[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our August Customer Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, August 10 at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Dr. Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Data Science Manager, Cx&T – Customer Intelligence Analytics at Consumers Energy, who will be leading a presentation on AI Ethics in Customer Experience. 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:

With emerging technologies, intelligent machines will be interacting with customers via agents that mimic human like cognitive decisions. While we build such empathic relationships with these intelligent machines, we also make ourselves vulnerable to their influence. In this presentation, Dr. Dutt-Mazumder will be showcasing some of the issues pertaining to AI ethics, the present challenges, how we can mitigate AI biasness and have an open dialogue to address AI ethics among Utility centric customer experience.

Speaker: Dr. Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Data Science Manager, Cx&T – Customer Intelligence Analytics (Consumers Energy)

Avi Dutt-Mazumder, is a Data Science Supervisor at Consumers Energy in Customer Experience. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience, he was the winner of the IEEE Brain award in 2018. He enjoys travelling, coding, swimming & diving in his leisure time. He lives in greater Dallas with his wife, and 2 pet fur babies. 
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out yesterday via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, August 10th 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2021 15:20
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2021) Customer Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, August 10th at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by Dr. Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Data Science Manager, Cx&T – Customer Intelligence Analytics at Consumers Energy, who will be leading a presentation on, AI Ethics in Customer Experience. As this discussion will be interactive, we urge 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 this morning. 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
——————————

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hey Cristian,

Thanks for getting in touch and I apologize for any inconvenience! I just tried forwarding you the invite an alternate way, would you mind letting me know if you received?

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 08-03-2021 14:42
From: cristian easton
Subject: Upcoming August (2021) Community Conversation

Hey Kevin I looked through my emails and I did not see the invite. Can you please resend it to me?

 

Sincerely,

 

Cristian Easton

 

Original Message:
Sent: 8/3/2021 12:34:00 PM
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: RE: Upcoming August (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our August Customer Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, August 10 at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Dr. Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Data Science Manager, Cx&T – Customer Intelligence Analytics at Consumers Energy, who will be leading a presentation on AI Ethics in Customer Experience. 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:

With emerging technologies, intelligent machines will be interacting with customers via agents that mimic human like cognitive decisions. While we build such empathic relationships with these intelligent machines, we also make ourselves vulnerable to their influence. In this presentation, Dr. Dutt-Mazumder will be showcasing some of the issues pertaining to AI ethics, the present challenges, how we can mitigate AI biasness and have an open dialogue to address AI ethics among Utility centric customer experience.

Speaker: Dr. Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Data Science Manager, Cx&T – Customer Intelligence Analytics (Consumers Energy)

Avi Dutt-Mazumder, is a Data Science Supervisor at Consumers Energy in Customer Experience. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience, he was the winner of the IEEE Brain award in 2018. He enjoys travelling, coding, swimming & diving in his leisure time. He lives in greater Dallas with his wife, and 2 pet fur babies.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out yesterday via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, August 10th 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!

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

Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2021 15:20
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2021) Customer Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, August 10th at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by Dr. Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Data Science Manager, Cx&T – Customer Intelligence Analytics at Consumers Energy, who will be leading a presentation on, AI Ethics in Customer Experience. As this discussion will be interactive, we urge 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 this morning. 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
——————————

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Thanks for your reply Beth and willingness to share your insight! I’ll be happy to connect you with our CLP member offline who will be thrilled to hear from you and pick your brain.

Thanks again!!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-30-2021 08:02
From: Beth Massey
Subject: Advice for those in the early stages of their data journey

Thanks for posting Kevin,
This is an important question and one that we have looked at in terms of how a utility’s AMI data is used throughout their business, to create revenue or generate cost savings.
At the last UAI Power Hour, the community was very generous to discuss how their AMI data weaves its way through the enterprise and creates monetary benefits.
We at TEA would be happy to discuss how we support our clients’ data management needs with your contact at CLP Hong Kong.
Let me know if we can help in anyway.

