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Event Over The Architecture track will cover five areas:
-Innovative Architectural Models: As interoperability efforts advance, the architectural vision for the future grid has not yet fully come into focus. New products, services, and standards are coming to market, each typically with implicit architectural assumptions. This session will cover a few innovative architectural models.
- System Evolution and Legacy Integration: The power grid is currently being operated and managed with many legacy systems that are proprietary as they have been either custom developed or have been highly customized versions of commercial applications. This track will discuss integration with legacy systems.
- Data Integration and Deluge: Smart Grid is not about procuring and installing products, but doing that for the purpose of achieving business objectives. This session will discuss the need for data integration and how to manage the data deluge.
- You’ve got data, not what! : Data is king as some would say. However, it’s value is realized only if it’s used. This session provides ideas around operationalizing the data and how some utilities are using the data.
- Cost Benefit Analysis & Risk Mitigation: Utilities are at various stages in their Smart Grid execution plan. On one extreme, there are some who are on a holding pattern and are waiting while on the other hand there are some who are two to three years in their journey. And then there is the great majority who are in between. Many of these are considering developing cost benefit analysis to understand the value of such investments. This session is for decision makers, executives and IT managers considering launching integration initiatives using SOA and ESB technologies. Brad Rogers - Session leader Consultant
Navigant Consulting  | |
As interoperability efforts advance, the architectural vision for the future grid has not yet fully come into focus. New products, services, and standards are coming to market, each with explicit or implicit architectural assumptions. Important questions remain:
•Can the existing patchwork of grid architectures ever converge?
•Is there a place for a unified vision for grid architecture?
•Should the approach to grid architecture be more specified or more general?
•What decisions can utilities make today in spite of architectural uncertainty?
This session advances the GridWise Architecture Council’s goal to “identify the concepts and architectures needed to make interoperability possible” by offering unique perspectives on the future of grid architecture.
A Smart Grid Reference Architecture Drives Information Management at SCE will describe a unique tool that helps utilities navigate the world of grid architecture and interoperability to make decisions today.
Identifying Architectural Modularity in the Smart Grid asks if the organization of grid architectures can be improved and offers a tool to help organize grid systems more optimally.
Utilizing Telecom Operations Frameworks in Energy Utilities will show us how utilities are similar to telecoms and will offer architectural insights from the telecom companies around the world.
Open Source and the Smart Grid asks what role ‘open source’ can play in bringing about interoperability and ultimately delivering on the promises of a smarter grid.
This session reminds us not to get caught up in existing paradigms, but to continue looking at the issues of the day with a fresh set of eyes Brad Rogers - Moderator Consultant
Navigant Consulting Eric Nelson - Speaker Managing Principal
Synaptitude   Jeff Gooding - Speaker General Manager, Smart Grid Engineering
Southern California Edison (SCE)  John Teeter - Speaker Chief Scientist
People Power Company 
Brian Lenane - Session leader Senior Principal
SRA International   | |
The power grid is currently being operated and managed with many legacy systems that are proprietary as they have been either custom developed or have been highly customized versions of commercial applications. Many of these are fragmented, isolated and are reaching end of life. More importantly they may not scale to support the needs of Smart Grid. Utilities are therefore consolidating these overlapping applications and systems by procuring off the shelf applications and products. However, there are far too many applications and systems in a utility and replacing or upgrading these systems is a journey. Every utility therefore needs to develop a system evolution and legacy integration approach to ensure that new systems will work with the legacy systems and infrastructure. This session will provide an insight into four areas:
• Interoperability and integration with Communication systems
• How new systems can integrate with older legacy systems to achieve Resource savings
• Integrating AMI/AMR and cloud technologies with the legacy systems
• An Energy Service Provider interface that enables legacy integration Brian Lenane - Moderator Senior Principal
SRA International Ray Bariso - Speaker VP - Utility Smart Grid Solutions
Telcordia Technologies  David Mayne - Speaker Director, Business Development
Digi International  David Mollerstuen - Speaker Founder
Alcatraz Energy 
Doug Houseman - Session leader VP Technology and Innovation
EnerNex  | |
Smart Grid is not about procuring and installing products, but doing that for the purpose of achieving business objectives such as delivering better quality of customer service, improving proactive outage management, increasing internal operational efficiencies etc. The key ingredient in achieving these objectives is the need to integrate the new interval data from the smart meters and the integration of such data with legacy systems. Utilities will be inundated with this data. To start with, the data deluge will be a challenge in itself – how to handle it, how to validate it and how to store it. On top of that, there is a need to operationalizing this data. These are challenges that every utility faces. This session will provide an insight into such challenges and how the data integration and deluge challenge can be managed. Doug Houseman - Moderator VP Technology and Innovation
EnerNex Joaquin Silva - Speaker President and CEO
On-Ramp Wireless  John Gillerman - Speaker Director Sales and Marketing
Grid Cloud Systems, Inc.  Heart Akerson - Speaker CEO
Heart Transverter  Greg Nulty - Speaker VP of Technology Planning
Tollgrade Communications 
Tony Giroti - Session leader CEO
1Efficiency, Inc. | |
Data is king as some would say. However, it’s value is realized only if it’s used. Many utilities are embarking on smart grid initiatives and deploying AMI infrastructure which will result in a data deluge. The key is to operationalize the data – which means using the data actively. New systems and applications will need to leverage this data to deliver efficiencies and improving business processes such as proactive outage management, load curtailment, market operation, better customer service etc. This session will discuss how such data can be operationalized. Tony Giroti - Moderator CEO
1Efficiency, Inc. Ali Ipakchi - Speaker VP, Smart Grid and Green Power
OATI (Open Access Technology International, Inc.)  Derrick Mealiffe - Speaker Principal Solutions Architect
Telcordia Technologies Inc.  Greg Armstead - Speaker AMI Project Manager
Eugene Water & Electric Board  Scott Crowder - Speaker Sr Research Engineer
National Renewable Energy Lab 
Kerri Martinek - Session leader Director of Marketing
Bridge Energy Group  | |
Utilities are in various stages when it comes to Smart Grid. On one extreme, there are some who are on a holding pattern and are waiting while on the other hand there are some who are two to three years in their journey. And then there is the great majority who are in between. Many of these are considering developing cost benefit analysis or trying to understand the return on invesement to understand the value of such investments while many others are considering how such investments can be managed to reduce risk. This session will provide a Return on Invesestment (ROI) model for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) cost benefit and how orgnaizations can manage their technical and business risk. Kerri Martinek - Moderator Director of Marketing
Bridge Energy Group Tony Giroti - Speaker CEO
1Efficiency, Inc. Christopher Reed - Speaker Head, Enterprise Solution Engineering and Services
Albeado  Derrick Mealiffe - Speaker Principal Solutions Architect
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