Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit presents a showcase of industry leaders, alongside partners, convening to transform and future-proof enterprise by adopting more intelligent sustainability solutions. This is the place to explore innovation for sustainability and a purpose-led active approach to achieving net zero.
Discover how to advance operational efficiency and govern sustainability. See the software and technologies making the digital, electric world a reality across homes, buildings, data centres, industry, and infrastructure. Understand how to design or transform, operate, and maintain new, or decades-old, assets to become among the most efficient and reliable on Earth.
Join us to meet the experts making meaningful progress towards net zero and you’ll see how you can, too. After all, no one innovates alone. #LifeIsOn
Announcing our keynote speakers
Saul Griffith
Saul is an inventor, author, and founder of multiple companies and non-profits. He has led projects for agencies including NASA, DARPA, National Science Foundation and more. He has founded and co-founded multiple successful companies, including one acquired by Google, another by Autodesk, and another by a consortium of vehicle manufacturers including Toyota. In 2007 he was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship, the so-called ‘Genius Grant’, for inventions in the service of humanity.
Prof. Veena Sahajwalla
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is an internationally recognised materials scientist, engineer, and inventor revolutionising recycling science. Professor Sahajwalla is renowned for pioneering the high temperature transformation of waste in the production of a new generation of ‘green materials’ at the UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre, where she is Founding Director.
In 2021, Professor Sahajwalla featured in the ABC’s Australian Story and named the 2022 NSW Australian of the Year. Veena is the inventor of polymer injection technology, known as green steel, an eco-friendly process for using recycled tyres in steel production. In 2018, she launched the world’s first e-waste MICROfactorieTM and in 2019 she launched her plastics and Green Ceramics MICROfactoriesTM, a recycling technology breakthrough.
Dr Rebecca Huntley
Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia’s foremost researchers on social trends. Dr Huntley is the author of numerous books, most recently ‘How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference’, writes for The Guardian, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Marie Claire, and Griffith Review. Rebecca was also a feature writer for Australian Vogue, a columnist for BRW and a presenter of Drive on Radio National.
Under her own climate research and consultancy business, Rebecca published a report for Aware Super in early 2021 outlining how Australia can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on the intersections of climate action, health and wellbeing, and thriving communities.
Manish Pant
As the Executive Vice President of International Operations, Manish leads the operations for Schneider Electric in Pacific, India, Middle East Africa and South America. He is a member of Schneider Electric’s Executive Committee and is based in Singapore. He is responsible for bringing sustainable innovations to customers and seeks to empower all to make the most of their energy and resources, ensuring Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, at every moment.
Gareth O’Reilly
Pacific Zone President, Schneider Electric, Gareth O’Reilly is a global citizen with multinational leadership experience whose international perspective shapes his vision for the technology market. Gareth’s passion is to change how businesses operate, enabling companies to create value to meet the technical, financial and sustainability challenges of the future.
Agenda
14 March 2023
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 – 10:40 a.m. Morning plenary
The New Energy Landscape: a global perspective
Schneider’s EVP International Operations Manish Pant reveals the diverse technologies prompting new players to enter power markets. Consumers – citizens and enterprise – are increasingly taking control of their own energy demand and producing it for their own consumption or to sell, thus creating bidirectional electricity flows.
Speaker: Manish Pant, EVP International Operations, Schneider Electric
Innovation: transformations that deliver benefits for our planet and people
A sustainable future, in Australia and globally, demands development of technological innovations and strong research-industry collaborations. The world can become more sustainable by investing in green manufacturing technology, placing higher value on waste materials and developing circularity for their reuse and remanufacture.
Speaker: Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Professor, and Director of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT), UNSW
Community abundance through electrification
Uncover Australia’s opportunity to lead the world on climate, save money for homes, and create abundant zero emission communities. Scientist, inventor, and author, Saul Griffith shares his wisdom as a long-term advocate for clean, renewable energy.
Speaker: Saul Griffith, Inventor, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Rewiring Australia
10:40 – 11:20 a.m. Morning tea
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Expert Learning Sessions 1
Buildings of the Future: from vision to reality
The construction industry is facing major challenges while goals towards Net Zero and digitisation are getting more ambitious. In this context, learn how can we close the gap between vision and reality.
