[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our October Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, October 26 at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Community Leader Kara Randle, Sr. Analyst, and Aaron Arzaga, Senior Data Scientist & Business Intelligence Analyst, at El Paso Electric, who will be leading a discussion around, “EPE Is In Gear.” As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

This session will include an overview of the journey that EPE has taken to transform and automate several of the business processes in Power Generation, including the automation and visualization of Power Generation’s safety data.

Speaker: Kara Randle, Sr. Analyst (El Paso Electric)

Kara is responsible for accurate and timely reporting of KPI’s to executive and regulatory agencies.She has been with El Paso Electric for 2 years and has made many positive changes that go beyond her main responsibilities. The most positive change includes leading and being at the forefront of deploying El Paso Electric’s business intelligence initiative with a data centric foundation. 

Speaker: Aaron Arzaga, Senior Data Scientist & Business Intelligence Analyst (El Paso Electric)

Aaron Arzaga has been with El Paso Electric for 12.5 years. Throughout those years he has gained experience in Financial Systems support, accounting, regulatory support, and most recently supporting the advancement of Analytics throughout the EPE enterprise. Aaron is most recently completing El Paso Electric’s GEAR (Generation Event Application Recorder) project, which includes the automation and visualization of their safety data for EPE’s Power Generation Department. 

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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 Tuesday, October 26th at 2:00 PM 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: 10-01-2021 13:38
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. Though still finalizing a few things with this session, our community will be meeting Tuesday, October 26th at 2:00 PM CT and I’ll be providing more information one week prior.

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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our October Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, October 19 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a “Show and Tell” themed discussion around, Data Visualizer Tools:

– Sam Dean, Developmental Associate, IT – Enterprise Analytics, TVA – Python/Dash

– Aidan Smith, Quantitative Analyst – Enterprise Analytics, TVA – R / Shiny

– Mike White, Local Relations Representative & Data Scientist, American Transmission Company – Python

– Xu (Lisa) Weihong, Customer Analytics Manager, Georgia Power (Southern Company) – SAS, Tableau, and Power BI

– Terry Liu, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform, Manitoba Hydro – Power BI data visualizer and its sister product, Report Builder

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this “Show and Tell” themed discussion, members will share what tools they are using for data visualization and how they are using them. Come prepared with your questions as our presenters do a demo of their tools.

Speaker: Sam Dean, Developmental Associate, IT – Enterprise Analytics (TVA)

Sam Dean has been with TVA a little over two years working on Data Analytics projects written in Python. Projects include text search and analytics as well as predictive models around nuclear equipment failures and hydroelectric flow patterns. Before TVA, he worked with UTC’s SimCenter on Twitter text and location data analysis while earning his Master’s in Computer Science.  

Speaker: Aidan Smith, Quantitative Analyst – Enterprise Analytics (TVA)

Aidan Smith has been at TVA for two and a half years working as a Quantitative Analyst in the Advanced Analytics and Enterprise Analytics organizations. Projects include optimization models, predictive time series forecasting, computer vision, and interactive web app development.  Aidan uses python for general programming but is a huge fan of the R programming language for data manipulation, visualization, and web app development.  Aidan has an undergraduate degree in Statistics from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Speaker: Mike White, Local Relations Representative & Data Scientist (American Transmission Company)

Mike White joined ATC full time in 2017 where he serves a variety of communication and public relations roles. Mike also serves as a core team member of ATC’s data analytics, AI & machine learning initiative.

In 2002 Mike co-founded The Shop Consulting and served as President of one of Wisconsin’s premier public affairs and strategic communication firms. Prior to forming The Shop he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked in both policy and technology positions for the Wisconsin Legislature. He earned a master’s degree in Data Science from the University of Wisconsin Data Science Program. 

Speaker: Xu (Lisa) Weihong, Customer Analytics Manager (Georgia Power)

Lisa Xu is currently working on the Georgia Power’s Customer Experience team, focusing on improving customer journey experiences. Prior to her current role, she was with the Customer Analytics team, predicting customer behaviors to promote marketing campaigns.

