[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our July Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, July 28 at 11:00 AM CT, We’ll be joined by Pubs Abayasiri, Associate Director Digital Products at CLP Hong Kong, and Rolf Gibbels, Head of Worldwide Business Development, Power & Utilities Industry at Amazon Web Services (AWS) who will be leading a discussion around “Using IoT and Cloud to Manage Customer Asset Health.“

Please note the time of this Community Conversation. To support our friends at CLP in Hong Kong and because of the time difference between Hong Kong and the U.S., we are changing the time this Community Conversation occurs. Thank you for your flexibility!

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description: 

At CLP, one of the leading utilities in Asia, the team has been developing and deploying a range of IoT based solutions to help with analyzing, predicting and optimizing assets from C&I customers specifically to help modernize aging buildings. With the ability to understand when critical building equipment will potentially fail, optimizing work activities based on prioritizing equipment checks, and automation of equipment settings, there are opportunities for providing value for asset health but at the same time challenges with IoT solutions (costs, accuracy, comms, etc.).

During this session, Pubs and Rolf will share how IoT and cloud has been leveraged to adopt use cases where the principles are applicable for both customers and also internal operations.

Speaker: Pubs Abayasiri, Associate Director Digital Products at CLP Hong Kong

Pubs Abayasiri has worked in the technology and energy sector for +20 years. In that time, Pubs has worked in consulting across Asia where he held positions in a range of industries with the majority of his career in the energy sector. Within CLP, Pubs has led a range of initiatives including setting up the initial Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure, managing cross business-unit applications and establishing the analytics practice. More recently, Pubs runs the Digital Products team under the Group Innovation function, where he’s been managing the Smart Energy Connect (http://www.clpsec.com) program where the mission is to simplify adoption of sustainability solutions for corporate customers. 

Speaker: Rolf Gibbels, Head of Worldwide Business Development, Power & Utilities Industry at Amazon Wed Services (AWS)

Rolf Gibbels has the responsibility for leading the AWS Power & Utilities industry customer strategy, solution definition, partner engagement and thought leadership initiatives. AWS is bringing cloud-based solutions consisting of big data, internet of things (IoT), advanced analytics, machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI), and Amazon Alexa voice services  to a sector facing a transformational change. The transformation is driven by the need for decentralization, decarbonization and digitization. With that allowing for a higher degree of renewable energy integration, adoption of distributed energy resources, leading to grid modernization, achieving sustainability targets, dealing with an ageing water infrastructure and overall enabling energy companies becoming more services oriented and customer-centric.  

 

Rolf has over 20 years international experience in business development and strategy with focus on digital industry solutions, asset performance management (APM) and  
product lifecycle management (PLM) software in the energy, process, architecture and construction industries. Prior to AWS, he built and led the global commercial team for GE Power Digital, and the partner and commercial strategy for GE Digital Renewable Energy asset performance management and predictive analytics solutions. Previously, Rolf was the Industry Solutions Leader in IBM’s Energy & Utilities organization.   

  

Rolf holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany. From February 2013 to June 2017 he served on the board of directors and International council of the American Council of Renewable Energy (ACORE). http://www.acore.org. 
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out in the beginning of the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, July 28th at 11:00 AM CT, please reach out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 17:49
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, July 28th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Pubs Abayasiri, Associate Director Digital Products at CLP Hong Kong, and Rolf Gibbels, Head of Worldwide Business Development, Power & Utilities Industry at Amazon Wed Services (AWS) who will be leading a discussion around “Using IoT and Cloud to Manage Customer Asset Health.“

Please note the time of this Community Conversation. To support our friends at CLP in Hong Kong and because of the time difference between Hong Kong and the U.S., we are changing the time this Community Conversation occurs. Thank you for your flexibility!

I’ll be providing more information on this session one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I sent out invitations for this community and each of our others this morning as well. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

Thanks!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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