The Delivery Decade Starts Now: Modern Grids. Smarter Systems. Sustainable Futures: Powering Aotearoa's Energy Transition.

24 - 25 November 2026 | Grand Millenium, Auckland
Kannan Munisamy

Kannan Munisamy

Head of Future Networks Alpine energy
Kannan Munisamy

Agenda Day 2

10:00 AM Panel - Digital Control & Automation for Real-Time System Stability

How digital control systems, automation, and real-time analytics are being deployed operationally - not as a future state, but as live tools managing New Zealand's grid right now. 

  • What real-time automation delivers at 90%+ renewable penetration that manual processes cannot 

  • The data architecture and integration work that had to happen before the control system could function 

  • The incidents the system caught before they became outages - the operational value that doesn't appear in the project business case 

12:50 PM Panel - Energy Efficiency, Electrification & the Circular Economy: Demand-Side Transformation at Scale

Managing NZ's growing electricity demand intelligently is as important to closing the supply gap as building new generation. 

  • The demand flexibility in NZ's industrial and commercial load that is not being accessed - and what it would take to unlock it 

  • Time-of-use pricing, smart load management, and demand response: what's working at scale and what isn't 

  • Energy efficiency investment in industry - where the returns are strongest and why it still competes poorly for capital against new generation

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Kannan.

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