Speaker: Terry Liu, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform (Manitoba Hydro)

Terry Liu is a System Developer in the new Business Data & Analytics Platform section at Manitoba Hydro. He has worked at Manitoba Hydro for over 16 years in various roles within the Information Technology Services division. In the last several years, Terry’s focus has been supporting Data and Analytics at Manitoba Hydro. His background is primarily in Computer Science wherehe has a master’s degree majoring in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and minoring in Business. 

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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 Tuesday, October 19th at 1:00 PM 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: 10-01-2021 13:18
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Data Science Community Conversation. On Tuesday, October 19th at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Xu (Lisa) Weihong, Customer Analytics Manager at Southern Company and Terry Liu, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform at Manitoba Hydro who will be leading a show and tell themed discussion around, Data Visualizer Tools.

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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our October Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation (part of this year’s UA Week event) and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a panel themed discussion around, Forecasting: Load and Demand Forecasting and Labor Forecasting:

Facilitator: Kaleb Thompson, Data Science Supervisor – ONE Gas
Panelists:

• Kate Lemay, Director of Enterprise Analytics – Black Hills Energy
• Lawrence Bustos, Manager of Business Ops Support, Gas Delivery Administration – TECO Peoples Gas (An Emera Company)
• Andy Mendyk, Lead Forecast Analyst – Alliant Energy

As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

*This event will take place in-person at UA Week in Dallas, TX. If you cannot travel to Dallas for the event, we will also be hosting this session virtually, so you have an option to join in on this valuable discussion.

Learn more about this session and each of our speakers below!

Session Description:

Join the Natural Gas Analytics Community on Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT for a panel themed discussion around, “Forecasting: Load and Demand Forecasting and Labor Forecasting.” During this discussion, we’ll be hearing from a group of utility panelists while also taking questions and input from Natural Gas Analytics Community Members and UA Week attendees.

Facilitator: Kaleb Thompson – Data Science Supervisor (ONE Gas)

Kaleb Thompson is an analytics professional who has worked at ONE Gas for over six years in a variety of roles such as Data Engineer, Data Scientist and now supports the advanced analytics efforts at ONE Gas.

Panelist: Kate Lemay – Director of Enterprise Analytics (Black Hills Energy)

Kate Lemay is the Director of Enterprise Data & Analytics at Black Hills Energy. She has over 10 years of experience in data and analytics and is passionate about connecting business challenges with data-driven solutions. She holds a master’s degrees in Operations Engineering as well as Data Science. She lives in Colorado with her husband and two young kids and enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and outdoor adventures in her spare time. 

Panelist: Lawrence Bustos, Manager of Business Ops Support, Gas Delivery Administration (TECO People’s Gas – An Emera Company)

Lawrence Bustos is a dynamic leader with impeccable engineering technical skills and an exceptional ability to manage logistics and field operations. Lawrence is confident in leading and working with teams to achieve complex engineering or financial objectives.

Panelist: Andy Mendyk, Lead Forecast Analyst (Alliant Energy)

Andy Mendyk is Lead Forecast Analyst at Alliant Energy, a large Investor–Owned Utility serving over 1 million gas and electric customers in Wisconsin and Iowa. Andy is responsible for developingshort- and long-rangesales,revenue,and demand forecasts for both the electric and gas businesses. Prior to arriving at Alliant, he was a senior researcher at the Energy Center of Wisconsin, a private non-profit organization based in Madison, WI. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM 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: 10-01-2021 13:02
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. On Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a panel themed discussion around, Forecasting: Load and Demand Forecasting and Labor Forecasting:

• Kate Lemay, Director of Enterprise Analytics – Black Hills Energy
• Lawrence Bustos, Manager of Business Ops Support, Gas Delivery Administration – TECO Peoples Gas (An Emera Company)
• Andy Mendyk, Lead Forecast Analyst – Alliant Energy

