DW 2015: Toril Nag - The Digital Society

The Gigabit Society

- the boring big sister

of all the new

digital whizz kids

on the block

Toril Nag Executive Vice President Telecom

Lyse Energi

Infrastructure – Society’s backbone

Digital infrastructure more important than roads?

FIBEROPTIC SUPERHIGHWAY

Optimal telecommunications got the most votes when

Avinor asked what the most important profitability factor is

for a company:

Optimal telecommunications

Proximity to airport

Flight routes availability

Train network availability

Road network standard

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Crucial Very important Moderately important Not important

Fibre penetration

Source: IDATE for FTTH Council Europe, February 2014

FTTH/B European Ranking – end 2013

14 exciting years

Cable

ADSL

Total

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1800000

Neste industrielle revolusjon Next industrial revolution

What is special about the Stavanger region?

• Norways fastest-aging population due to

the oil boom in the 70’s . The group 67-79

will grow with 34% in the next five years.

• Highest no of fires per person GLOBALLY

…

• Primarily electric heating – need for

energy efficient buildings

• Europes highest density of electric

vehicles. Demanding for the power grid.

• Norways worst traffic situation – bus is

the ony public transportation and few if any

bus lanes.

• One of Europes best access to fiber

network – many public buidlings are on-net

• Green Mountain.

• AMR is an opportunity the municipalities

have chosen to take – smart controllers in

all homes by end of 2018

• UiS, industry and public management has a

culture for service innovation (trippel

helix)

• Knowledge from the oil-business that can

be nudged into new areas for growth?

Platform for development of new business clusters

We are building a smarter grid. Important

building blocs are the new autoated meters that

facilitates lower energy consumption.

We develop towards a society of Prosumers.

Age of the prosumer 1,3

million Prosumers in

Germany

Plain Old Grid?

« Everything is connected!»

New energy

demands

from households

and businesses

Everything is changing

- especially the business models!

And it is changing faster….

NOW WHAT?

More and more devices on-net…

It (still) boils down to this:

What the customer

wants done!

”We’re constantly looking

for important problems to solve!”

The Rise of purpose driven organizations

Survival of the fastest

Larry Page, Google

Scope:

To identify, develop and deploy

replicable, balanced and

integrated solutions in the

energy, transport, and ICT

actions through partnerships

between municipalities

and industries.

TRIANGULUM

THE THREE POINT PROJECT

”I never attempt to make

money on the stock market.

I buy on the assumption that

they could close the market

the next day and not reopen it

for five years.”

Warren Buffet

24/7/365

FilmThe connected society

Opportunity is

missed by most people

because it is

dressed in overalls

and looks like work

Thomas Alva Edison