Liana Ault, Nokia: Benefits and challenges in a hyperconnected grid + Q&A

Bio: Liana Ault is the Energy Innovation lead at Nokia, responsible for helping power utilities to develop new communications services. She has extensive experience implementing and maintaining networks at communications and energy companies and has previously sat on the board of directors of the Utilities Technology Council. Liana grew up in the rural Midwest and is particularly passionate about the potential for broadband to transform rural communities. She loves working with power utilities to explore how they can best deliver new services to their customers and build new revenue opportunities.

Summary of the talk: Telecommunications has played a role in the resiliency and reliability of the power grid for decades. In the past 10 years the speed at which grid technology changes have occurred and the drive to understand what’s happening even in the lowest voltage levels of the grid has increased exponentially. As we continue to strive globally for carbon reduction the necessity for reliable, low latency and pervasive connectivity continues. In this presentation, we will take a macro view of the nature of hyperconnectivity in the power grid, we will focus on the drivers and benefits of connecting with new technologies as well as the challenges presented with a hyper-connected grid.