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grid edge live 2015
Continental Breakfast and Check-In
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Morning Theme: Trends Impacting the Energy System of the Future
Visionary Perspectives: Four Industry Leaders Discuss the Future of the Grid Edge
Four industry leaders will discuss their vision for the future of the electric system and the key opportunities for the proliferation of new and innovative grid edge technology applications. Moderator: Shayle Kann, Senior Vice President, GTM Research
Elisabeth S. Brinton, , Industry Thought Leader
Steve McBee, President & CEO, NRG Home
Bradley R. Williams, VP Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities
Keynote Presentation
Networking Break
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Discussion: Utility Ownership of Distributed Energy Resources
Julia Hamm, President & CEO, Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Carmine Tilghman, Senior Director- Energy Supply, UNS Energy
Jon Wellinghoff, CEO & Founder, Grid Policy Inc.
Audience Crowdsourced Insights: The Grid Edge in 2020
How will the grid edge market evolve in the next five years? Where will we see the biggest change in distribution models and how will utilities, customers and distributed energy providers be compensated as the electric system continues to de-centralize? What remain the biggest obstacles to widespread policy change? These are some of the largest issues facing the growth of the grid edge market, and we will pose these questions to the audience and have our panel of experts respond in real time.
Moderator: Steve Propper, Director, Grid Edge, GTM Research
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Dr. Martha Symko-Davies, Director of Partnerships, Energy Systems Integration, , NREL
Einat Dorobantu, Director of System Resiliency and Strategy, Eversource Energy
Naimish Patel, Founder & CEO, Gridco Systems
Lunch
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Utility Grid Modernization
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Advanced Energy Consumers
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Utility Opening Remarks
Jason Handley, Director of Smart Grid Technology & Operations, Duke Energy
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Utility Opening Remarks
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An OS at the Grid Edge: Matching Supply and Demand in an Active Grid Infrastructure
This session will examine a forward-looking concept at the Grid Edge, the evolution of an intelligent operating system (OS) layer that may ultimately be required to efficiently take advantage of next-generation distribution grid assets, and truly automated HEMS, in support of a market creation layer that assigns appropriate values to assets based on capacity, economics, etc. Which resources should be used for the optimal economic benefit? Which assets should be considered for the highest levels of reliability and safety? Though the first phase of an OS at the Grid Edge will likely be focused on the utility owned distribution grid/assets, the advent of truly automated HEMS will make for even greater opportunity for such an OS to have an impact in architecting tomorrow’s distributed energy system. Moderator: Rick Thompson, President and Co-Founder, Greentech Media
Todd Headlee, Executive Director, Dominion Voltage Inc.
David Kaplan, CEO and Founder, 1Energy Systems
Naimish Patel, Founder & CEO, Gridco Systems
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The Rise of Intelligent Distributed Assets: Software Enabled, Grid Connected Consumer Infrastructure (PV, EV, Storage, etc.)
The last few years have seen unprecedented rise in behind-the-meter distributed assets led by solar PV, with electric vehicles and energy storage not far behind. These assets have resulted in profound change to customer’s interaction with the grid, leading to a new era of ‘prosumers.’ This transformation has been enabled by advances not just in hardware but also software that make these assets ‘intelligent.’ This panel will discuss the rise of intelligent distributed assets - their capabilities, impacts on the grid, and advancements in hardware and software with perspectives from utilities, vendors and end-customers. Moderator: Ravi Manghani, Senior Analyst, Energy Storage, GTM Research
John Carrington, CEO & Director, Stem
Brent Harris, Founder & CTO, Eguana Technologies
Rohan Ma, Senior Manager, Market Integration, Solar City
Lee Krevat, Director of New Ventures, PXiSE Energy Solutions, LLC, Sempra Renewables
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The Grid Edge Internet of Things: Devices, Communications, Applications and Analytics
End-to-end connectivity is a fundamental aspect of the grid edge transformation. Next-generation meters, inverters, monitors and controllers are rapidly coming online, numbering in the hundreds of millions. Networks to connect these devices must be scalable, reliable, secure and increasingly interoperable. The challenges of these requirements are already evident in the deployments of the past five years. This panel will address how utilities and solution providers are developing the necessary and future-proof solutions to advance network convergence, support multiple data streams and enable a new class of applications and analytics. Moderator: Andrew Mulherkar, Associate Grid Analyst, GTM Research
Stuart Laval, Manager, Technology Development, Duke Energy
Antoine Paquin, President and CEO, Solantro
