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The Smart City uses technology to monitor everything from air quality to water efficiency to parking and more. Discover smart city best practices and utility/city collaboration on a broad range of topics from smart streetlights to resiliency and sustainability.
City of the Future
Wednesday, February 28 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
As part of our City of the Future, DISTRIBUTECH builds bridges between utilities and cities. This is what the City of the Future is about: connecting diverse groups of stakeholders and highlighting their needs to support growth and innovation. Together with our partners DISTRIBUTECH's City of the Future will address resiliency, reliability, infrastructure, digital transformation, urban operations, mobility, connectivity, and public-private partnerships. Learn how to move smart cities forward.
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Prioritizing Smart City Investments Roundtables
Tuesday, February 27 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Wednesday, February 28 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM & 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us and be a part of our exclusive roundtable sessions, where we explore the depths of smart cities. This is your golden opportunity to connect with peers who share your interests and engage directly with influential figures in this essential field.
Utility Project Management – Methods for Success Utility University
Monday, February 26 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SMART CITIES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
- Utility University
- System Hardening and Vegetation Management
- Breakfast & Lunch Roundtables
- Digitalizing the Grid Knowledge Hub
- Customer Engagement
- Peer to Peer Exchange
- Communication Tech and Networks
- City of the Future
- Environmental Social and Governance
- Cyber and Physical Security
- Data Analytics
- Storm and Disaster Management
- The Flexible Grid
- Smart Cities
- Electric Vehicles
8:00 AM
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W207A240 mins
- Utility University
This Utility University course is open to any attendee at an additional fee. To pre-register and reserve a seat, please visit the registration resource center or reach out to info@distributech.com. Ef ... -
W208A240 mins
- Utility University
This Utility University course is open to any attendee at an additional fee. To pre-register and reserve a seat, please visit the registration resource center or reach out to info@distributech.com. Th ...
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1:00 PM
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W203B240 mins
- Utility University
This Utility University course is open to any attendee at an additional fee. To pre-register and reserve a seat, please visit the registration resource center or reach out to info@distributech.com. DE ...
10:15 AM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
Utility companies are the backbone of communities, tasked with delivering reliable and safe essential services. Many are now investing significantly in distribution grid technologies such as AMI to im ... -
W310B60 mins
- Peer to Peer Exchange
Peer-to-peer exchange is a discussion on a specific topic. Discussions provide attendees access to knowledge and expertise to help them address the critical challenges facing the industry today in a s ...
11:00 AM
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Booth 2071 Exhibit Floor Theater 230 mins
- City of the Future
Utility companies that don't prioritize clean energy are risking customer attrition, regulatory backlash, and the health of our planet. But transitioning customers to clean energy involves a web of pa ...
11:05 AM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
According to the Department of Energy, LED adoption has penetrated roughly half of outdoor lighting in the U.S., and this number is growing. Lighting represents roughly 40% of a municipal’s energy spe ... -
W304CD30 mins
- Storm and Disaster Management
Providing accurate estimated time of restoration (ETR) and personalized customer communication during long outages significantly improves customer experience. In this presentation we will look at an a ... -
W304AB30 mins
- Data Analytics
Natural Language Analytics (NLA) is an advanced technology that involves the application of Natural Language Processing techniques and Machine Learning to analyze and derive insights from human langua ...
12:00 PM
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Lunch Roundtables- TuesdayW414AB60 mins
- Breakfast & Lunch Roundtables
Full conference badge is required for admittance. Additionally, all full conference badge holders must pre-register to reserve a seat. To check your registration or to reserve a seat, please visit the ...
1:00 PM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
The future of mobility in cities is electric. As EV adoption increases, a truly smart city will require electric fleets, a convenient charging network and an openness to new business models. To delive ...
1:50 PM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
BorgWarner and Highland Electric, along with partner Synop, conducted a vehicle-to-grid pilot project in Massachusetts over the summers of 2021 and 2022. During that time the utility was concerned ab ...