Kind Regards,
–Beth

——————————
Beth Massey
Director, Connected Analytics
The Energy Authority
——————————

Original Message:
Sent: 07-29-2021 12:29
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Advice for those in the early stages of their data journey

Hello UAI data focused members!

An interesting question came in from a new member of CLP Hong Kong and I’m hoping to get some help from our community. The question surrounds data monetization and advice to those in the early stages of their data journey. Please take a look at the question below and let us know if we can provide any additional information. As always we appreciate your help and look forward to seeing your responses and making a connection with our new member!

Question:

“We’re looking internally at the maturity of our data journey within our organization and also exploring data monetization. Either directly (APIs) or indirectly through data driven services (e.g. supporting finance industry for example). Are there any utilities that are doing this as well that would be willing to connect? We are still at the early stages of our journey, but would be nice to chat to a few folks.”

Thanks again for your help!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our July Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, July 28 at 11:00 AM CT, We’ll be joined by Pubs Abayasiri, Associate Director Digital Products at CLP Hong Kong, and Rolf Gibbels, Head of Worldwide Business Development, Power & Utilities Industry at Amazon Web Services (AWS) who will be leading a discussion around “Using IoT and Cloud to Manage Customer Asset Health.“

Please note the time of this Community Conversation. To support our friends at CLP in Hong Kong and because of the time difference between Hong Kong and the U.S., we are changing the time this Community Conversation occurs. Thank you for your flexibility!

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description: 

At CLP, one of the leading utilities in Asia, the team has been developing and deploying a range of IoT based solutions to help with analyzing, predicting and optimizing assets from C&I customers specifically to help modernize aging buildings. With the ability to understand when critical building equipment will potentially fail, optimizing work activities based on prioritizing equipment checks, and automation of equipment settings, there are opportunities for providing value for asset health but at the same time challenges with IoT solutions (costs, accuracy, comms, etc.).

During this session, Pubs and Rolf will share how IoT and cloud has been leveraged to adopt use cases where the principles are applicable for both customers and also internal operations.

Speaker: Pubs Abayasiri, Associate Director Digital Products at CLP Hong Kong

Pubs Abayasiri has worked in the technology and energy sector for +20 years. In that time, Pubs has worked in consulting across Asia where he held positions in a range of industries with the majority of his career in the energy sector. Within CLP, Pubs has led a range of initiatives including setting up the initial Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure, managing cross business-unit applications and establishing the analytics practice. More recently, Pubs runs the Digital Products team under the Group Innovation function, where he’s been managing the Smart Energy Connect (http://www.clpsec.com) program where the mission is to simplify adoption of sustainability solutions for corporate customers. 

Speaker: Rolf Gibbels, Head of Worldwide Business Development, Power & Utilities Industry at Amazon Wed Services (AWS)

Rolf Gibbels has the responsibility for leading the AWS Power & Utilities industry customer strategy, solution definition, partner engagement and thought leadership initiatives. AWS is bringing cloud-based solutions consisting of big data, internet of things (IoT), advanced analytics, machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI), and Amazon Alexa voice services  to a sector facing a transformational change. The transformation is driven by the need for decentralization, decarbonization and digitization. With that allowing for a higher degree of renewable energy integration, adoption of distributed energy resources, leading to grid modernization, achieving sustainability targets, dealing with an ageing water infrastructure and overall enabling energy companies becoming more services oriented and customer-centric.  

 

Rolf has over 20 years international experience in business development and strategy with focus on digital industry solutions, asset performance management (APM) and  
product lifecycle management (PLM) software in the energy, process, architecture and construction industries. Prior to AWS, he built and led the global commercial team for GE Power Digital, and the partner and commercial strategy for GE Digital Renewable Energy asset performance management and predictive analytics solutions. Previously, Rolf was the Industry Solutions Leader in IBM’s Energy & Utilities organization.   

