Where Utility Leadership Meets
Tech Innovation to Accelerate the
Clean Energy Future
Tech Innovation to Accelerate the
Clean Energy Future
Upcoming :
4-5 April 2023
Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Join the Leaders
Brandy Bolden
CCO
STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT
Grid and Customer Roundtables
Join your peers to engage in both practical and forward thinking conversations. Each UEIC event includes 2 round tables: one focused on around grid resilience, load optimization, and flex demand, and the other honing in on customer experience, digitalization, and customer-centric electrification. Attendees from both roundtables come together for shared learnings, keynote presentations, and networking experiences.
STRATEGIC ROUNDTABLES
Roundtable 1:
“CUSTOMER AND THE GRID”
“CUSTOMER AND THE GRID”
As energy supply and demand becomes increasingly dynamic, the convergence of the customer and grid becomes more pronounced. This session will focus on tools to engage customers for better grid outcomes.
Roundtable 2:
“DATA WILL DEMYSTIFY”
“DATA WILL DEMYSTIFY”
Balancing reliability, costs, and forecasting in the context of net zero targets, extreme weather, and DERs requires strategic analytics. This session will explore ways to leverage data.
REASONS TO ATTEND
STRATEGIC
PEER EXCHANGE
PEER EXCHANGE
Engage in productive
dialogue with your
peers across the nation
dialogue with your
peers across the nation
LASTING
INFLUENCE
INFLUENCE
Share feedback and
insights that guide the
roadmap of UtilityAI™
insights that guide the
roadmap of UtilityAI™
INSPIRED
NETWORKING
NETWORKING
Continue the conversation
with an exclusive evening of
networking on April 4
Continue the conversation
with an exclusive evening
of networking on April 4
with an exclusive evening
of networking on April 4
AUSTIN, TX
The Spring 2023 UEIC is co-located with the ETS23 conference, held at Hotel ZaZa in Austin, Texas. Each roundtable session will take place following lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday, with an exclusive networking event on Tuesday evening.
LOGISTIC DETAILS: UEIC attendees are invited to join the ETS conference. The roundtables will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in the ‘Stage Fright’ meeting space immediately following lunch. Attendees are invited to join for lunch in advance of the roundtables.
LOGISTIC DETAILS: UEIC attendees are invited to join the ETS conference. The roundtables will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in the ‘Stage Fright’ meeting space immediately following lunch. Attendees are invited to join for lunch in advance of the roundtables.
Day 1: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
| START | END | ACTIVITY | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | 12:30pm | ETS Conference | Hotel ZaZa; Various Rooms |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Lunch (Optional) | Stage Fright Board Room Located in Group Therapy Lounge |
| 1:30pm | 3:30pm | Roundtable 1: Customer and the Grid |
Stage Fright Board Room Located in Group Therapy Lounge |
| 3:30pm | 5:30pm | ETS Conference | Hotel ZaZa; Various Rooms |
| 6:00pm | 9:30pm | Exclusive Networking and Dinner Event |
Downtown Austin |
Day 2: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
| START | END | ACTIVITY | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | 12:30pm | ETS Conference | Hotel ZaZa; Various Rooms |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Lunch (Optional) | Stage Fright Board Room Located in Group Therapy Lounge |
| 1:30pm | 3:30pm | Roundtable 2: Data Will Demystify |
Stage Fright Board Room Located in Group Therapy Lounge |
| 3:30pm | 5:30pm | ETS Conference | Hotel ZaZa; Various Rooms |
ABOUT UEIC
The UtilityAI™ Executive Innovation Collaborative was born out of a need to merge technology innovation and utility leadership. The clean energy transition may have its growing pains, but is a manageable one, given the right toolset. Bidgely is a firm believer in the power of AI to augment utility decision making and empower smart energy actions. As the industry leader in customer-centric AI, Bidgely collaborates with forward thinking industry leaders to ensure our technology serves the practical applications of today, while crafting a roadmap that meets the challenges of tomorrow.
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The best way to predict
the future is to invent it.
— Alan Kay 
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What can utilities do to support the waves of incoming EVs? For utilities in the U.S., where EV penetration varies significantly by geographic region, it is important to first understand the utility’s current position on the EV-adoption spectrum. With that, utilities can then determine the level of sophistication needed for upcoming strategies and investments. Maria Kretzing, Head of Innovation, walks through the phases of scaling transportation electrification in this short video.
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Demand Flexibility
The presence of new distributed energy resources like
solar, batteries and electric vehicles has the same
impact on DSM programs as they have on grid planning.
The focus of DSM programs used to be primarily energy
efficiency, with an average energy saving goal of 2%.
However now, as consumers install solar on their roof
and become producers of their own energy, energy
savings may no longer be a motivating factor. The DSM
paradigm will shift from reducing consumption to
flexible demand and influencing when consumers use
energy.
Bidgely’s CEO, Abhay Gupta, shares more in this
1-minute video.
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Take DSM Targeting from 1% to 99%
Strong DSM programs are rooted in knowing your
customer. While legacy programs were dependent on
polls or active customer input to inform design, the
power of analytics now gives utilities the ability to
understand specific appliance usage frictionlessly and
at an unprecedented scale. Now, rather than designing
programs based on 1% of customer inputs, utilities can
confidently design by accounting for a majority of
their customer base.
Bidgely Co-founder and CTO, Vivek Garud, explains how
in this 1-minute video.
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Know Your Customers to Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast
Knowing that no two customers are the same, utilities
have to avoid the trap of playing whack-a-mole by
offering undifferentiated programs and hoping for
effective outcomes. Driving meaningful programmatic
ROI requires knowing the load and appliance use of
each household, and achieving this is more accessible
than one might think.
In this video, Chief Revenue Officer of Bidgely,
Gautam Aggarwal, discusses how to think big, start
small, and scale fast to achieve stronger results.
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EV Behavioral Opt-Out to Managed Charging Opt-In
Bidgely Director of Innovation Maria Kretzing describes how one utility has introduced a behavioral managed charging program for all EV owners that leads to an opt-in, telematics-based managed charging program. The program is designed to maximize the total kilowatt hour shift to off-peak times.
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The Danger of Making Big Utility Decisions From Small Customer Data Samples
When it comes to CX, utilities are competing with tech
giants like Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify that use big
data to iterate and refine customer interactions.
Thanks to advancements in analytics, utilities can
break away from limited data sets and legacy systems
to emulate a gold standard of customer experience
using their existing data.
Bidgely Co-founder and CTO, Vivek Garud, explains how
in this 1-minute video.
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