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Programme

Day one - Tuesday 24 September

09:00 Registration and refreshments
09:15 Chair's Welcome
Carl Johnstone, Director, i4 Asset Management, UK
09:20 Session 1: Electricity Networks – What does the future hold?
Faith, Natukunda, System Capability Manager, National Grid ESO, UK
10:00 Session 2: Renewables Integration
Chidinma Agwu, Senior HV/MV Components Engineer, Orsted, UK
10:45 Refreshment break
11:00 Session 3: High voltage switchgear
Mark Waldron, Switchgear Technical Leader, National Grid, UK
12:00 Session 4: Design of high-voltage power transformers
Raj Pal, Senior Transformer Design Engineer, GE Grid Solutions Ltd, UK
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 5: High voltage system stresses and insulation coordination
Ian Cotton, Head of Research, School of Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
15:00 Refreshment break
15:10 20 minutes walk to the lab
15:30 Lab session 1: Practical demonstrations of testing in the HV laboratories 
17:30 End of day one
Day two - Wednesday 25 September

09:00 Refreshment available
09:10 Session 6: High voltage testing techniques
HansErik Keiser, Head of Section, High-Voltage Laboratory, KEMA Laboratories Arnhem, DNV GL – Energy, Netherlands
10:10 Refreshment break
10:20 20 minutes walk to the lab
10:40 Lab session 2: Practical demonstrations of testing in the HV laboratories
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Session 7: High voltage overhead power lines - AC and DC
Jon Knapper, Managing Director, Allied Insulators Group LTD, UK
14:40 Session 8: High-voltage cable systems
Andrew Barclay, Principal Engineer, Kinectrics International Europe, UK
15:40 Refreshment break
16:00 Session 9: Testing for endurance and reliability: high voltage renewable power systems
Mario Jochim
17:00 End of day two (optional networking)
Day three - Thursday 26 September

09:00 Refreshments available
09:10 Session 10: Power electronics – technologies and applications
Professor Mike Barnes, University of Manchester, UK
10:10 Session 11: Asset Management – an industrial perspective interactive session
Carl Johnstone, Director, i4 Asset Management, UK
11:10 Session 12: Offshore maintenance - TBC
12:10 Lunch
13:10 20 minutes walk to the lab
13:30 Lab session 3: Practical demonstrations of testing in the HV laboratories
15:30 Refreshments/ Movement break 
15:40 Session 13: Lifetime Asset Management
Carl Johnstone, Director, i4 Asset Management, UK
16:40 Session 14: Novel high-voltage materials
Mark Lashbrook, Technical Director, M&I Materials, UK
17:40 Chairman’s final review and closing remarks
17:45 End of day three - close