  

Rolf holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany. From February 2013 to June 2017 he served on the board of directors and International council of the American Council of Renewable Energy (ACORE). http://www.acore.org. 
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out in the beginning of the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, July 28th 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 17:49
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, July 28th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Pubs Abayasiri, Associate Director Digital Products at CLP Hong Kong, and Rolf Gibbels, Head of Worldwide Business Development, Power & Utilities Industry at Amazon Wed Services (AWS) who will be leading a discussion around “Using IoT and Cloud to Manage Customer Asset Health.“

Please note the time of this Community Conversation. To support our friends at CLP in Hong Kong and because of the time difference between Hong Kong and the U.S., we are changing the time this Community Conversation occurs. Thank you for your flexibility!

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.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I sent out invitations for this community and each of our others this morning as well. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

Thanks!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our July Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, July 27 at 2:00 PM CT, We’ll be joined by Jonathan (Jon) Rosen, Utility Analytics Manager at American Electric Power (AEP), who will be leading a discussion around, “A Tale of Continuous Improvement – Underground Damage Prevention: 811 Call Before You Dig at AEP.” As this discussion will be interactive, we urge you to come prepared with questions and ready to share your input.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Through the last 5 years AEP has implemented process improvement and advanced technology to greatly improve operations of their underground damage prevention services group. These changes have revolved around striking an optimal balance of safety, customer service, and financial considerations.

Core Components of Session:
• Locate Request Ticket Screening
• Ticket Tracking and Reporting (Capita $, …)
• Ticket Archiving (8 years)
• Process Support (Subject Matter Experts, …)
• Process One-Call Ticket Records for Tickets Invoices
• Research and Support Risk & Insurance Management
• Excavator Support Hotline

Speaker: Jonathan (Jon) Rosen, Utility Analytics Manager at American Electric Power (AEP)

Jonathan Rosen is currently the Utilities Analytics Manager within the Business Operations and Performance Assurance organization at AEP. Current responsibilities include leading a team dedicated to advanced data studies and the Go-to-market of in house or vendor analytics products that benefit efficiency. Prior to this, Jonathan was a data scientist applying machine learning to work management and asset health problems; Rosen holds a bachelor’s degree from Miami University. 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out in the beginning of the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, July 27th 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 15:57
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, July 27 at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Jon Rosen, Utility Analytics Manager at American Electric Power (AEP), and his presentation, “A Tale of Continuous Improvement – Underground Damage Prevention: 811 Call Before You Dig at AEP“.” This presentation will include Q&A and open discussion and 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.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I sent out invitations for this community and each of our others this morning as well. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

Thanks!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our July Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Thursday, July 22nd at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a discussion around Setting up a Data Lake:

Facilitator: Angela White-Parker, Enterprise Information Architect, SoCalGas & SDG&E
Panelists:

• Scott Harris, Data Architecture Manger, Tacoma Power
• Jeff Horn, Enterprise Analytics Team, Evergy
• Scott Phipps, Sr. Data Science Engineer, Avista

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

Session Description:

During this session, each panelist will share their best practices, pitfalls, what challenges they had and how they tackled challenges, and lessons learned along the way as each set-up a data lake within their utility. Come prepare to asks questions, because panelists will take time to answer questions about the topic from the audience.

Facilitator: Angela White-Parker, Enterprise Information Architect, SoCalGas & SDG&E

As an Enterprise Architect, Angela’s role is to align business needs and strategies with technology frameworks and architected solutions.  Focusing on Enterprise Information Management (EIM) disciplines, she is a key change agent assisting her company transition to a data-centric culture and building data management maturity within Southern California Gas. 

Panelist: Scott Harris, Data Architecture Manger, Tacoma Power

Scott Harris has been with Tacoma Public Utilities as a Data Architect for about one and a half years. Before that he worked in a variety of industries on cloud computing and IOT solutions. He has a Technology Management MBA from the University of Washington.  

Panelist: Jeff Horn, Enterprise Analytics Team, Evergy

Jeff Horn is currently the Manager of Data & Analytics at Evergy. Jeff is a results-driven professional with experience working on teams with aggressive project cycles and complex initiatives. Jeff received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Emporia State University.  

