Exclusive interview with Göran Näslund, Global Business Development Manager Metering, Vodafone. Göran will address African Utility Week’s T&D/Smart Grids track on “M2M communications and an enabled grid”.

The City of Johannesburg will welcome some 5000 power professionals from more than 60 countries for the annual African Utility Week, the continent’s largest utility services conference and exhibition, taking place from 21-24 May at Nasrec Expo Centre.

Exclusive interview with Kevin Jacobson , General Manager, Business Indirect Sales, MTN Business and Nomalanga Nkosi, General Manager, Business Marketing, MTN Business.  Kevin will address the opening session of African Utility Week on “The future of M2M communications in Africa: what the opportunities are for utilities, governments and other stakeholders”.  MTN is a platinum sponsor for the event.

African Utility Week has partnered with FindaLift to help get delegates and visitors to and from the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg with the least impact on the environment and their pocket.  The conference and exhibition is the largest utility services event on the continent and takes place from 21-24 May.

Exclusive interview with Dr Miroslav Poljak, member of the  Management Board of KONČAR – Electrical industry Inc., Zagreb, Croatia  – an exhibitor at African Utility Week

Exclusive interview with Thabo Mahlatsi, the Director of the Energy Sector in the Infrastructure and Services Department in the City of Johannesburg – the host city for African Utility Week.

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Exclusive interview with Ms. Holly Wu, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) Marketing, Suntech.  It is the second year that Suntech is a sponsor at Clean Power Asia.

Smart Grids.  Smart Metering.  If you are the kind of person who is regularly to be found around conferences where utilities and especially power supplies issues are discussed, you will be familiar with these words. In fact, you may even be one of those people who uses these terms quite frequently and relishes the easy way that the words roll off your tongue.