[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our January (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, January 19th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Rachel Mattix, Sr. Data Performance Analyst NGBU and Brian Wilkerson, Sr. Manager, AI Solutions at Duke Energy, who will be leading a discussion around, “Build or Buy? Reducing Damages Using Internal AI”. 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:

Duke Energy designed and implemented an 811-ticket risk ranking model as part of a partnership between the Natural Gas Business Unit and the MADLab. At the time, this service was being provided by a third-party vendor in Ohio and Kentucky, but the business chose to build internally for North Carolina. Rachel and Brian will walk you through the challenges and successes of their citizen data science partnership, from user-centric MVP to implementation and iteration in less than a year.

Speaker: Rachel Mattix, Sr. Data Performance Analyst NGBU (Duke Energy)

Rachel Mattix, Sr. Data Performance Analyst, joined Piedmont Natural Gas in 2015 as part of the Leadership Development Program, working in Risk Management and SOX. During her time in the Natural Gas Business Unit, Rachel provided regulatory and gas accounting process improvement support before joining Gas Data Performance and Analytics. In the past several years, Rachel has partnered with groups across the business to optimize the disconnect for non-pay process, develop a mechanism for the field to track weekly performance and respond to customer needs, and is currently supporting the effort to achieve net-zero methane emissions by 2030. She has education in Communications, Design Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, and Agile.  

Speaker: Brian Wilkerson, Sr. Manager, AI Solutions (DukeEnergy)

Brian Wilkerson is Sr Manager, AI Solutions and has been a team member of Duke Energy for 16 years. Throughout the last 4 years, Brian has been learning and leveraging Artificial Intelligence to accelerate Business Transformation. He is the co-founder of Duke Energy’s “Madlab” (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning), a team organized to be a “one stop shop” for delivering, deploying, and monitoring AI models. Brian has a passion for AI and loves to discover new ways in which it can solve business problems. He holds a Degree in Computer Science and vows to never stop learning! 
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, January 19th at 11:00 AM 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: 01-04-2022 16:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming January (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

Happy New Year and I hope all is well! With January just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our January (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, January 19th at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by Rachel Mattix, Sr. Data Performance Analyst NGBU and Brian Wilkerson, Sr. Manager, AI Solutions at Duke Energy who will be leading a discussion around, Build or Buy? Reducing Damages Using Internal AI. 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, at the end of last month. 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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