Panelist: Scott Phipps, Sr. Data Science Engineer, Avista

Following a decade in the consulting business, Scott Phipps began his 25-year career a  Avista as a software developer, moved on to leading the company’s web development efforts, and then as an internal technical consultant on major systems implementations including Oracle CC&B, Oracle MDM, and Itron AMI systems. What began as a few questions about the impact of Covid-19 on our customer’s energy usage developed into a role on Avista’s growing data science team, where we’re focused on upping the game of our company’s business analysts and enabling more informed business decisions. 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Thursday, July 22nd 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 17:37
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation. On Thursday, July 22nd at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a discussion around Setting Up a Data Lake:

Facilitator: Angela White-Parker, Enterprise Information Architect, SoCalGas & SDG&E
Panelists:

• Scott Harris, Data Architecture Manger, Tacoma Power
• Jeff Horn, Enterprise Analytics Team, Evergy
• Scott Phipps, Sr. Data Science Engineer, Avista

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.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I sent out invitations for this community and each of our others this morning as well. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Thanks again for your message Mike! I just re forwarded your way and recommend whitelisting my alternate email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com which seems to be blocked by several member’s firewalls. If you have any questions just let me know.

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-16-2021 08:50
From: Mike Dammann
Subject: Mike Dammann from Black & Veatch Safety Analytics Community : Missing A July Placeholder? Read On!

Kevin,

Appreciate if you would send the meeting invite for the safety community meetings.

 

Regards

 

Michael Dammann  I  MBA, IAM

Principal Consultant

Black & Veatch Management Consulting, LLC

Black & Veatch

11401 Lamar Avenue, Overland Park, KS  66211

M 856-418-8215

E DammannM@BV.com

W Management Consulting

LinkedIn Management Consulting

Building a World of Difference

 

 

From: Kevin Praet via Utility Analytics Institute <Mail@ConnectedCommunity.org>
Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 4:50 PM
To: Dammann, Michael <DammannM@bv.com>
Subject: Safety Analytics Community : Missing A July Placeholder? Read On!

 

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members, Thank you to those that reached out individually and via the discussion forum regarding the July… -posted to the “Safety Analytics Community” community

Safety Analytics Community Post New Message   Missing A July Placeholder? Read On! Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 2, 2021 4:50 PM Kevin Praet Hello Safety Analytics Community Members, Thank you to those that reached out individually and via the discussion forum regarding the July Community placeholder. It seems as though my new domain, kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com may be blocked on some of our member’s servers and we’re working through this issue internally with IT to see what we can do. In the meantime please do the following if you’re not  seeing a calendar placeholder for Tuesday, July 27th at 2:00 PM CT. 1.) Check your spam/junk folders (several members have found the invite hiding in these folder) 2.) Whitelist my new email domain, kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com 3.) Finally reach out to me via email at my normal email address, kpraet@utilityanalytics.com  so I can work to get you the invite an alternate way. We appreciate everyone’s patience and support on this issue and look forward to getting resolved. Thanks! —————————— Kevin Praet Membership Coordinator Utility Analytics Institute (UAI) Boulder CO 315-440-3033 ——————————   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate     You are subscribed to “Safety Analytics Community” as dammannm@bv.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our July Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, July 21 at 1:00 PM CT, We’ll be joined by Jordan Pino, Sr. Data Scientist, Smart Grid & Innovation at Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE/Exelon Utilities) and his presentation,  “BGE Pole Analytics: Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive.” As this discussion will be interactive, we urge you to come prepared with questions and ready to share your input.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

This project aims at providing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics for vehicular pole hits across BGE. The main motivation for this use case is decreasing O&M, increasing reliability, and increasing safety. The ability to obtain descriptive analytics for past pole hits within BGE’s service territory along with a predictive/prescriptive metric for each pole allows for a targeted approach in terms of mitigation efforts to reduce hits. This targeted approach to pole mitigating coupled with domain-specific knowledge allows for data-driven decision making when it comes to the prevention of pole hits within our service territory.

