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Operations Manager Of Maldonado- Associate
Engineering Performance Bosworth, Director Global
Manager, Assurance, Lead Fleet Operations,
Pattern Energy Siemens Engineer, EDF RE EDP Renewables

Biren Gandhi, Shuangwen David Korim, Jeffrey Wehner,

Global Renewable Sheng, Senior Software Product Vice President -

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Energy Solutions Engineer, Manager Asset Operations,
Leader, NREL Performance, Duke Energy
IBM Global GE Renewables
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OVER 15 5 1
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data management to knowledge, from all the
optimize their business players in the industry
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LEARN ABOUT THE LATEST TRENDS
AND CHALLENGES
Our data portfolio of events have become
a renowned occasion to unveil the most
crucial trends and developments in ensuring
cost-effective practices to improve power
performance and reduce OPEX.
MEET COLLEAGUES FROM ACROSS
THE GLOBE
A dedicated group of over 70 data experts from
across the world attend our Wind Data Forums.
This provides the perfect opportunity to connect
with your industry peers and meet fresh faces, all
with a shared commitment to reducing the LCOE.
BENEFIT FROM PRACTICAL TRAINING
AND WORKSHOPS
The Wind Data Forum allows you to learn from
leading experts, while also offering you the
chance to take part in focused trainings and
workshops that provide practical skills to take
away and implement in your daily role. This year
we are exploring the topic of repowering for
older wind farms.
INDULGE IN DEDICATED NETWORKING GAIN INSIGHTS FROM REAL-TIME
WITH INDUSTRY PEERS PROJECT UPDATES AND END USER
CASE STUDIES
We attract the most senior experts in the global
data industry from the full spectrum of players, to
allow for exclusive insights from decision makers
and deal breakers. Extensive research ensures
we identify exactly who you want to hear from,
shaping a wholly compelling agenda.
PRE FORUM Afternoon Workshop
Monday 13th March
Extending Lifetime To Make The Most Of Your Wind Farm
13:00 Registration And Refreshments
13:30 The Repowering Movement
Are performance tax credits catalysing the
repowering movement and how do they help?
What are the solutions offered for manufacturers and
OEMs?
How to use data to address a repower that is about
15 years old
What types of repowering are available? And, what
are others doing?
To join either of these sessions please contact Dominic Coyne: dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
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GET INSPIRED BY IMPACTFUL
KEYNOTES
Year after year, our Wind Data Forums are
comprised of the most prominent leaders in the
field. Distinguished keynotes will open your eyes to
meaningful industry developments, informing and
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inspiring participants to think progressively and
generate ideas.
TACKLE CHALLENGES HEAD ON IN
ENGAGING DEBATES
The Wind Data Forum creates a superb
atmosphere, conducive to thoughtful debates
and discussions. Use our interactive panels
throughout the 2 days to raise important
questions, make your voice heard and comment
on controversial issues.
BE A PART OF A FLAGSHIP EVENT AND
LOYAL DATA COMMUNITY
FORUM DAY 1
Now in its 4th year, but building on numerous
previous editions in Europe, the Wind Data
Forum is established as the ONLY industry event
where you can mingle with the full representation
of key figures involved in all aspects of data
management and analysis.
FORUM DAY 2
Hear from the individuals and companies at the
forefront of data innovation, through their real-
time and learnt experiences on past and present
projects. Find out what worked and why, with a
unique opportunity to identify the key to others
top successes.
WHO ATTENDS?
15:00 Afternoon Refreshments And Networking Opportunities
15:30 Understanding How To Retrofit And Streamline Your
Approaches For Adopting New Technologies
Using retrofitting to deal with data security needs
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Typical retrofitting issues and how to fix them
The need for reference data in monitoring retrofitting
17:00 End of Workshop
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tuesday 14th March
08:15 Registration And Refreshments
08:45 Chairs Opening Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
HOW TO HANDLE BIG DATA AND USE
IT EFFECTIVELY TO ACHIEVE GREATER
EFFICIENCY FOR AEP
How Have We Used Big Data So Far And What Else
9:00 
Can We Do To Improve Efficiency?
Examples of breakthrough moments with data sets
Why data modelling will continue to exponentially
increase efficiency
What role is data likely to play in future construction
of wind farms?
