October 19, 2023
Transition-AI:
New York
Mapping the future of AI + energy.
Co-hosted with
Transition-AI is the leading B2B event for energy practitioners and artificial intelligence experts. The conference series brings together business leaders across the energy sector who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.
Building off its inaugural Transition-AI: Boston event, Latitude Media is joining New York Tech Week, and reconvening experts from the energy, climatetech, and artificial intelligence sectors to discuss AI’s role in the energy transition. The New York event will explore current use-cases and deployments within electric utilities, the role AI can play in streamlining project development, its impact on DER integration, and emerging applications that will continue to shape and optimize our electricity system.
Event Sponsors
Industry and Media Partners
Speakers
Raiford Smith
AES
Hanna Grene
Microsoft
Carlos Nouel
National Grid
Dr. Kyri Baker
University of Colorado Boulder
Lauren Kuntz
Gaiascope
Mark Waclawiak
Avangrid
Sonam Kala
Urbint
Daniel Hynum
GE Digital
Jae Beom Bae
Leap
Paul McDonald
Oracle Energy and Water
Chris Streeter
Convergent Energy and Power
Astrid Atkinson
Camus Energy
Puneeth Kalavase
Fluence
Stephen Lacey
Latitude Media
Katie McClain
Energize Capital
David Groarke
Indigo Advisory Group
Sherry Huang
Aurora Solar
Apoorv Bhargava
WeaveGrid
Mike Phillips
Sense
Schedule
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast and Networking
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9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Opening talk: The stakes for AI and the business of energy
Stephen Lacey, Latitude Media
A multimedia exploration of how AI is shifting the world of business – and how lessons in other industries can be applied to energy. The presentation will feature expert voices who will set the big-picture context for AI.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Keynote interview - Hanna Grene, Microsoft
Hanna Grene, Microsoft
An in-depth discussion with Hanna Grene on how Microsoft is thinking about the intersection of AI and power markets.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Deep-dive research: Insights from the front lines of utility AI deployments
David Groarke, Indigo Advisory Group
An exclusive look at findings from the ongoing research program between Latitude Media and Indigo Advisory Group on the opportunities and markets for AI solutions in the power sector.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Networking Break
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Panel: How AI can optimize utility operations
Raiford Smith, AES
Sonam Kala, Urbint
Astrid Atkinson, Camus Energy
There are already dozens of use cases for AI on the grid. This discussion will map out many of the real-world applications for utility operations, maintenance, safety, resilience, and grid modernization.
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel: The AI-empowered customer
Jae Beom Bae, Leap
Paul McDonald, Oracle Energy and Water
Apoorv Bhargava, WeaveGrid
Carlos Nouel, National Grid
From demand response to electric vehicle charging to virtual power plants, AI can be a powerful tool for empowering the customer to save money, monetize distributed energy resources, and contribute to the health of the grid. This panel will dig into the customer-side impacts of automation.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch and networking
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Workshop: A grid expert’s guide to AI and power systems
Dr. Kyri Baker, University of Colorado Boulder
How can we optimize grids using neural networks and machine learning? Dr. Kyri Baker, an expert who focuses on integrating large amounts of distributed generation and demand-side resources into power systems, will walk us through a few modeling scenarios. Then we will break out into small groups to brainstorm possible uses for different kinds of artificial intelligence.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Utility AI/ML Presentation
Mark Waclawiak, Avangrid
A discussion of Avangrid's data science journey, with a presentation and demo of Avangrid's geospatial data science platform for reliability and resiliency modeling.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Networking Break
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel: The future of AI-enabled energy markets
Lauren Kuntz, Gaiascope
Daniel Hynum, GE Digital
Puneeth Kalavase, Fluence
As project owners looking to maximize the value of batteries and renewables in retail and wholesale power markets, we’ll explore the different AI platforms being developed to make trading more precise.
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Sponsored session: The AI-powered hardware unlocking distributed energy resources
Mike Phillips, Sense
Carlos Nouel, National Grid
Sponsored session: We’re entering a new era for smart meters, powered by AI. If the benefits of an interconnected, customer-centric grid can be fully realized, utilities need to marry intelligent, AI-enabled software with utility-grade hardware to better support real-time energy analytics and provide the required protections to securely and reliably enable real-time grid control. In this session, we’ll hear from Sense and National Grid about the recent Revelo® meter rollout in New York, digging into the challenges they collectively faced in meeting the state’s reliability and security standards, and the opportunities their intelligent meters unlock for the region. They’ll also talk about the value of embedding AI and distributed computing software into meters to improve efficiency, enhance reliability and security, and support demand response.
