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	PRIME = PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution A Future Proven Global Reality, Beyond Metering The PRIME Alliance has 65 + active members focused on the creation and deployment of an open and comprehensive standard, enabling end-to-end communication solutions for advanced metering, grid control and asset monitoring in medium/low voltage and in-home networks. The mission of the Alliance is to accelerate the demand for products and services based on the worldwide standard and promote the broad adoption and use of the specification while promoting multi-vendor interoperability and compatibility with the global standard. The PRIME standard reflects the first fully open, license free, multi-vendor interoperable power line communications system with deployments exceeding over six million PRIME meters worldwide utilising solutions from numerous equipment suppliers. www.prime-alliance.org
	SEDC - Smart Energy Demand Coalition The SEDC is an industry group dedicated to making the demand side a smart and interactive part of the energy value chain. Its focus is to promote demand-centred programs within the areas of, Demand Response, energy usage feedback and information, smart home, in-home and in-building automation that form the heart of the Smart Grid. Its vision is a strong participation of the demand side in the European electricity markets, which will lead to the long-term goals of the Smart Grid: affordability, security of supply and reduced carbon emissions. www.smartenergydemand.eu
	OSIsoft is a company whose purpose has remained constant since 1980: to empower our customers' business transformation by delivering greater value into the enterprise. At OSIsoft, supporting our customers' journey to operational excellence is at the core of what we do. It's why we constantly evolve the PI System™ open infrastructure for the people, industries and organizations we serve. It's why we support every customer's systems and team with our experienced engineers. It's why we've grown from a small data historian software company to a global leader in operational intelligence. And why 95% of our first customers still use the PI System today. www.osisoft.com
	Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) is an international supplier of Geographic Information System (GIS) software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. The company is headquartered in Redlands, California. The company was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm. Esri products (particularly ArcGIS Desktop) have 40.7% of the global market share. In 2014, Esri had approximately a 43 percent share of the GIS software market worldwide, more than any other vendor. The company has 10 regional offices in the U.S. and a network of 80+ international distributors, with about a million users in 200 countries. The firm has 3,200 employees in the U.S., and is still privately held by the founders. In 2006, revenues were about $660 million. In a 2009 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated to be $1.2 billion, from 300,000 customers ($4000/customer/year). The company hosts an annual International User's Conference, which was first held on the Redlands campus in 1981 with 16 attendees. The User's Conference has been held in San Diego at the San Diego Convention Center since 1997. An estimated 15,000 users from 131 countries attended in 2012. www.esri.pl
	SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue. Based on market capitalization, we are the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer. Browse SAP facts and information below. go.sap.com
	WAGO ELWAG Sp. z o.o. We are a manufacturer and supplier of innovative components for the industry, process technology and building automation and our actions are supported by an experience of over 50 years. We are part of the WAGO Group, a family company that has been operating independently on the market from Minden (Westphalia). We are a company considered to be the precursor and propagator of innovative solutions for electrical engineering and automation. WAGO is a global leader in spring connections but, in the meantime, our other solutions also became a standard. We constantly strive to solve new challenges, look for stimuli and set new standards. This is why WAGO is synonym for quality, safety and modernity. These characteristics play an important role in energy and measurement systems, where power supply reliability and continuous operation is a priority. As an innovative company we strive to be up-to-date with the continuous changes on the market and develop new technologies streamlining the operation of devices and their safe use. An example of a product that revolutionized the connection in power metering systems is the WAGO LPW metering box. www.wago.com
	KPIT is a global technology company specializing in providing IT Consulting and Product Engineering solutions and services to Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities and Life Sciences companies. A leader in technology solutions and services, we currently partner with 200+ global corporations. Our Information Technology solutions help customers run their businesses more efficiently and smartly while our Product Engineering solutions enable customers to build products that are energy efficient, cleaner, safer and yield more comfort for their end-customers. Leveraging our technology and domain prowess, we partner with customers to co-create transformational value that provides sustainable competitive advantage to their businesses. Our highly focused approach has helped us pioneer innovative solutions and file 50+ patents in the automotive domain. Our 10,800+ strong team works at the forefront of technologies and processes to help global corporations become more productive, integrated and innovative enterprises. www.kpit.com
