ETS16-Agenda
Agenda
Day 1 | Tuesday, March 29
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Keynote / Special Guest
Networking
Breakout
Venue - Paramount Theater
Venue - Stateside Theater
Venue - The Contemporary Austin
Venue - InterContinental
Registration
7:00 am - 5:30 pm
Breakfast
7:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast and networking.
Tour, Pecan Street
7:30 am - 9:30 am
Mueller neighborhood and Pike Powers Lab tour hosted by Pecan Street, Inc. Travel provided by ETS16.
Hosted By
Tour, Austin Energy
7:30 am - 9:30 am
Tour hosted by Austin Energy and the City of Austin. Travel provided by ETS16.
Join us at the new Seaholm Eco-District development to discuss how neighborhood-scale sustainable development rooted in collaboration and inclusion aligns with the Core Principles for Action in the City’s Imagine Austin comprehensive plan to define and promote a new model of urban regeneration. And then, take a stroll down Electric Drive with Bobby Godsey from Austin Energy’s Electric Vehicle program. While giving you a tour of the components of Electric Drive, he will be discussing Austin’s focus on Transportation electrification and Austin Energy’s EV program.
Tacos from Torchy's Tacos and coffee will be provided on site by austin energy
Hosted By
ETS16 Welcome by Zpryme
9:15 am - 9:35 am
Dinosaurs, Syria, and Dada
9:35 am - 9:55 am
Most critical component on the grid
9:55 am - 10:15 am
In this new energy and information age, the most critical component of the energy grid is the human beings who work in our industry. And much like every other grid component, people have tolerances and ranges of optimal function. We turn to physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics to engineer our physical and cyber assets to optimal ranges. So, too, we can take lessons from psychology and neuroscience to optimize our human capabilities, in order to implement highly reliable organizations through improved situational awareness and better collaboration.
The key to a resilient grid is to create conditions that enable our people to bring their best to the work of keeping the lights on into a strong energy future.
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Innovation and the Evolution of the Energy Consumer
10:15 am - 10:35 am
21st Century Electric Energy: the Ultimate Uber
10:35 am - 10:55 am
Chicago-based ComEd is demonstrating to customers the benefits of the “Third Industrial Revolution” being driven by the convergence of energy and digital communication technology. This revolution has arrived in northern Illinois by way of ComEd’s smart grid program and other initiatives that are creating the building blocks for an energy internet that will meet the growing interest among customers for more choice and personalized services. Leading this transformation of the electric system serving 4 million customers is ComEd President and CEO Anne Pramaggiore, who spearheaded efforts that resulted in the enactment of Illinois’ Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act (EIMA) or Smart Gird law in 2011. Nearly five years into the program, these investments are producing best on record reliability and customer satisfaction scores. Building on strengths, ComEd is now pursuing a Utility of the Future strategy informed by platform economics, which places an emphasis on collaboration, designing infrastructure that drives customer interaction and on removing friction wherever it exists to deliver the premier customer experience.
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Networking Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Building the Galactic Internet
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch and networking.
Special Guest Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Special Guest lunch and networking.
Connecting Opportunities in the IoT Landscape
12:35 pm - 1:15 pm
Effortless consumer control will shape industries across sectors and especially energy. Our digital lives will take on a whole new shape and color in the economy and our daily lives. Learn how IoT is more than buzz, and driven by a new economy.
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A Network of Networks: Connecting Consumers & the Digital Grid
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Moderator
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Trends in Grid Strategy, Planning and Operations for a New Energy Era
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Embracing technological, operational, and human transformation to achieve system, market, and societal advances.
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Networking Break
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Bridging IT and OT for Completely Connected Asset Management
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
With more assets, more sensors, more data and more analysis, asset-intensive industries are entering a new era of asset management. How do utility companies best take advantage of these changes not just for more connected asset management, but better connections across the enterprise?
Now more than ever organizations need to be able to bring together these disparate technologies and systems to enable better real-time and long-term understanding of an increasing complex asset base. These needs require building stronger connections among IT and OT for more connected asset management—at both the technology and organizational levels.
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A New Generation of Renewables
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Core generation portfolios are changing for utilities, and policies are ensuring that larger amounts of renewables will be incorporated across utility generation fleets for years to come. And yet, 25% of new purchase power agreements (PPAs) have come from corporations and impact investment funds in the last year. This session will address: How do these new economics of renewables gel across business models, technology and policy in this rapidly changing landscape?
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Energy, Education and our Future
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
How energy, education and veterans intersect at the heart of Texas’ future. How the commissioner is focusing on these themes, and what we can expect…
- Commissioner Bush has made veterans affairs, public education reform and energy development priorities in his first year as Land Commissioner. A veteran himself, Commissioner Bush has drawn on his expertise as a former public school teacher and as an oil-and-gas and private-equity businessman to make sure Texas continues to lead the country in each of these key areas.
