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Lee Krevat
Director, Smart Grids Project
San Diego Gas & Electric
Presentation Title:
SDG&E Smart Grid Deployment plan |
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Lee Krevat is director of the smart grid initiative for Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E).
Krevat leads enterprise-wide smart grid strategy, policy, and project alignment for SDG&E. In 2010, he was named one of the top 100 movers and shakers who are influencing the smart grid market by GreenTech Media and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance, a smart grid advocacy coalition with the mission to transform the electric grid to achieve a sustainable energy future through the advocacy of well-reasoned smart grid policies at the federal, state, and local levels.
SDG&E has built a strong foundation in Smart Grid technologies, including a Smart Meter deployment that will be completed later this year, self-healing grid technology, automated sub-station condition-based maintenance, advanced outage and distribution management systems, and microgrid projects funded by DOE and CEC. SDG&E was ranked number one in the nation in 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Smart Grid rankings published by IDC Energy Insights and Intelligent Utility magazine.
Krevat’s prior positions at SDG&E include director of program delivery, where he oversaw IT for advanced technology projects and the development of new systems to improve operating efficiency and customer experience. Krevat was also director of IT strategy and business partnership where he worked to align strategic direction between IT and the utility business units, as well as director of infrastructure engineering & operations.
Before joining Sempra, Krevat led the Software Process Engineering, Technology Transfer and Software Process Improvement Teams at Tandem Computers.
Krevat graduated with university honors and holds a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics/computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 840,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.
Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2008 revenues of nearly $11 billion. The Sempra Energy companies’ 13,600 employees serve about 29 million consumers worldwide. |
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Tony Suarez
Program Manager, Information Security
TVA
Presentation Title:
Presentation Title: TVA, GE, Deloitte Case Study |
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| Luis A. (Tony) Suarez is a CISSP Security professional with 35 years of design experience and over 20 years in the finance industry. Currently employed as a Program Manager, Information Security at the Tennessee Valley Authority a critical infrastructure power generation utility, responsibilities include insuring security of TVA corporate systems and Smart Grid / Demand Response efforts. Tony was the Vice President of PKI Solutions for Signix, an authentication and digital signature solution provider. He was President/Manager of Wachovia Encryption Technologies, LLC where he was responsible for securing all encryption and key management for First Union/Wachovia and managed multiple Certificate Authorities while introducing several new technologies, including SAML, eSign, biometrics, smart card and IBM mainframe cryptography (ICSF). He was responsible for developing and implementing First Union’s first Certification Authority and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including, automated key management schemes and locally managed SSL. He also managed the creation of all PKI legal operating rules (Certificate Policy and Certification Practice Statement). |
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Kevin G. Wood
Tariff Programs and Services
Manager, Large Customer Programs, Systems and Technology
Southern California Edison
Presentation Title:
Adapting and Profiting From Real Time Demand Response |
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Kevin Wood manages a staff including managers, project/program managers, and technical specialists responsible for: the design, development and operation of demand response programs for large customers (>200kW); development and evaluation of demand response emerging technologies; wholesale market integration of demand response; and the selection, procurement, enhancements and maintenance of the system infrastructure for SCE’s portfolio of Demand Response programs.
Kevin has worked in the electric utility industry for 30 years holding engineering and management positions in generation design, distribution design, street lighting, metering (AMI) and demand response. Kevin’s publications include: co-authored the technical paper "Increased Utilization of Overhead Transmission Lines and Substation Equipment" in 1989; authored “SCE’s C&I Customers Manage Load in Real Time” published in Distribution World Magazine in 2003; co-inventor of “Method of Communicating Between a Utility and Its Customer Locations” (SCE’s AMI patent). Kevin has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and has been with SCE for 24 years. |
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Robert (Bob) B. Frazier
Directory of Technology - Houston Electric
CenterPoint Energy, Houston Texas
Presentation Title:
The Shift In Dollars To Distribution Automation |
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| Bob has 34 years of IT management experience in Operation, PC and LAN environments, security, application development, audit and executive consulting. At CenterPoint Energy, his focus is utility customer systems including CIS, SAP CCS Mobile Data, CTI/VRU, metering, supporting call centers, field service reps, billing, bill print, receivables and reporting. In addition to the usual strategic planning and tactical execution of electric supporting systems, Bob has spent the past three years supporting Advance Meter Infrastructure (AMI), and Intelligent Smart Grid pilot projects including regulatory filing and settlement negotiations. Bob is a member of the Texas statewide advanced meter portal specification team, a founding member of the Texas Common Portal management team, the DOE grant drafting team as well as the CNP Intelligent Grid specification team. He spent six years as a US Navy Supply Officer and 14 years in the reserve. He has a B.S. in Computer Systems Analysis from Miami U. in Oxford, OH and an MS in Operations Research / System Analysis from US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He is married to Melissa with two boys in college or grad school. |
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Stephen Nees
Business Information Systems Planner for the
City of Anaheim Public Utilities Department.