*This session will be taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. Members can register for Utility Analytics Week using the link HERE or by emailing kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our October Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation (part of this year’s UA Week event) and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Julie Jordan, MBA, PE, Sr Manager, Continuous Improvement and Debra K. Guerry, MBA, Sr CI Coach, Continuous Improvement at Santee Cooper who will be leading a discussion around, Santee Coopers’ Continuous Improvement & Innovation Journey with Data Analytics. As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

*This event will take place in-person at UA Week in Dallas, TX. If you cannot travel to Dallas for the event, we will also be hosting this session virtually, so you have an option to join in on this valuable discussion.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this session, Santee Cooper will present a narrative on their Continuous Improvement (CI) & Innovation journey and how the use of data analytics has transformed their company in 3 major ways:

– Driving the CI & Innovation program evolution and strategic planning efforts,

– Increasing data-driven decisions and the need for analytics across the enterprise, and

– Recognizing the need for resources dedicated to data analytics

Speaker: Julie Jordan – MBA, PE, Sr Manager, Continuous Improvement (Santee Cooper)

Santee Cooper is a public power & water utility.  As Sr manager, Julie leads the corporate Continuous Improvement & Innovation initiatives. She has 29 years of utility experience, 22 of which involved working with environmental permitting, regulatory development, and compliance.  Since becoming Sr Manager, her team has developed a program whose vision is fostering a culture that inspires the continuous pursuit of industry excellence while making Santee Cooper “leaner, greener and more customer-centric”.  

Speaker: Debra K. Guerry – MBA, Sr CI Coach, Continuous Improvement (Santee Cooper)

Santee Cooper is a public power & water utility.  As a Sr CI Coach, Debra works with strategic business units focused on employee engagement and process improvements.  She has 22 years of utility experience, 18 of which involved operational and environmental laboratory services.  Since becoming a Sr Coach, she is part of a team whose mission includes promoting the adoption, integration and advancement of CI and Innovation best practices by empowering ALL employees in making Santee Cooper “leaner, greener and more customer-centric”.  

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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, October 13th at 3:00 PM 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: 10-01-2021 13:06
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. On Wednesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Julie Jordan, MBA, PE, Sr Manager, Continuous Improvement and Debra K. Guerry, MBA, Sr CI Coach, Continuous Improvement at Santee Cooper who will be leading a presentation with Q&A and open discussion around, Santee Coopers’ Continuous Improvement & Innovation Journey with Data Analytics.

 

*This session will be taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. Members can register for Utility Analytics Week using the link HERE or by emailing kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our October Grid Analytics Community Conversation (part of this year’s UA Week event) and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, October 13th at 1:45 PM CT, we will be joined by Community Sponsor Amin Tayyebi, Data Science Manager at Exelon Utilities, who will be leading a discussion around, Improve Fault Location Accuracy for Historical Electrical Outage. As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

*This event will take place in-person at UA Week in Dallas, TX. If you cannot travel to Dallas for the event, we will also be hosting this session virtually, so you have an option to join in on this valuable discussion.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Utilities are spending millions of dollars on storm hardening and other engineering solution deployments and leveraging outage and damage data for advanced analytics use cases such as storm prediction and vegetation spot-trimming. Accurate outage location is fundamental to supporting and enabling this work. Historical outage data records the geographical location where an outage was reported (i.e. the coordinates of the residence of a customer who called to report the outage) but does not reflect the actual location where crews worked to repair faulty/damaged equipment. Exelon integrated various GIS data sources called 1) mobile dispatch system (MDS) that enables crew to automate routing and scheduling processes efficiently, 2) outage management system (OMS) that stores the location of outage and assist in restoration of power, 3) GIS system provides the location of utility assets (i.e. poles, breakers, fuses and feeders), 4) Verizon Telematics allow complete connectivity to any vehicle with safety and security as the beginning. With integrating various data source, Data Science, Operation Dashboard, and ArcGIS API for Python, Exelon built an algorithm that improves the accuracy of outage location.