- 2016 is the year of the veteran at the GLO. Veterans are one of our great state’s most vital resources when it comes to building our state a brighter future. But our latest studies show less than 20% of Texas veterans know about the benefits they’ve earned at the VLB. So this year we’re doing our part to be active in taking that information to veterans. We’re doing this by visiting and meeting with veterans at town halls and benefits fairs, military instillations across the state and VFW posts, statewide veteran organizations, VA med centers and businesses with an emphasis on hiring veterans. Our veterans have earned these benefits and it is our duty at the GLO to make sure they know about them.
- As Texas Land Commissioner, as a former teacher and, most importantly, as a parent Commissioner Bush is an advocate of trusting Texans with the responsibility to choose what school is best for their children. Commissioner Bush oversees land and mineral rights that earned more than $1 billion for the state’s Permanent School Fund last year and he will continue to use that platform to encourage more education reform in Texas. Public charter school encourage talented Texans to innovate new ways to improve the quality of all our schools and they will help us better educate a new generation of Texans ready to drive our great state into the future.
- God has blessed Texas with abundant natural resources and we utilize them to power the nation. When private oil and gas companies develop Permanent School Fund minerals, it not only creates high paying jobs, it earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year for public education in Texas. It is our responsibility at the GLO to manage this mineral wealth and enhance development while protecting the assets on which future generations will depend. That’s why we’re bringing our lease sales into the 21st century. Last year, for the first time, the GLO conducted energy lease sales online, making the bidding more accessible, efficient and ensuring that Texas schoolchildren get the most out of the PSF’s assets. In both sales we made significantly more per acre than in prior years when the cost of oil was up. Even in a soft oil and gas market we made more money by opening up the bidding process to more producers and investors. We will continue to implement 21st century technologies and best business practices to make sure we utilize Texas’ natural resources in the best ways for our children.
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The Vortex of Change
4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
Thirst for Power: The Energy Water Nexus
4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
Dr. Webber will share the interconnections of energy and water, revealing how much water we use for energy, how much energy we use for water, and the vulnerabilities this interdependence causes for society, all with an optimistic eye towards integrated solutions for the future.
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Networking Reception
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Registration7:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Breakfast7:00 am - 9:00 am
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Tour, Pecan Street7:30 am - 9:30 am
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Tour, Austin Energy7:30 am - 9:30 am
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ETS16 Welcome by Zpryme9:15 am - 9:35 am
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Dinosaurs, Syria, and Dada9:35 am - 9:55 am
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Most critical component on the grid9:55 am - 10:15 am
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Innovation and the Evolution of the Energy Consumer10:15 am - 10:35 am
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21st Century Electric Energy: the Ultimate Uber10:35 am - 10:55 am
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Networking Break11:00 am - 11:30 am
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Building the Galactic Internet11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Lunch12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Special Guest Lunch12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Connecting Opportunities in the IoT Landscape12:35 pm - 1:15 pm
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A Network of Networks: Connecting Consumers & the Digital Grid1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Trends in Grid Strategy, Planning and Operations for a New Energy Era1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Networking Break2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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Bridging IT and OT for Completely Connected Asset Management3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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A New Generation of Renewables3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Energy, Education and our Future4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
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The Vortex of Change4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
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Thirst for Power: The Energy Water Nexus4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
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Networking Reception5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Day 2 | Wednesday, March 30
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Keynote / Special Guest
Networking
Breakout
Venue - Paramount Theatre
Venue - Stateside Theatre
Venue - Hideout Theatre
Venue - The Contemporary Austin
Venue - InterContinental
Registration
7:00 am - 5:15 pm
Breakfast
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast and networking.
Hosted By
Open Mic, What's the Next Greatest Challenge in Energy
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Great thinkers get 10 minutes, two props, and one take to address what they see as the nearest and dearest opportunities to change the future of energy. A fascinating outside the lines approach to hearing from dynamic and singular voices in the chorus of visionaries at ETS16.
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Intro & Research & Welcome
8:35 am - 8:50 am
We Can Innovate Fast Enough
8:50 am - 9:50 am
The forceful fact-based story of successes from investing in innovation. The race to advance our infrastructure has unleashed a discussion about adapting existing infrastructure versus replacing with innovation. Where, in the constellation of attributes, are the opportunity multipliers? This is the discussion of pushing and pulling and ratcheting performance through strategic performance based budgeting across business models, technology and policy.
Hear from leaders that faced adversity and challenges, and how they see the role of energy systems in infrastructure amidst a time of fundamental changes to our society, environment, communications and energy regimes.
