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The state of play for AI in the power sector

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In 2024, the impacts of AI on the power sector are inescapable. Across the country, utilities, IPPs, and transmission operators are evaluating, piloting, and deploying AI-based solutions to address critical challenges across their networks. At the same time, they’re seeing unprecedented load growth driven by AI-specific data centers.

At Transition-AI 2024, Latitude Media is convening a broad range of experts for thoughtful discussions, case studies, panel sessions, and analyst presentations around three urgent themes:

Reliability – From grid modeling and planning to automated asset inspection, vegetation management, wildfire detection, and anomaly detection, AI solutions offer new levels of visibility into asset management and are setting the stage for true predictive maintenance.

Customer analytics and experience – Utilities are leveraging AI in limited ways to address their customers today, from segmentation, onboarding, and program management to enhanced customer service offerings. The advent of AMI 2.0, smart EV charging demands, and the opportunity to use advanced chatbots to augment customer service present many questions to utilities looking to enhance customer-side operations and service today.

Load growth – The rapid rise of AI is driving power demand far beyond initial forecasts, presenting serious challenges to utilities and system operators. At the same time, AI is improving resource planning and forecasting capabilities to generate more efficient operation within the power sector.

For inquiries about media passes, government discounts, or speaker applications, contact us at [email protected].

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I was honored to present at such a fantastic event and learn from so many brilliant industry leaders
Mark Waclawiak, Senior Manager – Operational Performance, Avangrid
Who should attend?

Transition-AI 2024 is designed for leaders and practitioners responsible for innovation, strategy, technology, security, and product development within the energy and utilities sectors. Titles will include:

  • C-Level Executives
  • Heads of Innovation
  • VC/Investors
  • VPs of Strategy
  • VPs of Product Planning
  • Energy and Utility R&D Specialists
  • IT decision makers
Over the course of one day, you’ll:
  • Gain an understanding of the use cases and market opportunities for AI in the power sector
  • Hear case studies that illustrate how AI is being piloted and deployed today
  • Understand how AI is forcing grid planners to rethink their forecasts and grapple with unprecedented load growth
  • Learn from experts and peers through a mix of keynotes, panels, and workshop sessions
  • Learn how utilities are setting KPIs for their AI deployments and how early deployments are measuring up against those
  • Hear from Latitude Intelligence on the outcomes of recent research into the AI market
Questions facing the power sector today around AI:

Transition-AI 2024 is designed for leaders and practitioners responsible for innovation, strategy, technology, security, and product development within the energy and utilities sectors. Titles will include:

  • Is the right data available to power AI solutions with sufficient accuracy?
  • What are the internal resources required to introduce AI-powered solutions?
  • How can utilities and developers meet surging power demands while staying within their net-zero goals?
  • How can utilities and developers meet surging power demands while staying within their net-zero goals?
  • How can utilities and developers meet surging power demands while staying within their net-zero goals?
  • As a generation or storage asset owner, how to best leverage AI for siting, sizing, forecasting and asset management?
  • Could AI actually be part of the solution for optimization around data center, EV, and electrification load growth?
  • How will AI play in utility efforts to improve customer experience?
FEATURED SPEAKERS
  • Peter Freed

    Former Meta + Near Horizon Group

    Peter Freed

    Former Director of Energy Strategy, Meta + Founding Partner, Near Horizon Group

    Former Meta + Near Horizon Group

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    Peter Freed is the former Director of Energy Strategy at Meta. While at Meta, his team worked to advance grid decarbonization and reliability by creating solutions that overcome systemwide obstacles while also meeting Meta’s energy and net-zero goals. He worked in close partnership with large buyers, utilities, regulators, policy makers, developers, technology providers, and other market participants around the country to accelerate the transition to the zero-emission grid of the future. He was a founding board member of the Clean Energy Buyers Association. He is the founding partner of Near Horizon Group. Prior to Meta, he served as Director of TerraPass for more than 6 years, analyzing and implementing sustainable energy projects for a broad range of clients. He holds a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