Speaker: Amin Tayyebi – Data Science Manager (Exelon Utilities)

AminTayyebi, Ph.D.is currently the Data Science Manager at Exelon. He has+10 years of experience as data scientist, data engineer and project manager in analytics by integrating geospatial data (remote sensing and GIS), data mining, statistics, machine learning and deep learning, programming as well as developing APIs to meet the needs of business applications and various technology partners such as USGS, NASA, USDA, EPA, Exelon, ESRI, Bayer Crop Science and Climate Corporation. 

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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, October 13th at 1:45 PM 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: 10-01-2021 13:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Grid Analytics Community Conversation taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. On Wednesday, October 13th at 1:45 PM CT, we will be joined by Community Leader Amin Tayyebi, Data Science Manager at Exelon Utilities, who will be leading a discussion around, Improve Fault Location Accuracy for Historical Electrical Outage.

 

*This session will be taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. Members can register for Utility Analytics Week using the link HERE or by emailing kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our October Customer Analytics Community Conversation (part of this year’s UA Week event) and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, October 13th at 1:45 PM CT, we will be joined by Community Leader Poonam Yadav, Sr. Manager of Insights and Research at Consumers Energy, who will be leading a discussion around, A 360 Degree View of the Customer. As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

*This event will take place in-person at UA Week in Dallas, TX. If you cannot travel to Dallas for the event, we will also be hosting this session virtually, so you have an option to join in on this valuable discussion.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

During this session, Poonam will share a 360 degree view of the customer at Consumers Energy. Consumers Energy is able to map 22 different end to end customer experiences across the company (electric and gas divisions) which comprises over 91% of the total experiences. This includes transaction surveys across digital (website & social media), IVR, live and field touchpoints.

Speaker: Poonam Yadav – Sr. Manager of Insights and Research (Consumers Energy)

Poonam Yadav, Sr. Manager, Insights and Research at Consumers Energy is a subject matter expert with over a decade of experience in customer research, analytics, experience design, problem solving and voice of the customer. She is a strong customer advocate with a passion to build best in class customer and product experiences. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, October 13th at 1:45 PM 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: 10-01-2021 13:15
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Customer Analytics Community Conversation taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. On Wednesday, October 13th at 1:45 PM CT, we will be joined by Community Leader Poonam Yadav, Sr. Manager of Insights and Research at Consumers Energy, who will be leading a discussion around, A 360 Degree View of the Customer.

 

*This session will be taking place both virtually and in-person at Utility Analytics Week. Members can register for Utility Analytics Week using the link HERE or by emailing kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hey Tony,

Thanks for reaching out on this and I’m glad to hear language analytics is an area of interest! UAI has several resources surrounding language analytics/NLP and I’ve listed a few resources below to get you started:

• NLP and It’s Application in the Utility Industry – https://connect.utilityanalytics.com/viewdocument/natural-language-processing-and-its
• Summarizing Text with AI | NLP Whitepaper – https://connect.utilityanalytics.com/viewdocument/summarizing-text-with-artificial-in?CommunityKey=b805fd0c-70a5-440c-b522-3dc71b9f070e&tab=librarydocuments
• APS Text Analytics Use Case – https://connect.utilityanalytics.com/blogs/blogviewer?BlogKey=d6ed6518-2ee5-42cb-a5e8-e160627d0426
• Natural Language Processing Use Cases at SoCalGas: Named Entity Extraction, Automatic Redaction and Text Classification for General Counsel and Damage Prevention Documents – https://connect.utilityanalytics.com/viewdocument/july-20-2021-community-conversatio?CommunityKey=68485d2d-d4d9-408f-bc7b-69b2074650c3&tab=librarydocuments

Please note that two of the resources above are part of our Data Science Community and Mosaic Data Sceince Premium Member Community. Given the topics being discussed, I couldn’t recomend these two groups anymore and would love to get you included if interested (to ensure you stay up to date on discussion threads and content related to this topic). Please also feel free to use our Search Tool as well where we have even more content related to this topic. 

