution providers, asset management organisations, digital transformation specialists, data management, telecommunication organisations, sensor asset and network operators, utilities, local government and Local Economic Partnerships, Catapults and other RTO’s, and academia.