Data Analytics for Utilities | Detailed Agenda

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Opening Comments From the Chair

Opening Address

Recognize How Big Data is Transforming Analytics and the Value of Your Organization

New opportunities for utilities are emerging with the influx of data. Delivering the right data at the right time to the right user is extremely valuable. Hear what has changed, why, and where the leaders are headed.

• Examine how analytics today differ from the past
• Understand the value of data analytics for your organization
• Assess how big data and analytics will change and affect utilities

Get the big picture on where data analytics is heading so you can plan accordingly.

Data Analytics 101

How to Set Up Your Data Analytics Program to Improve Forecasting, Productivity, Decision Making, and Profit

Starting an analytics team and program from scratch is an arduous task. Hear this industry leader address best practices and get the answers you need to set up your program. Attend this session to:

• Understand how analytics can enhance your decision making agility and speed
• Assess where your productivity improvement areas and profitable pockets are
• Define what you are looking for in the data and key questions to ask
• Identify issues that will make or break your program
• Manage data volume, accuracy, and knowledge

Gain practical tips to start your data analytics program.

Mid-Morning Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. Secure important new business contacts and talk about crucial developments in your field.

Case Study: CenterPoint Energy

Understand the Business Case for Data Analytics: From Cost-Benefit Analysis to ROI

Data analytics will require monetary investments and resource diversion from current and future projects. Making a good case for it will require a careful cost-benefit analysis. Hear how this industry leader has managed to demonstrate the monetary gains.

• Evaluate the logic behind the investment of resources into analytics
• Rally senior management support for an analytics program
• Identify the key benefits to analytics and expected returns
• Assess qualitative and quantitative results to analytics

Demonstrate how investing in data analytics can transform data into actionable intelligence with a positive ROI.

Industry Expert

Develop Infrastructure to Support Analytics and Generate Value from Your Data

By incorporating a baseline infrastructure strategy, a single system can normalize and correlate disparate data sources from multiple systems and time frames. The adoption of real time data infrastructure constructs and supplies data sets into a business intelligence system. The business applications created from this type of infrastructure has supported Transformer Loading, Condition Based Maintenance, Load Profiling and System Planning applications while including AMI with actual end point data.

• Understand how real-time data gets leveraged
• Assess multiple individual applications vs. infrastructure approach
• Overcome application silos to create a sustainable environment

Take away strategies to develop the foundation for sustainable and accurate analytics.

Networking Luncheon

Join conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon.

Exclusive Update

Tapping into the Value of Ontario's Central Smart Meter Data Repository

Processing data from smart meters throughout Ontario on a daily basis, the provincial smart meter data repository (known as the MDM/R) has the processing power to handle the equivalent number of Visa transactions processed around the world. IESO, as the Smart Metering Entity, is responsible for overseeing the MDM/R and providing local utilities with meter data management services.

• What is the status of the IESO's current initiatives and what else is on the horizon?
• How will the IESO and its utility partners work together on the longer-term objectives for the MDM/R?
• How is access to smart meter data provided and protected?

Understand what the IESO's initiatives and plans are for the MDM/R, and what they will mean for you.

Case Study: Burlington Hydro

Interoperability: Reconcile Data Silos in Your Legacy Systems to Make Effective Use of Data in Real Time

Utilities with a large portfolio of legacy operational systems do not need to re-wire across the board. Establish visibility and insights by overlaying a real-time analytics layer over your network, grid, and operational systems. Hear directly from
Burlington Hydro and learn how to:

• Leverage existing infrastructures with the right tools
• Integrate your GIS with your SCADA and CIS systems to proactively address real time issues
• Visualize your networks and grid using a single user interface across systems

Learn from a practical working integration model.

Mid-Afternoon Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees.

Case Study: Oncor Electricity Delivery

Use Meter Data to Improve Your Outage Response Mechanisms, AMI & OMS Integration for Operational Efficiency

Meter data can help your organization respond to outages more effectively. Optimize the use of your resources with operational data analytics. Learn from Oncor what you need to look for to promptly identify an outage.

• Understand what areas are prone to outages
• Assess usage and triggers affecting outages
• Use power-off and power restore alerts to detect outages faster

Improve your ability to detect, respond to, and decrease outages in your grid.

Case Study: Hydro One

Perfect Your Asset Management Methods to Reduce Costs and Save Money

Currently, most utilities are simply collecting, managing, and reporting data. However, taking it a step further can help you optimize your grid through effective asset management. Learn what kind of data and analytical tools are needed to:

• Improve the overall health and lifespan of your assets
• Reduce capital, operations, and maintenance costs
• Implement data cleansing solutions

Emulate the success of this utility and improve the longevity of your assets in your organization.