Speaker: Jordan Pino, Sr. Data Scientist, Smart Grid & Innovation at Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE/Exelon Utilities)

“Jordan is currently a Senior Data Scientist at Baltimore Gas & Electric (BG&E) where he works within the smart grid & innovation sector (e.g. grid, unmanned aerial systems, data analytics, and research and development) on data analytics solutions. Specifically, he focuses on the development storm-impact models for BG&E’s system to be used as decision-support tools coupled with the development of machine learning models to enhance BG&E’s system performance and hardening efforts.”

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, July 21 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 15:51
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Grid Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, July 21st at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Jordan Pino, Sr. Data Scientist, Smart Grid & Innovation at Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE/Exelon Utilities) and his presentation,  “BGE Pole Analytics: Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive.” This presentation will include Q&A and open discussion and 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.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I sent out invitations for this community and each of our others this morning as well. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

Thanks!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our July Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, July 21 at 11:00 AM CT, We’ll be joined by Yang Chen, Project Manager II at Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), who will be leading a discussion around, “MSAI Schedule and Routing Optimization.”  As this discussion will be interactive, we urge you to come prepared with questions and ready to share your input.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description: 

Meter Set Assembly Inspection (MSAI) is a new operating area at Southern California Gas Company. The company is required to inspect its 6.4 million meter set assemblies every three years in a timely manner to ensure safety and compliance. The team also strives to improve inspection route efficiency while planning for balanced inspection schedules. In this session, you will hear a story where MSAI collaborated with PMOS to solve very complex business and data problems and achieve those goals.

Speaker: Yang Chen, Project Manager II at Southern California Gas (SoCalGas)

Yang Chen is a data scientist at Southern California Gas Company. He supports teams across all areas to solve the most complex business problems. He uses open-source software, cloud services, and self-developed programs to accomplish data analytics tasks, ranging from data reporting and visualization to optimization and machine learning. 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, July 21 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 15:34
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, July 21st at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by Yang Chen, Project Manager II from Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), and his presentation, “MSAI Schedule and Routing Optimization.” This presentation will include Q&A and open discussion and 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.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I sent out invitations for this community and each of our others this morning as well. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

Thanks!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Thanks for the great summary Cara!

@Samantha the Exelon team led a great presentation on “Driver Safety” in the Safety Analytics Community back in September. To access the presentation please click HERE  and let me know if I can help connect with you any of our presenters.

If anyone else is interested in this topic and not part of the Safety Analytics Community I recommend joining using our “community request to join form.” 

Thanks!
​​​

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-08-2021 10:13
From: Cara Gilad
Subject: Telematics & Safe Driving Program

Hi Samantha,

What are some of the data points available to you? At Exelon Utilities we have found speeding, harsh acceleration, and hard braking to be significant behaviors. We developed a risk score based on a combination of these factors, normalized by distance driven (so, alerts/mile). These risk scores are helping drive adoption among fleet managers as part of our safe driving program. In our telematics data, there are many different parameters for speeding (raw mph, or percent over speed limit, or raw mph over speed limit, plus a threshold of time for each, i.e. speeding at least 10 mph over the speed limit for at least 2 minutes). There are also parameters we can set for what triggers a harsh acceleration or hard braking alert. We started with correlation analysis and looking at distributions of alerts to get an idea of overall behavior.

Hope this helps!

Cara Gilad

Sr Data Scientist, Grid Analytics
Exelon Utilities

——————————
Cara Gilad
Data Scientist
Exelon
——————————

Original Message:
Sent: 07-07-2021 14:59
From: Samantha Perez
Subject: Telematics & Safe Driving Program

Hi All,

We are implementing Telematics in our fleet vehicles.  Is anyone using this technology and data to improve your Safe Driving Program?

We are curious to know what data parameters or approaches are used by other utilities to measure good (or needs improvement) driving behaviors.  For example, our Integrated Security team uses phishing email campaigns to identify employees that need refresh training on security best practices. Wondering if others are using telematics to customize Safe Driving training in such ways.

