Nokia Utilities
User Group 2026

Melbourne, Australia
20-21 July 2026

Monday, 20 July 2026

Day 1

12:00 pm1:00 pm

Registration
Trilogy Ballroom
Lobby Level, Park Hyatt Melbourne

1:00 pm1:15 pm

Event Opening
Anthony Lam, Head of Energy Segment

1:15 pm2:00 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Takahiro Kase Senior Manager​, Grid Service Business Creation Department,​ Grid Solution Division, Toshiba

2:00 pm2:45 pm

Software Defined Digital Substation

Prithpal Khajuria Global Segment Leader​ Energy & Utilities Sector, Intel Corporation

2:45 pm3:15 pm

Networking break and interactive demonstrations

3:15 pm4:00 pm

Utility sharing session

4:00 pm5:00 pm

A Segment Routing use case for DSO FLISR application at medium-voltage power network

Peter Ceferin Chief Technical Officer, Smart Com (Slovenia)

Damjan Bobek Head of Telecommunications, Elektro Celje (Slovenia)

5:00 pm6:00 pm

Technology Session – Seamless network protection for line differential protection

6:00 pm6:30 pm

Free time before dinner

6:30 pm8:30 pm

Networking Dinner
Trilogy Ballroom

Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Day 2

8:30 am9:00 am

Poll – Technology Visions and Challenges

9:00 am9:45 am

Utility sharing session

9:45 am10:30 am

IEC 61850 from a Communications Perspective: SV/GOOSE vs. RSV/R-GOOSE

Mauricio Subieta Energy Chief Technical Officer, North America, Nokia

10:30 am11:00 am

Networking break and interactive demonstrations

11:00 am11:45 am

Connectivity to Continuity: Building Secure Utility Communications Networks

Bhuvneshwar (BT) Tyagi Cybersecurity Specialist, Sales Lead​, APAC & Japan, Nokia

11:45 am12:30 pm

Optical Transport Evolution

Sachin Jain Head of Optical Enterprise Business Development, Nokia

12:30 pm12:45 pm

Event feedback and Poll results

12:45 pm1:00 pm

Closing remarks

Dominique Verhulst Global Energy Segment Leader, Nokia