Big Data Management for Energy and Smart Grid – Sponsorship
Event on 2012-04-05 17:30:00
Producer
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Main Sponsors
www.NASA.gov www.Oracle.com
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Summary
"By 2020, California's electric grid is getting a 21st century facelift. The three biggest utilities, PG&E, SDG&E and SCE (with more than 11 million customer accounts) released smart grid deployment plans outlining roughly between .4 and .6 billion of new investments to make the smart grid a reality"
Driven by the growing ubiquity of mobile devices and smart sensors, the commoditization of computing power and storage, and the exponential growth in raw data from the power grid due to major refinements of the measurement system (e.g. PMU, AMI) and more devices integrated (e.g. mobile consumer terminals such as smart phones), unprecedented business opportunities are emerging for utilities, transmission operators, power marketers, consumers, and other stakeholders to harness vast stores of information and become a highly agile, data-driven electric power organization.
Smart grid vendors are in the process of making significant investments in new product developments for dedicated Big Data analytics software in order to create analytic applications for this new era of the smart and intelligent "real-time utility." It will include efforts to develop application programming interfaces (APIs) and server technologies specifically geared toward enhancing and enterprise's ability to ingest and manage vast amounts of structured and unstructured data and analyze very large data sets with near real-time capability.
Whether big data storage, analytics, visualization, or security, on the cusp of what appears to be a big data boom in the energy sector, the SF Bay Area alumni clubs of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University are pleased to announce "Big Data Management for Energy and Smart Grid – Creating the Real-Time Utility Enterprise" on April 5th at the NASA auditorium in Mountain View, from 5:30 to 9PM. Focused on big data management in the energy sector, this event will discuss the rapid changes and opportunities in the domestic and international energy data market. It will gather leaders in software technology as well as energy including Nancy Ryan, Executive Director and Former Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, Erfan Ibrahim, Founder and CEO of the Bit Bazaar and former Technical Executive at EPRI and Bradley Williams, VP Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities who are dedicated to create big and complex data management solutions needed to convert smart grid into a success story.
Speakers and attendees will discuss the role of policies and incentives in building the big data management market for the energy sector, the definition and advancement of best practices in smart grid data management operations and R&D, and what is needed to truly deliver valuable big data management solutions to the stakeholders from power generation via transmission and distribution to power consumption. The panel includes business and technology leaders, regulators and educators such as our moderator Kurt Yeager, Vice Chairman of the Galvin Electricity Initiative and former President and CEO of EPRI, Prof. Emir Macari, Director of the California Smart Grid Center, Steven Ray, Distinguished Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Greene, VP Technology at Versant Corporation, Scott Hublou, Co-Founder and SVP at EcoFactor, and Liza Malashenko, Supervisor of the Smart Grid Program at the Energy Division of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Join us at our host NASA in Mountain View for an inspiring evening to find out more about regulation, economics, technology & innovation, investments, business, markets and players in energy-related big data management today and the expected development within the next decades.
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Note of Welcome:
Michael Marlaire – Director NASA Research Park, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael Marlaire is the Director of the NASA Research Park at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. The NASA Research Park (NRP), an integrated, dynamic research and education community located in the heart of Silicon Valley, cultivates diverse partnerships with academia, industry and non-profit organizations in support of NASA's missions. As the director of NRP, he manages and cultivates partnership development, land-use planning, leasing, and property management. Marlaire has worked at Ames since 1991. Between 1993 and 1998, he was chief of the External Affairs Division, which included public and legislative affairs, and education. Between 1998 and 2001, he also was given the NRP to manage and develop, and was made Chief of the Development and Communications Division. Between 2001 and 2004, he reported directly to Ames Center Director Scott Hubbard, and was given the role of Assistant Center Director for Development. In 2005, he was made the Director for External Relations and Development. Today, Marlaire is the Director of NRP, which has more than 80 partnerships.
After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, with a bachelor's degree in American history and political science, he went on to receive a master's degree in American history and public affairs and then received his Juris Doctorate in Law. He is licensed to practice Illinois law. After receiving a law degree, he competed for and was awarded the Presidential Management Fellow. In 1986, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. offered him a position, which moved him and his family to Columbia, Maryland for five years. While at NASA HQ, he worked on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (1987) and U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee (1988-89).
Steven Zornetzer – Associate Director, NASA Research Park
Steven F. Zornetzer was formerly a neurobiologist and professor of neuroscience interested in the problem of how the brain processes information. Zornetzer has evolved from academic to a creative and dynamic leader and senior executive at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Currently serving as Ames' Associate Director, he formerly served as Director of Research and prior to that as Director of Information Sciences and Technology at Ames. He was lead author of the influential book, Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks (Neural Networks: Foundations and Applications, 1995). Recognized for his leadership in revolutionary information technology-based approaches to aerospace and space exploration missions, his interests range from cognitive, perceptual, and neural sciences to integrative and synthetic biology, biological information processing, molecular biology, genetic engineering, and biomedical science.
