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Sponsorship
Host Utility
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com/ and http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/
Platinum Sponsor
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Working with 93 utility partners and serving more than 32 million households and businesses across eight countries, Opower is a leading provider of cloud-based software to the utility industry. Opower’s platform uses big data analytics and behavioral science to enable utilities to achieve energy outcomes, including energy efficiency, customer engagement and demand response. For more info, please visit www.opower.com and follow us on Twitter at @Opower.
Gold Sponsor
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Grid4C empowers all Energy value chain participants by providing them the power to foresee, leveraging advanced Machine Learning capabilities to deliver accurate, granular predictions, which are crucial for tackling the rising challenges of today's Energy Industry. The Grid4C portfolio consists of a Load Research and Forecasting solution, which provides accurate load forecasts at the meter/sub-meter and sub-hour levels, as well as Revenue Protection, Customer Segmentation, Customer Engagement solutions and more.
Landis+Gyr is the leading global provider of integrated energy management solutions for the utility sector. Offering one of the broadest portfolios of products and services to address complex industry challenges, the company delivers comprehensive solutions for the foundation of a smarter grid, including smart metering, distribution network sensing and automation tools, load control and analytics. Landis+Gyr operates in over 30 countries across five continents. With sales of approximately USD 1.7 billion, the company employs c. 6,000 people with the sole mission of helping the world manage energy better. More information is available at www.landisgyr.com.
Space-Time Insight helps companies in asset-intensive industries make faster, more-informed decisions. Our real-time visual analytics applications correlate, analyze, and visualize large volumes of business, operational and external data, spatially, over time and across network nodes. Our patented and award-winning software helps companies rapidly plan and reliably and economically deliver services. www.spacetimeinsight.com
TempoIQ is the leader in sensor analytics. We enable customers in Energy, Smart Grid, and more to transform massive streams of sensor data into real-time decisions. Our sensor analytics backend provides integrated real-time monitoring, deep analytics, and scalable storage of sensor data delivered as a secure cloud service that customers utilize to rapidly launch and grow their sensor analytics-enabled products, applications, and services.
Silver Sponsor
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At Itron, we're dedicated to creating a more resourceful world. Together with our customers, we work to improve the quality of life, ensure the safety and promote the well-being of people everywhere.
Nation-E is a global leader in energy cyber security. It’s Energy CerebrumTM and The First Energy Firewall™ solutions package is the first end-to-end solution tailored for protecting energy infrastructure from threats ranging from smart grid hacking to industrial malware attacks.
Nation-E’s continuous round of successful pilots including in a control center at the FIFA World Cup and innovation via its Energy Cyber Security Center has resulted in over 25 patents in various stages of approval.
Supporting Utility
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San Diego Gas & Electric® (SDG&E®) is a regulated public utility that provides safe and reliable energy service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 850,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. The utility’s area spans 4,100 square miles. But we’re also more than a utility company. We’re leading many of the changes that are driving today’s smarter, cleaner and networked world. We’re connecting energy, people and the community.
Silicon Valley Power is the trademark adopted for use by the not-for-profit electric municipal utility of Santa Clara, CA serving residents and businesses for over 100 years. SVP provides power to more than 50,000 customers, including Applied Materials, Intel, Owens Corning and Yahoo!, at rates 15 to 45 percent below neighboring communities.
As a community-owned, not-for-profit electric service, SMUD exists to serve our customers. This means we’re able to make decisions that focus on the best interests of our community. We make every effort to provide affordable, reliable electricity and offer services that can increase energy efficiency, lower energy costs for our customers and protect the environment. We’re always on the lookout for the latest innovations in electricity that can help our customers. We’ve done this for more than 65 years, and will continue to do so moving forward. For more information, visit smud.org.
Supporting Organization
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ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY (AEE) is a national association of business leaders who are making the global energy system more secure, clean, and affordable. AEE engages in policy advocacy at the federal, state, and regulatory levels. AEE recently introduced PowerSuite, a robust set of tools to search, track, and collaborate on energy legislation and utility regulatory proceedings from across the country with one, easy-to-use interface. Learn more at www.aee.net
The 7th annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), brings together the best minds in business, academia and government to advance cutting-edge technologies that could fundamentally change the way we generate, use and store energy. The Summit provides a perfect forum to advance concepts and transform ideas into market-ready energy technologies.
Cleantech San Diego is a nonprofit member organization that positions the greater San Diego region as a global leader in the cleantech economy. The organization achieves this by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, and encouraging investment in the San Diego region. Cleantech San Diego’s membership includes more than 100 local businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits committed to advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy and the environment.
The Clean Coalition is a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid through technical, policy, and project development expertise. We drive policy innovation to realize the full potential of distributed energy resources, and we work with utilities to develop Community Microgrids that prove local renewables connected to the distribution grid can provide at least 25% of the total electric energy consumed while at least maintaining grid reliability and power quality.
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group (“Leadership Group”) was founded in 1978 by David Packard of Hewlett-Packard and represents more than 400 of Silicon Valley's most respected employers on issues, programs and campaigns that affect the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley, including energy, transportation, education, housing, health care, tax policies, economic vitality and the environment. Leadership Group members collectively provide nearly one of every three private sector jobs in Silicon Valley and have more than $3 trillion in annual revenue.
The Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to learn the wants and needs of energy consumers in North America, encourages the collaborative sharing of best practices in consumer engagement among industry stakeholders, and educates the public about the benefits of smart energy and energy technology.
Smart Grid Northwest’s mission is to promote, grow and enable the smart grid industry and infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest. With diverse members, the organization is dedicated to promoting a cluster of smart grid-related companies, while also enabling the deployment of smart grid solutions. Smart Grid Northwest efforts focus in three areas: Education, Policy, and Regional Planning. More details available at www.smartgridnw.org.
SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client-sponsored research and development for government, industry, foundations, and other organizations. SRI’s 2012 revenues were approximately $545 million.
Our work spans research, development, and deployment. We also bring our R&D innovations to the marketplace by licensing our intellectual property, creating new ventures, and providing products and services.
The Urban Future Lab (UFL) is New York City’s hub for smart cities, clean energy and smart grid technology. Our programs include ACRE, a business incubation program for pre-seed to series A startups, PowerBridgeNY, a proof-of-concept center commercializing research from local universities, and Clean Start, an advanced diploma from NYU for people seeking a transition into the cleantech sector. The UFL is part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is located in the Downtown Brooklyn.
Media Partner
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Smart Grid Today's mission is to deliver daily, unbiased, comprehensive and original reporting on emerging trends, applications and policies driving the modern utility industry -- in a signature format our founders have developed over 40 years in the trade news business, featuring highly concise and easy-to-understand news copy based on trusted reporting, exclusive interviews, informed analysis and strategic insights that our subscribers rely on to succeed every business day. SmartGridToday.com features a complete searchable archive of thousands of past stories and hundreds of downloadable PDF files, events calendar, discounts on selected items and more. Do not miss out on a single day of the deepest reporting on the smart grid you can find anywhere.
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GTM Research is now Wood Mackenzie, the leading market analysis and advisory firm on the transformation of the global electricity industry. GTM Research is comprised of analysts covering solar, grid edge, and energy storage markets. Our analysts combine diverse backgrounds in energy, environmental, emerging technology, information technology and strategic consulting sectors. This diverse team provides critical and timely market analysis in the form of research reports, consulting, and data subscription services.