[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our in-person October (2022) Customer Analytics Community Conversation (co located at UA Week) and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, October 18 at 2:15 PT, we will feature a two part session hitting on the following areas:

Part 1:“Entergy Bill Projection: Predicting Customer Bills using Machine Learning” – Presentation with Q&A and open discussion led by Shraddha Sharma, Sr. Data Scientist at Entergy.

Part 2: “Should we allow customers to opt-in and opt-out to participate in data science programs?” – Tabletop Exercise: Debate facilitated by UAI Staff.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below

Session Description:

Part 1: Join the Customer Analytics Community on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at UA Week in San Diego, CA for a presentation with Q&A and open discussion on “Entergy Bill Projection: Predicting Customer Bills using Machine Learning” by Shraddha Sharma, Sr. Data Scientist at Entergy.

Entergy utilizes temperature and customer’s past usage patterns to predict electricity and gas bills. This gives customers insights into how their usage might be impacted with increasing/decreasing temperatures and plan accordingly. In this presentation, Shraddha will also briefly talk about the risks/challenges Entergy faced during the implementation process and lessons learned while transitioning from older models to a machine learning model.

Part 2: During the Debate, attendees will be split into two groups where they will work together to draft up an argument, for vs. against, to defend an important analytics topic or situation. Each group will have 20 minutes to work collaboratively to draft their argument and select a presenter(s) from within their group, and then each group will have 10 minutes to share their views (a fast paced 40 minutes).

Be prepared to exercise your innovative thinking and come with an open mind, as you may be purposefully put on the “for” team when you are actually “against” it and vice versa to help you think constructively to promote further development and advancement. Ultimately, we want to help you meet more people during this timeframe, take part in an interesting, informative, and collaborative activity, and most importantly to have some fun. The topic for the Customer Analytics Community is “Should we allow customers to opt-in and opt-out to participate in data science programs? i.e. using their data (some customers are hesitant to opt-in) – using personal data for data science”

Speaker: Shraddha Sharma, Sr. Data Scientist (Entergy)

Shraddha Sharma works as a Sr. Data Scientist at Entergy where she has been working on customer and corporate related use cases. Prior to working t Entergy, Shraddha worked in Insurance, re-insurance, and the telecom domain. Shraddha graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Master’s in Business Analytics and Project Management. She is excited to be part of the UAI Customer Analytics Community. 
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Please note this session will only be taking place live at UA Week, no virtual option will be available. If you plan on joining this session, but have not yet registered for UA Week, you can do so using the link HERE.

If you have any questions please let us know.

Thanks!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2022 10:05
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for this month’s Community Conversation taking place LIVE and in-person, Tuesday October 18 at 2:15 PM PT at Utility Analytics Week. This in-person session will feature two exciting parts:

Part 1: Entergy Bill Projection: Predicting Customer Bills using Machine Learning (Presentation with Q&A and open discussion led by Shraddha Sharma, Sr. Data Scientist at Entergy.

Part 2: Tabletop Exercise: Debate (Facilitated by UAI Staff)

*Please note this session will only be taking place live at UA Week, no virtual option will be available. If you plan on joining this session, but have not yet registered for UA Week, you can do so using the link below.

Register For Utility Analytics Week: https://www.utilityanalyticsweek.com/2022/registration

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

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

Thanks!

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