Accenture is a global professional services company helping utilities reinvent to meet the demands of a rapidly changing energy landscape. Working at the intersection of industry expertise, digital innovation, and operational excellence, Accenture supports utilities across generation, networks, retail, and customer operations as they balance reliability, affordability, sustainability, and growth.

Accenture partners with utilities to modernize grids, accelerate the energy transition, and unlock new value through data, AI, and cloud-enabled platforms. From AI‑driven demand forecasting and grid optimization to digital customer engagement and workforce transformation, Accenture helps clients move from experimentation to scaled execution, delivering measurable outcomes across the end‑to‑end value chain.

With deep utilities domain knowledge, leading technology capabilities, and a strong ecosystem of partners, Accenture enables utilities to navigate complexity, manage volatility, and build more resilient, intelligent, and customer‑centric energy systems. Above all, Accenture focuses on turning ambition into action, helping utilities create tangible value today while preparing for the future.

Making Workplaces Safer Through Scientific Innovation and Expertise

DEKRA’s consulting practice is comprised of scientists, technologists, and advisors-experts in both the cultural dynamics of large organizations and the physical challenges of an industrial work environment. With solutions spanning behavior and leadership, reliability and testing, and data analytics, we offer a uniquely robust approach to safety.

Our specialty is helping clients evolve both their organizational culture and their operational environment, empowering them to reduce injuries, save lives, protect assets—and in the process, achieve higher performance.

We make workplaces safer through innovation and expertise, providing industry-best return on investment for a superior client experience.

IFS is the world’s leading provider of Industrial AI and enterprise software for hardcore businesses that make, service, and power our planet. The industry expertise of our people and of our growing ecosystem, together with a commitment to deliver value at every single step, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector.

In 2026, NERA is celebrating 65 years of trusted economics, experts, and experience. Since 1961, we have provided unparalleled guidance on the most important market, legal, and regulatory questions of the day. Our work has shaped industries and policy around the world. Our field-leading experts and considerable experience allow us to provide rigorous analysis, reliable expert testimony, and data-powered policy recommendations for the world’s leading law firms and corporations as well as regulators and governments. Our experience, integrity, and economic ingenuity mean you can depend on us in the face of your biggest economic and financial challenges. We thank you for being part of our past, our present, and our future.

Utility Week Live is Europe's only pan-utility exhibition, held annually in May.

Over two days, the exhibition will bring together 4,000+ energy and water professionals for cross-sector collaboration.

The exhibition brings together utilities, networks, regulators, solution providers and more in one place, with innovation zones and interactive programmes to provide practical insights and solutions to the sector’s biggest challenges, supported by over 200 exhibitors showcasing market-leading technologies and innovations.

Vyntelligence (Vyn®) is a market-leading Work Experience Platform, designed for customers, contractors and colleagues. It accelerates workflow efficiencies with short video data capture and Agentic Video Intelligence. Top 80% of UK utilities, telecoms, and retail clients trust Vyn® , creating trusted engagement by simplifying and speeding up work to optimise asset lifecycles. Vyn® powers collaboration across billions of dollars in assets, thousands of teams, and millions of consumers. By reducing field visits, upskilling workers, and enhancing safety, Vyn balances profit with sustainability. Vyn® turns field videos — captured before, during, and after work — into automated workflows, such as invoicing and work instructions. Its AI-driven insights help businesses improve pricing accuracy, speed up delivery, ensure safety, and maintain compliance. As a pioneer in Video Intelligence, Vyn has the largest expertly-curated short-video knowledge base, integrating advanced Generative AI models across video, vision, and speech. Vyn® is proud to partner with game changer clients, such as EDP, Total Energies, Cadent Gas, Scotia Gas, Suez, Northumbrian Water, Severn Trent, Openreach, Vodafone, and UK Power Networks.

The Utility Week Awards set the standard for excellence across energy and water. Open to utilities and their partners, they recognise the people, projects and ideas driving the sector forward. This year, the categories have been updated to reflect the challenges shaping 2026 - from the growing role of technology to the shift towards real behaviour change, and innovation delivering at scale, not just in pilots. Celebrate achievement, make an impact, and showcase a year of hard work.

The Real Economy has spent millions on enterprise systems and data infrastructure. But much of the expertise that drives their highest-value decisions still lives in people, manual processes, and workarounds. That's where the biggest gains in productivity and performance are waiting. AI should be closing this gap. It isn't.