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  • Julia Lundin

    AES

    Julia Lundin

    Director of Digital Solutions

    AES

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  • Chris Shelton

    AES

    Chris Shelton

    Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer and President, AES Next

    AES

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    As Chief Product Officer and AES Next President, Chris Shelton leads a team addressing the energy industry’s biggest challenges by turning transformative ideas from concept into reality. He is responsible for developing and identifying new solutions to best meet our customers’ diverse needs, enabling us to accelerate a cleaner energy future for everyone.Throughout his career with AES, Chris has driven transformation in our global businesses through innovative business models and technologies, including energy efficiency, digital customer engagement, robotics, electric-mobility, and new clean energy solutions including wind, solar, and battery energy storage. He has built strategic solutions and capabilities into AES, including the acquisition and integration of our innovative high-growth solar team.Building on the broad industry expertise across AES, Chris pioneered the development of Lithium-ion battery storage for the electric industry by applying the technology to power markets for the first time in 2008 and was instrumental in the formation of Fluence, our joint venture with Siemens, the world leader in energy storage solutions and technologies. Under Chris’ leadership, AES has continued to support the development of scalable ecosystems for the clean energy transition. These include Uplight, the leading customer action platform for utilities and 5B, the prefab solar PV product delivering faster, higher density solar projects for customers. Chris is a member of the Boards of Fluence, Uplight and 5B.Chris received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and completed executive certificate programs at Georgetown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds several patents in battery storage, renewables integration, and electric vehicle and distributed energy resources management.

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  • Abid Suddiqui

    AI Fund

    Abid Suddiqui

    Principal

    AI Fund

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    A Principal on AI Fund’s build team, Abid works with our Founders in Residence and Venture Advisors to validate potential business ideas and rapidly build new companies.Before joining AI Fund, Abid had the privilege of supporting the United States federal government in its emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He served as a strategic advisor to BARDA, the biomedical innovation unit within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), driving external innovation models to support national security. Abid was responsible for launching the organization’s first startup studio, aimed at creating new companies at the intersection of healthcare and national security. He also designed and launched numerous accelerator and incubator programs, working with participating founders on all aspects of their company build.Prior to BARDA, Abid was an entrepreneur himself, leading product and business/finance functions at two startups. At ZappRx, a venture-backed digital health startup, he led product development from 0 to 1—joining pre-revenue and building it through its acquisition by Veradigm, an AllScripts company (NASDAQ: MDRX). As a founding team member at ByteCubed, an enterprise SaaS company, Abid played a key role in driving the company’s growth to $35MM+ ARR, leading to its acquisition by Intellibridge.

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  • Chase Lochmiller

    Crusoe

    Chase Lochmiller

    Co-founder + CEO

    Crusoe

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    Chase’s leadership experience at Crusoe has included building a high functioning team of more than 300 professionals encompassing engineering, technology, business development, manufacturing, finance, law, operations and administration. Chase has also held key roles in more than $600 million of fundraising with venture, project and credit capital investors for Crusoe.

    Previously Chase was a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. He is currently on the board of CSforAll, an organization whose mission is to make high-quality computer science an integral part of the educational experience of all K-12 students and teachers. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.

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  • Helena Fu

    DOE

    Helena Fu

    Director, Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies

    DOE

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    Helena Fu is the Director of the Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies. She previously served as Director for Technology and National Security at the White House National Security Council, where she was responsible for advancing strategic technology cooperation with allies and partners. She has previously served as Director of International Science and Technology Cooperation and Trusted Research for the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, and at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she was responsible for leading development of research security policy, culminating in National Security Presidential Memorandum on United States Government-Supported Research and Development National Security Policy (NSPM-33). From 2012-2018 Helena served at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, first as a Deputy Director and later as Energy Attaché and Director of the Department of Energy China Office, where she was responsible for leading a team to advance U.S. security and economic interests in energy, science and technology, and nuclear security and nonproliferation. Before government service, Helena managed award-winning environmental planning projects across Asia at AECOM, and supported Federal and State environmental, energy, and transportation policy and programs at ICF International. Helena holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.S. in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Charles Yang

    DOE

    Charles Yang

    AI Policy Advisor

    DOE

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  • Kevin Jones

    Dominion Energy

    Kevin Jones

    Manager, ET Strategic Initiatives

    Dominion Energy

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    Kevin Jones received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in 2013 as a Harry Lynde Bradley Fellow where he studied synchrophasor technology, wide area measurement systems, and linear state estimation. Kevin developed the open source Linear State Estimator, now commercialized by several industry vendors, used for improving resiliency of real-time transmission control centers. He also developed the Analysis On Demand (ANODE) platform at Dominion Energy, increasing the analytic throughput of the outage planning team by more than 1000x. He championed Dominion Energy’s synchrophasor data program over the last decade and now oversees an organization of more than two-dozen engineers who focus data-driven operations support and engineering analysis of time-series sensor data from the electric transmission grid.

