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Speaker: Enrique Díaz-Plaza, Energy & Utilities Senior Manager – Capgemini.
Enrique Díaz-Plaza is an Industrial Engineer from the ICAI from the Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid. He is currently Senior Manager for the Energy & Utilities sector at Capgemini, with the responsibility of providing companies in the Spanish energy sector with the best approaches and solutions in the field of engineering and digital transformation. Previously, he was linked to the IBM company where he held, among others, the position of Business Development Manager for the energy sector. In this period, he has covered and promoted different areas of innovation related to the energy sector, such as smart networks or electric mobility. Together with the above, in addition to having been linked to the energy sector, he has actively participated in other industries and areas, such as the telecommunications sector, the definition, development and deployment of smart cities (both in Spain and in other countries), the promotion of the internet of things, advanced asset management, industry 4.0 and digital transformation, as well as the management and direction of different R&D&i projects and programmes, both national and international. He also has extensive experience in the application of innovative methodologies and technologies, such as those related to advanced analytics, blockchain, project management, agile approaches, design thinking, etc. Prior to this experience, he has directed people and technical departments in companies such as Vodafone and Bull, in areas such as analytics, information or the launch of new businesses (smart cards, internet, advanced mobility, etc.). He is also a member of different technical and standardization committees -national and international- and research institutes and chairs, which he combines with his research and university teaching activity.
The session will focus on the foundations and approximations of advanced asset management applied to the different industrial sectors and specifically to the electrical sector, particularly to electrical power generation systems. This approach will be based on the main exponential technologies and associated architectures, such as the IoT (Internet of Things), Edge Computing or Digital Twin.