Cogna's AI platform helps companies in your critical industry close this gap and tackle their largest, most consequential challenges.

We build a deep, structured understanding of how your operation actually works, then turn that understanding into AI applications and agent workflows built around your specific operational logic that run your most complex processes: optimizing planning, coordinating field teams and managing asset performance, to name a few. The possible is the problem you have.

Ericsson’s enterprise wireless solutions connect and protect organizations across private and public 5G networks – enabling them to operate, grow and innovate without constraints. Ericsson Cradlepoint routers and radios, with our cloud-based management platform, enable organizations to use 5G to operate, grow, and innovate anywhere –securely and without constraints.

Unleash the potential of your fleet with 5G and 4G LTE solutions — delivering resilient, high-speed connectivity

Power your fleet with rugged in-vehicle routers designed for always-on mobile connectivity. Our cellular and Wi-Fi solutions seamlessly connect dash cams, license plate readers, vehicle telemetry, AVL systems, and more keeping your critical onboard tech online and operational. Strengthen resiliency with support for multiple cellular carriers plus LEO satellites and secure your network from end to end with zero trust architecture. These multi-WAN connections achieve more consistent, high-performance uploads with link bonding and SD-WAN for reliable, high-availability connectivity and better application performance.

Talk to us about reliable and resilient networks for connected vehicles and fleets.

National Grid Telecoms delivers the critical communications infrastructure that underpins the Distribution Network Operator's ability to operate safely, efficiently and reliably. Through resilient operational telecoms, SCADA connectivity, protection signalling, voice communications and data networks, we enable real-time visibility and control of assets across the network, helping reduce Customer Interruptions (CIs) and Customer Minutes Lost (CMLs) through faster fault identification, remote switching and improved operational response. Beyond supporting our own networks, we can help all businesses in the utility sector accelerate digital transformation through managed telecoms services, leveraging our expertise, secure infrastructure and operational capability to reduce costs, improve resilience, enhance regulatory performance and enable smarter, data-driven network operations that deliver better outcomes for customers.

CCW is the independent voice for water consumers in England and Wales.

Since 2005, CCW have helped thousands of consumers resolve complaints against their water company or retailer. All of their work is informed by extensive research, which is used to champion the interests of consumers and influence water companies, governments and regulators.

If you’re a household or business water consumer in England or Wales, CCW is here to fight your corner. Ready to provide free advice and support, answer your questions and take up unresolved complaints with your water company or retailer.

Colour Studios creates standout exhibition stands, displays and branded spaces designed to bring brands to life.

Working across exhibitions, events, retail and commercial environments, we support clients from initial concept through to design, production, installation, de-rig and storage. With in-house design and production expertise, our team can manage the entire project from start to finish, giving clients one trusted partner throughout.

Our work ranges from bespoke exhibition stands and display walls to retail displays, POS, window displays, branded environments and custom builds. Every project is designed around the brand, audience and space - combining creative thinking with practical solutions that are built to perform.

Sustainability and reusability are considered throughout our approach. Wherever possible, we design displays and systems that can be reused, reconfigured and repurposed across future exhibitions, campaigns and environments, helping clients get more from their investment while reducing unnecessary waste.

We work directly with brands, event organisers and agencies, offering everything from complete turnkey project delivery to discreet production and installation support for agency partners.

From one-off activations to ongoing exhibition programmes, Colour Studios takes care of the detail so our clients can focus on making an impact.

Bringing together our specialist groups in advancing affordable, secure and sustainable energy for homes and businesses.

For over a century, EUA – the UK’s leading trade association for energy and utilities – has powered progress across the UK, evolving with the industries that heat and power our homes and businesses.

As energy sources, technologies and expectations continue to change, so do we. From our origins as a trade association for the gas industry, to today’s forward-looking and technology-agnostic alliance, we exist to help our members adapt, collaborate and thrive as the nation transforms its energy system.

POWERful Women is a professional initiative working fora gender-balanced, diverse and inclusive  energy sector. Founded in 2014 and hosted by the Energy Institute, our goal is for women to be in at least 40% of middle management and leadership roles in the UK energy sector by 2030. We support,  challenge and connect: challenging and reporting on companies’ progress; supporting and connecting  women advocates develop and advance careers; and providing practical support and platforms to companies sharing good practice. www.powerfulwomen.org.uk