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  • Jeremy Renshaw

    EPRI

    Jeremy Renshaw

    Sr. Technical Executive – AI, Quantum, and Innovation

    EPRI

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  • Page Crahan

    Google X – Tapestry

    Page Crahan

    GM, Moonshot for the Electric Grid

    Google X – Tapestry

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    Page Crahan is general manager of Tapestry, X’s moonshot for the electric grid. Tapestry is focused on creating highly accurate simulations of the grid to forecast how it will behave from milliseconds to decades ahead. Tapestry is also creating tools for governments, utilities, energy developers and major energy users to help them build, manage and operate grids dominated by renewable and other clean energy technologies.

    Before joining X, Page held roles as a go-to-market and commercial leader and advisor at several start-ups, two of which attained ‘unicorn’ status: Sunrun in rooftop solar energy in the U.S., and Konfio in financial services in Mexico. She was previously co-CEO and founder of Clarus Power, a venture-backed residential solar customer acquisition platform.

    Page is an expert in business model innovation, customer acquisition, product design, and scaling hyper-growth teams. She was recognized as one of the top 50 Climate Tech Operators in the 2021 Climate Draft. She is an advisor and angel investor with her firm Persistent Ventures and she is a limited partner in Powerhouse Ventures. Page is a co-inventor of several U.S. Patents in the energy domain. She earned a certificate from the Stanford GSB Summer Institute for General Management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Santa Clara University.

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  • Sayles Braga

    Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

    Sayles Braga

    Senior Partner

    Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

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    Sayles is responsible for the origination, diligence, and execution of technology-enabled infrastructure transactions. Sayles was previously a partner at Alerion Partners, an operationally-focused growth equity fund that he joined in 2010. At Alerion, he led control and non-control investments in, and sat on the boards of, companies across a range of industries. Prior to Alerion, Sayles co-founded and led a mobile software company in the location-based application space. Sayles began his career at Lazard in the investment banking restructuring group, where he advised companies throughout their bankruptcy proceedings, recapitalizations, asset sales, and other M&A efforts. Sayles graduated with honors from Harvard College with an AB in Economics.

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  • Angela Kassahun

    Utilidata

    Angela Kassahun

    Director, Policy & Market Development

    Utilidata

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    Angela Kassahun is currently the Director of Policy & Market Development at Utilidata. Prior to this role, Angela served as the Executive Policy Manager at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Angela also has experience as a Policy Fellow at the City of Philadelphia and as a Co-Executive Director at The Energy Co-op. Angela holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University.

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  • Josh Wong

    ThinkLabs AI

    Josh Wong

    Founder & CEO

    ThinkLabs AI

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    Josh Wong is the Founder and CEO of ThinkLabs AI, a specialized AI company empowering critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability. Josh brings over 20 years of experience in cleantech, including utility grid modernization, solar, storage, microgrids, hydrogen, and DERMS. Josh was formerly founder and CEO of Opus One Solutions, rated #1 Grid DERMS by Guidehouse, and General Manager of Grid Orchestration at General Electric.

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  • Mark Waclawiak

    Avangrid

    Mark Waclawiak

    Senior Manager, Operational Performance

    Avangrid

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    Mark Waclawiak is the Senior Manager of Operational Performance for Electric Operations inAvangrid Networks, consisting of the Data Science and Analytics, Reliability Engineering, andKPI/Dashboard Reporting departments. He has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Universityof Texas at San Antonio and a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin.