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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Panel: Better, faster, cheaper – how AI is accelerating renewables and storage
Sherry Huang, Aurora Solar
Katie McClain, Energize Capital
Chris Streeter, Convergent Energy and Power
​From rooftop solar to utility-scale renewables, companies are leveraging AI and digital tools to design, finance, and build projects in increasingly sophisticated ways.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Reception
About
Transition-AI is the leading B2B event for energy practitioners and artificial intelligence experts. The conference series brings together business leaders across the energy sector who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.
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Building off its inaugural Transition-AI: Boston event, Latitude Media is joining New York Tech Week and reconvening experts from the energy, climatetech, and artificial intelligence sectors to discuss AI’s role in the energy transition. The New York event will explore current use-cases and deployments within electric utilities, the role AI can play in streamlining project development, its impact on DER integration, and emerging applications that will continue to shape and optimize our electricity system.
One of the central pillars of our transition to a net-zero economy is "electrifying everything," from energy generation, to transportation, heating and cooling, heavy industry, even the cooktops in our homes. As this electrification is underway, it's becoming increasingly clear an advanced digital layer to climatetech is essential to add the necessary intelligence to these systems and the electric grid. This intelligence will more and more be the province of AI and the rapid innovations underway in machine learning and distributed intelligence systems.
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Conference themes
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Deep-dive conversations with leading AI thinkers
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Real-world uses of AI for renewables development, resource forecasting, price forecasting, financial transactions, and grid optimization
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Workshops and interactive technical discussions
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Explorations on how organizations can integrate AI and build AI teams
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Our Speakers
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Raiford Smith: Chief Utility Innovation Officer, AES
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Carlos Nouel: VP of Transformation Programs, National Grid
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Hanna Grene: Global Operations and GTM Leader for Energy at Microsoft
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Mark Waclawiak: Senior Manager, Operational Performance, Avangrid
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Astrid Atkinson: CEO and Co-Founder, Camus Energy
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Daniel Hynum: Senior Product Manager, GE Digital
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Mike Phillips: CEO, Sense
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Puneeth Kalavase: VP of Data Science and Engineering, Fluence
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Paul MacDonald: Senior Director, Opower Product and Strategy, Oracle Energy & Water
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Chris Streeter: Chief Information and Risk Officer, Convergent Energy and Power
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Katie McClain: Partner and COO, Energize Capital
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Dr. Lauren Kuntz: CEO and Co-Founder, Gaiascope, Inc.
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Dr. Kyri Baker: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Sherry Huang: Group Product Marketing Manager, Aurora Solar
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Apoorv Bhargava: CEO and Co-Founder, WeaveGrid
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Jae Beom Bae: Director of Platform Operations, Leap
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David Groarke: Managing Director, Indigo Advisory Group
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Sonam Kala: Senior Director, Product - Risk Operations, Urbint
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Who’s attended past events
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Top utilities
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Developers
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Consultants
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VCs/investors
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Technology providers
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Educational institutions
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Professional service providers
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Non-profits
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Join us in shaping the AI-driven, net-zero energy future.
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This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to celebrate the growing NY ecosystem. Learn more here: https://www.tech-week.com/
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Space is limited for this conference, so register now.
For inquiries about media passes, government discounts, or sponsorship opportunities, contact us at events@transition-ai.com
Who Should Attend?
Transition-AI: New York is designed for the community of leaders and practitioners responsible for innovation, strategy, technology, security, and product development within the energy and utilities sectors. Titles will include:
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C-Level Executives
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Heads of Innovation
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VC/Investors
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VPs of Strategy
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VPs of Product Planning
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Energy and Utility R&D Specialists
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IT decision makers
About our Sponsors
Sense is making the energy transition accessible to everyone. Sense’s embedded intelligence redefines how utilities and consumers interact with homes and the grid. By partnering with meter manufacturers, Sense delivers software driven by high-resolution data that’s vital for utilities to better engage with customers, detect devices, balance load, forecast demand and identify anomalies. Our consumer-facing app makes homes smarter, empowering home dwellers to make better use of their energy, lower electricity bills, and reduce their carbon footprint. Learn more at https://sense.com.
Utilidata is bringing distributed artificial intelligence (AI) to the edge of the grid to accelerate decarbonization and better serve people. Utilidata's smart grid chip, powered by NVIDIA, is an AI-driven, software-defined platform aimed to transform the way utilities operate at the edge of the grid.
The Venue
Date and time
Thursday, October 19
8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Location
Convene events center, at 117 West 46th Street is located off of 46th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenue