[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our October Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation (part of this year’s UA Week event) and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a panel themed discussion around, Forecasting: Load and Demand Forecasting and Labor Forecasting:

Facilitator: Kaleb Thompson, Data Science Supervisor – ONE Gas
Panelists:

• Kate Lemay, Director of Enterprise Analytics – Black Hills Energy
• Lawrence Bustos, Manager of Business Ops Support, Gas Delivery Administration – TECO Peoples Gas (An Emera Company)
• Andy Mendyk, Lead Forecast Analyst – Alliant Energy

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

*This event will take place in-person at UA Week in Dallas, TX. If you cannot travel to Dallas for the event, we will also be hosting this session virtually, so you have an option to join in on this valuable discussion.

Learn more about this session and each of our speakers below!

Session Description:

Join the Natural Gas Analytics Community on Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT for a panel themed discussion around, “Forecasting: Load and Demand Forecasting and Labor Forecasting.” During this discussion, we’ll be hearing from a group of utility panelists while also taking questions and input from Natural Gas Analytics Community Members and UA Week attendees.

Facilitator: Kaleb Thompson – Data Science Supervisor (ONE Gas)

Kaleb Thompson is an analytics professional who has worked at ONE Gas for over six years in a variety of roles such as Data Engineer, Data Scientist and now supports the advanced analytics efforts at ONE Gas.

Panelist: Kate Lemay – Director of Enterprise Analytics (Black Hills Energy)

Kate Lemay is the Director of Enterprise Data & Analytics at Black Hills Energy. She has over 10 years of experience in data and analytics and is passionate about connecting business challenges with data-driven solutions. She holds a master’s degrees in Operations Engineering as well as Data Science. She lives in Colorado with her husband and two young kids and enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and outdoor adventures in her spare time. 

Panelist: Lawrence Bustos, Manager of Business Ops Support, Gas Delivery Administration (TECO People’s Gas – An Emera Company)

Lawrence Bustos is a dynamic leader with impeccable engineering technical skills and an exceptional ability to manage logistics and field operations. Lawrence is confident in leading and working with teams to achieve complex engineering or financial objectives.

Panelist: Andy Mendyk, Lead Forecast Analyst (Alliant Energy)

Andy Mendyk is Lead Forecast Analyst at Alliant Energy, a large Investor–Owned Utility serving over 1 million gas and electric customers in Wisconsin and Iowa. Andy is responsible for developingshort- and long-rangesales,revenue,and demand forecasts for both the electric and gas businesses. Prior to arriving at Alliant, he was a senior researcher at the Energy Center of Wisconsin, a private non-profit organization based in Madison, WI. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 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: 10-01-2021 13:02
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. On Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a panel themed discussion around, Forecasting: Load and Demand Forecasting and Labor Forecasting:

• Kate Lemay, Director of Enterprise Analytics – Black Hills Energy
• Lawrence Bustos, Manager of Business Ops Support, Gas Delivery Administration – TECO Peoples Gas (An Emera Company)
• Andy Mendyk, Lead Forecast Analyst – Alliant Energy

*This session will be taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. Members can register for Utility Analytics Week using the link HERE or by emailing kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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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