2:40 PM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
Cities and utilities have many challenges, lofty goals, and external pressures in common. OATI will present on how advanced technologies are supporting day-to-day city operations with focus on energy ...
2:45 PM
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Booth 2071 Exhibit Floor Theater 230 mins
- City of the Future
Explore the forefront of AI-driven innovations transforming utilities, bolstering security measures, and propelling the transition towards sustainable energy practices. Gain unparalleled insights int ... -
Booth 2071 Exhibit Floor Theater 330 mins
- City of the Future
In this dynamic session, we will delve into the transformative realm of Edge Intelligence and its profound impacts on the landscape of Smart Cities. Explore the cutting-edge technologies and strategi ...
3:30 PM
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W307AB60 mins
- Smart Cities
All roads lead to and from cities where systemic change must rapidly occur in the next 8 years to successfully deliver on commitments and laws pertaining to climate, health, and equity. At the center ... -
W304GH30 mins
- Environmental Social and Governance
Human Performance Improvement—along with its related disciplines—is a tool for improving safety, accuracy, quality and efficacy in medicine, commercial and military aviation, special operations groups ...
8:00 AM
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Breakfast Roundtables- WednesdayW414AB60 mins
- Breakfast & Lunch Roundtables
Full conference badge is required for admittance. Additionally, all full conference badge holders must pre-register to reserve a seat. To check your registration or to reserve a seat, please visit the ...
9:15 AM
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W308AB30 mins
- Cyber and Physical Security
A Synesthesia+Steganography–Based Encryption scheme developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) enables message security based on a combination of synesthesia and steganographic principles. The ... -
W304GH30 mins
- Environmental Social and Governance
Please join FirstEnergy as they share their experiences and lessons learned during a four-year GIS and graphic work design project that helped bring people, processes, and technology together. FirstE ... -
W303ABC60 mins
- Communication Tech and Networks
In the U.S., nearly 80% of U.S. households now have a smart meter. While most of these meters are electric, the modern networks they communicate under often form canopies over numerous smaller utiliti ... -
W304EF30 mins
- Customer Engagement
In order for customer experience (CX) surveys to be impactful, decision makers need to know they can trust the metrics that CX analysts report. Survey scales directly affect how customer experience me ...
10:05 AM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
This session will delve into the benefits of adopting open data sharing and digital twins for utility infrastructure planning and operations, focusing on the role of digital twins in open data sharing ...
10:55 AM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
This panel of experts will present a project that involved modeling a cold snap and power outage scenario in RUNWITHIT’s Synthetic Environment and visualizing the data with a live data visualization p ... -
W304EF30 mins
- Customer Engagement
Faced with increasing bills due to rising fuel costs, customers are showing diminishing interest in recoverable programs. A new segment, Distressed Middle Income, is growing and they need direct suppo ...
11:00 AM
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Booth 2071 Exhibit Floor Theater 230 mins
- City of the Future
Intelligent lighting solution is a critical component towards achieving decarbonization and sustainability targets of cities and communities. This session will present how Verizon’s Intelligent Lighti ...
12:00 PM
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Lunch Roundtables- WednesdayW414AB60 mins
- Breakfast & Lunch Roundtables
Full conference badge is required for admittance. Additionally, all full conference badge holders must pre-register to reserve a seat. To check your registration or to reserve a seat, please visit the ...