Presentation Title:
The Evolution Of Smart Grid Communication Network |
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| After graduation from California State University Long Beach with a degree in Psychology, he has followed a career path that ranges from providing customer service for a government agency to managing systems, networks and system development for Fox Television Stations and the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA). During this time he completed an MBA program and gained experience in organizations focused on customer service and billing, including a major telephone utility. After joining the City of Anaheim in 2004, Stephen assumed responsibility for information technology planning within the department such as CIS, Work and Asset Management. He developed and obtained approval for the Department’s AMI/MDM strategy and implementation. He also developed an architectural framework including an Enterprise Service Bus for system integrations that is currently in implementation. As the Department’s ARRA Smart Grid Investment Grant coordinator, he developed a consolidated, cross-cutting proposal round as well as a supplemental proposal for California matching funds under the PIER program. Both competitive grants were awarded. |
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Edward Chatten
Senior Vice-President – Smart Grid & Strategic Support
PowerStream Inc.
Presentation Title:
Critical Enablers For Smart Grid Implementation |
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Mitchell Wondolowski
CEO
Grid Solutions, Inc.
Presentation Title:
Leveraging Demand Response To Enable Energy Independence |
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Grid Solutions is the first smart grid application to provide an end-to-end residential solution to demand-response and local storage for coop and municipal utilities. Grid Solutions enables utilities to reward users for dynamically managing their electrical consumption as well as integrating and optimizing local storage.
15 years experience in Telecom with two start up companies
- VP Global Alliances – Connectiva Systems, Inc.
- Co-Founder and VP Professional Services of Infocellular, Inc.,
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Peter Fuhr
Scientist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Presentation Title:
The Implications Of Cyber Security For Smart Grid Tech Development |
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| Dr. Peter Fuhr has been involved in industrial wireless, sensors, and secure systems for 30+ years as a NASA space optical physicist, university professor, serial entrepreneur, and ORNL staff member. Dr. Fuhr, is the Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, serves as the Co-chair of The Secure Infrastructure Controls Society, is the Director of the Association for Advanced Agricultural Technology, is the co-founder and past Chairman of the Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance, co-chairs the Association for Advanced Agricultural Technology, and is the co-chair of ISA’s Communication Division. He is involved in wireless, sensors, and control systems standards organizations chairing numerous work groups and committees. Peter has embedded sensors into various structures worldwide ranging from buildings, dams, airplanes, hot air balloon, spacecraft, nuclear power plant containment vessels, even humans. He has deployed wireless systems in too many industrial, agricultural, underwater, underground, and even outer space settings to list. Peter has published/presented over 750 technical articles pertaining to wireless, sensors, security and systems. His pioneering work in networked sensor systems for structures earned him the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research. Segments of his research activities are featured in the SPIE Milestone Series on Fiber Optics. |
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Bob Gohn
Research Director
Pike Research
Presentation Title:
The Shift in Dollars To Distribution Automation |
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Bob Gohn leads Pike Research’s smart grid practice including responsibility for research content management, client consulting engagements, and key industry relationships. His personal research and analysis focuses on smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart grid networking and communications, home area networking (HAN), and energy management.
Before joining Pike Research, Gohn was VP of Marketing for Ember Corporation, a leading provider of ZigBee wireless mesh silicon and software, where he was responsible for strategic product planning, product management, corporate communications, market development, strategic partnerships, sales support, and customer application engineering / technical support. Prior to joining Ember, Gohn served as Director, Strategy & Business Development at Freescale Semiconductor. His experience also includes senior marketing roles at Motorola Semiconductor, C-Port Corporation, 3Com, and Standard Microsystems Corporation. Gohn holds a BEEE from SUNY Stony Brook and an MSEE from Polytechnic University. |
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John N. Moura
Manager, Reliability Assessment
North-American Electric Reliability Corporation
Presentation Title:
Reliability Considerations From The Implementation Of Smart Grid |
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Jonathan Booe
Deputy Director
NAESB
Presentation Title:
The Importance Of Standards and Regulations |
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Jonathan Booe has been an attorney for the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) since 2007 and is currently the lead for all NAESB Smart Grid activities. As an attorney for NAESB, Jonathan has worked with companies in the natural gas and electric wholesale and retail markets to develop business practice standards, protocols and contracts to add efficiency, transparency and clarity to market processes. Jonathan has drafted multiple filings for submission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on behalf of NAESB and has participated in the development of NAESB standards in response to FERC Order Nos. 890 and 698, among others. Virtually all of the NAESB wholesale market standards have been incorporated by reference into federal regulations and many of the retail market standards have been adopted or served as the foundation for action by state commissions.