Before joining NASA in 1997, he headed the Life Sciences Directorate for the Office of Naval Research (ONR). In 2008 he received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award and in 2010 NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal. He is a driver for NASA Ames' leadership in environmental sustainability. Most recently he has focused his efforts on climate change and built environment.
Leading the design and construction of the highest performing, net energy positive building in the Federal Government, Zornetzer's vision is to design an intelligent adaptive building control system that will optimize dynamically the building's energy performance and working environment based upon the real-time demands of its occupants. Additionally, the control system is being designed to learn from its own past performance and improve over time.
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Keynotes:
Nancy Ryan – Executive Director and Former Commissioner, CPUC
Prior to her appointment Commissioner Ryan served as the CPUC's Deputy Executive Director for Policy and External Relations. She joined the CPUC in 2006 as Chief Energy Advisor to President Michael R. Peevey and subsequently served as his Chief of Staff.
Commissioner Ryan's career path has included positions in advocacy, academia and the private sector. Before joining the CPUC she was Senior Economist and Deputy California Director at Environmental Defense Fund, where she led advocacy efforts focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and power plants, curbing air pollution from diesel engines and restoring rivers and watersheds. She has also worked as a consultant in the energy field and for many years taught applied economics courses at UC Berkeley's Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy.
Dr. Ryan received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Economics from Yale University.
Erfan Ibrahim – Founder & CEO, The Bit Bazaar LLC
At TBB Dr. Ibrahim focuses on wireless communications, network management, and information security technologies with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage. Dr. Ibrahim is involved in standards related work for communications, network management and cybersecurity with applications in the electric, oil & gas, chemicals and healthcare sectors. He is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at Smart Grid related conferences in North America, Asia and Europe.
During March 2008 – November 2011 Erfan Ibrahim was serving as a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector of EPRI. He led the research that focuses on the communications, systems management and cyber security infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet based Wide Area Networking.
Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Dr. Ibrahim's career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Dr. Ibrahim received a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of California Berkeley, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, and a B.S. Honors in Physics from Syracuse University (Suma Cum Laude).
Dr. Ibrahim is a Phi Beta Kappa, a Tau Beta Pi, Who's Who Amongst American Colleges & Universities and Who's Who Amongst IT professionals.
Bradley Williams – VP Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities
Bradley Williams is Vice President of Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit's Industry Strategy responsible for Outage Management, Distribution Management, Mobile Workforce Management, Work and Asset Management, and Load Analysis utility applications and Oracle's Smart Grid Strategy.
Brad had more than 25-years utility technology innovation experience. Prior to Oracle, Brad was a Research Director in Gartner's Energy & Utilities Industry Advisory Services focusing on utility applications of GIS, SCADA/EMS/DMS, Outage and Work Management, and Transmission & Distribution Asset Management research. Prior to being a Research Analyst, Brad directed PacifiCorp's T&D Asset Management responsible for long-term asset strategies and Business Technology that developed and implemented comprehensive IT investment programs. As Director of T&D Infrastructure Planning, Brad was responsible for PacifiCorp's Subtransmission Planning, Telecommunications, and operations Technology Development groups. Brad also worked at Southern California Edison for 10-years where he was involved in transmission system planning, distribution automation, and reliability programs including innovation in renewable generation interconnection planning, voltage recovery and distribution automation.
Brad earned BSEE and MBA degrees from Cal Poly, holds 4 US patents on smart grid related technologies, is a registered professional engineer in the State of California, and active member of IEEE PES, UCA International Users Group, and CIM Users Group.
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Panel:
Emir Macari – Dean and Director, CA Smart Grid Center CSUS
Emir Marcari is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science as well as the Director of the California Smart Grid Center at California State University in Sacramento. Prof. Macari started his academic career in 1989 at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. In 1993, Dr. Marcari joined the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology as Associate Professor where he held a joint appointment between the Schools of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy. In 1998, Dr. Macari moved to Louisiana State University as Chairman and Bingham Stewart Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 2001, Dr. Macari accepted a science policy position in Washington, D.C. as Director of the Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program at the National Science Foundation. In 2004, Dr. Macari became the Dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University of Texas at Brownsville. In 2006, Prof. Macari became Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University Sacramento. In 2012, he also became a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology.
