[Leslie Cook (Adm)]

Sorry all! The subject line was incorrect when this original hit your inbox. I fixed it now and it should read, “Recap & Action Items: June 29, 2022 EAC Meeting. 

Thanks so much! And, Happy Friday!

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
719-203-8650, lcook@utilityanalytics.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2022 11:27
From: Leslie Cook
Subject: Recap & Action Items: June 29, 2022 EAC Meeting

Hello UAI EAC Members,

Thank you for attending the June 29, 2022 UAI Executive Advisory Council (EAC) meeting. It was a pleasure to reconnect with you. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to join us and for the thoughtful input you provided during our discussions. 

Please find below a recap of our discussions and action items . You will also find the recording of the EAC meeting and a PDF version of the slide deck in the EAC Library.

UAI Executive Advisory Council NOTES

June 29, 2022

AGENDA

• 2022 EAC Meeting Schedule
• 2022 Sub-Committees
• UAI Updates
• UAI Calls to Action
• SAB Discussion Update
• EAC Discussion
• Informal, Open Discussion

2022 MEETING SCHEDULE

• Remaining 2022 Quarterly Virtual Schedule – You should have the virtual schedule on your calendar now. If you do not, please let Leslie know, so she can resend
  • Wednesday, March 30 at 12:00 PM CT
  • Wednesday, June 29 at 12:00 PM CT
  • Wednesday, September 28 at 12:00 PM CT – Due to proximity to the in-person meeting in October, we are canceling this virtual meeting
  • Wednesday, December 14 at 12:00 PM CT
• 2022 In-Person Schedule – You should have this schedule on your calendar now. If you do not, please let Leslie know, so she can resend
  • EAC at UA Summit: Tuesday, May 10 at 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM CT
  • EAC at UA Week in San Diego: Tuesday, October 18 at 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM CT

 

UAI UPDATES

• New UAI Members
  • Utilities – No new utility members at this time
  • Solution Providers
    • Engineering Intelligence
    • Heavy AI
    • Logic 20/20
  • Recently Published UAI Content
    • Research
      • Duke Energy’s MADLab Use Case (4/25/3022)
      • TVA MICA (Material Intelligent Catalog Assistant) Supply Chain Use Case (5/3/2022)
    • Blogs/Articles
      • Beyond Run to Fail: Redefining Low-Voltage Grid Management(3/28/2022)
      • Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Utility Industry Solutions(3/31/2022)
      • Devouring Underutilized Data with Spatial Analytics(4/6/2022)
      • Demystifying the Digital Twin. Time to Rethink the Definition?(4/13/2022)
      • The Journey to Reliable Data: Essential Steps in Data Governance to Improve the Bottom Line(4/18/2022)
      • Forecasting the Future of Electric Vehicles: Predicting the Grid(5/2/2022)
      • Start your Analytics Journey with LiDAR(5/3/2022)
      • The Moneyball for Utility Analytics Teams is a Good Analogy(5/17/2022)
      • AMI – Advanced Analytics Opportunities(6/1/2022)
    • Podcasts
      • Nationals Labs Talk Climate Risk Part 2(4/6/2022)
      • GIS and Digital Twins (4/21/2022)
      • Utility or “Trusted Energy Advisor”…or both? (5/12/2022)
      • Paving the Way for EVs(5/12/2022)
      • EL Paso Electric Launches Enterprise Advanced Analytics Team (6/16/2022)
    • COMING SOON: Member-Only!
      • Use Case Library Collection
      • Analytics Maturity Assessment 
      • Top Quadrant Key Findings Report

UAI CALLS TO ACTION

• Submit UAI Excellence Award Nominations at http://www.UtilityAnalytics.com/Awards
  • Original deadline to submit nominations was YESTERDAY, June 30, 2022
  • If you need a little extra time, your drop dead date to submit is Monday, July 11. If you need this extension, please immediately reach out to @Leslie to let me know. 
• Analytics Maturity Assessment
  • AMA survey submissions were due YESTERDAY, June 30, 2022. Contact @Erin immediately if you are trying to submit your AMA
  • Check out the collaboration resources on UAI Connect at UtilityAnalytics.com/uai-ama!
• Utility Analytics 101 Training
  • Virtual classroom schedule: https://training.utilityanalytics.com/training/Calendar
  • In-person class coming up JUST BEFORE UA Week in San Diego, October 16-18, 2022 
  • Via the in-person class, students will gain value from networking face-to-face with their peers and the class is 18 hours, so they will receive 1.8 CEUs (as compared to 1.2 CEUs for the virtual class)
  • Do you have team member that is interested in attending this class? Reach out to Leslie at lcook@utilityanalytics.com
• Coming Soon! NEW UAI Training Classes
  • 200-Level Courses – Four Days, CEUs
    • Applied Machine Learning for Utilities Professionals (201)
      • Beta class running July 19-22, 2022
      • First classes available on August 23-26, 2022 and October 4-7, 2022
      • Call @Leslie to learn more and register
    • Introduction to Forecasting in the Utilities (202)
      • Beta class coming this Fall
  • One Day Courses
    • Data Governance – Available at UA Week as a pre-con add-on on October 18, 2022
    • Data Quality
    • Data Storytelling and Data Visualization
    • Root Cause Analysis
• UA Week 2022
  • October 18-20, 2022 in San Diego, CA
  • Host: SDG&E
  • Learn more and register today at http://www.UtilityAnalyticsWeek.com
• Use Case Collection Update
  • An update to and combination of the UAI Project Profile and High Value Use Case programs
  • Could you please review of the Use Case Collector form and provide the following feedback?
    • Are the required questions useful and necessary? If no, please let us know why.
    • Do the optional questions provide additional material value?  If no, please let us know why.
    • Is any critical information missing?
  • Here is a link to the Use Case Collector form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KZ85926