Specific to NAESB Smart Grid efforts, Jonathan participated in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid conferences of 2009 as a representative of NAESB and is the acting NAESB liaison for many of the organizations involved in Smart Grid development including FERC, the Department of Energy, NIST, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Smart Grid Task Force and several energy trade associations.
Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University and a JD from South Texas College of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Demand-Side Resources and Smart Grid Committee of the Energy Bar Association. |
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Tobin Richardson
Director, Smart Energy
Zigbee Alliance
Presentation Title:
The Importance Of Standards and Regulations |
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Rik Drummond
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist
Drummond Group Inc. (DGI)
Presentation Title:
The Importance Of Standards and Regulations |
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As Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist of Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), the trusted global interoperability certification authority, Rik Drummond has led the company's technical and research strategies while steering DGI to constant growth and innovation. He is a widely respected thought leader in the eBusiness industry with over 30 years of experience and a driving force in the technical standards bodies and vertical industry groups supporting B2B commerce.
In his is two and a half years as the original chairman of the GridWise Architecture Council, Rik guided and shaped the Council as one of the primary advocacy bodies for a smart electric grid. He remains an instrumental member in advancing the benefits of improving the interoperation between automation systems needed to enable smart grid applications. Rik demonstrated the courage to rally the thirteen members of the Architecture Council around notions of interoperability and the need to develop a crosscutting electricity community of people and organizations representing industrial system, buildings automation, home automation, and economic and regulatory policy in addition to electric service providers.
The concept for a “constitution” of interoperability principles, the interview process to engage a larger community and the GridWise Constitutional Convention originated with Rik. This work has been captured in the GWAC Interoperability Constitution Whitepaper. Rik was also part of the GWAC team which created their Interoperability Context-Setting Framework (v1.1) document and their Interoperability Path Forward whitepaper. Through his efforts with the GWAC, Rik was awarded the Smart Grid Award for “Outstanding Leadership in the Advancement of a Smart Grid.”
Rik Drummond has been selected to serve on the new Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Governing Board (SGIPGB). Rik was voted the inaugural representative of the Testing and Certification Vendors stakeholder category.
In his work with Drummond Group, Rik has a front seat view of enabling software/firmware vendors to develop and work together in the goal of interoperability, his “hands on” knowledge is immensely valuable. Drummond Group today provides interoperability certification for machine to machine (M2M) or business-to-business (B2B) standards which are used for the Fortune 500 financial information backbone, representing billions of dollars exchanged per year. Cybersecurity of data interoperability and transfer is critically tested.
His company also provides world-wide interoperability certification for other organizations such as Liberty Alliance for Identity information exchange for the US government and the global leaders in identity. Major supply chains in retail, healthcare, financial services, pharmaceutical, consumer product goods, automotive and petroleum industries rely on the Drummond Certified program to provide a wide selection of software tested for compliance and interoperability.
Rik was the chair of the IETF WG which produced the AS2 standard (RFC 4130) that allowed the transmission of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to move from VANs (Value Added Networks) to the Internet, saving companies millions of dollars in transmission fees. Today, AS2 is the “workhorse” for the Fortune 500 Internet Messaging and is one of the most widely implemented messaging standards around the globe. Rik also chaired the initial version of the ebXML Messaging Service (ebMS) work group. ebMS is widely used B2B standard in the US, Europe and Asia.
