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Join Oakland and Softcat for an exclusive roundtable bringing together senior data leaders from across the UK utilities sector to explore the challenges shaping the data-driven utility of the future.

Working with organisations across the utilities sector, Oakland and Softcat see first-hand the challenge of balancing immediate regulatory and operational pressures with the need to build the data, technology and AI capabilities required for the future.

This roundtable is an opportunity to bring those experiences together.

Rather than focusing on AI hype or technology for technology’s sake, we’ll explore the practical realities of transformation: what’s working, what’s getting in the way, and where data leaders should be focusing their attention next.

Most importantly, we’ll create the opportunity for an open conversation between peers from across water, energy and gas who are navigating many of the same challenges.

Together we’ll explore:

• Keeping pace with the regulator – how organisations can use data, analytics and AI to respond to increasingly complex regulatory requirements more efficiently and effectively.
• Moving AI beyond the POC – the challenges of turning promising experiments into secure, governed solutions that work across complex enterprise environments and deliver measurable value.
• Creating the foundations for AI – why trusted, accessible and well-governed data remains critical to moving from AI ambition to business impact.
• From productivity to transformation – looking beyond Copilot and individual efficiency gains towards opportunities for data and AI to transform processes, decisions and ways of working.
• The next five years – what the data-driven utility of the future could look like and the capabilities organisations need to start building today.

We’ll share practical experiences and lessons from the work Oakland and Softcat are doing across the sector, while giving you the opportunity to hear directly from other utilities data leaders about their priorities, progress and challenges.

Why attend?

One of the hardest questions for any data leader to answer from inside their own organisation is:

“Are we moving quickly enough?”

This is an opportunity to find out.

Step away from the day-to-day and spend an afternoon with people facing many of the same challenges.

Compare your organisation’s progress with your peers. Hear what’s working elsewhere. Challenge your thinking. And leave with a clearer view of where the sector is heading, where the biggest opportunities lie and what your organisation could do next.