Half-Day Workshop: Utility BI/Analytics & Big Data Applications - An In-Depth Study
1:15 - 5:00 pm | Wednesday, January 20, 2016Analytics and Business Intelligence are not new to the utility industry. For decades, utilities have invested valuable resources and time in creating data repositories and subsequently mining them to help make or validate key business decisions. However, these applications have not proven to be sustainable and often wither over short periods of time. Besides being resource intensive, this effort has historically also been siloed and targeted at solving specific challenges of the day in one or two specific areas. The advent of the smart grid has further highlighted this issue. The foundational two-way communication capability enabled by the smart grid has only highlighted the limitations of interoperability and calls for a strategy where the diverse islands of automation be integrated at the enterprise level, resulting in the flow of data throughout the organization and providing a systematic, consistent, cross-related, view of this data as information throughout the organization.
Information with relevant context alone can be useful in its ability to inform and accelerate decisions. This Workshop will examine the challenges faced by the industry in this space and seek to understand the business, technology, regulatory aspects in deriving value from the diverse data types to create a cross-functional and multi-disciplinary view, and solve major business challenges. Both traditional and new technologies including Big Data will be addressed, along with issues around data stewardship, governance, organization, access and visualization.
The Workshop will also cover strategy, roadmap, architecture, technologies and other aspects to bring out value to the attendees. Some utility case studies will be discussed as well.
Who Should Attend this Workshop?
- Utility Analytics, IT/ OT project team members
- IT / Operations managers
- Engineers
- Information technology staff
- Regulatory personnel
- Distribution (Planning and Ops), Meter, Demand Side Management, Renewables, technology managers
- Rate and financial managers
- Resource planners
Workshop Instructors
Mr. Anant Venkateswaran, Director, Solutions & Strategy, WIPRO
An experienced professional, Anant has over 20+ years of experience in business, financial, regulatory/policy, operations and technology aspects in the industry. Working across the globe, he has managed major technology investments and advised clients from planning, business case/ roadmap/ strategy through technology adoption and deployment. A senior member of the team accountable for strategy, trusted advisory/ consultative, thought leadership and partnerships, Anant has worked both in the traditional aspects of the grid as well new and emerging areas of Big Data, Cloud Computing, DSM, IoT & EAM. Anant serves on several Technical committees and advisory boards and is a teacher, presenter, panelist, moderator and speaker at international conferences. Anant has worked with several industrial, utility & Govt customers globally.
An experienced professional, Anant has over 20+ years of experience in business, financial, regulatory/policy, operations and technology aspects in the industry. Working across the globe, he has managed major technology investments and advised clients from planning, business case/ roadmap/ strategy through technology adoption and deployment. A senior member of the team accountable for strategy, trusted advisory/ consultative, thought leadership and partnerships, Anant has worked both in the traditional aspects of the grid as well new and emerging areas of Big Data, Cloud Computing, DSM, IoT & EAM. Anant serves on several Technical committees and advisory boards and is a teacher, presenter, panelist, moderator and speaker at international conferences. Anant has worked with several industrial, utility & Govt customers globally.
Ali Ipakchi
SVP, Smart Grid & Green Power
Open Access Technology International, Inc.
Dr. Ipakchi has over 35 years of experience in the application of information technologies to power systems and electric utility operations. As the Senior VP of Smart Grid and Green Power at OATI, he is responsible for product development and market strategy for distribution operations and smart grid areas. Prior to OATI, he was Vice President of Integration Services at KEMA, assisting utilities with technology roadmap, business and implementation strategies.. Prior to KEMA, Dr. Ipakchi held various senior management positions at ABB and Alstom leading teams for power application and market systems development, and system solutions delivery. He has been actively involved in various initiatives under DOE, NIST, SGIP, IEEE and various ISOs. He holds a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, and is co-holder of three US patents on power systems applications and instrument diagnostics.
SVP, Smart Grid & Green Power
Open Access Technology International, Inc.
Dr. Ipakchi has over 35 years of experience in the application of information technologies to power systems and electric utility operations. As the Senior VP of Smart Grid and Green Power at OATI, he is responsible for product development and market strategy for distribution operations and smart grid areas. Prior to OATI, he was Vice President of Integration Services at KEMA, assisting utilities with technology roadmap, business and implementation strategies.. Prior to KEMA, Dr. Ipakchi held various senior management positions at ABB and Alstom leading teams for power application and market systems development, and system solutions delivery. He has been actively involved in various initiatives under DOE, NIST, SGIP, IEEE and various ISOs. He holds a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, and is co-holder of three US patents on power systems applications and instrument diagnostics.