With Drummond Group’s certifications programs involved in identity management, data synchronization, secure messaging, web services, and business processing, Rik offers a fresh neutral approach for industries challenged by many stakeholders and political agendas. With a keen eye on driving adoption of common standards to build the necessary technology to support interoperability in industry and without bias towards an end result, he has experience with many industry groups to engage them in a collaborative process to drive interoperability. |
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Dr. Michael Hsieh
Adjunct Instructor
UC Berkeley Extension
Presentation Title:
The Evolution Of Smart Metering and The Transition To HEMS |
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| Dr. Michael Hsieh has been an Adjunct Instructor at UC Berkeley Extension since 2009. Prior to that, he was at Sun Microsystems Inc. for almost 20 years where he designed and delivered 3 generations of Sun workstations and servers designed for cloud computing, and also designed and delivered 3 generations of UltraSPARC microprocessor chips for powering the Sun systems. Michael also had 2.5+ years experience in designing Storage Area Network (SAN) switch. Prior to joining Sun, Michael was a lead engineer for designing multiple microcontroller chips for controlling the embedded systems, such as the modern day smart grids and internet of things, at Intel and Ford for 7+ years. Michael's current interests include the design and the realization of smart grid, smart microgrid, and internet of things, in the digital energy era. Michael earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering with minor in Applied Mathematics from Texas Tech University, one of the Tier 1 national universities in the state of Texas. |
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Dr. Rajit Gadh
Professor at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
UCLA
Presentation Title:
The Evolution Of Smart Grid Communication Network |
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Dr. Rajit Gadh is a Professor at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA, and the Founding Director of the UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center - http://smartgrid.ucla.edu/. He is also Founder and Director of the Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium or WINMEC (http://winmec.ucla.edu) of which major organizations including Boeing, ETRI, Hewlett Packard, Hughes Network Systems, Intel, ISBM-Italy, InterDigital, ITC Infotech, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Sprint, Siemens, TCS, Verizon Wireless and others have been sponsors/members over the last several years.
Dr. Gadh works in the areas of Smart Grid Technologies (ICT for Demand Response, Electric Vehicle Integration) Mobile Internet, Wireless Multimedia (http://winmec.ucla.edu/mobime), RFID edge-of-the-network technology, RFID Middleware (WinRFID), and, RF-sensor-control interfaces (ReWINS). He has over 150 papers in journals, conferences and technical magazines, and, 3 patents granted
He has a Doctorate degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a Masters from Cornell University and a Bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur. He has taught as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, has been a Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and did his sabbatical as a visiting researcher at Stanford University for a year. He has won several awards from NSF (CAREER award, Research Initiation Award, NSF-Lucent Industry Ecology Award, GOAL-I award), SAE (Ralph Teetor award), IEEE (second best student-paper, WTS), ASME (Kodak Best Technical Paper award), AT&T (Industrial ecology fellow award), Engineering Education Foundation (Research Initiation Award), William Wong Fellowship award from University of Hong-Kong, etc., and other accolades in his career. He is on the Editorial board of ACM Computers in Entertainment Publication and the CAD Journal. He has lectured and given keynote addresses worldwide in countries such as Belgium, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, etc.
Dr. Gadh has a strong background in creating technology partnerships with industry. His industrial background started prior to his academic career, when he worked as an engineer and a technology lead for two software startup companies over a period of 4 years (Formtek Inc. and Carnegie Group Inc.). Currently, he serves as advisor to a handful of startups and three venture capitalists. In partnership with his students and researchers, he has co-founded two technology startups, the second one being in wireless media. |
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Christine Hertzog
Managing Director
Smart Grid Library
Presentation Title:
The Evolution Of Smart Metering and The Transition To HEMS |
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Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid technologies and solutions. She has two decades of experience helping companies that range from small start-ups to multi-national corporations deliver competitive and cost-effective solutions and services to customers. Her work often involves introductions of visible and disruptive products or services to customers, and the use of management and communications strategies and tactics to enable consumer acceptance of change. She also helps clients understand and navigate the Smart Grid ecosystem of emerging technologies and markets.