Thank you!

Samantha Perez
CPS Energy Fleet
San Antonio, TX

——————————
Samantha Perez
Manager, Fleet & Safety Informatics
CPS Energy
San Antonio TX
2103532061
——————————

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our July Customer Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, July 13 at 11:00 AM CT we’ll be joined by Poonam Yadav, Sr. Manager, Insights and Research at Consumers Energy and Francisco Gonzalez, Director Utility Services Experience Design at Consumers Energy who will be leading a presentation on Consumers Energy’s Entire Customer Journey. 

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description: 

This presentation series will be about Consumers Energy’s Customer Journey and a 360 degree view of their customer. Part one, “Consumers Energy’s Customer Journey” is a presentation with Q&A and open discussion with Poonam Yadav, Sr. Manager, Insights and Research and Francisco Gonzalez, Director Utility Services Experience Design from Consumers Energy.

Speakers:

Poonam Yadav: Sr. Manager, Insights and Research at 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. 

Francisco Gonzalez: Director Utility Services Experience Design at Consumers Energy

Francisco Gonzalez, Director of Experience Design for Consumers Energy. Francisco leads the Utility Services value stream team at Consumers Energy. His portfolio is comprised of Outage, Billing and Payment, Operational Communications and Field Experiences. His team is responsible for the end-to-end journey that customers will encounter when they need them the most. Recent accomplishments are significant increases in customer index metrics, customer activations, and new customer facing web applications that Michigan residents love. Francisco lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and has been in the utility sector in varies leadership roles for almost 25 years. 

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out last week via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com), however some members made us aware they either did not receive or noticed the invite got caught in spam. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, July 13th 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 07-01-2021 14:49
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming July (2021) Customer Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well and that you’re enjoying that start to your summers! With July just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our July (2021) Customer Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, July 13th at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by Poonam Yadav, Sr. Manager, Insights and Research and Francisco Gonzalez, Director Utility Services Experience Design from Consumers Energy and their presentation,  “Consumers Energy’s Customer Journey.” This presentation will be part 1 of a two part series and will include Q&A and open discussion. Come prepared 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.

I’m excited to share with you our latest IT update that will allow me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars. I have still included our placeholder as an attachment to this message but also forwarded as an invite your calendars this morning. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. Our Microsoft Teams link will be updated on the placeholder and sent out to member via the discussion form one day prior.

If you have any questions please reach out to me otherwise I look forward to connecting with you all later in the month.

Thanks!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our June Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Thursday, June 24 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Steve Payne, IT Architect Sr, and Audrey McAfee, Business Analyst at AEP, who will be leading a presentation on, Adding Context to Data and Analytics through Geospatial Dashboarding. As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared ready to ask questions and share your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

American Electric Power (AEP) has had a GIS footprint for the last 20 years, but has recently been visualizing Distribution metrics and analytics results through the use of Geospatial dashboards. The GIS context unlocks a self-service platform that brings data from multiple systems and puts it in one place for the end users. Out of this work AEP has experienced value in two major ways: By reducing the amount of time it takes for gathering data from multiple systems for more meaningful research, as well as allowing a broader audience to view the data without having to request from a more specialized team that has access to mapping and/or reporting tools. This session will be an overview of AEP’s solutions in the GIS platform along with a discussion around GIS and analytics.

Steve Payne (IT Architect Sr at AEP)

Stephen “Steve” Payne has been an IT Professional at AEP for over 12 years and was a founding member of the analytics services organization at AEP. He presented at the UAI conference in 2017 in San Antonio on the topic of residential customer segmentation. He lives in Cleveland Ohio with his beautiful wife, three kids (two sons and a daughter) and two black labs. 

