ITAMS Conference 2025: Driving excellence in TSO asset management
More than 20 TSOs from four continents will gather in Italy next month for the ITAMS 2025 Conference, a three-day event organised by OHROS Consulting Group – culminating a two-year learning programme.
The event in the city of Verona marks the culmination of the two-year ITAMS learning programme, during which transmission service operators (TSOs) have engaged in a collaborative journey designed to strengthen asset management strategies and practices. Their effort, guided by OHROS Consulting Group, has enhanced asset decision-making capabilities and delivered sustainable operational performance improvements across participating TSOs worldwide.
“With global transmission operators facing unprecedented investment requirements exceeding $400 billion annually, effective asset decisions become critical for sustainable grid performance,” said Ed de Vroedt, Program Director.
“ITAMS enables TSOs worldwide to optimize asset strategies that deliver long-term operational resilience while supporting the global energy transition. The learning platform offers a structured platform to share insights, benchmark performance, and accelerate improvement across the full lifecycle of asset management.”
The programme focuses on enhancing asset decision-making frameworks that enable sustainable operational performance. Through rigorous benchmarking against global peers and ISO 55001 standards, participating TSOs develop asset strategies that balance resilience, cost optimization, and grid reliability – ensuring decisions today support decades of sustainable grid operations.
The combination of comparative analysis and working groups around emerging topics like resilience and digitalization, enables participants to identify where their organisation aligns with best practices, pinpoint areas for improvement, learn from first hand and create actionable roadmaps that support corporate strategy and long-term objectives.
“The ITAMS initiative serves as a truly global collaborative platform,” noted De Vroedt. “By exchanging knowledge and highlighting exemplary practices, we create a powerful catalyst for better decision-making and more effective asset management worldwide.”
The 2025 Conference
The 2025 conference brings together transmission leaders from across Europe, South America, Asia, and Oceania, including National Grid, Fingrid, Red Eléctrica, RTE, Transelec, SSEN, TenneT, and Terna.
The conference will inform participating TSOs on how they can advance global best practices in asset decision-making – from optimizing transmission capacity investments to implementing resilient grid technologies—enabling participants to make asset decisions that deliver reliable, efficient, and environmentally responsible grid operations for decades to come.
As participants prepare to gather in Italy, feedback from the first fifteen months of the programme has been overwhelmingly positive. Programme participants report fundamental improvements in asset decision-making capabilities, with one TSO noting: “ITAMS transformed how we evaluate long-term asset strategies – our decisions now deliver both immediate operational improvements and sustainable performance over decades.”
Another described it as, “An excellent programme with well-selected topics and a balanced mix of participant experience and OHROS expertise. Truly inspiring.”
ITAMS
Founded more than 14 years ago, the ITAMS programme was developed by OHROS Consulting Group (formerly known as UMS Group), as part of its mission to help TSOs operate at the forefront of asset management and lead the energy transition. Since its inception, more than three dozen TSOs worldwide have participated in the programme, creating a lasting network of collaboration and innovation.
As transmission operators worldwide navigate the complexity of grid modernization, renewable integration, and sustainability requirements, ITAMS continues to build the global community of practice needed to make asset decisions that ensure both operational excellence and long-term environmental stewardship.