Christine is the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary, the first dictionary that explains the jargon, acronyms, and terminology used by utilities, regulators, standards organizations, and manufacturers; and the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary Plus, which includes the Dictionary and useful educational materials. She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ElectricityPolicy.com, the Energy Collective, and the FountainBlue Clean Tech seminar series. She is active in the NIST Cyber Security subgroup focused on data privacy standards recommendations. Christine is a frequent presenter on Smart Grid topics and writes a weekly blog about the challenges and opportunities that Smart Grid solutions bring to the evolving electricity supply chain, and their impacts to consumers. |
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Barry Haaser
Executive Director
OpenADR
Presentation Title:
Adapting and Profiting From Real Time Demand Response |
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| Barry Haaser is the Executive Director of the U-SNAP Alliance, a trade association providing a protocol independent serial communication interface and connector standard for linking Smart Grid Devices to smart meters in a Home Area Network. In addition to the USNAP Alliance, Barry manages LonMark International and the OpenADR Alliance through his company the Lakeview Group. Prior to forming his own company, Barry spent 15 years with Echelon Corporation (ELON) where he held a number of marketing and business development positions in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Haaser was previously Vice President of Marketing at Alacritech and Director of Marketing at Saratoga Systems. Haaser holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University. |
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Angel Mercedes
Business Development Manager M2M
T-Mobile
Presentation Title:
The Evolution Of Smart Grid Communication Network |
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As business development manager for T-Mobile USA’s M2M business unit, Angel Mercedes is a highly successful sales management professional with 14 years of wireless sales experience initiating, developing, and managing sales relationships with customers, distributors, and manufacturer representatives that have resulted in increased sales revenue.
Prior to joining T-Mobile, Angel served as regional sales manager for Wavecom Inc/Sierra Wireless, one of the largest providers of embedded wireless modules to the M2M industry. Mercedes earned an MBA in business administration and international business from Florida Atlantic University, and a bachelor’s degree in electromechanical engineering from Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. |
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Nana Lohmanns
Senior Consultant & Industrie Expert for Smart Metering/Smart Home
T-Systems
Presentation Title:
A Vision For A Smart Energy City Of The Future |
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Michael Northern
Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting
Deloitte
Presentation Title:
TVA, GE, Deloitte Case Study |
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Mr. Northern joined Deloitte Consulting in August, 2008 after a distinguished career with Black & Veatch, IBM and Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting. He has more than fifteen years of experience with systems implementations and system integration. Over ten years experience with consulting assignments involving all phases of the systems implementations and custom development for full project life cycle. He has extensive expertise defining system requirements for hardware, software, security and network topologies.
As an Enterprise Architect Mr. Northern primary role on projects has been to define and implement solutions. In this role Mr. Northern has defined comprehensive frameworks used to manage and align an organization's business processes, with Information Technology (IT). He has served as a thought leader on many projects providing oversight during all phase of the project life cycle. Mr. Northern has spent most of the last 10+ years working for the North American Utilities. He has completed project for Generation, Distribution, Transmission, Shared Services and Independent Systems Operators.
Since 2006, Mr. Northern has been completely focused on Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Grid related solution arena for the electric utility industry. Mr. Northern has provided technical leadership for some of the largest Smart Grid projects in the United States and Canada. He has consultant on project with meter end point ranging from 8 million to .5 million, utilizing 6 different AMI vendors’ products. As part of his role he has participated in the product selection for both the Meter/Com , MDMS, ESB solutions, TOU, and Feed In Tariff programs.
Mr. Northern holds an Associates of Science in Business Administration from Sinclair Community College, in Ohio and a Bachelor of Arts in Management Information Systems from Capital University, in Ohio. He is also active in standards industry standards groups such as NIST and UCA/OpenSG |
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Scott Koehler
Director of Smart Grid Product Management
Telvent Utilities Group
Presentation Title:
The Opportunities Created By Advanced DMS and Demand Response |
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| Scott Koehler serves as Director of Smart Grid Product Management for Telvent Utilities Group. Scott has direct responsibility for the strategic roadmap of Telvent’s DMS, OMS, and SCADA technologies. This entails managing the lifecycle of products that enable and facilitate smarter electric networks for investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative utilities throughout North America and international markets. An electrical engineer with nearly 20 years of combined utility, software, and system integration experience, Scott is responsible for ensuring that Telvent can assist utility customers with a comprehensive real-time network management solution that addresses operational, economic and planning initiatives. |
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Robert Eckard
Presentation Title:
The Evolution of Smart Grid Communication Network |
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| Robert Eckard has over a decade of energy and environmental sector experience and leads a small industry research and technical consulting company. Robert has provided global, regional,and local market analysis and economic assessments; environmental analysis; and technical water and energy reporting to clients ranging from consulting firms, private companies and government organizations. Mr. Eckard is also pursuing a PhD in water and energy resources at the University of California, Davis. |
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Farah Saeed
Principal Consultant, Energy and Power Systems
Frost & Sullivan
Presentation Title:
The Opportunities Created By Advanced DMS and Demand Response |
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Functional Expertise
- 12 years of consulting and project management and fulfillment expertise focused on power and energy equipment and services. Particular expertise in:
- Managing and conducting in-depth qualitative and quantitative market research and market evaluations
- Acquisition target research and due diligence
- Market validation analysis
- Vertical market assessment and new market exploration
- Content development and annual production planning
Industry Expertise
- Extensive experience in high growth and emerging power and energy devices including:
- Transmission and Distribution Equipment with focus on Smart Grid. This includes demand side management, smart meters, related network infrastructure, and other electrical devices.
