SHOW FEATURES
Free technical workshops and seminars
Our exhibitors are experts in many specialised fields within the power and water sectors. This is your chance to speak to them about technological challenges you may be experiencing and understand how new technologies make your job easier.
Awards of Excellence
One of the highlights of African Utility Week are the prestigious, annual awards given to the power and metering industry. The awards are hosted and announced by event organisers Spintelligent as well as the publications ESI Africa and Metering International. Read more...
Exhibition floor
The exhibition floor featuring 250 exhibitors presenting the latest technology and product demonstration. Read more...
WATER HACKATHON
The African Utility Week will be hosting a Water Hackathon – a competition at which South Africa’s best IT talent will compete to
solve your utility’s water related challenges with innovative new software and technology. Read more...
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OPENING SESSION
Brian Dames, CEO, Eskom, South Africa |
Every year the opening session is one of the highlights
during the African utility Week. It attracts over 1300
attendees from across the African power, water and waste
utilities industry and features high profile speakers such as Eskom CEO Brian Dames.
In 2012, Dames confirmed once again his participation in African Utility Week and will hold the welcome address during the opening session of this prestigious industry event. |
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
Networking function
Join fellow utility professionals, solution providers, suppliers and large industrial users at the networking reception on the exhibition floor on day 1 of the exhibition. Share your best practices and find out how your peers tackle the challenges you face in your daily work.
Engineers lounge
Network with the industries most influential decision makers, including high level government representatives, utilities, municipalities, regulators and power pools to consultants, vendors, service providers and energy intensive power users.
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Metering, Billing/CRM Africa is the foremost metering and customer relationship management event in Africa. Presentations encompass all aspects of metering – from essentials of pre-paid meter installations, meter data management, AMR and AMI programmes to smart billing options. This is the only place in Africa where all aspects of traditional and smart metering and customer service management are covered.
Renewable Energy Africa will give an overview of the role of renewable energy in your energy mix –overcoming your concerns about the cost effectiveness of technologies and examining ways to increase application in your utility environment.
Increasing emphasis on energy efficiency and demand management, particularly by large industry, gives added importance to this new breakout session. Examine the effect of increased challenges of demand and supply and understand the impact that this will have on your operational costs and plant efficiency. Get practical advice on maintaining output levels while decreasing electricity costs.
An executive meeting forum for ministerial delegations, high level power executives, policymakers and
international financiers. Discussions focus on encouraging investment into Africa’s power sector by enhancing understanding of investment challenges, requirements and the importance of bringing feasible power projects to financial close. Project overview discussions will highlight the opportunities available in Africa.
Efficient transmission and distribution on a well maintained and planned grid is vital to the economic
development of Africa. Africa’s leading energy infrastructure event addresses the success of private participation and unbundling, the role of power pools and the potential of the smart grid.
Get insight into meeting generation capacity in an efficient and optimal manner – understand the importance of a diverse energy mix for energy security; the demands placed on generators by regulatory and legal requirements; and emerging technology and its role in the future of generation on the continent.
Learn how to integrate resource recovery in your waste management programmes to produce energy and alternative fuel through incineration, bio degeneration, pyrolysis and gasification in order to manage the increased demand for waste service provision in line with international norms, the national, provincial and local authorities.
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