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The Next-Generation Utility
9:50 am - 11:00 am
Innovation comes in all forms. In some cases, it comes from established dominant market players, in other cases it comes from the hills and valleys in the middle of America. Hear from leaders in innovation discuss of their strategies and proactive plays in driving innovation, and creating new opportunities that expand business and support communities.
By EPB Chattanooga establishing the world’s first community-wide fiber optic network, it planted a flag at a beach-head of where we are expected to provide for the community in a digital era. EPB is solving the challenge of identifying new essential services by being proactive. Centerpoint has positioned itself after the issue of resilience reared its head with a series of hurricanes and opportunity struck with new technology investments. Similarly, Exelon’s generation portfolio has diversified and reorganized, while focusing on the growth opportunity of bringing together the mid-Atlantic and Midwest. S&C Electric has developed collaborative relationships with these utilities and the three will share examples of how collaboration spurred the way to innovation and success.
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Networking Break
11:00 am - 11:15 am
System-Level Solutions: The Big Picture for Big Data
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Do you have the necessary systems and tools to use Big Data solutions to drive dynamic planning and improved operational performance?
This panel will discuss foundational systems and necessary components for communities and utilities to grow and adapt to the changing energy landscape. Engaging smart cities, developing a fast, secure network and ensuring actionable data is critical to better serve your customer communities. Gain a better understanding of the digital platforms utilities are using to further renewable integration and sustainable operations through advanced technology and data analytics.
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Staging Distributed Energy Innovation: Moving from Vision to Reality
11:15 am - 1:15 pm
This panel focuses on two winners of US Department of Energy SHINES Grant awards, Austin Energy and Comed, a foremost leader in the development of microgrids and storage+renewables solutions, S&C Electric, and the leader of PEER, a new performance standard for grid stability and quality developed by Green Building Certification Institute.
At the root of all these organization's efforts are the focus of advancing the staging and deployment of microgrids on the grid and in the community. Austin Energy and ComEd have both recently developed uniquely innovative projects that will be discussed at length in the panel, and our technology expert, S&C Electric and policy expert, GBCI will buttress the focus on creating a new business model for distributed utility initiatives.
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Critical Applications for Our Next Gen Grid
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
We use the grid oh-so-differently than how we used it in 1990. And yet, some things haven't changed. This discussion focuses on those critical applications of the grid that our thought leaders see as pivotal to solving the challenges of both customers and the grid.
This panel will delve into real examples of how interoperable, scalable, secure technology is often at the heart of new innovation that is designed to provide next generation service. Whether community-wide fiber, or core operational functions, or IoT platforms, these new applications will be needed to enable these next generation applications at the grid-edge and into smart homes and buildings.
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Economists on Energy, Manufacturing in the US and the Future of Commerce
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Current state of economic transition in US markets and a review of several disruptive currents in market that utilities and industry are navigating. Evaluating effect of low oil prices on US economy and disparate effects on state economies and different sectors.
Outlook on price expectations; energy price changes have had a more muted impact on US Economy over time, and panel will address efficiencies that manufacturing sector has been driving over past several decades, and what this portends for energy sector. Close with discussion of conditions that allow for leadership, and ideas about what the future for utilities will look like given current market dynamics.
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Lunch
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch and networking.
15’ Special Presentation: Zpryme Spotlight, 1:00-1:15
Future Use Cases Driving Trends in Advanced Tech Implementation in Utilities Today
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
This panel delves into new technology that enables the human to be most the important component of the grid. This panel will share the emerging technology making a serious ROI impact for companies today, the future use cases projected to transform industrial work in the utilities industry, and the design principles to keep users at the center.
Technology is only as useful as the problem it solves, and the person using it. Historically, utilities may lag in new tech adoption, and recent research has uncovered leaps and bounds in advances in energy-related products that serve to improve situational awareness of the grid operator, distributed logic, and remote decision-making.
While it is becoming increasingly easy for IT departments to get “shiny object” syndrome with emerging technology, AR/VR, wearables, natural language processing and other technology do have a place in industries like utilities that need hard ROI for every project.
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All Connected: Empowering Customers to Leverage a Network of Networks
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Utilities are running through the evaluation of systems and software that can immediately change their world, but it's nothing without finding the right technology servicing the right customer at the right point of contact.
Looking at the developing ubiquity of connected suites of services and technology, the customer has become a new player in the IoT realm, and engaging that customer in an all-connected realm requires partners. Learn how utilities are partnering to develop lasting engagement with customers.
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Collaboration Making Cities Smarter
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
The region with the most commitment to solar and smart cities will be in California, but not where you might expect: San Diego and Chula Vista have combined to work across the clean tech and energy sectors in the region to develop compelling examples of real achievements in carbon reduction, community accessibility, and smart cities driven by energy technology solutions.
