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Day 1 - PowerFactory Users Conference
Thursday 3rd September 2015
8:30        Registration and coffee                                                      Presenter:
9:00        Introduction                                                                            Tim George, DIgSILENT Pacific
9:05        Welcome                                                                                 Koos Theron, DIgSILENT Pacific
9:20        Keynote address
                Making PowerFactory fly - speed improvements         Christoph Schmid, DIgSILENT GmbH
                in 15.2; significant speed improvement in EMT                 
                and RMS simulation using various enhancements
10:10      Morning tea
10:30      Large scale data integration for a distribution             Scott Hagaman, DIgSILENT Pacific
                business; distribution system case study                
11:05      Calculation of the time on N security                             David Strang, Transpower NZ
                performance measure; transmission system
                case study
11:40      Dynamic performance assessment of Grid                 TBC
                Utility Support Systems (GUSS); modelling and
                RMS simulation of GUSS 
12:15      Lunch
13:15      Meeting the new distribution system challenges;       Levin Mardira, DIgSILENT Pacific
                 case studies on renewable integration showing a
                 hybrid diesel/battery/solar system
13:50      Power system data and single source of truth -          Tim George, DIgSILENT Pacific
                 making this a reality; topics on data integration
                 and validation
14:25      GIS and SCADA integration; examples of GIS               Joseph Leung, DIgSILENT Pacific
                 and SCADA mapping into PowerFactory      
15:00      Afternoon tea
15:30      Student presentations                                                         University students
16:40      Closing remarks                                                                   Koos Theron, DIgSILENT Pacific

18:30      Conference dinner (optional)

Day 2 - Power System Data Management Technical Seminar
Friday 4th September 2015
9:00        Keynote address
                 Transition to customer response driven                        Prof Gerard Ledwich, Queensland
                 networks; a framework for network cost calculation       University of Technology
                 that is much more driven by local congestion and
                 thus would reward the customer responsive
                 solutions
10:00      Integrating analysis tools into existing enterprise       TBC
                 data systems; a case study for integrating a large
                 distribution utility's enterprise database into
                 PowerFactory
10:45      Morning tea
11:10      Modelling the French distribution network;                    Christoph Schmid, DIgSILENT GmbH
                 advanced PowerFactory application and                             
                 integration project built for the French distribution
                 company ERDF
11:55      Managing culture change in a large organisation;        Can Van, TransGrid
                 the success story of TransGrid in rolling out
                 PowerFactory and managing culture change
12:40      Lunch
13:40      Making the PowerFactory master case; behind           Victor Lo, Transpower NZ
                 the production of the Transpower PowerFactory
                 cases
14:25      Automatic NEM snapshot production; converting        Can Van, TransGrid
                 AEMO's OPDMS cases into PowerFactory
15:10      Afternoon tea
15:35      The CIM standard / protocol; PowerFactory data           Christoph Schmid, DIgSILENT GmbH
                 management using CIM                                                           
16:20      Closing remarks                                                                    Koos Theron, DIgSILENT Pacific

Conference venue: 

Brisbane Marriott Hotel, 515 Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
 
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