Thank you for making Metering, Billing/CRM Europe 2009 a success!

Thank you to all delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors that made the 11th Annual Metering, Billing/CRM Europe conference and exhibition in Barcelona a great success!

A special thank you to our Host Utility Endesa and Gold Sponsors ADD Grup, AEM, Alcatel-Lucent, DHL Supply chain, Diehl Metering, EnergyICT, Itron, Oracle, Smart energy Alliance and Vodafone.

Over 2800 participants from 72 countries attended the conference and exhibition in
Barcelona on 6-8 October 2009 compared to 2500 in 2008.

Other statistics on the growth of the event:
- Number of visitors: 1162 : + 17%
- Number of delegates: 951 : + 13 %
- Size of the exhibition: 2364sqm : + 24 %
- Number of exhibiting companies: 130 : + 13 %

Program highlights included high-level interactive sessions on Smart Energy Communications and Infrastructures, Smart Metering and Climate Change, Effective MDM Strategies, Smart Metering Customer Acceptance and Incentives for Energy Savings.

Furthermore there were three in-depth sessions on Regulation, Communication and Infrastructure and Gas Metering and three pre-conference seminars on DLMS, Security and Privacy and the Smart Metering University.

Both the conference sessions and the exhibition were very well attended and the cocktail receptions sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent and Itron were great opportunities with much networking between vendors, utilities, consultants, academics and industry leaders.

Our congratulationsto the winners of the European Utility Awards 2009:

• Endesa: Business Performance
• SEAS-NVE: Customer Excellence
• Electronic Housekeeper: Innovation

The winner of the Smart Energy Alliance Smart Car survey was Mr. Fareed Hakeem from EWA in Bahrain.

To view the Metering, Billing/CRM Europe photo gallery, click here

The Metering, Billing/CRM Europe team looks forward to meeting you again next year on 22-24 September in Vienna.

Further details will be announced soon!