Hear from city leaders and technology partners on: (1) creating the right mix of collaboration, (2) infrastructure and finance problem solving in new projects, and (3) bringing benefits across jurisdictions, and solutions to a regional scale.
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Resilience & Distributed Energy Resources: System Enhancement
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Resilience requires looking at power resources system-wide—in campuses, buildings and microgrids. There is also a changing landscape of real-time dynamic power resource management with DER, emerging technologies, IoT and microgrids at the center. How do we protect and create a more secure grid with increasing renewables and storage? This session discusses how new solutions can address an array of interoperability, policy, business model and technology hurdles.
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Networking Break
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Creating The Next Energy Market Structure
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Leveraging new technology, novel business models, and policy maneuvers to push and pull the market to solve a cross-section of old and new issues, private and public dilemmas, and policy and market-driven answers for our next generation of energy independence and security.
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Digitalizing the Grid
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Future of Global Opportunities in Renewables Markets
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Energy / Transportation Nexus
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Global Perspective on Energy Transformation
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Happy Hour / Tour [Direct Energy]
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Happy hour and Direct Energy Innovation to Inspiration Tour – Smart Home Technology Exhibit.
Hosted By
ETS Thought Leader of the Year
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
ETS16 Thought Leader of the Year award presentation.
Evening Networking Extravaganza
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Enjoy great live music, food, and drinks with your ETS16 peers.
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Registration7:00 am - 5:15 pm
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Breakfast7:30 am - 8:30 am
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Open Mic, What's the Next Greatest Challenge in Energy8:00 am - 8:45 am
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Intro & Research & Welcome8:35 am - 8:50 am
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We Can Innovate Fast Enough8:50 am - 9:50 am
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The Next-Generation Utility9:50 am - 11:00 am
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Networking Break11:00 am - 11:15 am
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System-Level Solutions: The Big Picture for Big Data11:15 am - 12:15 pm
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Staging Distributed Energy Innovation: Moving from Vision to Reality11:15 am - 1:15 pm
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Critical Applications for Our Next Gen Grid11:15 am - 12:15 pm
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Economists on Energy, Manufacturing in the US and the Future of Commerce11:15 am - 12:15 pm
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Lunch12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
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Future Use Cases Driving Trends in Advanced Tech Implementation in Utilities Today1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
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All Connected: Empowering Customers to Leverage a Network of Networks1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
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Collaboration Making Cities Smarter1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
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Resilience & Distributed Energy Resources: System Enhancement1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
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Networking Break2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
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Creating The Next Energy Market Structure2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
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Digitalizing the Grid3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
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Future of Global Opportunities in Renewables Markets4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
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Energy / Transportation Nexus4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
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Global Perspective on Energy Transformation4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Happy Hour / Tour [Direct Energy]5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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ETS Thought Leader of the Year6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
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Evening Networking Extravaganza6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Day 3 | Thursday, March 31
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Networking
Venue - Stateside Theatre
Venue - Hideout Theatre
Registration
7:00 am - 12:00 pm
Breakfast
7:30 am - 8:10 am
Breakfast and networking.
Intro & Welcome
Unplugged, Dr. Bob Metcalfe and Dr. Massoud Amin
8:10 am - 9:00 am
How Energy and Networking enable a new future. Come and meet unfiltered Metcalfe and Amin on Energy, Networking, Security, Innovation, Education, and Sustainability.
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Generating Progress
9:00 am - 9:30 am
A presentation and discussion around the complex and opportunistic generation landscape. Key topics include how to address, and proactively get ahead of the most pressing challenges for utilities and areas to build momentum toward a more successful transition to a new energy era.
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Innovation and Adaptation
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Moderator
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Networking Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Global Energy Insider’s Perspective
11:00 am - 12:10 pm
Moderator
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Lunch
12:10 pm - 1:10 pm
Lunch and networking.
Keys to the Chaos
1:10 pm - 2:10 pm
In this session we recap an exciting three days with our “keepers of the vibe.” Join us for a lively audience discussion about the key takeaways from the event, and identifying the most valuable insights coming out of ETS16.
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Registration7:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Breakfast7:30 am - 8:10 am
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Intro & Welcome8:00 am - 8:10 am
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Unplugged, Dr. Bob Metcalfe and Dr. Massoud Amin8:10 am - 9:00 am
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Generating Progress9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Innovation and Adaptation9:30 am - 10:30 am
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Networking Break10:30 am - 11:00 am
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Global Energy Insider’s Perspective11:00 am - 12:10 pm
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Lunch12:10 pm - 1:10 pm
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Keys to the Chaos1:10 pm - 2:10 pm