Thanks again and please reach out if I can help pull any additional resources!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-06-2021 13:45
From: Tony Klutz
Subject: [External] Safety Analytics Community : Recording for August 2021 Community Conversation + Next Month’s Details + Announcements

Hello Kevin

There have been a number of meetings devoted to language analytics.  The August 2021 and the March 2020 meeting both discussed this topic.  Were other meeting devoted to this topic?  I am interested in using language analytics to review free form test of injury descriptions to understand trends that may not be evident.

 

Is there any further information on previous meetings you can provide concerning this topic?   

 

Regards

Tony

 

Tony Klutz

Sr. Industrial Hygienist

1411 E. Mission  MSC-20

Spokane, WA 99220

PH: (509) 495 – 2648

CL: (509) 703 – 3065

FX: (509) 777 – 5586

 

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our September Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday September 28th at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following presenters who will be leading a presentation around Gas Dig-in Analytics Use Case: Can you find a broken needle in an Everest-sized haystack?

– Thomas Kautzman, BI Analyst, Data Science (Avista Corp)

– Kim Boynton, Senior Analyst, Data Science (Avista Corp)

– Robert Hughes, Damage Prevention Analyst (Avista Corp)

As this discussion is interactive, we urge you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

The purpose of this use case at Avista was to predict which dig requests are most likely to result in a dig-in and to enable targeted mitigation to reduce overall dig-in rate. Avista wanted to reduce line hits during excavation to improve safety measures. During this session, the team from Avista will present their use case and talk through the issues they encountered developing a predictive model, and the pivot they made to a consequence model.

Speaker: Thomas Kautzman, BI Analyst, Data Science (Avista Corp)

Thomas Kautzman is a Data BI Analyst on the Data Science team with Avista Utilities. He was hired as the Data Science team’s first student intern in 2018 and has been working as a full-time employee since graduating from Eastern Washington University in 2019 with degrees in Information Systems and Data Analytics. In his current role, Thomas assists a large number of the business units at Avista with a wide range of data science/analytics tasks, including data visualization, data pre-processing/cleaning, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling. 

Speaker: Kim Boynton, Senior Analyst, Data Science (Avista Corp)

Kim Boynton is a Senior Analyst on the Data Science team with Avista Utilities. He has more than 26 years of experience in the utilities industry. He has served in many roles during his career at Avista from software developer to applications manager and IT auditor. In his current role, Kim actively promotes analytic self-service throughout the organization by providing support to the analyst community and delivering analytic solutions to the business units. 

Speaker: Robert Hughes, Damage Prevention Analyst (Avista Corp)

Robert Hughes is an underground facilities Damage Prevention Analyst working on Avista’s Gas Compliance team. Prior to this position he worked in Avista’s Data Science team as a student intern. Robert’s background is in data analytics using Python and R and visualization software such as Power BI and Tableau.  

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, September 28th at 2:00 PM 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: 09-01-2021 15:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2021) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, September 28th at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following presenters who will be leading a presentation around Gas Dig-in Analytics Use Case: Can you find a broken needle in an Everest-sized haystack?

– Thomas Kautzman, BI Analyst, Data Science (Avista Corp)

– Kim Boynton, Senior Analyst, Data Science (Avista Corp)

– Robert Hughes, Damage Prevention Analyst (Avista Corp)

As this presentation will include Q&A and open discussion, we encourage you to come prepared ready to ask questions and share your insight. 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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello UAI Utility Members,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend! I just wanted to send one final reminder for our upcoming session on Asset Health Analytics Use Case Identification & Prioritization (part of our Asset Health Analytics Community) taking place Wednesday, September 22nd at 2:00 PM CT and invite you to be part of the discussion. Due to the relveancy of this topic, we extend this invite to ANY utility member of UAI and encourage you to spread the word internally. For more info on this session, including how to get registered, please see below. Feel free to email me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com if you have any questions or need help registering.

Session Description: 

Join the Asset Health Analytics Community for part two of a two-part series on use case identification and prioritization on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM CT. Part two of this series includes an interactive, open discussion to learn what asset health analytics use cases members are working on, identifying valuable use cases you are pursuing or are wanting to pursue, and discuss how you prioritize use cases, i.e. What is your organization using to prioritize use cases? What does that process look like? How do you monetize the projects as they come in (earn revenue from or add value to the business)?

