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02/18/2010 - 02/19/2010
Austin, Texas
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Conference Partners
Black and Veatch
BLACK AND VEATCH Enterprise Management Solutions (EMS) is the management consulting division of Black & Veatch, one of the world’s most respected engineering, consulting and construction firms. Our holistic, multi-disciplinary approach integrates strategic, financial and process-based advisory services, the capabilities of our information technology practice, and a wealth of knowledge on technologies supporting Energy infrastructures. Risk Management Services from EMS provide consistent and transparent risk-based metrics across business and functional lines to improve decision making and accountability. Once embedded into an organization’s day-to-day activities, risk management techniques eliminate organizational confusion and conflicts by exploring the interdependency of risk relationships. Plant reliability risks, market risks, GHG emission risks, financial risks safety risks and regulatory risks can all be analyzed, evaluated and monitored.
BPL Global
Intel
Promethean Devises
Promethean Devices provides a non-contact Transmission Line Monitoring System and a Transfer Capability Optimization Solution. Ground-based, and deployed in existing ROWs without the need for outages, utility field crews, and heavy or specialized equipment, the Real-Time Monitoring System simultaneously determines phase currents, conductor temperature, clearance, and ampacity, and wirelessly transmits this information to secure servers. The Real-Time Optimization Solution consists of a number of Monitoring Systems methodically distributed under key sections of a transmission line; the Solution determines the maximum thermal capacity of the target line and reports this to system operators as the Real-Time Dynamic Ampacity (Real-time Rating). Promethean Devices serves stakeholders in Transmission Planning, Operations, Reliability (including compliance and reporting), T & D Asset Management, and Bulk Power Delivery.
Televent
The Davey Company
The Davey Company, with U.S. and Canadian operations in 45 states and five provinces, provides a variety of tree services, grounds maintenance, and consulting services for the residential, utility, commercial, and government markets. Founded in 1880, Davey is employee owned and has more than 7,000 employees. For more information about The Davey Tree Expert Company, visit www.davey.com
Ventyx
Ventyx is a leading business solutions provider, delivering asset management, mobile workforce management, energy portfolio management, and customer care solutions to more than 1,250 energy, utility and communications customers, as well as to asset-intensive customers in selected commercial markets. Ventyx personnel solve complex technical challenges, improving our customers’ operational and financial performance, with innovative solutions and deep industry-specific domain expertise. We do this by partnering with our customers to build value into every solution we deliver. This commitment to delivering proven solutions that perform is backed up by our deep understanding of the complex industries in which our customers operate.
The Ventyx Smart Grid Operations software suite supports the commercial and retail utility operations required to deliver effective demand response (DR) programs, distributed energy management, renewable generation and resource optimization for Smart Grids. It achieves this by enabling utilities to aggregate customer-level DR and distributed generation into commercially actionable “Virtual Power Plants.” Smart Grid Operations also enables utilities to efficiently calculate and communicate price and environmental signals to customers, portals and load control programs. And, it provides advanced reporting capabilities for documenting program- and customer-level economic and environmental benefits, a key to meeting corporate and regulatory measurement and reporting requirements.
Media Partners
Alliance To Save Energy
Austin Energy
Automation Federation
Energy Central
Energy Central, headquartered in Aurora, CO and established in 1996, is the leading resource connecting professionals in the global power industry to news, events, databases, insight and analysis. Encompassing web sites, e-newsletters, direct marketing channels, events and print publications, top energy executives, managers, leaders and industry influencers have relied on Energy Central to deliver the information they use every day. EnergyCentralJobs.com is the most used job web site in the global power industry, connecting job seekers and employers.
