• Natural Gas Analytics Community

  Recording for September 2023 Community Conversation + Next Month’s Details + Announcements

  Posted by Kevin Praet (Adm) on September 26, 2023 at 5:29 am

  Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

  Thanks for attending the September 20, 2023 Natural Gas Community Conversation! For those unable to attend, we missed you and look forward to seeing you online next month. During this Community Conversation we were joined by Tim Brenan, Business Analytics Manager, Generation at Entergy who led a discussion around, “Fueling the Future: Unleashing the Power of Prediction in Entergy’s Natural Gas Generation Fleet.”

  Please find a recording and presentation deck for this community conversation in the library. If you haven’t taken our post-meeting evaluation, please take a minute and complete it at the following link: https://www.menti.com/altapw4bfpfy

   

   Keep reading for a few quick announcements!

  1.) Next Community Conversation – IN-PERSON AT UA WEEK: October 31, 2023 at 9:30 ET

  – Group breakout discussions around the following two topics:

  Topic #1: Exploring Generative AI and the Art of the Possible for Natural Gas Analytics

  Topic #2: Advancement of and Changing the Safety Culture in Natural Gas Utilities

  
  – Speakers/Facilitators: 

  Chris Ivanov, Director of Forecasting and Optimization – Madison Gas and Electric

  Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science – National Grid

  
  – More information on this session will be provided soon. To stay up-to-date with this session and each of our future community conversations be sure to visit our Events Calendar.

  2.) Utility Analytics Training – Register Today (Virtual and In-Person) for 2023!

  – Website URL: https://training.utilityanalytics.com/

  – UAI offers several training delivery options that help professionals improve skills from traditional public instructor-led classroom, which provides group learning experiences, to fully immersive training at home or in the office via our virtual classroom offering. UAI even provides private group training, so we could train your entire team at one time.

  – Email Leslie Cook at lcook@utilityanalytics.com if you have any questions around UAI Training 

  3.) Join us at UA Week 2023 in Orlando, FL!

  – Website: https://www.utilityanalyticsweek.com/2023
  
  – Dates: October 31 – November 2

  – Location: Orlando, FL at Loews Potrofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando Resort

  – Utility Analytics Week is an annual conference that demonstrates how utilities can leverage analytics to gain new insights and solve business challenges. Attendees network with industry peers, share ideas, and leave empowered to utilize analytics to increase value across their organization.

  4.) Algorithm Alley – Brand New *UTILITY ONLY Resource on UAI Connect!

  – Algorithm Alley Link: https://connect.utilityanalytics.com/collaborate/algorithm-alley
  
  – Algorithm Alley is designed to help members share and collaborate on various forms of code, a resource heavily designed for our growing data science audience.

  – Currently divided into four categories (Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Machine Learning Algorithms, and Programming) members will have the option of perusing through different entries while also being able to upload their own content. Furthermore, members can like/upvote certain entries and interact publicly or privately with each author.

  5.) Contribute a High Value Use Case for our Upcoming Repository

  
  – Submission Link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CY8NMV

  – The high value analytics use case form is for collecting information about planned, underway, or complete high value analytics use cases.

  – The Executive Advisory Council (EAC) requests the collection of these use cases each year. The collected information is for UAI member utility company representatives only.

  
  6.) Speak During a Future Community Conversation!

  – Proposal Link: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/x1ei9mtx17zuq9w/

  – All of our members have a different story to tell which is what makes the UAI Community great! Share what projects you’re working on at your utility by being a speaker during a future community conversation.

  – Remember, you don’t have to be at the end of your journey to share …sharing along the way is a valuable part of the process and could ultimately help you make adjustments and improvements. 

  7.) Join our Community Leadership Teams!

  Help lead one of UAI’s Analytics Communities by becoming a Community Sponsor/Leader! We are actively looking for new leadership team members in ALL UAI Analytics Communities. Email Leslie Cook at lcook@utilityanalytics.com or Kevin Praet at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com to learn more.

  
  – Find full charters/scopes for our Analytics Communities on our Current Analytics Community Page. Find more information on the Community Sponsor/Leader role on our Volunteer Page.

  *You must be a UAI Utility Member to be considered for these roles.

  
  Again please find the recording and presentation deck for this Community Conversation in the library.

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