Program: UA Week 2023

Sunday, October 29, 2023
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Utility Analytics 101 Training (Day 1 of 3) Ashesh Gaur - The University of Oklahoma
Monday, October 30, 2023
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Pre-Conference 1: Modernizing Data Governance for Utility Companies Mark LaRocque - Incept Data Solutions, Inc.				Pre-Conference 2: Finding Meaning in Utilities Data: Visualization and Storytelling Mark Peco - Consultant
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Tour: Orlando Utility Commission's Gardenia Innovation Center
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM	CC1: UAI Community Conversation - Customer Analytics Ivan Mejorado - El Paso Electric Tim Krall - Exelon Utilities		CC2: UAI Community Conversation - Enterprise Analytics Sarah Green - Consumers Energy Andy Kapp - Evergy		CC3: UAI Community Conversation - Grid Analytics Ken McCabe - Pepco Holdings, an Exelon Company Junhui Zhao - Eversource Energy Po-Chen Chen - Exelon		CC4: UAI Community Conversation - Natural Gas Analytics Chris Ivanov - Madison Gas & Electric Pavel Ozhogin - National Grid
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM	UA Week Conference Optimizer Workshop
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM	General Session 1: Into the Mysterious World of a Thinking Business - Changing the Conversation from +AI to AI+ Paul Zikopoulos
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Exhibit Hall Open
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Welcome Reception
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM	General Session 2: The Transformative Value of Being a Data-Driven Utility Michael Murtagh - Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) Eddie Fee - Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	101: Oncor Explores Survey Scales to Reveal Actionable Insights for Customer Experience (CX) Surveys Chris Herndon - Oncor Electric Delivery	102: Exelon Spans Space and Time to Pinpoint Outages with Spatiotemporal Data Analytics Po-Chen Chen - Exelon Vladyslav Anderson - Exelon		103: Ontario Power Generation Modernizes Equipment Reliability Engineering Using Semantic Search and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tyler Rankin - Ontario Power Generation		104: Data Science is Easy. Change is Hard: Entergy Cures Analytics Project "Adoption" Blues Through the Art of Change Management Andy Quick - Entergy		105: Dominion Energy Shares Analytics Solution Success Strategies that Encourage the Adoption of Better Business Practices Jamie De La Ree - Dominion Energy
10:30 AM - 3:15 PM	Exhibit Hall Open
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM	201: Quantitative Risk & Data Analytics: Transforming Decision-Making at PG&E Jonathan Glassman, Ph.D., P.E., CRE - Exponent Manuj Sharma - Pacific Gas & Electric Company
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	301: National Grid Applies Machine Learning Techniques to Reduce Compliance Risk and Improve Community Relations Sean Marden - National Grid	302: Orlando Utilities Commission Builds Workflows to Harmonize Chaotic Business Processes During Water Grid Modernization Dawn Frye - Orlando Utilities Commission		303: Consumers Energy Leverages Machine Learning and Cloud Architecture to Build a Better Forestry Workplan Mike Shi - Consumers Energy Chelsea Szpond - Consumers Energy		304: Oncor Studies the Effects of Bidirectional EV Charging on Local Infrastructure to Improve Customer Experience Whitney Humecky - Oncor Electric Delivery		305: CenterPoint Energy Bridges the Gap between Analytics Teams and Business End Users Kayla Bicol - Centerpoint Energy
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	401: Empowering Utilities with AI: A Comprehensive Overview of MLOps and Governance Alex Johnson - Logic 20/20				402: Enabling GenAI through Deloitte’s Trust and Ethics Technology Framework Khalid Behairy - Deloitte Consulting, LLP Eddie Newland - SFL Scientific, a Deloitte Business
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM	General Session 3: Innovation Shares Alexander Bermeo - Commonwealth Edison Carson Zerpa - Itron, Inc. Chris Herndon - Oncor Electric Delivery Tomer Borenstein - BlastPoint Michael Covarrubias - Xtensible
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Exhibit Hall Open
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Happy Hour & Expo Prize Giveaway
Thursday, November 2, 2023
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	General Session 4: It's More Than Magic, It's Real: Unraveling the Wizardry Through Data and Analytics at Universal Destinations and Experiences Matt Tylka - Universal Destinations & Experiences
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM	501: National Grid Minimizes Travel Expenses Through Efficient Workforce Assignments Generated Using Mathematical Optimization Tools Naji Mohamad Ali - National Grid	502: EPCOR Approaches the Future of Grid System Planning with Quantitative Infrastructure Investment Risk Analysis Matthew Morrison - EPCOR		503: Oncor Fires Up Process Improvements to Increase Reliability During Extreme Cold Events Jeremy Williams - Oncor Electric Delivery		504: Evergy Demonstrates Strategies to Upskill In-House Talent to a Data Science Role Andy Kapp - Evergy		505: Exelon's Predictive Algorithm Generates Customer Specific Outage Detection Estimates Improving Speed and Availability of ETR Valli Muthukaruppan - Exelon Corporation
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	601: How Delaware Electric Cooperative Uses Vegetation Intelligence to Reduce SAIDI and Costs Grace Malcom - Delaware Electric Cooperative	602: JEA Illustrates How to Improve Meter Estimates Using the Gradient Boosting Machine Learning Technique Greg Harvey - JEA		603: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority is Reducing Cable Joint Failures with Data Driven Maintenance Strategies Mohamad Hussin - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority		604: Watch How Consumers Energy Trains Models to Detect Utility Assets Within Drone Imagery Sarah Green - Consumers Energy		605: Ameren Shares Insights from their Cloud Migration Journey to Enable a Scalable Data Architecture Ryan Murphy - Ameren
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM	General Session 5: Generative AI: How can we use it and how SHOULD we use it? Andy Quick - Entergy

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