	PIKE (Polish Chamber for Electronic Communication) gathers about 110 companies - broadband electronic communications operators and the manufacturers and distributors of the equipment and service used by these operators. Therefore it is the largest and oldest organisation in this sector. Its members reach 4,5 million subscribers all over Poland, thus representing 75% of the Polish cable television market. The task of PIKE is to ensure proper legal conditions for the development of the sector and market. It also represents the sector vis-a-vis its most important business partners, e.g. broadcasters and collective copyright management organisations, and vis-a-vis sector partners in Poland and abroad. PIKE is a member of the National Economic Chamber. It represents the Polish telecommunications market on an international level, including via its membership of Cable Europe. www.pike.org.pl
	Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT) has remained in operation since January 1993, organizing currently around 130 biggest companies of the ICT and telecommunication sector. The Chamber is the most serious partner both in the law making process and in the opinionating of the on-going decisions taken by the Government administration and regulating bodies. Management of the Chamber accomplish their goals just through collaboration with the legislative institutions, State administration and local-government administration by providing them with the required information, competent analyses and constructive evaluations of the phenomena and activities which are important for the ICT market. PIIT affected in a major and important way the shape of tax, customs, certification, copyright and public procurement procedure Acts and regulations. PIIT experts participated in elaboration of the Telecommunication Law, Personal Data Protection, Electronic Signature, Public Procurement Law, Copyright and Related Rights, and many other Acts. The Chamber earned opinion of being an honest and constructive partner in discussions and negotiations, and an expert in explaining of the new technical solutions. Representatives of the Chamber actively participated in debates of the Computerization Boards and in many others. A highly important function of PIIT is the promotion of the Polish ICT market and the companies which are active thereon, among others through co-organization of the Polish IT Congresses, or through assistance offered in organization of trips of the Polish companies to CeBIT Fair in Germany. The Chamber is a patron of the biggest Polish ICT events. Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications is a member of international organizations DigitalEurope and WITSA, thus having opportunity to affect shape of the European law in the ICT sector. www.piit.org.pl
	The President of the UKE (Office of Electronic Communications) is the national regulatory authority for the market of telecommunications and postal services. The President of the UKE is also the specialised authority in the area of equipment conformity assessment, including telecommunications terminal equipment and radio equipment. The specific duties of the President of the UKE include, inter alia: the performance of tasks related to the regulation and supervision of telecommunications services' markets, spectrum management, orbital and numbering resources, as well as the enforcement of compliance with electromagnetic compatibility requirements; intervening in matters related to the functioning of the market for telecommunications and postal services, the equipment market and the settlement of disputes between telecommunications undertakings; co-operation with domestic and international telecommunications and postal organisations, other competent national authorities, the European Commission and Community institutions, as well as other NRAs; co-operation with the President of the Office for Competition and Consumers Protection in matters related to the enforcement of the rights of parties using postal and telecommunications services, and with the National Broadcasting Council. UKE's head office is in Warsaw. www.uke.gov.pl
	ČTPSG - Česká technologická platforma Smart Grid Czech Technological Platform Smart Grid was established in September 2009 by local energy companies. It aims at promoting innovative smart infrastructure in Czech Republic through active participation in network development. The Association is opened for every company and institution that is a part of the energy sector and wants to take part in creating the concept for Smart Grid in Czech Republic. The Platform is working on establishing strategic R&D plan for the grid. Its research looks into all aspects of smart grid: infrastructure, technological and normative solutions, and legislative framework. www.smartgridcz.eu
	NETINIUM delivers one of the most flexible, powerful and robust meter management platform in the European market. It helps to easily deploy, monitor, and manage devices from different brands and create a single, hybrid network of interoperable smart meters. Together with Alliander they are managing and coordinating a software solution for data communication using smart meters. NETINIUM continues to work on the ongoing development and supply of smart energy platforms for reading and managing smart meters and smart energy networks for customers in the Netherlands and abroad. www.netinium.com