Talking with Rebecca Would, Head of Show Development at Next Events & Conferences

 

Power Transmission and Distribution Technology Expo is well and truly set to become the definitive exhibition in Europe for the Power Transmission and Distribution industry. It is a totally 100% focused event on electricity infrastructure and power transmission and distribution technologies and that means that for every visitor, every exhibitor is potentially relevant. That is something that creates an entirely different dynamic for visitors and exhibitors alike and it is desperately needed for this highly focused community of electricity industry specialists.

To explain the difference, I can only reference one of the exhibitions we observed earlier this year, a gigantic illustration of what we do not believe in at all. An event in southern Germany with more than 3,000 exhibitors and just 5% or 6% of the exhibition area representing power transmission and distribution technology companies and even that was interspersed with companies with no specific relevance. That’s a nightmare for industry experts looking for specific equipment and suppliers. When they come to Power Transmission & Distribution Technology Expo every stand and every booth will potentially be relevant to what they do. As one of our exhibitors recently stated, it’s a highly focused high impact event.

For 2025 we are presenting around 120 companies including specialist industry support from Headline Speakers that include Siemens Energy plus GE Vernova, Schneider Electric, Cisco and JST Power Equipment who are of course all leaders in systems integration, systems development and systems engineering. Along with them, TSOs and DSOs will be giving talks in the hall designed to illustrate their latest thinking for improving transmission and distribution system efficiency and resilience and also aimed at informing technology suppliers about their next generation requirements and targets that equipment manufacturers and software companies will need to expect to meet to win the next rounds of major contracts.

And when we say this show is set to become the de facto event for this part of the energy transformation picture, well we are already receiving enquiries and booking requests from companies for 2026 from companies who were not able to be ready in time for this year’s show but who realise that this is the event to be at going forward.

I come back to a real fundamental here. The landscape of exhibitions in what can be defined as ‘energy’ is expansive and actually really messed up. Messed up because exhibitors get pulled left and right to exhibit at countless ‘energy’ shows that are not focused on power transmission and distribution but shows that cover every possible element from electric car chargers to solar panels. That isn’t the world of power transmission and distribution. It isn’t the world of power transmission lines, sub-stations technologies, transformers and smart grids.

We are that world. We’ve done it before in other industry sectors and we are here now to do it again in this one. It’s all about taking a very large industry like energy and creating a very specific industry exhibition for power transmission and distribution technology. We already have a database that’s been custom built in-house of potential visitors that is in excess of 25,000 people focused on Europe, Middle East and North Africa and we have really focused people pre-registering daily who are planning to attend. Amongst them, procurement people feature strongly.

Airpelago

Ackermann

Anwendungstechnik & Vorrichtungsbau GmbH

Ampacimon

APAR Industries Limited

Bekaert Hlohovec, a.s

Beta Enerjie

Bitstream

Broderson

BRUSH Group

Butler Technologies

Bynoc

Cunext Copper Ind srl

CurrENT Europe

Cyberhawk

De Angeli Prodotti S.r.l.

Digital Smart Group

DNV

Elsewedy Electric

EMCO Industries Limited

Energya Industries – Elsewedy Helal

Enging

Enline Energy

Entegra AG

Epsilon Composite

Ernst W. Velleuer GmbH & Co. KG

European Springs & Pressings Ltd

FDUEG

Franklin Electric Grid Products

Ganz Transformers

GE Vernova

 Green Transfo

Greenwood Power

Grid Design Solutions

Gridcal GmbH Grund Tech GmbH

Gruppo Bonomi Hikmicro

Hivoduct

HV Wooding

Integrated Engineering Software

Jiangsu Fanye Power Energy Equipment Co., Ltd

JST Transformers

Kema Labs -Cesi SpA

KUVAG GmbH & Co KG

Lamifil NV

LAPP Insulators

Lemi Trafo

Lesjofors Industrial Springs & Pressings

MasterGrid

MasterGrid

Ircamex

Mega Ardeniz Celik Endustri

Megger

Merit Media

Mosdorfer

MSA Safety

Navitasoft Zrt

Necks Industrial Metal Products

Nexans

NKT

Nodes

Novatech Automation

Nuventua GmbH

OBSTA

Orionee

Power Systems Technology

Powerside

PPC Insulators

Prisma Photonics

PSE Innowacje sp. z.o.o

Rados AG

Ritz Instrument Transformers GmbH

Roseau Technologies

Safegrid

SATEC Global

SEDIVER

sees.ai

SF6 Recycling GmbH

SGC nv- SwitchGear Company

SH Power

Siemens Energy

Sky Powerlines

Sumitomo Electric Industries

Synecom S.R.L.

Teledyne Flir

The H-J Family of Companies

TMC Transformers

Trench Group

Tridelta Meidensha GmbH

TSAT

Uvirco Technologies

Verenfabriek De Spiraal B.V.

Vielhauer GmbH

Virtual Global Trading AG

Welotec

Westermo Network Technologies

Zaphiro Technologies.

One other feature we are working on is Investors in Industry. There are very interesting opportunities for private investment firms and institutional investors to target electricity infrastructure projects as a key part of their business portfolios like never before. Quite how to make that work isn’t always totally apparent and we have specialist presentations aimed at just that sort of question. It’s sort of ‘realisation of public/private partnerships’ but goes deeper and broader in scope. Additionally, we have the expectation of seeing talent spotters from the same sector though most likely in this case from private equity funds who see power transmission and distribution companies to be in a mega-growth environment with the potential for rapidly escalation of revenues. Expect to see such people around the show.

Other key points. This is a compact high intensity expo. We have free parking right outside the exhibition hall. We have space set aside inside the expo hall for meetings between visitors and exhibitors on larger scales than their stands and booths would permit, plus high speed internet and desk areas where visitors can keep in touch with their workplace and mix and match their show time with keeping on top of their daily workload. Gone are the days when a day at an exhibition hall can luxuriously ignore the need to keep on top of your daily workload. We have food stations inside the hall serving a range of fresh cooked meals including Chinese and Italian dishes. It’s compact, it’s efficient it’s focused. It’s essential as an opportunity to meet major suppliers… and on that note I can tell you that this is a blue-chip international technology showcase event.

Leading companies only. Top players. Innovators.

 

Along with my team and after 18 months of planning, I look forward to welcoming our exhibitors and visitors and our VIP guests to what will be a game-changing exhibition for the power transmission and distribution industry. See you there on September 16/17/18.

 

Find us here:

Fly to Cologne/Bonn (20 minutes by taxi from the airport or fly to Dusseldorf (40 minutes by taxi or 20 minutes by rail) or Frankfurt with excellent rail connections. The Köln Messe/ Deutz station for high-speed trains is located directly next to Find Us Here the exhibition grounds.

For more information or to get your FREE 3-DAY EXPO PASS, please go to: www.powertranstech.com