Conference Adjourns to Day Two

Evening Social Activities

Network with industry leaders and stakeholders while enjoying some of the best Toronto has to offer. Start by joining fellow delegates and speakers for complimentary appetizers.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Opening Comments From the Chair

Case Study: Toronto Hydro

Turning Data into Actionable Intelligence for Improved Operational Efficiency

Smart grid devices generate high volumes of data. The data needs to be transformed into actions and insights via analysis. Hear how this industry leader has utilized data from Transformer Monitors and Power Line Monitors to improve system reliability and provide better customer service.

• Increase your ability to manage your assets
• Improve your organization's outage management
• Detect diversions and protect your revenue

Transform data into actionable intelligence.

Case Study: PECO

Deliver Real-Time & Predictive Analytics to Manage Your Network More Effectively and Improve Reliability

Real-time analytics can keep you informed of what is happening in the field right now. Understand how to use operational data and make a positive impact on your network today. Learn strategies from PECO to:

• Enhance network real-time planning and operations
• Know what is happening with your network real-time
• Keep real-time monitoring on your AMI, voltage issues and transformers
• Forecast current demands and what it means for your reliability

Power-up your organization with real-time analytics.

Mid-Morning Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees.

How to Orchestrate an Analytics Solution for Operational Business Transformation

It’s tempting to wait until all your equipment is in place, all your data is clean, and everyone in your organization is ready before moving forward with Analytics. While some are waiting, others are using Analytics to manage successful roll-outs, root out data quality issues before they become business problems, and to show immediate and tangible benefits from their smart grid investments.

• Deploy analytics early to plan, benchmark, and show the results of smart grid initiatives
• Get creative with analytics to solve stubborn data quality issues
• Source lessons learned from rolling out smart grid analytics to millions of consumers

Empower your utility with analytics to be ahead of the curve, solve more problems and make better business decisions.

Privacy by Design

Ensuring Data Protection and Understanding How It Will Impact Your Analytics Program

As of February 2012, 4.7 million smart meters have been installed and 3.8 million Ontarians are on time-of-use rates. The amount of data being accumulated and the use of this data have privacy implications.

• Understand the 7 Foundational Principals of Privacy by Design
• Comply with these key principles to ensure information privacy and security
• Determine the parameters on what you can and cannot do with the personally identifiable data

Gain important knowledge on how privacy issues will affect how you manage and use data.

Networking Luncheon

Join the conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon.

Case Study: Horizon Utilities

Develop Data Analytics Tools to Address Your Budgeting Requirements

Utility budgeting can be a complex organizational process involving detailed, balanced plans for available resources (staff, equipment) and planned work activities. Hear how Horizon Utilities has addressed the challenges of these budgeting complexities and why it is now implementing a fully-integrated software solution.

• Overcome inherent limitations in an Excel-based process
• Analyze budgeting models and forecasts based on large data sets
• Create flexible models that lend themselves well to personalized scenarios

Contribute to the efficient preparation of high quality financial projections of your organization.

Case Study: Southern California Edison Company

Optimize Your Electric Vehicle Program with Data Analytics

Electric vehicles are making their way into the market. Getting your network ready for this new trend will make sure the impact to your network is planned for. Get an inside look into how SCE is:

• Identifying key and multiple data sources
• Ensuring reliability of your network in the long run
• Analyzing data to forecast costs and price of EVs

Make the most out of your EV program with the right analytics.

David Jermain,

Senior Manager, PEV Operations Support & HAN Solutions,

Southern California Edison Company

Mid-Afternoon Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees.

Industry Panel -- Customer Experience

Leverage Customer Data Analytics to Strengthen Your Customer Experience

Knowing what customers needs, their interests, and how to serve them better will help utilities. Learn how improving customer experience will change your bottom line.

• Realign your organization to serve your customer's interests
• Decipher what analytical tools are required to understand your customers better
• Find out how analytics will impact your operating model and the way you interact with your customers

Improve your customer experience and your bottom line in the process.

Peer-to-Peer Brainstorming Session

Challenges and Solutions to Deploying Data Analytics in Your Organization

The perspectives and experiences of individual delegates, along with the insights of speakers over the past two days, will be brought together for this exclusive exchange on strategies that worked and those that have not. Conference delegates will focus on the following issues:

• Determine common deployment hurdles and pitfalls
• Propose solutions to common problems and challenges
• Brainstorm how vendors, associations, and regulators can help utilities

Peer-to-peer sharing of experiences and brainstorming can result in increased collective knowledge on how to advance analytics.

Take away valuable lessons from your peers in this unique interactive session.

Conference Adjourns