1:00 PM
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W304EF30 mins
- Customer Engagement
Based on nationally representative consumer research, this session will provide an overview of consumers’ interests and concerns related to electrification in the home and on the road, including sampl ... -
W307AB60 mins
- Smart Cities
This panel will focus on the potential synergies between utilities and their home cities to enhance smart cities. Panelists will share their utility’s experience and specific projects deployed regardi ... -
W20930 mins
- Electric Vehicles
The increase of electric vehicle on the road provides challenges and opportunities to utility companies who have a unique role to play in this transition. By offering grants, rebates, and incentives, ... -
W304GH30 mins
- Environmental Social and Governance
Duke Energy has been designing and delivering safe, effective, and enhanced training and qualifications using Virtual Reality throughout several business sectors including, but not limited to, Nuclear ... -
W310B60 mins
- Peer to Peer Exchange
Peer-to-peer exchange is a discussion on a specific topic. Discussions provide attendees access to knowledge and expertise to help them address the critical challenges facing the industry today in a s ...
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1:15 PM
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Booth 2071 Exhibit Floor Theater 330 mins
- City of the Future
Fireside Chat discusses the challenges with Utilities connecting Smart Cities, Communities, and Infrastructure, how Utilities are looking at networks to overcome these challenges, and the possibilitie ...
1:50 PM
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W20260 mins
- The Flexible Grid
Join us for an engaging panel discussion on DC microgrids, where experts from Duke Energy, Renewable Design Associates, Direct Energy Partners, and ABB will explore the transformative potential of dir ...
2:00 PM
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Booth 2071 Exhibit Floor Theater 130 mins
- City of the Future
Join Wesco in discussing new optical technologies that deliver broadband speeds up to three kilometers away, without fiber. Recent advances in free space optics technologies allow unparalleled flexib ...
2:40 PM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
Utilities and cities are looking for new ways to track and accurately report on sustainability initiatives including carbon reduction. Speakers will share the need for utilities and cities to lay the ...
3:30 PM
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W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
The energy transformation towards electrification of mobility and heat has revolutionized the utility network demand requirements. As the world faces increasing environmental challenges and economic p ... -
W304CD30 mins
- Storm and Disaster Management
At the heart of a proper storm response is a well-defined dispatching process that streamlines the communications between the distribution control center and the field. Field crew dispatch serves as ...
4:15 PM
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Booth 3571 Exhibit Floor30 mins
- Digitalizing the Grid Knowledge Hub
The second generation of smart meters opens real time access of metering data to final customers. Meters and More PLC Band C communication supports the current Chain2 use cases for customer awareness ...
4:20 PM
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W308AB30 mins
- Cyber and Physical Security
This session will explore the transformative potential of Generative AI for cybersecurity in the utility sector, focusing on three key areas: threat modeling, anomaly detection, and mitigation strateg ... -
W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
This session will highlight the Smart City framework of implementing smart technology by leveraging new and existing “GOLD” (aka; Data). Cities and Utilities have many challenges, lofty goals, and ex ...
10:30 AM
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W308AB30 mins
- Cyber and Physical Security
This presentation introduces the audience to a new IEEE Standard being developed by the IEEE-PES Technical Committee on Power System Communications and Cybersecurity. IEEE Std P2808 creates a mechanis ... -
W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
The City of Minneapolis Public Health Department & the Minneapolis Parks and Recreations Board both independently participated in an OATI Smart City Pilot in 2023. This session will outline the initia ... -
W311CD30 mins
- System Hardening and Vegetation Management
Investments in climate resilience and adaptation are needed to mitigate threats, impact, and recovery time in extreme weather events. Climate resilience for utilities requires identifying the customer ... -
W304CD30 mins
- Storm and Disaster Management
The Outage Data Initiative Nationwide (ODIN) is a collaborative effort, sponsored by the DOE and stewarded by Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). ODIN aims to enhance grid reliability, response, and recove ...
11:20 AM
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W311CD30 mins
- System Hardening and Vegetation Management
Explore effective weatherization strategies that ensure sustained operations in extreme weather events. This presentation will cover NERC, FERC, REStandard, and other regulatory and ISO/RTO requiremen ... -
W307AB30 mins
- Smart Cities
In support of the State of California’s clean energy goals, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company can support the transition from fossil fueled vehicles to Electric Vehicles (EV) by incentivizing custo ...
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