John Radgowski, Vice President Solutions Product Management, Landis+Gyr Americas
Geoff Sharples, Director, IoT Strategy, Energy & Industrial, Intel
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Third Generation Home Energy Management: Hitting Stride, 2015 – 2020
Ushered in by unprecedented competition between utilities and service providers, a new era of energy management in the connected home is fostering renewed consumer interest. In an environment that promotes energy efficiency and wider adoption of variable pricing schemes, the continued consumer desire to reduce energy bills has introduced an abundance of cloud-driven enterprise and behind-the-meter technologies. This panel will investigate the recent proliferation of home energy management solutions and the implications on an industry fighting for customer recognition. Moderator: Omar Saadeh, Senior Grid Analyst, GTM Research
Kris Bowring, Director of Business and Channel Development, Lowe's
Ilén Zazueta-Hall, Director, Product Management, Enphase Energy Management System
Hunter Albright, General Manager, Solutions & Data Services, Tendril
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Networking Break
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Networking Break
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The Future of Resiliency and Reliability: New Expectations for Outages, Power Quality and Distributed Architectures
Severe weather events have drawn attention to physical weaknesses in the distribution grid, while increasing DER penetrations are beginning to bring attention and create power quality issues. Utilities, regulators and legislatures are responding to conditions by trying to incorporate renewables into resilience plans, deploying additional self-healing infrastructure, and integrate data from an increasingly large number of sources to better plan for, react, and recover from outage and power quality events. This panel will dive into the latest opportunities, policies and deployment models for reliability solutions at the grid edge. Moderator: Ben Kellison, Director, Grid Research, GTM Research
Chad Eckhardt, President and CEO, GridBridge
Heather Rosentrater, Director of Engineering, Avista Utilities
David Wade, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, EPB
Emily Wheeler, VP, Operations, Smarter Grid Solutions
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Rethinking the Customer Relationship from Acquisition to Satisfaction: It’s All About the Data
In competitive, market-driven industries such as technology, telecommunications and financial services, customer loyalty is critical in maintaining earnings and delivering products and services that customers want and value. With a more intelligent and transparent electric distribution system, more customer data and insight are opening up this possible for today's advanced energy consumers. This panel will address the opportunities the capabilities advanced data analytics provide in deepening energy provider customer relationships and maximize their lifetime value. Moderator: Steve Propper, Director, Grid Edge, GTM Research
Jeff Gleeson, Energy Partnerships, Nest
Fielder Hiss, Vice President of Marketing & Product Management, EnerNOC
Joe Jankosky, Director, IntelligentHome New Verticals, Time Warner Cable
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Grid Intelligence: Integrated Resource Planning in the Age of Distributed Energy Resources
The passage of AB 327 mandated the convergence of distribution grid planning with integrated resource planning in California. Regulatory efforts that followed put California in a leading position regarding the simulation and evaluation of the locational specific effects and value of DERs. Although California remains the only state to mandate the convergence of these processes, it is hard to imagine the success of New York’s REV docket without similar planning and simulation tools. With plans for the core software and business processes due in California in July 2015, this panel will provide an early discussion of the systems and processes that will enable targeted investment in DERs where they are most valuable for the customer and the grid. Moderator: Ben Kellison, Director, Grid Research, GTM Research
Peter Muhoro, Ph.D., Vice President, Strategic Industry Research & Analysis, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation
Oliver Pacific, Chief Technology/Strategy Officer, Spirae
Russell Ragsdale, Manager, Grid Modernization, Southern California Edison
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Demand Side Management: The Shifting Role of Today’s C&I Customer
The emergence of a new class of energy management services is increasingly enabling today’s C&I customers to enhance their energy usage awareness, streamline business processes, and drive savings. Supported by favorable regulatory environments fostering increased investment in demand-side management programs, utilities have an exceptional opportunity to leverage technology to further improve customer relationships. From demand response and energy efficiency to distributed generation and intelligent energy management, this panel will discuss how C&I customers are implementing these strategies and what measures are most important to them. Moderator: Omar Saadeh, Senior Grid Analyst, GTM Research
Raj Chudgar, VP, Power Generation Services Inc.
Bojana Popovic, VP of Strategy and Business Development, EDF Energy Services
David Schwarz, VP of Product, Blue Pillar
Networking Reception
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