Speaker: Louise Monger, VP Digital Buildings Pacific, Schneider Electric
Industries of the Future: Experience an exciting virtual visit into tomorrow
Discover how industries of the future can become sustainable and resilient through the interplay of software with automation & energy. Learn from companies that are saving energy and making step-change operational improvements today.
Speakers: Carlos Urbano, VP Industrial Automation Pacific, Schneider Electric, Alexey Lebedev, VP Pacific, AVEVA
Grids of the Future: fast track to Net Zero
The energy landscape transformation has been driven by megatrends for decentralisation and decarbonisation, as well as digitisation across the grid. In this highly unusual environment, the pandemic, the extreme weather events, energy supply is essential and critical for business continuity.
Panel discussion facilitated by Chris Dartnell, SVP Commercial Power Systems, Schneider Electric
Data Centres of the Future
Data centres must scale to meet the demand of digital lifestyles and more intelligent buildings and industry. This demand is driving a hybrid data centre architecture of centralised, regional and local edge. This talk will cover how data centres are becoming: more sustainable to meet business needs responsibly; more efficient to optimise cost, speed, space, and capital; more adaptable to be designed for new technologies; and more resilient to reduce vulnerability to unplanned downtime.
Speaker: Joe Craparotta, VP, Secure Power & Segments Pacific, Schneider Electric
Beyond EV and chargers
Discover the keys to unlocking the future of eMobility and learn how EVs fit into renewable energy systems
Speakers: Ross DeRango, Head of Energy and Infrastructure, Electric Vehicle Council, Diana Ruiz Diaz, New Energy Landscape offer manager at Schneider Electric
Services in the age of IoT
Operational resilience is an outcome of the effective management of operational risk. Activities such as risk identification and assessment, risk mitigation (including the implementation of controls) and ongoing monitoring of asset performance work together to minimise operational disruptions and their effects on business.
Speakers: Howard Bowland, VP Schneider Services Pacific, Matt Holden, Senior Executive, Leading Edge Data Centres
Sponsor session by Claroty
12:05 – 12:35 p.m. Expert Learning Sessions 2
The power of partnership in the Building Industry
The mutual need for digitisation and sustainability across the commercial real estate value chain is creating new opportunities for stakeholders to align their technology needs. Hear from two global leaders acting as an owner, an operator and an occupier, on how they are achieving this together.
Panel discussion facilitated by Jenana Roper, GM Digital Solutions Pacific, Schneider Electric
Software centric operations
Tomorrow’s challenges will not be addressed with new hardware but will require the intelligent application and integration of software-based technologies. Connecting people, assets, and operations will increase productivity and profitability, enabling organisations to get the most out of an industrial operation over its entire lifetime. This digital paradigm has the potential to provide unprecedented operational capabilities and support new business opportunities for all industrial stakeholders.
Speaker: Tim Sowell, Global Vice President Portfolio & Strategy, AVEVA
Mistreated and urgent: a holistic view of flexibility
The energy revolutions happening on the supply side and demand side sectors are made possible by electric grids IF they leverage flexibility. This is why the grid, positioned in the centre of the energy transition between supply & demand, is the strategic asset to achieve the energy transition ambition and ensure security for the whole system. Grid optimisation can be achieved alone. Prosumer engagement can be achieved stand-alone. However, flexibility services allow harmony in the full system. There is no decarbonisation without flexibility.
Speaker: Andrew Blaver, Head of Changing Energy Solutions, Western Power
Building scalable businesses: the future of technology
How can you unlock growth, scale with demand, provide improved customer experiences, and do it all sustainably? Learn from reference case studies and future scenarios in key industries. In this session, Tech Research Asia Director, Trevor Clarke, will outline the analyst firms extensive research data on emerging tech and the evolving IT environment and the opportunities it presents for businesses.
Speaker: Trevor Clarke, Director, Tech Research Asia
The new energy landscape regulations
Schneider Electric is a leader in area of standardisation and regulation. The energy transition is a creating new constraints and opportunities that need to be address with a sense of urgency that the decarbonisation of our economy deserves. Come along and get an insight into some of the opportunities and the thinking of our team that are in the center of this rapidly evolving landscape.