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  • Amanda Peterson Corio

    Google

    Amanda Peterson Corio

    Global Head of Data Center Energy

    Google

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    Amanda has 20 years of experience in energy project finance, development, and the procurement of renewable and traditional energy generation. In her current role, Amanda manages power procurement, energy policy and energy infrastructure development for Google’s global data centers. As part of her role, Amanda leads the energy market development and execution of Google’s 24/7 Carbon Free Energy program, and has secured over 7 gigawatts of renewable energy globally.

    Prior to joining Google, Amanda was the director of investment structuring at Macquarie Infrastructure Company (MIC)’s Renewable Energy subsidiary, where she was responsible for sourcing, diligencing, and structuring utility and distributed renewable energy. Earlier in her career, Amanda placed over $140 million of solar tax equity investments at Chevron Energy Solutions, and developed utility scale solar projects at Agile Energy.

    She was a senior investment banking analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., and began her career at General Electric Energy Financial Services where she managed energy project financings and portfolio divestitures.

    Amanda holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business and a BA in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University’s School of Management.

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  • Raghu Madabushi

    National Grid Partners

    Raghu Madabushi

    Director

    National Grid Partners

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    Raghu is Director, Investments at National Grid Partners. Raghu focuses on investing in early stage companies in the broad enterprise and energy infrastructure SW vertical. Raghu has 20+ years of experience with technology, capital markets, and IP/innovation. During his time at National Grid Partners, he has invested in founder-centric, technology differentiated startups like AccuKnox, Sync Computing, Leap.energy, Baffle.io, and AptEdge.

    Before working at National Grid Partners, Raghu worked at SRI Ventures and GE Ventures investing in deep tech and industrial infrastructure (SW, HW, and telecom). He also brings extensive experience in the hardware and software design space having worked in various roles including, semiconductor fabrication, chip design, systems architecture, strategy, and marketing (Texas Instruments, Intel, Cadence Design Systems).

    Raghu received an MBA in Finance and Investments from Southern Methodist University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, and currently serves as a Kauffman Fellow. You can often catch him honing his mean backhand at a badminton court, with fellow investors and founders.

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  • Jun Zhao

    Eversource Energy

    Jun Zhao

    Manager of Transmission and Substation Data Innovation

    Eversource Energy

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    Junhui Zhao is the Manager of Engineering Data Innovation with Eversource Energy, where he leads efforts to explore and demonstrate the applications of data science and AI technologies in transmission, substation, and distribution engineering. Junhui was a recipient of UAI’s 2023 Top 25 Thought Leader and 2023 IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award. Prior to his current role at Eversource, he was a Quantitative Principal Engineer at ComEd in 2022 and a tenured Associate Professor at the University of New Haven from 2014 to 2021. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Chongqing University, China, and Wayne State University, USA, in 2009 and 2014, respectively.

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  • John Belizaire

    John Belizaire

    CEO, Soluna

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    John Belizaire is the CEO of Soluna Holdings, the world’s first utility-scale company building modular, batchable computing centers for intensive applications like Bitcoin mining, AI, and machine learning, powered by renewable energy. As a serial entrepreneur, John has successfully founded and scaled multiple industry-leading technology startups that have achieved market leadership and double-digit growth, including FirstBest, an insurance software company acquired by Guidewire, and The Theory Center, a software company acquired by BEA Systems. Before becoming an entrepreneur, John was the lead architect for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. John holds B.S. and Master’s of Engineering degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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  • Ruth Scotti

    Energy Innovation Advisor

    Ruth Scotti

    Energy Innovation Advisor

    Energy Innovation Advisor

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    Ruth Scotti is a seasoned leader in energy innovation with over 15 years of experience driving transformative change at the intersection of energy, technology, and policy. As an Energy Innovation Advisor to multiple energy software companies, Ruth leverages her utility background to help software providers target the most pressing pain points faced by utilities and their customers. Her strategic guidance focuses on deploying AI and advanced analytics to enhance grid visibility, optimize distributed energy resources (DERs), and deliver sustainable, customer-centric energy solutions.

    Previously, Ruth served as Director of Innovation Strategy at Consumers Energy, where she led transformative initiatives such as AI-enabled grid management, pilot projects for emerging energy technologies, and strategic partnerships with industry leaders. Her expertise lies in translating complex, cutting-edge innovations into practical, scalable solutions that drive measurable value for utilities and their customers.