Participants include:
Jaimeet Gulati, Associate Director Global
Operations Performance Management, EDPR
Gerry Lindauer, Manager of Performance assurance,
Siemens
9:45 Making The Most Of Your Big Data To Ensure Maximum Use
Ensuring you get reliable data and knowing what
the limitations are
How to get more data out of OEMs and increase
the number of tags
Getting data that is representative of your site for
scalable figures
Integrating external data and extracting its value
for added analysis in fleet efficiency
David Korim, Software Product Manager Asset
Performance, GE Renewables
10:15 How To Be Smart With Your Data To Reduce Downtime
Improving site and maintenance workflow with
O&M data
How to reduce down time and plan operations for
least impact
Weather forecasting to avoid bad conditions and
aborted maintenance operations
Predictive maintenance to reduce visits and
choosing the least disruptive times
Using historical data and feedback loops to save
on time and cost
Gerry Lindauer, Manager of Performance Assurance,
Siemens
10:45 Networking Break And Morning Refreshments
Data Networks: Blending And Integrating Data from
11:15 
Multiple Sources
Getting Data from turbines to provide full
transparency for reporting purposes
Exploring data enabled remaining useful life predictions
Validating human data to eradicate errors
Supervisory controls being used today
Shawn Sheng, Senior Engineer, NREL
Prof. Dr Jan Helsen, Coordinator Big Data Analytics,
OWI-lab
BIG ANALYTICS MADE EASIER: THE
INCREASING TREND OF AUTOMATION
AND PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
11:45 Digitalization Of The Wind Energy Industry
What do we understand by digitalization of wind?
and why it is important?
What are key ingredients of digitalization in the
wind industry?
Application of the cognitive technology in other
industries
What are the key learning points from applying
cognitive technologies in other industries?
Biren Gandhi, Global Renewable Energy Solutions
Leader, IBM Global Energy & Utilities Industry
The Analytical Value In Remote Monitoring And Sensing
12:15 
Using Historical Data to re-prioritise
troubleshooting steps
Creating feedback loops for new reference data
Ensuring a future knowledge base for go to fixes in
the future
To join this session please contact Dominic Coyne:
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
17:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Delegates will select one of the following peer-to peer discussions from the strategic or technical streams listed below.
You will move into small break-out groups where discussions will be off the record and led by an expert on the given
topic. Delegates are encouraged to bring along their considered ideas and questions in order to facilitate a meaningful
and in-depth discussion
STREAM 1 - STRATEGIC
How operators tend to take unnecessary risk from
A limited data campaigns
Host: Joshua Fausset, Director of Customer Success,
Sentient Science
Real concrete examples and ways to encourage
C investment in data from upper level executives
Host: Ninochska Maldonado-Bosthworth, Lead Fleet
Engineer, EDF RE
B F
How to manage data teams and monitoring systems for
best results?
Host: Dushyant Tank, Reliability Engineer, Pattern Energy
17:30 Roundtable Feedback
17:50 Chairs Closing Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
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12:45 Networking Lunch
13:45 The Automation Arms Race, Creating Solutions for
Asset Managers
With the increasing numbers of solutions and analytical
firms, asset managers are faced with big choices:
What are the software and platforms are available?
What is the right information to bring to a
performance engineers dashboard?
What data should be standardised or automated
and how does this vary with each task?
How do firms offering automation/analytics
propose to help?
Participants include:
Joshua Fausset, Director of Customer Success, Sentient
Science
Biren Gandhi, Global Renewable Energy Solutions
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Leader, IBM Global Energy & Utilities Industry
Specific Approaches For Failure Forecasting And
14:30 
Predictive Maintenance
Finding failures and different types of discovery
methods, configurations and failure modes
What happens pre failure: creating data for future
cycles
Challenges of setting up systems to tag the data
Closing the loop to use failure data to feedback for
more effective operation and maintenance in the
future
Ninochska Maldonado-Bosthworth, Lead Fleet
Engineer, EDF RE
15:00 Condition Monitoring And Artificial Neural Networks
Building an array of sensors that can measure
vibrations across the drive train
Using the array to detect anomalous behaviour
and indentify faults
Automation in determining severity of faults
What really is condition monitoring: time domain vs.
frequency domain
Abstracts welcome, to join this session please contact
FORUM DAY 1
Dominic Coyne:
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
15:30 Afternoon Networking And Refreshments
FINDING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR
INVESTMENT FROM PRE CONSTRUCTION
SITE DATA AND UNDERSTANDING
PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS
Using Preconstruction And Wind Resource Assessment
16:00 
Data To Reduce Risk In Projects And Create Further
Investment
Why it is important to properly understand and
reconcile differences from prediction and actual
operating site data
How do you validate models and lower accuracy
uncertainty for predictions
Creating scalable data for forecasting
performance output once wind farm is built
Positively correlated relationship of preconstruction
FORUM DAY 2
data and level of investment
Chad Ringley, Director Energy Analytics, Pattern
Energy
16:30 Data Analytics Method For Understanding Turbine
Underperformance
Why do site specifics differ from the warranted
power curve?
