[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, September 21st at 1:00 PM CT we will be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a show and tell themed discussion around Data Science Tools & ML Operations: Azure Data Bricks vs. AWS:

– Chad Tucker, Data Engineer (The Energy Authority)
– Jason Pegg, Domain Architect, Enterprise Technology (Avista Corp)
– Max Wick, Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)
– Juan Vazquez, Sr. Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)

As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this Community Conversation, we will conduct a Show & Tell themed session where members will share their Data Science Tools and ML Operations. During this discussion, members will share:

– Data science tools they are using and how they are using them
– What models they are doing in the public cloud or on-premise
– Productionalization and/or experimentation with models

Speaker: Chad Tucker –Data Engineer (The Energy Authority)

Chad Tucker is a Data Engineer with The Energy Authority on the Connected Analytics team. He has over 20 years’ experience in data storage technologies, primarily on Microsoft Platforms. He has been able to leverage his experience to optimize performance of data warehouse systems and processes. Chad, and his team, are working to bring cloud solutions to help utilities gain insight into the vast amount of data they collect each day. 

Speaker: Jason Pegg – Domain Architect, Enterprise Technology (Avista Corp)

Jason Pegg is a Domain Architect over Data Delivery, Systems Integration, and Energy Resources at Avista Utilities. Jason’s background is in complex systems design and integration and brings with him 25 years of industry experience. Jason holds degrees in Computer Science with emphasis in Math, Physics, and Machine Learning.

Speaker: Max Wick – Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)

Max Wick is a Data Scientist at PPL Utilities. He has experience with Transmission & Distribution Analytics, Big Data and Cloud Platform Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, and MLOps.

Speaker: Juan Vasquez – Sr. Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)

Juan Vazquez is a Sr Data Scientist at PPL Electric Utilities. He is 15 years of experience in Aerospace and Energy. Juan specializes in programming in R, Python, Scala, Spark and SQL and his interests include statistical modeling and ML, big data analytics, data engineering, and data science. He has a passion for Cloud Computing and Application of ML models in the Cloud. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management.  

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, September 21st at 1:00 PM 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: 09-01-2021 15:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2021) Data Science Community Conversation. On Tuesday, September 21st at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a show and tell themed discussion around Data Science Tools & ML Operations: Azure Data Bricks vs. AWS:

– Chad Tucker, Data Engineer (The Energy Authority)
– Jason Pegg, Domain Architect, Enterprise Technology (Avista Corp)
– Max Wick, Data Scientist and Juan Vazquez (PPL Utilities)

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.

Our latest IT update allows me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars through my alternate email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com. I sent out invitations for this community, and each of our other communities, earlier this week. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. As this seems to be an issue with some of our members firewalls, we recommend whitelisting my new email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com to ensure any invites don’t go to your spam/junk folders.

Again please let me know if you have any questions/concerns or do not have a calendar placeholder on your calendar.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting with you all this month!

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