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  • Stephen Lacey

    Latitude Media

    Stephen Lacey

    Executive Editor + Co-founder

    Latitude Media

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    Stephen Lacey is the co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media. He helps shape editorial coverage, live events, and creative partnerships. He’s a veteran journalist, editor, and producer who’s been running news teams and making audio programming about the clean energy transition for nearly two decades.

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  • Scott Clavenna

    Latitude Media

    Scott Clavenna

    CEO + Co-founder

    Latitude Media

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    Scott Clavenna is co-founder and CEO of Latitude Media, where he is leading its strategy and expansion into news, industry research, and events on the frontiers of climate technology. He occasionally contributes interviews and commentary pieces to the news site.

    Most recently, Scott Clavenna served as Chairman of Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, where he contributed to the strategic guidance of Wood Mackenzie’s work in the global energy transition. Prior to Wood Mackenzie, Mr. Clavenna was the co-founder and CEO of Greentech Media and helped develop it into the leading source of integrated news, industry research, conferences, and executive councils in the clean energy economy. Greentech Media was acquired by Wood Mackenzie in 2016 and in the subsequent 4 years achieved all the goals of the acquisition while expanding its reach and breadth through its integration with acquired organizations and Wood Mackenzie’s power markets and energy transition groups.

    Prior to Greentech Media, Mr. Clavenna was a market analyst in the broadband telecommunications industry in various media and research organizations.

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  • Maeve Allsup

    Latitude Media

    Maeve Allsup

    Reporter

    Latitude Media

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    Maeve Allsup is Latitude Media’s founding reporter. She was previously a tech reporter at Morning Brew, where she covered tech policy and regulation, as well as the EV industry. Earlier in her career she spent several years as a legal reporter, covering California’s courts for Bloomberg Industries, where she broke news about Activision Blizzard, Google, Uber, and others.

    Before moving to California, Maeve lived in Santiago, Chile for several years where she created content for an international education company and worked as a freelance journalist.

    Maeve studied International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in environmental policy and conflict resolution. She is based in San Francisco.

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  • Lisa Martine Jenkins

    Latitude Media

    Lisa Martine Jenkins

    Editor

    Latitude Media

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    Lisa Martine Jenkins is Latitude Media’s editor. She was previously a reporter for Protocol and Morning Consult, and her work has appeared in Heatmap, The Guardian, and Civil Eats, among others. In 2017, she was the Overseas Press Club Foundation’s Stan Swinton Fellow, placed at The Associated Press in Mexico City. Earlier in her career, she worked in production for both the Marketplace Morning Report radio program and San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.

    Lisa has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied energy and environmental policy. While there, she conducted research on both rural electrification in Myanmar and the impact of sea level rise on nuclear spent fuel storage; the latter was published in Energy Policy.

    She lives in Brooklyn, and is originally from the Bay Area. You can find more of her work  at lisamartinejenkins.com.

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  • Matt Casey

    Latitude Media

    Matt Casey

    Managing Director, Latitude Intelligence

    Latitude Media

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    Matt Casey is the Managing Director of Latitude Intelligence, the market research arm of Latitude Media. Matt has spent the last 15 years of his career in market research, leading and advising on business development and go-to-market strategies in the climate and renewable energy sector, as well as the software and cloud industry.

    Matt was previously the Head of Americas Sales for Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables (originally with Greentech Media before their acquisition by Wood Mackenzie). Prior to Greentech Media, Matt was an analyst with Technology Business Research, leading the firm’s coverage on enterprise software and cloud vendor strategies.

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  • Erin Hardick

    Latitude Media

    Erin Hardick

    Producer + researcher

    Latitude Media

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    Erin Hardick is a producer for Latitude Media, working primarily on the With Great Power and Columbia Energy Exchange podcasts. She wears a number of other Latitude Media hats in addition to her production work — she conducts research for Latitude Intelligence, writes pieces of reported analysis and commentary for the news site, and occasionally contributes writing to Latitude Studios as well.

    Erin has almost a decade of experience researching the electric utility industry and energy transition, having held senior analyst positions at the Utility Analytics Institute and Zpryme. She is a former fellow of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute and Climatebase.