We will ask attendees to take a poll before the session to identify your use cases by category and type. We will use the valuable information captured during the poll to drive the conversation during this session. After the Community Conversation, we will share them with the members of the Asset Health Analytics Community via an Asset Health Analytics Use Case Repository.

Register for this session: https://eb.endeavorb2b.com/uai-community-signup
Take our pre-session poll: https://www.menti.com/iw15h4u63x/0

Again please reach out to me if you have any questions.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting Wednesday!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-15-2021 10:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Utility Members Invited to Upcoming Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation: Part 2 Asset Health Analytics Use Case Identification & Prioritization

Hello UAI Utility Members,

This month we have a very exciting Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation planned and want to invite you to be part of the discussion. On Wednesday, September 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be having part 2 of our discussion around Asset Health Analytics Use Case Identification & Prioritization and attendees will participate in the discussion through an interactive poll and open discussion. Due to the popularity of part 1, we’re very excited to continue to the discussion and invite each of our utility members to take part!

*If you’re not already an Asset Health Analytics Community Member, please feel free to register for this community on our“request to join form”OR reach out to me directly to let me know your interested and I’ll be happy to get you registered. As a reminder utility members recieve unlimited access to our 8 current communities.

Please also feel free to get started on the poll by using the link below!
https://www.menti.com/iw15h4u63x/0

Session Description: 

Join the Asset Health Analytics Community for part two of a two-part series on use case identification and prioritization on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM CT. Part two of this series includes an interactive, open discussion to learn what asset health analytics use cases members are working on, identifying valuable use cases you are pursuing or are wanting to pursue, and discuss how you prioritize use cases, i.e. What is your organization using to prioritize use cases? What does that process look like? How do you monetize the projects as they come in (earn revenue from or add value to the business)?

We will ask attendees to take a poll before the session to identify your use cases by category and type. We will use the valuable information captured during the poll to drive the conversation during this session. After the Community Conversation, we will share them with the members of the Asset Health Analytics Community via an Asset Health Analytics Use Case Repository.

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Please spread the word and again let us know if we can help get anyone registered.

Thanks and we hope to see you online next week!

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

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Thursday, September 23rd at 1:00 PM CT we will be joined by Shawn Timbers, IT Compliance and Security Coordinator (Rochester Public Utilities) and Idan Enright, Innovation Process Manager (SoCalGas) who will be leading a presentation around, Power BI Rollouts and Successes. As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared ready to ask questions and share your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this session, we will hear about these members’ Power BI stories and specifically learn the following:

– How Rochester Public Utilities is using Power BI for compliance dashboarding, which provides insights into a rather complex set of tasks that are highly time sensitive

– A review of SoCalGas’ phase 1 implementation of Power BI at the organizational level with a dashboard for the Customer Programs and Assistance department and where they are going in the future with phase 2, which will include more data sources, manager level metrics and more automation.

Speaker: Shawn Timbers, IT Compliance and Security Coordinator (Rochester Public Utilities)

Shawn Timbers has a bachelor’s degree in Business Finance, a master’s degree in Business Administration, and holds professional certifications in Project Management, Lean, and Business Analytics. Professionally, Shawn has served in Finance roles with IBM, process improvement roles with Olmsted County, and now serves RPU in a variety of IT Security, Compliance, Business Intelligence, and Process Improvement functions. His hobbies are fishing and playing with his four kids! 

Speaker: Idan Enright, Innovation Process Manager (SoCalGas)

Idan started his career at SoCalGas on the Data Analytics team that was awarded the 2020 Best Innovative Utility Analytics Team by the Utility Analytics Institute. At SoCalGas he implemented data driven solutions across the enterprise in business units from Customer Behavioral Programs to Field Operations. He now runs the Energy Efficiency Innovation Process, bringing new and innovative products in the marketplace to SoCalGas rebate programs, where he continues to use data, analytics, and business intelligence.

