You are cordially invited to a free IES Users' Group which will be held in Sydney on Tuesday May 5 and Wednesday May 6, 2015. The seminar is to introduce new features of all our range of products and services.

Day 1 will have sessions running for PROPHET.

Day 2 will have sessions running for NEO products.

A detailed Agenda is included below. Limited seats are available, so if you are interested in attending either or both of the seminars, please RSVP by registering for each day separately from the registration box above.

The event will be held at the Rydges Sydney Airport Hotel. Free shuttle buses will be available from the Sydney domestic airport to the hotel. We look forward to seeing you there. For more information, please contact IES at ies@iesys.com or 02 9436 2555.

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IES Users’ Group 2015

Day 1 – Tuesday May 05, 2015

09:00am – 09:30am

Registration

Session 1

09:30am – 10:45am

Introduction and overview

User interface

Chart styles

Multiple workspaces

Database permissions

Connecting to a database server

Loading results to a database

Bid Constructor

Scenario post-processing

10:45am – 11:00am

Break - Morning tea

Session 2

11:00am – 12:15pm

GC Importer

Planning module – Gas networks

N-1 Contingency modelling

12:15pm – 01:00pm

Break - Lunch

Session 3

01:00pm – 02:15pm

Plugins – some examples

Renewable energy and emerging technologies and their impacts on
network constraints, network planning and reserve requirements

02:15pm – 02:30pm

Break - Afternoon tea

Session 4

02:30pm – 03:30pm

Planned developments, cloud solver, power flow integration, Prophet as a service

Feedback and discussion

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IES Users’ Group 2015

Day 2 - Wednesday May 06, 2015

09:00am – 09:30am

Registration

Session 1

09:30am – 10:45am

Overview of products and services

Training and Site license

Neo new features, new UI, cascading report stylesheets, style designer, global event log, themes, a host of new chart features, find replace, search results in a tree

Quick recap on the big features

Future enhancements

10:45am – 11:00am

Break - Morning tea

Session 2

11:00am – 12:15pm

NeoExpress – full history, fast updates, extensive dataset with NEM, STTM, DWGM, IMOWA,
BOM, free report creation

NeoPoint – on premise and hosted, access anywhere, no installation, Windows authentication, full auditing,
desktop or mobile, alerts, email links, freeze, CSV download, web data service provides integration with Excel, Matlab and R.

NeoDashboard – Dashboard Builder, custom dashboards

Future enhancements

12:15pm – 01:00pm

Break - Lunch

Session 3

01:00pm – 02:15pm

NeoMobile – version 3 in pre-release, expanded reports, alerts, constraint search and formulation, NOS Outages,
Binding constraints, live generation

NeoProxy – no database drivers required, centralised management, auditing

NeoDatasource – open source code for non-database sources of data for Neo

DDA, OEC

02:15pm – 02:30pm

Break - Afternoon tea

Session 4

02:30pm – 03:30pm

Planned developments

Feedback and discussion