Audrey McAfee (Business Analyst at AEP)

Adrianna “Audrey” McAfee has been a Business Analyst (requirements gatherer, communicator, and application tester) for 7+ years, with her most recent position working at American Electric Power (AEP) on a team that develops GIS dashboards.  These dashboards display data by way of a geospatial platform in order to provide internal customers with the tools needed to identify areas of reliability risks. She lives at home in Dublin, OH with her feisty and vocal cat, Luna, and likes to escape from her by taking long bike rides or hitting the water on her paddleboard. 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions please let me know otherwise I look forward to connecting next week.

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 05-27-2021 15:03
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming June (2021) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With May coming to an end I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our June (2021) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation. On Thursday, June 24 at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Steve Payne, IT Architect Sr and Audrey McAfee, Business Analyst at AEP, who will be leading a presentation on, Adding Context to Data and Analytics through Geospatial Dashboarding. 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.

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions/concerns regarding this update please let me know or refer to our post in the Ask Your Network Community HERE which provides additional information.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next month!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our June Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, June 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Jatinder (Jay) Singh, VP of Digital and Data Transformation at CPS Energy, who will be leading a presentation on, How to Productize Analytics to Drive Higher Value for the Organization. As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared ready to ask questions and share your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

In today’s new energy economy, decision-makers want analytics to provide not only insights but actionable business recommendations and they want them at their own convenience and in a form that is easy to consume. One such path-breaking approach is ‘productizing’ analytics services or in other words, creating products based on standardized and repeatable analytics services. Businesses have shown preference to switch from the project-based consulting to these product offerings as they exemplify the decisions-first approach. Productionalizing analytics can lead to true democratization of the analytics as business users don’t have to depend on their analytics partners to churn the analyses and can access the analytics whenever they want it and how they want it.

Jatinder (Jay) Singh, VP of Digital and Data Transformation at CPS Energy

Jay Singh is responsible for leading the Digital Experience and Enterprise Advanced Analytics teams to leverage advanced digital and data technologies to deliver value to our customers and employees. He is focused on building out an actionable, long-term digital strategy and advanced data road maps. Meanwhile, concurrently, and incrementally, he’s leading his team to improve customer and employee experiences and deliver other technological capabilities that complement our enterprise strategies. 

Jay has over 17 years of both business and technology experience in delivering strategic and tangible value and outcomes. 

He has an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and a Bachelor’s in Production Engineering from SBS College of Engineering and Technology (Punjab, India). 

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions please let me know otherwise I look forward to connecting next week.

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 05-27-2021 14:36
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming June (2021) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With May coming to an end I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our June (2021) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, June 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Jatinder (Jay) Singh, VP of Digital and Data Transformation at CPS Energy, who will be leading a presentation on, How to Productize Analytics to Drive Higher Value for the Organization. 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.

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions/concerns regarding this update please let me know or refer to our post in the Ask Your Network Community HERE which provides additional information.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next month!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our June Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to make you aware of a quick update on the session taking place. On Tuesday, June 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Mike Quashne, Manager, Performance Assessment and Business Transformation at Baltimore Gas & Electric, who will be leading a discussion around, Scientifically Proven Safety. As this discussion is interactive, we encourage you to come prepared ready to ask questions and share your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

This session will discuss three projects performed as a partnership between construction industry safety leaders and a team of researchers at the University of Colorado through the Construction Safety Research Alliance (CSRA). These projects aim to move the safety profession, including related analytics, away from theory and toward defendable science. Topics include the statistical invalidity of TRIR, energy-based safety, and measuring the quality of safety leading indicator activities.

Mike Quashne, Manager, Performance Assessment and Business Transformation at Baltimore Gas & Electric

Mike Quashne is the Performance Assessment and Business Transformation Manager for Baltimore Gas & Electric. In this role, he is responsible for leadership of BGE’s human performance improvement, corrective action, and SIF prevention programs. Mike is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the ConstructionSafetyResearch Alliance. A relative newcomer to thesafetyprofession, Mike’s unique leadership and mathematical background has allowed him to drive innovative solutions to reduce the risk of injury to employees in the field.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions please let me know otherwise I look forward to connecting next week.

