
AI in Energy | Future of Utilities: Smart Energy
Join Softwire at Future of Utilities: Smart Energy
From real-time grid management to predictive asset maintenance, AI is reshaping the energy sector. But with rapid adoption come new challenges: data readiness, system interoperability, and the very energy demands of AI itself.
Join Softwire at Future of Utilities: Smart Energy to explore what it takes to move from experimentation towards AI excellence.
Towards AI excellence in energy: laying the foundations
Softwire’s Alice Selway-Clarke is speaking on a panel, discussing the foundations necessary for AI success in the energy sector.
The session will cover where adoption is most advanced, the lessons learned so far, how new players are shifting competition, and how the sector can responsibly power the AI it increasingly relies on.
Alice will be joined by:
- Katie Russel, Data Director, OVO
- Mikko Muurinen, Head of Data & AI, Helen
- Jordan Murkin, Head of Digital Innovation, EDF UK
- Alice Selway-Clarke, Data Engineering Lead, Softwire
Meet the speaker

Alice Selway-Clarke
Data Engineering Lead
Alice is a Data Engineering Lead at Softwire, a development and design consultancy based in London. Alice currently leads a team of developers building and maintaining a complex data pipeline within an NHS specialist hospital. Alice loves using her skills in software and data engineering to facilitate ground-breaking research and is a regular speaker on topics across data engineering and data governance.
Alice is a committed manager to junior engineers and has a keen passion for mentoring. She’s passionate about increasing the visibility of women in senior tech roles.