Speakers: Lucy Finlay, Standardisation & Regulation Manager, Schneider Electric, Tim Pratt, General Manager for Marketing & New Energy Landscape Lead, Schneider Electric
OT CyberSecurity: the foundation for successful digital transformation
A balanced approach to cybersecurity is required to enable Digital Transformation, while also ensuring adherence to new and evolving regulatory guidelines. Through a panel discussion, you will learn how to safely reap the benefit of digitalisation opportunities, the Critical Infrastructure Act and the impacts and opportunities it brings.
Panel discussion facilitated by Nasir Mundh, Global Commercial Director, Schneider Electric with our partners Fortinet & Claroty
12:35 – 1:35 p.m. Lunch and Innovation Hub Tours
1:35 – 2:05 p.m. Expert Learning Sessions 3
Healthcare of the Future: an all-electric, digital hospital
Learn about the evolution of the all-electric, digital hospital, how far we have come and the steps we need to take to create a truly connected, all-electric, digital healthcare system. We will address the digital possibilities healthcare facilities can leverage to create hyper-efficient, people-centric, resilient, and sustainable healthcare facilities of the future.
Speaker: Abe Fitzsimons, Healthcare Segment Lead Pacific, Schneider Electric
The future of industrial automation is not business as usual
Automation optimises process, energy, and resource use, and is critical to supporting the push towards net zero in industry. However, this will require a new paradigm shift in industrial automation, towards more open and portable automation systems that can integrate with software & data. Through this session learn about what next generation automation systems need to look like for us to uncover the full value in digital transformation initiatives on the way to net zero.
Speaker: Hakeem Haseeb, Digital Technical Lead, Schneider Electric
Unlocking the potential of DERs
Grid management practices are evolving with the rapid proliferation of customer energy resources, along with dispatchable utility assets (i.e., microgrids, community batteries). Accessing these resources and realising the value stack for customers and grid is an immediate challenge.
Speaker: Angus McPherson, Senior Solution Architect Digital Grid, Schneider Electric
What does it take to build a hybrid IT environment?
The data centre has gone beyond a room on premises and evolved to become a complex environment including private and public cloud, colocation and on-premise architecture. With customers reassessing their investments in the cloud and focusing on utilising technology as a business enabler, the question most IT departments are asking is how do I reassess my environment to achieve my goals? Hear from Industry experts on what it takes to build a hybrid environment.
Panel discussion facilitated by Trevor Clarke, Director, Tech Research Asia
From silos to synergies: transforming smart building technologies
A new generation of innovative smart building platforms collect and capture data from a wide range of sources in overarching and agnostic IoT platforms. These smart building platforms include mechanisms and intelligence to analyse, interpret, and diagnose data - and transform it into automated decisions and actions. Join us to hear smart building experts discuss some of the top technologies and strategies that organisations are evaluating today to drive high-quality, people-centric, more sustainable, and performance-based business outcomes.
Panel discussion facilitated by Brett Spindler, Director Building Enterprise Solutions, Schneider Electric
Panelists: Kaynam Hedayat, VP, Digital Buildings Enterprise Software, Schneider Electric and Steve Lyons, CEO, SPM Assets
Secure and protect critical infrastructure
Speaker: Malcolm Bailie, Senior Manager, Solution Delivery and Projects (APJ), Nozomi Networks
2:10 – 2:40 p.m. Expert Learning Sessions 4
The future of services for smart buildings
Technology is changing the way maintenance services are delivered in the build environment. How do we modernize and leverage data to drive maintenance activities ensuring a better outcome for owners and occupants? What steps can we take to transition from a traditional approach to digital?
Speaker: Cara Ryan, Digital Buildings Service Director, Schneider Electric
Partnerships enabling energy circularity in Industry
Energy efficiency represents ~25-30% of total effort on energy reduction for Industry. Energy circularity is the major contributor and game changer. Learn from organisations that are partnering to enable this in Industry.