Prof. Macari received numerous awards and political assignments including his appointment as Commissioner of the California Seismic Safety Commission by Gov. Schwarzenegger, his re-appointment by Gov. Brown, as well as the award of the White House/NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship by President Bush or the invitation by President Clinton to support the draft of his science policy document "Science in the National Interest." Prof. Macari was also named a Distinguished Alumni of Virginia Tech and inducted to the VT Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2008.
Prof. Macari led an LSU delegation to Honduras to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch as a result of which he formed the LSU Hurricane Center which proved to be critical years later after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Macari was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering of Mexico where he provided testimony to the government oversight committee on funding and direction of ecological research in Mexico. He was also inducted into the Mexican Academy of Science.
Elizaveta Malashenko – Grid Reliability and Planning Supervisor, CPUC
Ms. Malashenko leads a team of policy and engineering experts in regulatory activities pertaining to grid planning and reliability. Her primary focus is on working on policy issues related to Smart Grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Prior to joining CPUC in 2011, Ms. Malashenko worked in the energy industry as a consultant with IBM, leading over a dozen largest U.S. utilities through grid modernization initiatives. Her roles as a consultant have ranged from developing executive-level business strategy to deeply technical work, such as managing data modeling teams. Ms. Malashenko holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Steven Ray – Distinguished Research Fellow, CMU Silicon Valley
Steven R. Ray is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, where he researches information interoperability and standards in application domains including disaster management, smart electrical grid, electronic business, supply chains, and manufacturing. A common theme of his work is the use of ontologies and formal representations to ensure unambiguous definitions of terms and relations. He has a twenty-seven year track record of initiating and leading technical R&D projects at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Until 2009, he was responsible for the management of a -13M division of 60 staff and visiting researchers dedicated to the solution of national problems related to measurements and standards supporting systems interoperation in the manufacturing sector. Dr. Ray's current activities include the establishment of new research programs at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley in disaster management and in smart grid interoperability, chairmanship (Emeritus) of the Ontology Summit and the OASIS Quantities and Units of Measure Ontology Standard (QUOMOS) TC, as well as consulting support for local technology companies.
He is a member of ASME and SME. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1981 from Princeton University, and his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Bristol, England.
Robert Greene – VP Technology, Versant Corporation
Robert Greene has served in various managerial positions with Versant since 1997 and currently oversees Versant's strategic technology partners, developer relations programs, and business development for the emerging markets in China and India. An industry thought leader with extensive experience in object-oriented system design, Mr. Greene presents regularly at developer conferences and seminars on the topics of object persistence, NoSQL and Big Data information systems.
Mr. Greene is also responsible for providing strategic technical expertise in areas including Versant's product portfolio, product architecture, product roadmap, and implementation to Versant's key accounts. In prior years, Mr. Greene was responsible for Versant's open source initiatives, online developer community and key account services.
Prior to Versant, Mr. Greene held roles as Chief Engineer and Director of Operations and Senior Technical Manager at Seaboard Systems, managing teams of professionals working on F4 and F16 aircraft systems for the U.S. Air Force.
Mr. Greene holds a BSEE from a Florida State University.
Scott Hublou – Co-Founder and SVP Products, EcoFactor
Scott has established himself as a leading voice in the clean tech and energy industries through his consumer advocacy in the residential energy efficiency space. He is a frequent speaker on emerging smartgrid technologies and the important role that smart homes play in creating a truly efficient energy system. Scott has been a featured speaker at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference and was a regular guest lecturer at both Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley business schools, sharing his knowledge and expertise on business intelligence and SaaS platforms.
Prior to EcoFactor, Scott has a long history of building successful software solutions that leverage SaaS platforms and was the CMO of Sapria Design and Technology Group, as well as the CEO of Asimba. Scott has also held product development and marketing roles at SAP, PeopleSoft and HP.
Moderator:
Kurt Yeager – Vice Chairman, Galvin Electricity Initiative
Kurt E. Yeager retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in September 2004. Mr. Yeager assumed the Presidency of EPRI in August 1996 after serving as EPRI's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined EPRI in 1974, progressing through a series of technical management and executive positions from department director to senior vice president.
After retiring from EPRI, Mr. Yeager created the non-profit Galvin Electricity Initiative with Robert Galvin, the father of the cell phone revolution, and he now is serving as Vice Chairman of the Initiative that is focused on transforming the reliability and value of U.S. electricity service. Mr. Yeager is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has served on several National Academy of Engineering Committees and the Energy Research Advisory Board to the Secretary of Energy. He is now also serving as an Executive Counsel and Convening Lead Author for the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) "Global Energy Assessment" report to the United Nations and the World Bank. Mr. Yeager has authored over 200 technical papers and publications on energy and environmental topics. Most recently, he co-authored with Bob Galvin the 2008 McGraw-Hill published book entitled, "Perfect Power".
