2. Digital Utilities Experts Meeting 2025 in Vienna
The second Digital Utilities Experts Meeting 2025 brought together experts from the energy sector to gain insights into current challenges and successful approaches to digital transformation. It highlighted how far many companies have already come on this journey and that they face similar organizational, structural, and technological questions. At the same time, it was evident that the community is growing, and personal exchange is increasingly becoming the key to shared success.
On November 17 and 18, 2025, the energy sector from the DACH region gathered for the second Digital Utilities Experts Meeting (DUX) at the Urania in Vienna. Experts from companies such as APG, Statkraft, EWE, EnBW, and numerous municipal energy and grid operators discussed current challenges and best practices in digital transformation.
DUX is more than a technical conference—it is an active community. In interactive formats such as Meet the Expert and the Phoenix Forward Sessions, participants shared experiences, reflected on challenges, and initiated new collaborations. The technical presentations highlighted how deeply data-driven initiatives are now embedded across the industry.
The event kicked off with Georg Lettner (oekostrom), who offered insights into digital transformation and data-driven optimization in energy trading. Wien Energie, together with dataspot., demonstrated how their end-to-end approach to Data Excellence begins right at the source of the data—with the goal of creating a common language across data that connects both technical and business teams. Statkraft presented how a central platform approach can be scaled internationally and which organizational prerequisites are crucial for success.
In the subsequent panel, representatives from Uniper, SEFE, VNG, and d-fine discussed how “AI-ready” today’s platform architectures really are, and the role governance, metadata, and architecture play in this context. During the management talk, IT leaders from Holding Graz and citiworks shared the current topics, trends, and potential game changers on their strategic roadmaps, as well as challenges they foresee for the future.
The Meet the Expert sessions then delved deeper into concrete experiences and challenges, covering topics from platform operating models and successful Data Excellence initiatives to cultural aspects of modern collaboration. The closing Phoenix Forward Session provided space for open exchange on mistakes, learning moments, and knowledge sharing.
The event made it clear how far the industry has already come on the path to digital transformation, and that many companies face very similar structural, organizational, and technological challenges. At the same time, it was evident that the community is growing, and exchange is increasingly becoming a key success factor.
