[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, March 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a roundtable discussion around, “2022 Industry Trends, Utility Strategic Themes, and Safety Analytics Use Cases Supporting Strategic Themes” 

Facilitator:
– Erin Hardick, Sr. Research Analyst (UAI)

Speakers:
– Ankush Agarwal, Director, Grid T&D Analytics (Exelon Utilities)
– Rick Salcido, Analyst Data Science and Business Intelligence – Safety (El Paso Electric)
– Samantha Pixley, Manager, Fleet & Safety Informatics (CPS Energy)

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:

Join members of the Safety Analytics Community as they interactively discuss the following:

– Top industry trends that are likely impacting their utilities in 2022
– Strategic themes for their utilities for 2022
– Safety Analytics use cases that support their utilities’ strategic themes

Facilitator: Erin Hardick, Sr. Research Analyst (UAI)

Erin Hardick is the Senior Research Analyst at the Utility Analytics Institute. She works with utilities across North America to research emerging technologies and analytics strategies that are being used to achieve digital transformation goals. She has over five years of experience working in the sphere of energy, utilities, and cities. Erin previously worked at Zpryme as the Senior Research and Content Strategist where she produced research and media content. She’s participated in many thought leadership events including Energy Thought Summit, Smart Utility Summits, and City of the Future. Erin has also co-hosted the Zpryme On the Grid podcast and hosted a mobility video series, Weekly Mobility Update.  

Speaker: Ankush Agarwal, Director, Grid T&D Analytics (Exelon Utilities)

Ankush Agarwal is an innovative data analytics leader, with expertise in developing word-class analytics programs to enable a data-driven culture and transform operational and risk business functions. Recently named the director of Infrastructure Analytics at Exelon, Ankush is responsible for collaborating with business leaders and experts across the Exelon family of companies to develop and deploy an overall Infrastructure Grid T&D analytics strategy and platform. This work will drive sustained value by improving reliability and customer satisfaction, reducing operational costs, and capturing new revenue opportunities. Ankush was previously responsible for shaping the strategy and execution of Exelon’s Audit & Controls’ data analytics and IT Audit function. 

Speaker: Rick Salcido, Analyst Data Science and Business Intelligence – Safety (El Paso Electric)

Rick Salcido is a passionate and dedicated Analyst (Data Science and Business Intelligence) for the Safety Department at El Paso Electric where he has a huge contribution to the transformation of the safety culture to be driven by leading indicators. He is responsible for performing moderate to complex analysis; preparing administrative reports; researching; compiling and analyzing information on the company’s Safety and Health KPIs.  He comes from 10 years of experience in different analytics background such medical, education, and now utilities. Rick currently lives in El Paso, Texas where he enjoys traveling, playing music and spending time with his wife and corgi. 

Speaker: Samantha Pixley, Manager, Fleet & Safety Informatics (CPS Energy)

Samantha Perez Pixley is Manager of Fleet & Safety Informatics at CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas. She has 14 years with the electric and natural gas utility and is working towards maturing analytics and technology for the Fleet and Safety teams. 

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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 Tuesday, March 22nd at 2:00 PM 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!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2022 12:34
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming March (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With March just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our March (2022) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, March 22 at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following leadership team members who will be leading a roundtable themed discussion around, “2022 Industry Trends, Utility Strategic Themes, and Safety Analytics Use Cases Supporting Strategic Themes.”

-Ankush Agarwal, Director, Grid T&D Analytics (Exelon Utilities)
-Bert Hargesheimer, VP Operational Support Services (CPS Energy)

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, 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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