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Recap + Action Items: September 27, 2023
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Recap + Action Items: September 27, 2023
Hello UAI EAC Members,
Thank you for attending the September 27, 2023 Executive Advisory Council (EAC) meeting. It was a pleasure to connect with you. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to join us for this meeting. We cannot wait to see you in Orlando during UA Week and specifically for the EAC meeting and dinner taking place in-person on Monday, October 30. The #1 action item from our September meeting is to RSVP for the EAC activities taking place at UAI Week. You can learn more about the EAC meeting and dinner below, but here is a quick link to RSVP for EAC activities at UA Week: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/zsinia91uh37s9/.
Please find below a recap of our EAC meeting discussions and action items highlighted in yellow. You will also find the meeting slide deck and the recording of the meeting in the EAC Library.
UAI Executive Advisory Council: Recap Notes + Action Items September 27, 2023 – Quarterly Virtual Meeting
- Remaining 2023 EAC Meeting Schedule – Please make sure you have the following meetings on your calendar. They have already been sent to you and should be saved on your schedule. Let us know if we need to resend to you.
- Quarterly
- December 13, 2023
- In-Person
- UA Week in Orlando: October 30 from 1:00 – 4:00 PM, followed by dinner at 5:30 PM CT
- Arrive in Orlando on October 29 to ensure you are onsite to join us for this meeting
- ACTION ITEM: RSVP for EAC Activities at UA Week – EAC members invited to join us for the following activities at UA Week
- Please RSVP as soon as possible, but no later than Friday, October 13!
- RSVP here: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/zsinia91uh37s9/
- EAC MEETING (Oct 30, 1 – 4 PM ET)
- EAC/SAB DINNER (Oct 30 at 5:30 PM ET)
- 5:30 PM – Meet in the Loews Portofino Bay Lobby
- 5:45 PM – Bus departs Loews to ICON Park
- 6:00 – 7:30 PM – Dinner at Tapa Toro
- 7:45 – 8:15 PM – Ride The Wheel at ICON Park
- 8:30 PM – Bus departs ICON Park
- 9:00 PM – Arrive at Loews Portofino Bay
- UAI Updates/Calls to Action
- Welcome to our new UAI Members:
- Utility Members:
- City of Fort Smith Utilities
- ENMAX
- Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
- Solution Provider Members:
- Oracle
- Other:
- WECC
- Higher Education Membership – UAI now offers a Higher Education Membership! We are connecting and collaborating with more universities and colleges, and we want to continue to grow this audience. UAI Higher Education Membership is at the institutional level, which means the institution receives institution-wide access for educators, staff, and current students. The membership is designed to aid higher education institutions looking to connect and collaborate with utilities on analytics, publish content on utility analytics, and receive institutional recognition. ACTION ITEM: If you currently work with any higher education institutions, can you please spread the word and help us get connected?
- Recently Published Content from UAI
- See Member Contributed, Non-Member Contributed, UAI Contributed, and Member-Exclusive content contained in the presentation slides for this meeting
- UA Week 2023
- October 31 – November 2, 2023
- Takes place in Orlando, FL at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando
- Learn more and register at http://www.UtilityAnalyticsWeek.com
- Utility Members get three complimentary passes
- ACTION ITEM: Register soon to join us in Orlando!
- ACTION ITEM: Reserve your sleeping room at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel before we sell out of our room block!
- UAI Training – Upcoming classes you should be aware of:
- October 10-12, 2023: Utility Analytics 201: Applied Machine Learning for Utility Professionals – Virtual Classroom
- October 29-31, 2023: Utility Analytics 101 – In-Person in Orlando, before UA Week
- October 30, 2023: Finding Meaning in Utilities Data: Visualization and Storytelling – In-Person in Orlando, before UA Week
- October 30, 2023: Modernizing Data Governance for Utility Companies – In-Person in Orlando, before UA Week
- UAI Communities
- Become a Community Sponsor or Leader!
- We are actively recruiting new sponsors and leaders for all 8 Communities for 2024
- Refer anyone interested to Leslie Cook at lcook@utilityanalytics.com
- Special October 18 Asset Health Roundtable
- We will feature an interactive, open discussion between utility leaders and leaders from SAS. Come prepared to share your insights and collaborate with others!
- Data-Driven Asset Monitoring: Unleashing Real-Time Preventative Maintenance Decisioning
- Date and Time: October 18, 2023 from 3:30 – 5:00 PM ET
- Learn more and RSVP here: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/zyftoqa0r47r4c/
- UAI Excellence Awards – Announcing the 2023 UAI Excellence Award FINALISTS!
- Best Innovative Utility Analytics Team
- Austin Energy – Corporate Quality Services
- Consumers Energy – Operations Performance, Analytics and Process
- Exelon – Exelon Analytics
- Best Utility Analytics Leader
- Chris Britsch, Senior Manager, Data & Analytics – Snohomish County PUD
- Bert Hargesheimer, VP, Operational Support Services – CPS Energy
- Yong Li, Manager, Data Science – DTE Energy
- Best Utility Analytics Professional
- Tom Anderson, Advisory System Engineer, US Energy – SAS
- Cara Gilad, Sr Data Scientist, Infrastructure & Safety Analytics – Exelon
- Michael McManus, Senior Data Scientist – Consumers Energy
- CONGRATULATIONS to our Award Finalists! We will recognize and celebrate our finalists at UA Week in Orlando. Plus, we will announce winners during each general session at the event!
- Use cases submitted via the Use Case Collector will be uploaded to UAI Connect and hosted in our Use Case Café (coming soon!). The information in the Use Case Cafe will only be made available to UAI members.
- Content Update – Sandi Joralemon, UAI Sr. Research Analyst, provide an update on the following:
- Content sub-committee work
- UAI Generative AI Taskforce
- Roundtables
- AMA Report
- Preparation for EAC Workshop at UA Week on October 30 – UAI ACTION ITEM: As we get closer to UA Week, we will send out a detailed agenda and directions for the workshop, so you are more prepared!
- Job Descriptions (1-Hour Workshop)
- A HUGE THANK YOU to our Job Descriptions Sub-Committee!
- THANK YOU for taking the time to take our Job Descriptions Survey!
- We have a close to final draft of our Job Descriptions Toolkit:
- Executive Summary
- Introduction to Project: Background, Purpose, Using it Effectively
- Toolkit Resources:
- Venn Diagram of Analytics Family of Jobs
- Cross Reference Spreadsheet
- Position and Feeder Roles Graphic
- Role Placement within Utility Organizations
- Data Governance Recommendations
- Security Awareness within Each Role
- Data Stewardship within each Role
- Examples: General Requirements, Required Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications for Job Briefs
- Advice on Recruiting, Hiring, and Retention
- Salaries Resource List
- Job Briefs for 8 Roles
- WORKSHOP at UA Week in Orlando on October 30!
- ACTION ITEM: Bring your laptops – We will have you pull up the Resource Toolkit online
- We will review with you + get your final feedback
- You will give final blessing to publish to the UAI Membership Community at Large
- AI Governance Model Workshop (1-Hour, 40-Minute Workshop)
- Goal: Learn how to build a Governance Model
- Conversation Starter: Taskforce Survey
- ACTION ITEM: Homework:
- Bring 2 articles about governance models with you
- Bring or come prepare to discuss your utility’s Analytics Governance process (may not be a written plan)
- ACTION ITEM: Don’t Forget:
- Cell phone
- Laptop
- Homework
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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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