OSS + ELC EU 2026

Starting up an OSPO is not an easy task - let alone for 300+ companies. That's the scale and problem space we face in the highly federated and distributed enterprise of E.ON.

One of Europe's biggest energy utility provider has it all: critical infrastructure, regulations, services for millions of customers, purpose built hardware, SaaS businesses, an unfathomable amount of suppliers and engineers all over the place.

So before we could even start with our own ideas about the OSPO management we needed to get a hold of the status quo at E.ON for any kind of engineering and business operations. Two years after starting the OSPO we're far from done doing that yet, but we already established quite a bunch of successful initiatives.

We'll present our idea of an Hub-and-Spoke-OSPO, targeted initiatives for distinct parts of the business, curing pain points, building recurring collaborations within the enterprise and how to become more visible as 2-person-OSPO with nearly 80.000 coworkers.