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  March (2023) Community Conversation Recordings Available!

  Posted by Kevin Praet (Adm) on March 31, 2023 at 3:03 am

  Hello UAI Members,

   

  I would like to send a huge THANK YOU to all the members that presented and facilitated during the March 2023 Community Conversations, as well as to our Community Sponsors and Leaders for their continued time, commitment, guidance, and support to drive and deliver valuable programs on an ongoing basis. During our March sessions, we continued to welcome in several new utility and solution provider members. To every attendee that joined us this month, we thank you for joining and sharing your perspectives!

   

  The following sessions took place during March 2023 for the UAI Community Conversations. UAI members that have signed-up for these specific Communities can download the monthly presentations and recordings via the online Community Libraries, which I have linked below:

   

  o   March 14 (2023) Customer Analytics Community Conversation – “Sending the Right Message: Improving Customer Communications Accuracy During Outage Restoration at DTE Energy”

  o   Speaker:

  §  Joyce LePage, IT Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics (DTE Energy)

   

  o   March 15 (2023) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation – “Is Your Gas Division Competing with your Utility Electric Division?”

  o   Speakers:

  §  Scott Hixson, Field and Grid Data Analytics Manager (Ameren Services)

  §  Brandon Zerfowski, Manager, Business Analytics (Ameren Illinois)

  §  Tommy Bouse, Supervisor, IT Business Intelligence (City Utilities of Springfield MO)

  §  Chris Ivanov, Director – Forecasting and Optimization (Madison Gas & Electric)

   

  o   March 15 (2023) Grid Analytics Community Conversation – “Consumers Energy’s Analytics Journey”

  o   Speakers:

  §  Chelsea Szpond, Manager of Operations Process (Consumers Energy)

  §  Mike Shi, Manager of Agile Analytics (Consumers Energy)

  §  Brad Steere, Director of Operations Analytics (Consumers Energy)

  §  Amanda Gomez, Executive Director of Operations Performance Analytics (Consumers Energy)

   

  o   March 21 (2023) Data Science Community Conversation – “Classification of Calls Using Agent Remarks” 

  o   Speaker:

  §  Eric Verner, Data Scientist (Southern Company)

   

  o   March 22 (2023) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation – “Remote Sensing Data Platform”

  o   Speakers:

  §  Alex Hong, Remote Sensing Data Platform Solutions Architect and Product Owner (PG&E)

  §  Hamilton Erridge, Remote Sensing Data Platform Program Manager (PG&E)

   

  o   March 23 (2023) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation – “Part 2: Doing Analytics in the Cloud” 

  o   Speakers:

  §  Alex Preston, Sr Manager, Analytics Platform (Entergy)

  §  Jerry Casarella, Director of Analytics Infrastructure and Solutions (PSEG)

  §  Norv Clontz, Director, Data Science & Innovation (Duke Energy)

  §  Kimberly Sorrell, Director Information Management Office (Southern Company)

  §  Dan Smilowitz, Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics (Consolidated Edison)

   

  o  
  March 28 (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation – “Part 2: PSIF + Continue reviewing answers from poll for Benchmarking Project”

  o   Speakers:

  §  Bert Hargesheimer, VP Operational Support Services (CPS Energy) 

  §  Leslie Cook, Membership, Digital, and Engagement Manager (UAI)

   

  o  
  March 30 (2023) AAT Community Conversation – “PPL’s Transformational Journey to Cloud Analytics“

  o   Speakers:

  §  Abhijit Bhatwadekar, Vice President, Data Platform & Analytics (PPL)

  §  Govind Srinivasan, Data Engineering Director (PPL)

   

   

   

  If you are not part of the UAI Communities, you can learn more about them on UtilityAnalytics.com. All UAI Utility Members receive unlimited access to UAI Communities and the monthly Community Conversations. If you would like to join one or all of the UAI Communities, please submit a “Request to Join”. I’ll be sending an additional message reviewing our April 2023 Community Conversations soon. Be on the lookout!

  
  If you have any questions please let me know otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all in the coming weeks.

   

  
  Thanks!

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