 

Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) Discussion UPDATES

• Creation of Job Descriptions
  • We identified which roles/positions we want to create job descriptions, as well as captured some things to consider for these job descriptions:
    • Focus on the tactical roles
    • Align roles to industry standard
    • Make sure you think well-rounded about the roles, i.e. from a small utility perspective by including bullet points of roles and responsibilities that may role-up into the roles identified for hybrid roles
    • Data scientist is not always a perfect fit
    • Identify progression based on experience
    • IT vs Business
      • Should roles be segmented based on side of the business? OR…
      • Should we go by the functions to take away IT vs Business?
    • Focus roles/positions on functions
      • Engineers
      • Architects
      • Data Scientists
      • Data Stewards (Question from SAB members: Is this a specific job title role within utilities?)
      • Data Analysts/Management
      • Reporting Analysts
    • Examples of roles/positions
      • All the same…
        • Solutions Engineer (getting a ML application into production, containerization, intersects with architect)
        • Data Engineer
        • Analytics Engineer
        • DevOps Engineer
        • MLOps Engineer
        • Business Intelligence Analyst
      • AI Specialist overlaps with Data Scientist and ML Engineer
      • Back End IT: Data Base Engineer
      • Front End: Business Intelligence Analyst/Developing Reporting Solutions
  • We identified a small group of SAB and EAC members to work on the job descriptions for each role/position – Leslie to be in touch within the next two weeks to pull us together
    • @Dawn, OUC, OUC
    • @Jordan, Entergy 
    • @Nadia, El Paso Electric
    • @Beth, The Energy Authority
    • @Kelly, City Utilities of Springfield, MO
    • @Joseph, Duke Energy
    • @Vijoy, Consumers Energy
    • @John, American Electric Power
    • @Neelanjan, Tennessee Valley Authority
  • Small group to work on:
    • Frame the role and responsibilities, key components
    • Experience vs degree, i.e. requirements
    • What to watch out for, lessons learned
    • Industry representation of salary
    • Full circle conversation with cloud migration/adoption and IT vs Business: evolve job descriptions to include moving into the cloud and should also include collaboration between IT and the business

 EAC DISCUSSION

• We spent time reviewing the things discussed/identified during the May 10, 2022 EAC meeting at UA Summit. These notes are attached to this post. We also made a few additional notes to the topics of discussions, as noted below
• The EAC members at our meeting during UA Summit worked collaboratively and provided a wealth of information to the topics at hand:
  • Analytics in IT vs. Analytics in the Business
    • Make sure to add “Industrial Systems Engineer”
    • Best Practice Get data scientists in the field
  • Hiring and Retention
  • Cloud Migration/Adoption
    • Can capitalize implementation, but not consumption in the cloud – Lots of members agree and are doing the same
    • Work with regulators on filing costs
    • We all collectively could do a better job of Data Governance in Cloud Migration/Adoption
  • Data Governance/Data Quality
    • EV chargers/vendors – they are offering no standardization of data – they are all over the place
    • Push to get standardize data from vendors
    • Impost requirements on vendors to play with you
    • Who can see the data is a bigger issue than who owns the data, i.e. making it usable. Owners don’t share.
  • The Intersection of Digital Experience and Data Analytics
    • Experience = Why to align with priorities
    • Data = How
  • ESG (Environment Societal Governance)
• There has been a lot to consume and combine regarding the amazing discussions that took place during this meeting, so we want to make sure to take time during today’s meeting to do a review of this information, especially for those that missed the meeting at UA Summit
• The team here at UAI is still reviewing and compiling actions to take regarding this information, so we think it is important to give an overview of the EAC’s findings and collect any additional thoughts on these topics. Due to this focus, we will not discuss any new topics during this June EAC meeting. 

Thanks!

     Leslie

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
719-203-8650, lcook@utilityanalytics.com
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