Discussion facilitated by Michael Cox, APAC Sustainability Consultancy Director, Schneider Electric
Energy Transition and the role of digital technology along this journey
Case study presented by AGL on the challenges of managing the energy mix today while planning for the energy system of tomorrow. Digital Technology has a key role to play in this transition and AGL will share a glimpse of what the transition plan looks like for them.
Speaker: David Bartolo, Head of Asset Technology, AGL Energy
Scope 3 is the next frontier of decarbonisation in the data centre industry
As the Data centre industry moves towards having sustainability as part of its foundation, we take a more in-depth look into what Scope 3 really is and means. How to measure, monitor an implement scope 3 and ultimately reduce.
Speaker: Mark Deguara, General Manager Data Centers Pacific, Schneider Electric
Healthcare of the future: Net Zero hospital
An all-electric hospital is no longer a dream, it is possible. Decarbonisation of the healthcare system is a change in the paradigm of design, but it is the only way that we can help to achieve the net-zero ambitions Australia’s Healthcare system.
A conversation with Roneel Singh, Director of Technology Systems, Womens & Children’s Hospital led by David Evans, Global Healthcare Segment Leader, Schneider Electric
Digital Twin - How to leverage the right tools to ensure that future facilities will be sustainable & reliable
Attend this session to get a comprehensive view on design, operate and maintain with ISVs & Technology Providers. Know how to get sustainable and efficient outcomes from a unified approach by leveraging the real power of your design into your operation. Learn with our experts how CAPEX & OPEX can work together towards reduced TCO with real examples of the E2E journey with customers.
Speakers: Leandro Bersan Vighi, Design Firm Channel Manager & Energy Mgt Software Marketing Lead Schneider Electric, John Francis, VP Business Development and Marketing, ETAP
The importance of moving beyond security to build resilience in operational technology environments
The current geopolitical climate is bringing a new wave of cyber criminals that want to see major disruptions within operational technology (OT) environments. To build resilience, OT operators must urgently educate themselves on the shifting landscape and the differences in motivations between hacker groups while ensuring their cybersecurity measures are as mature as those within IT networks.
Speaker: Michael Murphy, Head of Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure, Fortinet
2:45 – 3:15 p.m. Expert Learning Sessions 5
From silos to synergies: harnessing the power of IoT devices to drive efficiency & sustainability in commercial real estate and retail
How to utilize the power of IOT and the cloud to improve how assets and portfolios are managed, driving heightened levels of efficiencies and sustainability for owners and occupiers.
Speaker: Antonia Trumbull, Real Estate & Retail Segment Lead Pacific, Schneider Electric
Digital continuity and SMART services for industry
To achieve agility & efficiency an integrated digital thread is required from design through to operations and services.
Speakers: Brad Yager, Water & Manufacturing Director, Schneider Electric, Satendra Deo, Services Consulting Specialist, Schneider Electric, Javier Orellana, Digital Transformation Principal Consultant, Schneider Electric
SF6-free future of the grid
Against the clear threat of climate change, a society-wide focus on sustainability has emerged. Many countries and governments clearly favour strong carbon neutrality targets. Electrical power infrastructure and large electricity consumers, face strong external and internal pressure to decarbonise. The paradox they often face is how to simultaneously reconcile increasing electricity demand in a sustainable and climate-friendly manner. The combination of removing the sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) greenhouse gas from networks and the deployment of connected digital technologies makes meaningful progress toward electricity decarbonisation and efficiency.
Panel discussion facilitated by James Hunt, VP Power Systems Pacific, Schneider Electric
Maintaining digital and operational resiliency across your IT & Data Centre
As the IT world gradually moves to a more cloud-based, hybrid and distributed architecture, the need for digital resilience and the way it is achieved is expected to change significantly. Huge investments in data centre and network capacity, and a move toward greater use of software to intelligently manage workloads, traffic and resiliency are all combining to create an architectural shift: from single-site vertical resiliency to distributed, replicated resiliency. Join this session to find out how you can build resilient digital systems at scale and what impact regulations are having on designs such as healthcare.
Discussion led by Abe Fitzsimons, Healthcare Segment Lead Pacific, Schneider Electric
EcoStruxure™ Power & Process
Learn about how the integration of energy and process automation can empower industry to drive sustainability across the world’s most energy intensive sites.