FORTNIGHTLY
Green Tech Media
New Energy Finance
SBI Energy
Smart Grid News.com
Smart Grid Today
snl energy
Sustainable Industries
z-Giasmartinfo
Dear Executive: Utilities are faced with growing pressures that overlay all their strategic decisions regarding the future: continually growing demand for electricity, reduction in emissions including carbon, an old infrastructure, rate volatility, load demand, aging workforce, and security issues. Faced with these issues there is an urgent need to implement and update the latest smart grid technology within utility companies to improve operations, reliability, customer retention, and optimize asset utilization. ACI’S Revolutionizing the Smart Grid Conference addresses all these issues. The 2nd Annual Smart Grid Revolution conference, February 18-19, 2010 will explore the requirements of creating a comprehensive business case and long term planning for Smart Grid Implementation. Understanding that the industry is beyond metering implementation, the program will also focus on how to achieve two-way communications, the communications infrastructure required and the management of HAN to fully maximize the potential of Smart Grid applications. It is more crucial than ever to update and implement smart grid initiatives within your utility’s infrastructure. This conference will help attendees understand the challenges faced before implementing the smart grid, and the process they took to get there. Join us February 18-19, 2010, in Austin, Texas for a gathering of utility professionals, regulators, commissioners, engineers and financial executives. This two-day strategic business forum will take in depth look at the challenges being faced by utilities concerning the implementation of the smart grid, the case studies, and the benefits that the smart grid brings to the utility, customer, and economy. Learn from utility companies that have been successful in implementing smart grid initiatives. In order to understand the lessons learned from Smart Grid implementation across the industry and have a clear vision of the future role of Smart Grid this is a conference you can not afford to miss!
Speakers for this event include:
Andres Carvallo, Chief Information Officer AUSTIN ENERGY
Lorie Wigle, General Manager, Eco-Technology Group, and President, Climate Savers Computing Initiative INTEL CORPORATION
Bob Williamson, Senior Engineer Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
Jesse Berst, Managing Director GLOBAL SMART ENERGY, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk at ZDNet
Michael J. Carlson, Vice President, Smart Grid Operations GRIDPOINT
Steven W. Pullins, Team Leader NETL Modern Grid Initiative, President Horizon Energy Group
Andrew Blyth, Chief Executive Energy Networks Association (Australia)
Gary L. Ragsdale, Ph.D., P.E. Staff Engineer, Automation and Data Systems Division Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
H. Christine Richards, Vice President, Intelligent Utility® division, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Utility magazine, Energy Central
Narasimha Chari, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer TROPOS NETWORKS
Chris Campbell, Chief Strategy Officer BPL Global
Aaron Zurborg, Director, Product Delivery, VENTYX
LEARN ABOUT:
• Case studies of utility providers who are improving operational efficiencies through the Smart Grid
• Implementing smart grid strategies to increase integration of distributed energy resources and reduce emissions
• Serve “load pockets” using smart grid strategies without building expensive new power lines
• Increasing customer retention through smart grid pricing and service
• Understanding standards for implementing and operating smart grid technology
• Integrating smart grid technologies with internal infrastructure to allow for less inefficiency within operations
• Overcoming the issues that must be faced before implementing a smart grid
• Using the Smart Grid as a multi-dimensional tool in promoting energy efficiency, improving reliability, and enhancing dispatch ability
• Gaining a competitive edge by modernizing your Smart Gird with technology upgrades
• Avoiding massive infrastructure investments by using the Smart Grid to optimize asset utilization
• Economic Development: Value of Smart Grid to the economy
• Making the business case for the Smart Grid of the future
TARGET AUDIENCE:
The conference is ideally suited for Senior Level Executives, Vice Presidents, CEOS, CIO, CTO, Directors, managers, and coordinators in the utility industry. Regulators, commissioners, and engineering positions within the Government and Municipal are part of the audience as well as consultants to the utilities industry.
• Advanced Metering infrastructure
• Asset management
• Customer R &D
• Customer Service
• Demand Response
• Deployment
• Dispatch System Operations
• Distribution Automation
• Distribution Operations
• Emerging Technologies
• Energy
• Energy Conservation
• Engineering
• Finance
• Gas & Transmission
• Information Technology
• Innovation
• Load Control
• Marketing
• Modern Grid Initiative
• Operations
• Power Delivery System
• Power Supply
• Power System Services
• Process Improvement
• Products and Services
• Program Manager
• Retail Technology Development
• Smart Grid
• Smart Meter
• SmartConnect
• Technology Development
• Technology strategist
• Utility Innovations
EXCLUSIVE TOUR: AUSTIN ENERGY’S SMART GRID PROGRAM: LIMITED AVAILABILITY
HOTEL INFORMATION: The Driskill Hotel 604 Brazos Street Austin, TX 78701 1.800.252.9367
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