Webinar: Energy Retailing for a Changing World by BizClik Media

About

Energy retailers are at a crossroads, as they shift from commodity sales of gas and electricity to provision decarbonized, decentralized and digitized services.

In order to succeed in this transition, they will need top-class analytic capabilities that enable them to operate smartly and profitably, understand their customers better and launch new business offerings focused on sustainability.

Join us for a conversation between Martin Aylward, Head of Tech Wholesale Market Services, of EDF UK; Kristof Schum, AWS’ EMEA Energy Principal Segment Lead and Titiaan Palazzi, Snowflake’s Global Head of Power & Utilities, how energy retailers can approach this opportunity.

The speakers will cover solutions in three areas:

Cultivate analytic excellence. How can energy retailers use technology to develop highly accurate forecasts of electric demand; optimize pricing for individual customers; and ensure accurate and fast financial reporting across the entire business?

Build Customer 360 views. How can energy retailers offer fantastic customer service through AI-powered chatbots, call-center automation, and customer-specific suggestions for next best actions?

Drive innovation in sustainability. How can energy retailers use technology to offer customers interesting solutions, such as managed electric vehicle charging and heatpumps for residential customers, or 24/7 clean energy for corporate off-takers?

Presenters

Martin Aylward

Head of Tech Wholesale Market Services, EDF Energy

Martin has recently been appointed as Head of Tech at EDF Wholesale Market Services (WMS) and is responsible for transforming the WMS tech stack to maintain and grow its market leading position and enable the UK’s transition to a Net Zero world.

Previously, Martin brought together EDF Retail’s data teams across IT, Marketing and Operations to form a Data Centre of Excellence. Under his leadership, the team implemented Snowflake, including one of the world’s first implementations of Snowpark, Snowflake’s new Data Science developer experience, in-housed the marketing database and campaign management system, delivered a number of value adding Data Science products.

Kristof Schum

Principal Segment Leader, Energy, AWS

Dr. Kristof Schum is a principal segment leader for Energy at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is leading the consulting and technology partner strategy and implementation in the EMEA region with 15+ years of experience in the energy and technology space. After 5 years of management consulting experience in the energy practice and an MBA from Wharton, he joined Amazon.

Initially, he lead the global machine learning partner strategy in Seattle, USA, while teaching at Amazon’s Machine Learning University and presenting at events such as AWS Re:Invent, Re:MARS and Nvidia GTC. Now, he leads the Energy and Utilities partner strategy and community for EMEA with a focus on Power and Utilities use cases.

Titiaan Palazzi

Global Head of Power and Utilities, Snowflake

Titiaan Palazzi is an Industry Principal at Snowflake, serving as the global Head of Power & Utilities. He joined Snowflake in January 2023 through the acquisition of Myst AI (“Myst”), a company he co-founded and where he led all commercial activity as COO.

Phil Wass

UK Energy & Utilities Executive, Snowflake

Phil Wass works on the UK Energy & Utilities Team at Snowflake. Prior to joining Snowflake in July 2022, Phil held similar positions at large IT organisations Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell EMC, Phil’s focus is on supporting Energy & Utilities stakeholders to enable the transition to Net Zero through the adoption of technology led approaches. With over 14 years of account management experience, Phil has become a subject matter expert in the energy space, with a strong track record of driving relationships and value in the accounts he manages.

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