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II OMICRON User Meeting in Brazil

April 02nd – 05th 2019

São Paulo, Brazil
Invitation to the II OMICRON User Meeting in Brazil:
OMICRON serves the electrical power industry with innovative products and
services for testing, diagnostics and monitoring of assets worldwide. We help
to make the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity safe and
reliable.

After the success of its last edition, held in 2017, we would like to invite you
to the II OMICRON User Meeting in Brazil and to expand your knowledge on
Protection and Automation testing, as well as on Substation and High Voltage
Equipment testing:

Date: April 02nd – 05th 2019

Location: Hotel Meliá Paulista Limited

seats!
Av. Paulista, 2181 | Consolação | São Paulo
SP, 01311-300 | Brazil

Language: Simultaneous translation into Spanish, Portuguese and English

The event will bring together industry experts from the Latin American region
and specialists from OMICRON, creating a discussion forum on the market
developments and challenges.

With a unique program that includes theory, practical sessions and case
studies, the event will cover Protection and Automation testing, as well as
Substation and High Voltage Equipment testing.

In addition to the two-day conference, in which we will be accompanied by

the internationally recognized Dr. Alex Apostolov and Dr. Michael Krüeger,
in this edition we included two days dedicated to mini-courses in classroom
and in field.

Join us at this event and beneficiate from this knowledge exchange platform!

Sincerely,

The OMICRON Latin American Team

Speakers

Among the different speakers that the event will feature, we will have the
participation of international orators who will share their extensive expertise and
technical knowledge:

Dr. Michael Krüger

Michael Krüger is Principal Engineer for testing and diagnostic
measurements on electric power equipment with OMICRON
electronics GmbH in Klaus, Austria. He studied electrical
engineering at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) and
the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) and graduated in
1976 (Dipl.-Ing.). In 1990 he received the Dr. (PHD) degree from
the Technical University of Vienna. Michael Krüger has more
than 40 years of experience in high voltage engineering and
insulation diagnosis on GIS, instrument transformers, cables,
power transformers and rotating machines. He has published many papers about
electrical measurements on different assets and holds 15 patents. He is member of
VDE, CIGRE and IEEE and works in several working groups of OEVE, IEC and CIGRE.

Dr. Alexander Apostolov

Alexander Apostolov received a MS degree in Electrical
Engineering, MS in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. from the
Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has more than 40
years of experience in power systems protection, automation,
control and communications. He is IEEE Fellow and Member
of the Power Systems Relaying and Control Committee. He is
past Chairman of the Relay Communications Subcommittee,
serves on many IEEE PES Working Groups and is Chairman
of Working Groups C2 “Role of Protective Relaying in Smart
Grid”. Additionally, he is member of IEC TC57 working groups 10, 17, 18 and 19
and Coordinator of CIGRE WG B5.53 “Test Strategy for Protection, Automation and
Control (PAC) functions in a full digital substation based on IEC 61850 applications”,
as well as member of several other CIGRE B5 working groups. As Distinguished
Member of CIGRE, he holds four patents and has authored and presented more than
500 technical papers. He is IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at the
Department of Electrical Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape
Town, South Africa. He is Editor-in-Chief of PAC World and Principal Engineer for
OMICRON electronics in Los Angeles, CA.
Organization

Participation costs:
Participation options*:
• One-day conference
> Protection and Automation testing: BRL$ 400 per person
Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 or
> Substation and High Voltage Equipment testing: BRL$ 400 per person
Thursday, April 4th 2019
• Two-day conference
> Protection and Automation testing, and Substation
and High Voltage Equipment testing: BRL$ 600 per person
Tuesday, April 2nd and Thursday, April 4th 2019
• Mini-courses**
> Mini-courses: BRL$ 200 per person - All mini-courses included
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019
• On-site Partial Discharge mini-course
> On-site Partial Discharge mini-course: BRL$ 200 per person
Friday, April 5th 2019

* The registration includes conference material, coffee breaks, lunch and

certificate of participation. For the Partial Discharge course, the fee also includes
transportation from/to the hotel venue.
** When registering to the mini-courses, please consider that we will be
confirming your attendance in the mini-course of your choice and that you will
be occupying one of the limited seats.
*** Exchange rate (BRL$/USD) = BRL$ 3.7

Cancellation / Substitution Policy:

If you are registered to the event and it is not possible for you to attend, please
inform us as soon as possible. In case of cancellation, please refer to the General
Sales conditions of OMICRON including the Special Terms for Training Courses and
Meetings which could be found by clicking here.

Register now by clicking here:

www.omicronenergy.com/IIusermeetingbr
For more information, please visit the event website:
www.omicronenergy.com/IIusermeetingbr