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Thursday, September 23rd at 1:00 PM 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, September 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, our community leadership team will be leading part 2 of our discussion around, Use Case Identification and Prioritization. To get a jump start on this session, we encourage members to complete our short 5 question Asset Health Analytics Use Case Identification & Prioritization poll by Friday, September 17. By completing our poll and submitting your Asset Health Analytics Use Cases ahead of time we will have a great initial list to discuss during our call.

A few notes about the poll…
1) You will be able to submit more than one answer on questions 2-5.
2) Because you can submit more than one answer, you will see a “Submit” button on pages 2-5. To submit more than answer, click “Submit” and a new box will open to submit your next answer to the same question. If you don’t have more than one answer, click “Next Question”.

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, September 22nd at 2:00 PM 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: 09-01-2021 15:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2021) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, September 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we will have part 2 of our discussion around Use Case Identification and Prioritization and will have more information on our speaker soon. As this discussion will include Q&A and open discussion, we encourage you to come prepared ready to ask questions and share your insight. 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, earlier this week. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, September 21st at 1:00 PM CT we will be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a show and tell themed discussion around Data Science Tools & ML Operations: Azure Data Bricks vs. AWS:

– Chad Tucker, Data Engineer (The Energy Authority)
– Jason Pegg, Domain Architect, Enterprise Technology (Avista Corp)
– Max Wick, Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)
– Juan Vazquez, Sr. Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)

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:

During this Community Conversation, we will conduct a Show & Tell themed session where members will share their Data Science Tools and ML Operations. During this discussion, members will share:

– Data science tools they are using and how they are using them
– What models they are doing in the public cloud or on-premise
– Productionalization and/or experimentation with models

Speaker: Chad Tucker –Data Engineer (The Energy Authority)

Chad Tucker is a Data Engineer with The Energy Authority on the Connected Analytics team. He has over 20 years’ experience in data storage technologies, primarily on Microsoft Platforms. He has been able to leverage his experience to optimize performance of data warehouse systems and processes. Chad, and his team, are working to bring cloud solutions to help utilities gain insight into the vast amount of data they collect each day. 

Speaker: Jason Pegg – Domain Architect, Enterprise Technology (Avista Corp)

Jason Pegg is a Domain Architect over Data Delivery, Systems Integration, and Energy Resources at Avista Utilities. Jason’s background is in complex systems design and integration and brings with him 25 years of industry experience. Jason holds degrees in Computer Science with emphasis in Math, Physics, and Machine Learning.

Speaker: Max Wick – Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)

Max Wick is a Data Scientist at PPL Utilities. He has experience with Transmission & Distribution Analytics, Big Data and Cloud Platform Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, and MLOps.

Speaker: Juan Vasquez – Sr. Data Scientist (PPL Utilities)

Juan Vazquez is a Sr Data Scientist at PPL Electric Utilities. He is 15 years of experience in Aerospace and Energy. Juan specializes in programming in R, Python, Scala, Spark and SQL and his interests include statistical modeling and ML, big data analytics, data engineering, and data science. He has a passion for Cloud Computing and Application of ML models in the Cloud. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management.  

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, September 21st at 1:00 PM 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: 09-01-2021 15:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2021) Data Science Community Conversation. On Tuesday, September 21st at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a show and tell themed discussion around Data Science Tools & ML Operations: Azure Data Bricks vs. AWS:

– Chad Tucker, Data Engineer (The Energy Authority)
– Jason Pegg, Domain Architect, Enterprise Technology (Avista Corp)
– Max Wick, Data Scientist and Juan Vazquez (PPL Utilities)

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, earlier this week. 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!

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

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, September 15 at 11:00 AM CT we’ll be joined by Miaad Safari, Supervisor of Integrity Assessments, at Enbridge Gas Inc. who will be leading a discussion around Comparing Quantitative Risk Modeling Approaches for Transmission vs. Distribution Pipelines. As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

The utility industry is increasing its reliance on analytical models to predict the reliability and risk of its assets to improve safety performance and provide a means to more efficiently allocate resources. These models must be built with a strong consideration of the unique characteristics of each asset class such as the quantity of assets, sample size and granularity of data, and availability of mechanistic modelling methodologies. This presentation provides an overview of the Enbridge Gas Transmission and Distribution risk models and summarizes the similarities and differences in the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) approaches.

