Our Sponsors

Atos brings deep experience across the CNI landscape, helping energy organisations transform critical operations through secure, resilient and sustainable digital solutions.

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life.

NiCE provides AI-powered customer experience software that helps utilities improve customer service.

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is a leading global provider of information technology services. We’re a trusted operating partner to many of the world’s most innovative organizations, building solutions that move industries and companies forward. Our engineering, consulting and technology experts help clients simplify, optimize and modernize their systems and processes, manage their most critical workloads, integrate AI-powered intelligence into their operations, and put security and trust at the forefront. Learn more on dxc.com.

Getac makes rugged laptops, tablets and video solutions that help utility field engineers and network maintenance teams work reliably in tough conditions.

Itineris' mission is to help energy and water utilities adapt to the fast-changing needs of the industry while driving operational excellence.​ Their flagship solution, UMAX, is a future-ready CIS & CRM platform built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and delivered via the Azure Cloud. Designed for utilities, UMAX integrates workflow automation and intelligent solutioning to enhance customer engagement and streamline business processes. It also leverages GenAI for actionable insights - such as forecasting energy consumption, detecting water leaks, and tracking the energy usage of specific appliances in real-time.​ Through cutting-edge technology, innovation, and deep industry expertise, we enable utilities to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

KPMG is trusted to make the difference for our clients, people and the communities we work in. With deep expertise across the energy and utilities sector, combined with cutting-edge technology and insights, we help organisations navigate complex industry challenges, from decarbonisation and energy transition to regulatory change, customer transformation and infrastructure investment; unlocking new opportunities to transform and grow. We work with energy suppliers, network operators, water companies and new market entrants to build resilient, future-ready organisations that can thrive in an evolving utilities landscape. On 1 October 2024, KPMG UK and KPMG Switzerland merged to form the KPMG UK/Swiss Group, scaling our strengths, deepening sector expertise and amplifying the difference we make for clients across Europe and beyond.

OC&C Strategy Consultants is an international strategy consulting firm, but they've never seen size as an end in itself. Their expertise is focused on a few core specialisms, allowing them to deliver results that get noticed.

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, drives digital transformation for industrial organizations managing complex operational processes. Through Performance Intelligence, AVEVA connects the power of information and artificial intelligence (AI) with human insight, to enable faster and more precise decision making, helping industries to boost operational delivery and sustainability.

The Utilities industry has spent millions on enterprise systems and data infrastructure. But much of the expertise that drives their highest-value decisions still lives in people, manual processes, and workarounds. That's where the biggest gains in productivity and performance are waiting. AI should be closing this gap. It isn't. Cogna's AI platform helps companies in your critical industry close this gap and tackle their largest, most consequential challenges. We build a deep, structured understanding of how your operation actually works, then turn that understanding into AI applications and agent workflows built around your specific operational logic that run your most complex processes: optimizing planning, coordinating field teams and managing asset performance, to name a few. The possible is the problem you have.

EXL is a data analytics and digital operations company helping businesses, including utilities, use data and AI to run more efficiently.

EY is a global professional services organisation providing assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions services in more than 150 countries and territories.

FYLD is the category-defining, AI-powered frontline intelligence platform for the global infrastructure sector helping organizations deliver every job right the first time. FYLD embeds AI-powered, real-time operational risk detection and live visibility into the flow of work – reducing rework, delays, compliance exposure, and cost while enabling scale. FYLD’s investors include Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Energy Impact Fund, and Partech and is recognized globally as a breakthrough platform for productivity, safety, and operational certainty in fieldwork.

Modulr provides API-based payment infrastructure that helps businesses, including energy companies, automate how they collect and send money.

Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity company that helps utilities protect IT, OT and critical infrastructure.

Softwire exists to help organisations use technology to deliver meaningful outcomes and a positive impact for themselves, their customers and the world. Specialising in the energy and utilities sectors, we build resilient systems marrying data with AI that enable UK power and water networks to make better decisions, deliver better operational outcomes and lower customer bills.

