Agenda
European Utilities Xchange
Day 1
11:45AM
Registration and Networking Lunch
12:45PM
Greetings and Welcome
1:10PM
Beyond the Transition: Setting the Ambition, Acceleration and Affordability Agenda
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub, IDC
1:30PM
Acceleration by Design: Rethinking How Fast Utilities Can Actually Move
1:50PM
AI at the Core: Embedding Decision Intelligence Across the Utility
Paolo Finardi
Head of Data Science & AI, Plenitude
2:05PM
Coffee break and networking
2:35PM
Speed vs. Stability: Balancing Acceleration with Operational Resilience
2:50PM
The Affordability Test: Keeping the Transition Fair as Costs Rise
3:05PM
The Affordability Reckoning: Making Speed and Fairness Compatible
3:20PM
The Affordability of Trust: Why Cyber-Resilience Can’t Be the Casualty of Cost-Cutting
3:40PM
Coffee break and networking
4:15PM
Workshops
Designing for Affordability: Practical Tools for Rate, Tariff, and Customer Impact Modeling
Building the AI-Ready Data Fabric: From Fragmented Systems to Verticalized Intelligence
5:00PM
Networking and Refreshment Break
6:30PM
Gala Dinner
Day 2
7:00AM
Xercise & Breakfast
8:45AM
Kick off Tuesday
9:00AM
Governing AI in Critical Infrastructure: Speed Without Losing Judgment
9:20AM
The New Energy Retail Mandate: From Kilowatt-Hours to Trusted Advisor
Agenda
9:35AM
Putting Consumers in the Driver’s Seat: Scaling Flexibility from the Bottom Up
9:55AM
Coffee break and networking
10:25AM
Roundtable Discussions
A – How Ambitious Is Too Ambitious? Setting Realistic Decarbonisation Targets Under Pressure
B – Accelerating Without Breaking: Managing Pace, Risk, and Organizational Capacity
C – The Price of Progress: Who Pays for the Transition, and How Much Is Too Much?
D – Investment at Speed: Financing Models for an Accelerated Energy System
E – Ambition Meets the Consumer: Bringing Customers Along on the Affordability Journey
F – Beyond the Transition: What Does "Done" Actually Look Like?
11:25AM
Change break
11:40AM
Flexibility as an Asset Class: Monetizing the Grid Edge
11:55AM
Renewables 2.0: Diversified Portfolios in a Buyer’s Market
12:10PM
Closing the Gap: Making the Transition Work for Everyone, Not Just the Early Movers
12:25PM
Connecting the Dots: Strategic Implications for the Utilities Industry
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub, IDC
Gaia Gallotti
Head of IDC Energy Insights Europe, IDC
12:40PM
Feedback Session and Closing
1:00PM