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 05-27-2021 15:25
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming June (2021) Safety Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With May coming to an end I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our June (2021) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, June 22nd at 2:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Kim Boynton, Senior Analyst, Data Science and Thomas Kautzman, BI Analyst, Data Science at Avista Corporation, who will be leading a discussion on Gas Dig-in Analytics Use Case: Can you find a broken needle in an Everest-sized haystack? 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.

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions/concerns regarding this update please let me know or refer to our post in the Ask Your Network Community HERE which provides additional information.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next month!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! This is just a quick reminder to join us tomorrow, Wednesday, June 16 at 1:00 PM CT for a discussion around Avista Energy Innovation Lab with Daniel Burgess, Senior Analyst and Mike Diedesch, PE, Manager Grid Innovation Lab at Avista Corporation. I’ve included our Microsoft Teams credentials below and re attached our calendar placeholder to download. If you have any questions or issues joining please let me know.

________________________________________________________________________________

Microsoft Teams meeting

Join on your computer or mobile app

Click here to join the meeting

Or call in (audio only)

+1 920-393-6243,,581829003#   United States, Green Bay

Phone Conference ID: 581 829 003#

Find a local number | Reset PIN

Learn More | Meeting options

________________________________________________________________________________

Thanks and I look forward to connecting!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 06-10-2021 16:23
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming June (2021) Grid Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our June Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, June 16 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Daniel Burgess, Senior Analyst and Mike Diedesch, PE, Manager Grid Innovation Lab at Avista Corporation who will be leading a presentation on, Avista Energy Innovation Lab. As this discussion is 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:

The Avista Energy Innovation Lab was built within a Net Zero Campus located at the University District in Spokane, WA. The lab contains sophisticated equipment to allow for simulation and testing of distribution systems. For instance, how would a feeder respond to the addition of batteries and solar. Locating the lab within a campus that contains solar, battery, and thermal resources bridges the operational side to the customer side, which has traditionally been their own centers of gravity. Employee training, data and analytical services, and collaboration with businesses and universities are additional objectives of the lab. This presentation will briefly discuss Avista’s history of innovation, an overview of the campus, an introduction into the lab’s testing capabilities, and finally a few use cases that are currently underway.

Daniel Burgess (Senior Analyst at Avista)

Dan Burgess is a Senior Business Analyst.  He received his B.A in Economics from University of Washington in 1991 and MBA from Eastern Washington University in 1998.  Starting in 2009, he has collaborated across the organization and has participated in many strategic initiatives, research projects, and analyses.  His most recent success was identifying a $16+ million net savings opportunity in the gas meter department.  In addition to work at the Avista Energy Innovation Lab he continues his lead role in Avista’s AMI deployment.

Mike Diedesch (PE, Manager Grid Innovation Lab at Avista)

Mike Diedesch is the Avista Grid Innovation Lab Manager. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 2008 and is a registered Professional Engineer in Washington. Since joining Avista Utilities in Spokane, WA, he has worked in various engineering roles including Generation Controls, SCADA, System Protection, Metering, and Smart Cities Lead.  

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions please let me know otherwise I look forward to connecting next week.

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
——————————

Original Message:
Sent: 05-27-2021 15:10
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming June (2021) Grid Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With May coming to an end I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our June (2021) Grid Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, June 16 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Daniel Burgess, Senior Analyst and Mike Diedesch, PE, Manager Grid Innovation Lab at Avista Corporation who will be leading a presentation on, Avista Energy Innovation Lab. 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.

As a reminder UAI has a new IT policy in place that prevents me from forwarding calendar invites directly to your inboxes. To work around this I have attached a copy of our calendar placeholder to this message which you can download directly. If you’re having any issues please let me know. Our Microsoft Teams link will still be provided via UAI Connect one day prior but we wanted to give you the option to download to your calendars ahead of time as well.

If you have any questions/concerns regarding this update please let me know or refer to our post in the Ask Your Network Community HERE which provides additional information.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next month!

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