- Uninterruptible power supplies and DC power systems for data center and healthcare sector
- Energy storage including lead acid, lithium ion, and other primary and secondary batteries.
- Flywheel technology
What I bring to the Team
- Industry connections and contacts in the power supply and energy market
- Quoted in Forbes, Red Herring, EE Times, Computer Reseller News, Investor’s Business Daily, and Information Week.
- Have spoken at conferences including, keynote speaker at the 2010 Smart Grid Update Conference in San Diego and Battery 2007. Provided comprehensive market presentations at PowerSystems World conference and GSA EXPO
- Fluent in Danish
Career Highlights
- Principal Consultant as of 2011
- Senior Consultant between 2007 and 2011
- Program Manager, Back-up Power Solutions between 2004 and 2007
- Client relationships with known industry players including Eaton, Schneider Electric, ABB, and Siemens.
Education
- BBA –Business Administration and Marketing (Towson University, Baltimore)
- Market Economist, International Marketing (Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College, Denmark)
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Veerender Kaul
Research Director Advanced Technologies Automotive & Transportation
Frost & Sullivan
Presentation Title:
EV Update |
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As Research Director, Veerender oversees the research and consulting functions of Frost & Sullivan’s Automotive & Transportation Practice. Since joining Frost & Sullivan Mr. Kaul has authored and managed numerous syndicated studies and client-defined strategic consulting projects covering a range of advanced automotive technologies and systems. Study topics included powertrain systems, electric vehicles, active and passive safety systems, and infotainment and telematics systems.
Mr. Kaul’s extensive experience in the automotive industry, where he worked in Production Engineering and Industrial Engineering functions at subsidiaries of major global vehicle makers, enable him to effectively address complex market and technology issues. He has advised clients on business case evaluation of new products, geographic and adjacent market expansion, competitive benchmarking, mergers and acquisitions, and other business and strategy issues.
Mr. Kaul’s work has been published by the SAE and cited by several publications including industry magazines and journals including, Automotive News, Wall Street Journal, Investor Business Daily, and Industrial Physicist. Mr. Kaul is also a frequent speaker at automotive industry events and conferences. Most recently he was invited to present his SAE paper on vehicle safety at the 2010 Convergence Conference in Detroit, MI. Mr. Kaul is a regular speaker at the Detroit Telematics Conference. |
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Matt Lecar
Principal Consultant
GE Energy Smart Grid Center
Presentation Title:
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Matt Lecar is a Principal Consultant with GE Energy’s Smart Grid Center of Excellence where he advises utility clients on the business case, strategy, and road map for the deployment of smart grid technology.
During a long career in the energy utility industry, Matt spearheaded new product development for Pacific Gas & Electric Company and developed and managed partnerships between US energy technology startups and the Electricité de France Group. Most recently, he served as Fund Manager for the California Clean Energy Angel Fund, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused exclusively on clean energy technology.
Matt is a regular contributor to Greentech Media, Energy Priorities, Smart Grid News, Smart Energy International and Metering International magazines, and wrote a chapter of “Inside the Minds: Energy Venture Capital Best Practices”. He serves on Advisory Boards for Smart Energy International, the California Integrated Renewable Energy Systems (Cal-IRES) institute at UC Davis, Fountain Blue, Green21 Media and Climate Healers. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor's degree with high honors in physics and political science from UC Berkeley. |
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Ed Koch
CTO
Akuacom
Presentation Title:
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Speaker Bio |
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Gary Finco,
Senior Advisory Engineer,
Home Land Security
Presentation Title:
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| Mr. Gary Finco is a Senior Advisory Engineer assigned to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Control Systems Security Program (CSSP). Gary has worked at the Idaho National Laboratory since 2005. He brings 28 years of experience in real-time data acquisition and has spent the last 8 years working in Control Systems Cyber Security. He is a co-author of the DHS “Cyber Security Procurement Language for Control Systems” and conducts multiple levels of Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Awareness training. Mr. Finco holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. |
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