Speaker: Miaad Safari – Supervisor of Integrity Assessments (Enbridge Gas Inc.)

Miaad Safari is an Integrity Engineer specializing in Risk and Reliability assessments. He is a strong advocate of enhancing integrity data analytics and the development of efficient and accurate risk and reliability models to gain a better understanding of the industry’s aging assets. After spending over a decade devoted to Pipeline Integrity at Enbridge Gas Inc., Miaad has developed an in-depth knowledge of integrity threat assessments, ILI technologies, fitness-for-service assessments, reliability models, and risk assessments.  

As an active member in the industry, Miaad has previously presented at the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) and International Pipeline Conference (IPC) where he shared knowledge of assessment techniques that showcase the due diligence that is required to ensure public safety. Miaad holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Management from McMaster University and is a Professional Engineer registered in Ontario. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, September 15th 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, September 15th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Dr. Steven Quiring, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography (Ohio State University) who will be leading a special out of industry presentation around Storm Outage Modeling: Applying Analytics to Inform Electrical Utilities. As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to some prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Storms can cause significant damage to the electrical power system, leading to prolonged power interruptions to a large number of customers. The number of weather-related outages has increased significantly in recent years. This presentation summarizes the data-driven power outage models that we have developed for investor-owned electrical utilities in the United States. These models are used to support pre-storm preparation and longer-term planning. The development and validation of our models will be presented and our approach for quantifying uncertainty will also be discussed.

Speaker: Dr. Steven Quiring – Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography (Ohio State University)

Dr. Steven M. Quiring is a Professor in the Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography at The Ohio StateUniversity. He is also a Fellowat The Risk Instituteat The Ohio State University Fisher College of Businessand a member of the Translational Data Analytics Instituteand the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University. Prior to his arrival at Ohio State in 2016, Dr. Quiring spent 11 years at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on hydroclimatology, weather data analyticsand modeling the impact of stormson electrical infrastructure. Dr. Quiring has published more than 100 journal articles and has received more than $15M in funding from federal (DOE, NSF, NOAA) and state (TWDB and TXDEM) agencies, including an NSF CAREER award in 2010. Dr. Quiring is an Associate Editor for Physical Geography and Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. Dr. Quiring received a BA(Hons.) in geography from the University of Winnipeg in 1999, a MA in geography from the University of Manitoba in 2001, and a PhD in climatology from the University of Delaware in 2005.

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, September 15th at 1:00 PM 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Customer Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, September 14 at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Lindusia Chmieluk, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform and Katia Bernstein, Staff Officer of Manitoba Hydro who will be leading a discussion around, Manitoba Hydro Credit and Collections Department’s Analytics Journey. As this discussion will be interactive we urge you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description: 

This session will highlight the success of the Manitoba Hydro Credit & Collection Department’s analytics solution using Customer Information and Call Centre Statistics. This solution has increased collections, supported communication processes, and improved customer experience.

Speaker: Lindusia Chmieluk – System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform (Manitoba Hydro)

Lindusia Chmieluk is a System Developer in the Business Data & Analytics Platform section at Manitoba Hydro. For the last 8 years, she has been working in the Data & Analytics space on a variety of use cases across several utility domains (Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Customer). She has a Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba and is currently completing her Certificate in Management (CIM). 

Speaker: Katia Bernstein – Staff Officer (Manitoba Hydro)

Katia Bernstein is a graduate of the Business Administration and Economics programs at the University of Winnipeg. Now in her 11th year with Manitoba Hydro she currently is a Staff Officer in the Credit and Recovery Services Department. She has worked with various applications including, but not limited to: Customer Management System, CCA Auto-dialer and Cognos Analytics. She also takes tremendous pride in her reporting skills and over 15 years of customer service facing roles.  

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday,September 14th 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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