Speaker: Chris Smith, Product Marketing Director, Schneider Electric
Indoor air quality: case studies for ventilation and air
This session highlights the importance of CO2 sensing and the utility of nanoeX in schools, and discusses future trends like RP-C with AS-P for remote monitoring of ventilation requirements. Listen to two customer case studies – VSBA and Bondi Pavilion, the challenges faced by the customers and how Panasonic’s solution helped overcome these challenges.
Speakers: Preshit Fadnis, National Sales Engineer, Air Conditioning Group, Panasonic, Ben Price, Air Conditioning Business Development Manager, Panasonic
3:15 – 3:50 p.m. Afternoon tea
3:50 – 6:00 p.m. Afternoon plenary
The Moment is Now: the Australian opportunity, from intention to outcomes
In the race to adopt sustainable business practices increasing demanded by stakeholders, the key is going all in on digitalisation. The energy transition is here, and the moment is now to save, electrify, and decarbonise energy through digitalisation. In this keynote, Pacific Zone President Gareth O’Reilly discusses corporate Australia’s position on the area of sustainability and energy efficiency, and the challenges organisations are facing to establish energy efficiency.
Speaker: Gareth O’Reilly, Pacific Zone President, Schneider Electric
The rise of the ‘enterprise prosumer’
Through this insights discussion, our experts explore the cause and effects leading to the rise of the ‘enterprise prosumer,’ in the context of energy market volatility, management, and distribution – and how organisations can influence sustainability and build resilience through controlling availability, reliability, and cost.
Moderator: Dr Rebecca Huntley, Social researcher, writer, and journalist
Panelists: Lisa Zembrodt Principal, Sustainability Business Customer Projects & Services, Schneider Electric, James Hunt, VP Power Systems Pacific, Schneider Electric, Saul Griffith, Inventor, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Rewiring Australia, Luke Menzel, CEO, Energy Efficiency Council
The CEO Agenda: facing the future with purpose, readiness, and agility
Never before have CEOs faced the diverse disruption that we’ve seen in recent years. This candid panel discussion invites some of Australia’s most respected industry leaders share their experience and insight on the necessary steps to shape the future of their organisations while adapting to the unexpected.
CEO panel facilitated by Gareth O’Reilly, Pacific Zone President, Schneider Electric
Panelists: Carmel Hourigan, Office CEO, Charter Hall, Greg Boorer, CEO, CDC Data Centres, Guy Chalkley, CEO, Endeavour Energy, Angela Fox, SVP & MD, Dell Technologies
6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Cocktail function
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Here’s what you can expect
Tuesday, 14 March
- 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. (AEDT): Registration
- 8:30 – 10:40 a.m. (AEDT): Morning Plenary
- 11:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. (AEDT): Expert Learning Sessions, Innovation Hub tours, networking, demonstrations, and more!
- 3:50 – 6:00 p.m. (AEDT): Afternoon Plenary
- 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. (AEDT): Cocktail Function
Hotel Accommodation
Attendees are responsible for booking their accommodation over the course of the event. Schneider Electric has partnered with Accor Hotels to provide our guests with special rates at any of their Darling Harbour or Sydney CBD hotels, over the event dates.
Recommended hotels within walking distance to the ICC Sydney
Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour
Address: 12 Darling Dr, Sydney
Distance to Airport: Approx. 30-minute drive
Distance to ICC: 7-minute walk
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Novotel Sydney Darling Harbour
Address: 100 Murray Street, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Distance to Airport: Approx. 30-minute drive
Distance to ICC: 11-minute walk
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Ibis Sydney Darling Harbour
Address: 70 Murray Street, Circular Quay - Darling Harbour, Pyrmont, Sydney
Distance to Airport: Approx. 30-minute drive
Distance to ICC: 12-minute walk
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Getting to ICC Sydney
Attendees are responsible for air and ground transportation to Innovation Summit. ICC Sydney is only 8km from Sydney Airport and accessible by many modes of transport. There are several public transport options, including train, light rail, bus, ferry and water taxi. Visit the ICC website for information on accessibility, transport and parking.
For any questions, please contact us at schneiderevents@veritas.com.au.
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