The power deviation matrix approach and a few
others in discussion
What can a machine learning/data analytics
method offer?
Kernel PLUS method for understanding and
predicting site-specific turbine performance
Yu Ding, Professor, Texas A&M University
Hoon Hwangbo, Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University
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STREAM 2 - TECHNICAL
Utilising your analytics team to create your own
D reference data
Host: TBC
Risk mitigation techniques for wind turbines?
E Host: Shantanu Mahajan, Asset Performance Manager,
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Streamlining the adoption of artificial neural networks
Host: TBC
18:00 End Of Day 1
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wednesday 15th March
08:30 Registration And Refreshments
09:00 Chairs Opening Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
MERGING THE NEEDS OF SECURITY, DATA
TEAMS COMPLIANCE AND THE SUPPLY
CHAIN SHIFT
09:15 How Security Impacts Analytics: A Guide From A-Z
How to get quick and secure data through co-operation
Logistical issues of transferable data
Dealing with multiple securities for different
customers data
Merging the needs of security and data teams
How latest security measures will change the
vendor/operator relationship
Jeff Wehner, Vice President Operations, Duke Energy
09:45 The Changing Supply Chain: A Need To Rethink The
Owner/Operator And OEM Relationship
Discussion on how security measures and have
adjusted the supply chain
How have security requirements affected the
Owner/OEM relationship?
Can technology and cloud storage make
permissions and access easier
What will the landscape look like in the future?
Participants include:
Ashok Naik, Operations, Siemens
Dushyant Tank, Reliability Engineer, Pattern Energy
10:30 Morning Refreshments & Networking Opportunity
11:00  Strengthening The Relationship Between Data And
Cyber Security
How to make the network secure?
Choosing and designing the right infrastructure
and security architecture
Security solutions for problem solving
Reliability and data recovery
11:30 Feedback On GADS Reporting And Integration
Solutions (Generating Availability Data Systems)
Grid Integration Solutions and the active power support
The future of electrical systems for wind
Facility services available to owner operations
To join this session please contact Dominic Coyne;
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
12:00 Spotlight On With Audience Participation: In the Hot
seat With OEMs On NERC Compliance
This session will involve an open audience forum from
which the audience can submit/ask questions (via
slido) to be put to a panel of OEMs. An independent
chair will mediate each discussion for the best results
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12:45 Networking Lunch
BEST PRACTICES OF SHARING,ACCESSING
DATA AND STORING DATA
13:45 A
 ccessing Data Given Ownership And Security Level
Contraints
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Why there is need for building a new relationship between
suppliers and operators for smooth maintenance
How heightened security levels and issues over
data security and ownership created a need for
further integration
Working together in new and more secure ways to
ensure each party gets what they need to perform
their tasks
The challenge for OEMs in servicing their products in
line with warranty agreements whilst dealing with their
different customers and their varying levels of security.
Participants include:
Jeff Wehner, Vice President Operations, Duke Energy
David Korim, Software Product Manager Asset
Performance, GE Renewables
14:30 Why Havent You Moved To The Cloud Yet?
Why it is better for storage and retrieval
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How to meet security requirements with the cloud
How the cloud could alleviate customer concerns
and OEMs from getting locked out of the network
Operating examples of cloud use in action
To join this session please contact Raihan Chowdhury:
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15:00 Data Standardization For Better Communication And
Monitoring
Making the case for a global standard IEC6400-25
Where it is being utilised already and by who
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What problems will this measure solve?
Building the standardisation model without
decreasing competition
To join this session please contact Dominic Coyne;
dominic.coyne@haymarket.com
15:30 Chairs Closing Remarks
Benjamin Rice, Operations Engineering Manager,
Pattern Energy
Afternoon Refreshments And Extended Networking
15:45 
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