Conference: UA Week 2025

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM																UAI Member Lunch (UAI Members Only)
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM																General Session 1: Welcome to UA Week – Celebrating Community, Connection & Excellence Gina Weber - Utility Analytics Institute
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM																Community Conversations (Round 1)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM																Community Conversations (Round 2)
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM																General Session 2: Innovation Shares – Powering Progress: Real-World Solutions from the Front Lines of Utility Innovation Gina Weber - Utility Analytics Institute
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM																Welcome Reception (Exhibit Hall Open)

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Utility Executive Panel – Sponsored by Deloitte
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	General Session 3: Austin Energy’s Data-Driven Utility Transformation Stuart Reilly - Austin Energy
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	301: Leading Analytics Through Change: How Exelon Empowers Data Leaders to Drive Adoption Sal Filardi - Greencastle Associates Consulting Timothy Krall - Exelon	302: Unlocking Hidden Savings: How Entergy Used GenAI to Transform Contract Management Sean Douglass - Entergy Scott Villa - Entergy	303: Turning Safety Culture Data into Action: National Grid’s Approach to Proactive Risk Reduction Allan Sabu - National Grid Thomas Cioffi - National Grid	304: Smart Inventory: Optimizing Utility Supply Chains with Machine Learning in MAXIMO Brian Kennedy - Austin Energy	305: Predicting Underground Transformer Failure: A Survival Analysis Approach to Asset Health Chunmei Sun - CenterPoint Energy Jorge De La Riva - CenterPoint Energy
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	400 Series Sessions - Use Case Presentations
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	501: Discussion Forum - Meter Matters: Squeezing Value from AMI 1.0 While Planning for AMI 2.0 Timothy Krall - Exelon Frederic Dubois - 1898 & Co. Pavel Ozhogin - National Grid	502: Discussion Forum - GridGPT & AI Assistants: Real Use Cases at the Control Room	503: Discussion Forum - From Static to Dynamic: Hosting Capacity Modeling in Action	504: Discussion Forum - Making Analytics Foundational: How to Enable Utility-Wide Strategy	505: Discussion Forum - Personalizing the Customer Journey with Predictive Insights
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	600 Series Sessions - Use Case Presentations
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM	General Session 3 - Details coming soon

Thursday, October 30, 2025
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM	Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Lightning Talks - Big Ideas in Bite-Sized Sessions
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM	701: Discussion Forum - Transforming Storm Response with Predictive Analytics	702: Discussion Forum - Leveraging Cloud to Unlock Analytics at Scale	703: Discussion Forum - Culture-Driven Analytics: Empowering People to Use Data	704: Discussion Forum - AI for Visual Inspection: Condition Assessment from Images	705: Discussion Forum - Data Ethics and Governance for AI and Automation
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	801: From Satisfaction to Advocacy: Operationalizing Customer Analytics at TEP Lisa Horuczi - Tucson Electric Power	802: Transforming Meter Management with AI: A Cloud-Based Intelligence Hub Approach at Alabama Power Co. Joyce Solomon - Alabama Power Company	803: Smarter Project Planning: A Hybrid Approach to Labor Estimation Using Similarity and Predictive Modeling at NYPA Juan Wang - New York Power Authority Qing Wei - New York Power Authority (NYPA)	804: Mitigating Flashovers with MLOps: PG&E’s Data-Driven Approach to Insulator Contamination and Wildfire Risk Sasha Yan - PG&E Mohammad Hossain - Pacific Gas and Electric	805: Optimizing Optimization: Building Trust and Adoption for Prescriptive Analytics at Avista Kathryn Walter - Avista Corporation

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