Stark provides energy data and insight services that help businesses cut energy waste and costs.

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that helps businesses, including energy suppliers, take payments and automate billing.

Sword Group is an international technology services and software group working with energy, utilities and public sector clients.

TMA specialises in smart metering, energy data management and DCC integration.

Vyntelligence (Vyn®) is the market-leading Agentic Video Intelligence Work Platform, designed for customers, contractors and colleagues. Vyn Simplifies and Speeds up work with short video data capture and Agentic Video Intelligence. Top 90% of UK utilities & telecoms use Vyn®, creating trusted engagement by simplifying and speeding up work to optimise asset life cycles.

Academii builds VR, AR and AI training tools that help energy companies upskill staff and get new starters to competence faster.

Adyen is a payments platform that helps businesses, including utilities, accept payments online, in apps and in person.

Axis Communications makes network video and security products that help utilities protect and monitor critical sites.

Bludigit, part of the Italgas Group, provides AI-driven digital tools that help utilities oversee and manage field operations remotely.

BMA makes Decisio™, an AI decision intelligence platform that helps water and energy companies plan infrastructure investment.

Depotnet provides job management software that helps utilities and contractors plan and manage field work.

Since 2016, Eliq has worked with Europe’s leading utilities to make sense of energy data for households and SMEs, turning billions of data points into insights that drive engagement and savings. Eliq are Making Sense of Energy Data in most European countries, and almost 10% of the smart meter data in Europe currently flows through the Eliq platform.

ESG is an energy software company serving energy retailers, suppliers and utilities. Its Titanium platform provides market messaging, billing, analytics and CRM, and serves more than 21 million end customers.https://esgglobal.com/

Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products, optimising manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalisation, hyperautomation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain. As a responsible and diverse organisation, Expleo is committed to doing business with integrity and working towards a more sustainable and secure society. Expleo boasts an extensive global footprint, powered by 18,000 highly skilled experts delivering value in 29 countries.

Ferranti is a leading software provider for the energy and utilities industry, helping utilities navigate the energy transition through advanced cloud technology and deep industry expertise. With over 50 years of experience, Ferranti combines innovative technology, AI-driven capabilities and expert services to support mission-critical operations throughout the meter-to-cash value chain.

Connecting Operations and Data to Put AI to Work Fusion Global Business Solutions helps energy and utilities organisations connect operations and trusted service data through service management. We bring together workflows across customer operations, assets, grid and field services, and IT/OT environments.

IFS develops and delivers cloud enterprise software for companies around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. Within our single platform, our industry specific products are innately connected to a single data model and use embedded digital innovation so that our customers can be their best when it really matters to their customers – at the Moment of Service™.

At Methodia, our mission is to help utilities simplify operational complexity, navigate regulatory challenges, and deliver reliable services in an increasingly dynamic market. Designed specifically for complex utility environments, Methodia combines flexible configuration, seamless integration, workflow automation, and operational reliability to give utilities greater clarity and control.

Podero is a software platform for utilities that reduces the energy cost of flexible consumer devices like EVs and chargers, inverters and batteries, and heat pumps by over 25%. Utilities roll out Podero using our white-label web app or integrating our API into their apps.

With many years of industry experience - Seaglass takes away the complexity – ensuring you can focus on delivering growth for your business. Whether you are a new entrant, targeting domestic or SME customers, an I & C business with complex pricing or quoting requirements, a renewables business dealing in Power Purchase Agreements, or anything in between, we make it as straightforward as possible - just ask our customers!

Worldpay, now combined with Global Payments, provides payment acceptance technology to businesses of all sizes in more than 175 countries.

Ignition Partners is a B2B sales, marketing and thought leadership partner for energy and climate-tech companies, and publisher of Talking Utilities. At Smart Energy 2026 it is filming the Software is Infrastructure interview series with Future of Utilities.

Lux Research is a research and advisory firm that helps innovation leaders decide which emerging technologies to back. For utilities, it covers grid-edge innovation, low-carbon power, resilience, asset management and new demand from data centres.