[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to provide a quick update to our session title (from our previous communication) and also get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, March 16th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by the following members from Con Edison who will be leading a discussion around, “Gas Leak Response Analytics at Con Edison”

– Oscar Leon, Department Manager, Gas Emergency Response Center (Con Ed)
– Sho Ohata, Data Scientist (Con Ed)
– Krystin Vitale, Data Scientist (Con Ed)

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:

Responding to gas leaks in a timely manner is a key operational metric for gas utilities. In this session, the Con Edison team will present on the Company’s efforts to date to bring data and analytics capabilities to the Gas Emergency Response Center to continuously improve on their gas leak response time. The session will go through the entire arc – from project inception, the labor-intensive data work, the unique and rich opportunities open data has offered, successes to date, challenges, and what we have planned in the future.

Speaker: Oscar Leon, Department Manager, Gas Emergency Response Center (Con Ed)

Oscar Leon is the Department Manager of the Gas Emergency Response Center and has 17 years of service at Con Edison with a varied background in Gas Operations.  He started out as a union employee as a General Utility Worker then progressed into management and subsequently held several positions of increasing responsibility. Oscar has worked in all regions within the organization.  Oscar holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership from Manhattan College.

Speaker: Sho Ohata, Data Scientist (Con Ed)

Sho Ohata is an experienced utility professional who joined Con Edison in 2010. During his time at Con Edison, he has worked in a variety of positions ranging from Engineering, Project Management, Analyst, and most recently as a Data Scientist in the Analytics Center of Excellence. Sho holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University and a Master of Information in Data Science from University of California Berkeley. 

 
Speaker: Krystin Vitale, Data Scientist (Con Ed)

Krystin Vitale joined Con Edison in 2016 as part of the Leadership Development program.  After graduating from the program, she joined the Analytics Center of Excellence as a Data Scientist where she focuses on geospatial analysis. Krystin holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Fordham University. 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, March 16th at 11:00 AM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back 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!

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