Presentations: UA Week 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Tour the TACC at University of Texas, Austin (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Tour the Texas State Capitol
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM	General Session 1: Welcome to UA Week – Celebrating Community, Connection & Excellence
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM	101: Community Conversation: Grid Analytics	102: Community Conversation: Generative AI		103: Community Conversation: Natural Gas Analytics		104: Community Conversation: Asset Health Analytics		105: Community Conversation: Enterprise Analytics
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	201: Community Conversations: Data Science		202: Community Conversations: Customer Analytics		203: Community Conversations: Safety Analytics		204: Community Conversations: Analytics, Architecture, & Technologies
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM	General Session 2: Innovation Shares – Powering Progress: Real-World Solutions from the Front Lines of Utility Innovation
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	General Session 3 - AI at the Crossroads: Building Trust Through Data Ethics and Governance Sponsored by Deloitte
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM	301: Leading Analytics Through Change: How Exelon Empowers Data Leaders to Drive Adoption	302: Unlocking Hidden Savings: How Entergy Used GenAI to Transform Contract Management PRESENTATION		303: Turning Safety Culture Data into Action: National Grid’s Approach to Proactive Risk Reduction PRESENTATION		304: Smart Inventory: Optimizing Utility Supply Chains with Machine Learning in MAXIMO PRESENTATION		305: CORTEX: CenterPoint Energy’s Scalable GenAI Platform for Enterprise Insights PRESENTATION
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	401: Powering Proactive Vegetation Management with Data and AI		402: Predicting Nuclear Plant Power Reductions and Emergent Outages: A Proactive Approach to Improving Plant Reliability at Southern Nuclear using Advanced Analytics		403: Scaling Computer Vision AI for Grid Inspections: A Case Study with New York Power Authority and Buzz Solutions PRESENTATION		404: Eyes in the Sky, Intelligence on the Ground: Leveraging AI to Transform Utility Field Operations
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	501: Discussion Forum - Meter Matters: Squeezing Value from AMI 1.0 While Planning for AMI 2.0	502: Discussion Forum - GridGPT & AI Assistants: Real Use Cases at the Control Room		503: Discussion Forum - Build vs. Buy: Evaluating Tools, Technologies & Architectures		504: Discussion Forum - Making Analytics Foundational: How to Enable Utility-Wide Strategy		505: Discussion Forum - Personalizing the Customer Journey with Predictive Insights
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM	601: Powering Reliable, Intelligent Utilities: How Southern Company is Advancing Grid Analytics with Databricks PRESENTATION		602: Orchestrating the Grid from Edge to Cloud: Harnessing Next-Gen AMI, AI, and Cloud Technologies to Advance Grid Analytics, Edge Intelligence, and Flexibility Management		603: End-to-End AI Innovation in Utilities: The Project Orca Story PRESENTATION		604: Data Beyond the Utility
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	General Session 4: Austin Energy’s Data-Driven Utility Transformation
Thursday, October 30, 2025
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	Lightning Talks - Big Ideas in Bite-Sized Sessions
9:45 AM - 10:30 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 - Analytics Talent Crisis: Hiring, Upskilling & Retention
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	801: From Satisfaction to Advocacy: Operationalizing Customer Analytics at TEP PRESENTATION	802: Transforming Meter Management with AI: A Cloud-Based Intelligence Hub Approach at Alabama Power Co. PRESENTATION		803: Smarter Project Planning: A Hybrid Approach to Labor Estimation Using Similarity and Predictive Modeling at NYPA		804: Mitigating Flashovers with MLOps: PG&E’s Data-Driven Approach to Insulator Contamination and Wildfire Risk		805: Optimizing Optimization: Building Trust and Adoption for Prescriptive Analytics at Avista
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM	Closing General Session: Executive Panel - Cover Your Assets: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Your Grid

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