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Agenda
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
    Registration and networking breakfast
  • 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM
    Welcome, and opening comments from Latitude Media

    Kicking off Transition-AI with an overview of our coverage of the space, key themes in the market in 2024, and the plan for the conference

    • Stephen Lacey
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
    An AI-in-energy outlook for 2025
    • Matt Casey
  • 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
    Keynote interview – AI’s impact on data center energy strategies

    With data center capacity expected to double, the industry is scrambling to secure enough power to meed demand. This is quickly reshaping energy procurement strategies, efforts to expand the grid, and regulation. In this keynote interview, Peter Freed will discuss the sweeping impacts coming for the grid in the AI era.

    • Stephen Lacey
    • Peter Freed
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
    Networking Break
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 PM
    Panel session – Meeting the load growth challenge

    A panel discussion diving deep into the outlook for load growth driven by data center demand from AI, how utilities, developers, and system operators are responding, with a goal of understanding the forces shaping this space are playing out today and how they must change in the future.

    • Jeremy Renshaw
    • Page Crahan
    • Chris Shelton
    • Amanda Peterson Corio
  • 11 :45 AM- 12:15 PM
    In conversation – Building an AI startup ecosystem for energy

    AES and the AI Fund have created a strategic partnership to fund startups focused on bringing AI to the energy industry. In this conversation, Latitude Media reporter Maeve Allsup with talk with Julia Lundin of AES and Abid Suddiqui of the AI Fund to learn more about how they see the partnership evolving, what white space they’ve identified in the AI-for-energy market, and how they are supporting startups in their development to bring innovative solutions to market.

    • Julia Lundin
    • Abid Suddiqui
    • Maeve Allsup
  • 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
    Lunch
  • 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM
    Fireside chat – The DOE’s approach to the AI-energy nexus

    Conversation on the interplay between policy, technology, and markets in the AI-for-Energy space with leadership of the DOE’s energy and AI work.

    • Lisa Martine Jenkins
    • Helena Fu
    • Charles Yang
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Interactive workshop – Digitalization and the future of the utility

    In this interactive workshop, attendees will hear from Mark Waclawiak of Avangrid on the ongoing and necessary process of digitalization at utilities to lay the foundation for vastly improved operations, management, grid visibility and service deployment. Attendees will then have an opportunity to brainstorm and discuss ideas for what full digitalization could enable and how AI can play a role in new service and application development.

    • Mark Waclawiak
  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
    Panel session – Progress and challenges in implementing AI across the utility

    Leaders from utilities across the US discuss how they have been evaluating, developing, investing in, and implementing AI-driven solutions in the past year. Sharing lessons learned, best practices, progress towards KPIs, and early results, these utilities will provide critical insight into where AI can drive real ROI, and where more work needs to be done to clarify which areas are best served by AI.

    • Erin Hardick
    • Kevin Jones
    • Raghu Madabushi
    • Jun Zhao
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
    Networking Break
  • 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
    Panel session – Challenges and opportunities with AI-powered grid visibility

    The proliferation of renewables, energy storage, EVs and other DERs has dramatically increased the complexity of load and distribution management for utilities. Panelists will discuss the various ways AI could help alleviate some of the strain felt by utilities, including improved situational awareness, load detection and disaggregation, optimized planning with enhanced forecasts, and customer behavior predictions. The panel will also examine the existing challenges holding back AI-enabled grid-visibility solutions and the roadblocks that must be navigated to enable widespread deployment.

    • Angela Kassahun
    • Josh Wong
    • Matt Casey
    • Ruth Scotti
  • 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
    Panel Session – Designing the future AI data center

    Panelists will describe how new data center designs can both address the load growth challenge of utilities and the need for speed, scale, and efficiency among data center operators.

    • Sayles Braga
    • Chase Lochmiller
    • Stephen Lacey
    • John Belizaire
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
    Reception
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Latitude Media’s Transition-AI is the leading B2B event series for energy professionals and artificial intelligence experts. The series began in 2023 with two successful in-person events that brought together business leaders from utilities, developers, IPPs, technology vendors, and experts who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.

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Venue

1201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22209

Date

December 3 – 1:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Location

Washington, DC

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1201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22209