Mr. Yeager received a Bachelor's degree from Kenyon College and completed post-graduate studies in chemistry and physics at Ohio State and the University of California, Davis. He has also completed post-graduate management programs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance. He is listed in "Who's Who in the World" and was named the 2003 Technology Policy Leader for Energy by Scientific American.
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Thursday, April 5th
5:30-6:38pm Check-in, Networking, Complimentary Hors D'Oeuvres
6:38-6:40pm Welcome by Kellogg and Carnegie Mellon
6:40-6:45pm Welcome by Director of NASA
6:45-7:00pm Keynote by Regulator
7:00-7:15pm Keynote by Erfan Ibrahim, Founder & CEO of The Bit Bazaar (formerly EPRI)
7:15-7:30pm Keynote by Bradley Williams, VP Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities
7:30-8:45pm Moderated Panel with Industry Leaders
8:45-9:00pm Networking and Wrap-up
Produced by:
Kellogg Clean Technology and Energy Affinity Group SF Bay
Carnegie Mellon University SF Alumni Association
In Cooperation with:
NASA Ames Research Center
Oracle Utilities
Energy Division – California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
California Smart Grid Center – California State University Sacramento (CSUS)
Green Committee – Silicon Valley San Jose Chapter of California Society of CPAs
Sponsored by:
www.cpuc.ca.gov
www.ecs.csus.edu/CASmartGrid
www.calcpa.org
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at NASA Auditorium 201, Building 152
NASA Ames Research & Visitor Center
Mountain View, United States
Big Data Management for Energy and Smart Grid – Creating the Real-Time Utility Enterprise
Event on 2012-04-05 17:30:00
Producer
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Main Sponsors
www.NASA.gov www.Oracle.com
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Summary
"By 2020, California's electric grid is getting a 21st century facelift. The three biggest utilities, PG&E, SDG&E and SCE (with more than 11 million customer accounts) released smart grid deployment plans outlining roughly between .4 and .6 billion of new investments to make the smart grid a reality"
Driven by the growing ubiquity of mobile devices and smart sensors, the commoditization of computing power and storage, and the exponential growth in raw data from the power grid due to major refinements of the measurement system (e.g. PMU, AMI) and more devices integrated (e.g. mobile consumer terminals such as smart phones), unprecedented business opportunities are emerging for utilities, transmission operators, power marketers, consumers, and other stakeholders to harness vast stores of information and become a highly agile, data-driven electric power organization.
Smart grid vendors are in the process of making significant investments in new product developments for dedicated Big Data analytics software in order to create analytic applications for this new era of the smart and intelligent "real-time utility." It will include efforts to develop application programming interfaces (APIs) and server technologies specifically geared toward enhancing and enterprise's ability to ingest and manage vast amounts of structured and unstructured data and analyze very large data sets with near real-time capability.
Whether big data storage, analytics, visualization, or security, on the cusp of what appears to be a big data boom in the energy sector, the SF Bay Area alumni clubs of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University are pleased to announce "Big Data Management for Energy and Smart Grid – Creating the Real-Time Utility Enterprise" on April 5th at the NASA auditorium in Mountain View, from 5:30 to 9PM. Focused on big data management in the energy sector, this event will discuss the rapid changes and opportunities in the domestic and international energy data market. It will gather leaders in software technology as well as energy including Nancy Ryan, Executive Director and Former Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Erfan Ibrahim, Founder and CEO of the Bit Bazaar and former Technical Executive at EPRI and Bradley Williams, VP Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities who are dedicated to create big and complex data management solutions needed to convert smart grid into a success story.
Speakers and attendees will discuss the role of policies and incentives in building the big data management market for the energy sector, the definition and advancement of best practices in smart grid data management operations and R&D, and what is needed to truly deliver valuable big data management solutions to the stakeholders from power generation via transmission and distribution to power consumption. The panel includes technology and business leaders, regulators and educators such as our moderator Kurt Yeager, Vice Chairman of the Galvin Electricity Initiative and former President and CEO of EPRI, Prof. Emir Macari, Director of the California Smart Grid Center, Steven Ray, Distinguished Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Greene, VP Technology at Versant Corporation, Scott Hublou, Co-Founder and SVP at EcoFactor, and Liza Malashenko, Supervisor of the Smart Grid Program at the Energy Division of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Join us at our host NASA in Mountain View for an inspiring evening to find out more about regulation, economics, technology & innovation, investments, business, markets and players in energy-related big data management today and the expected development within the next decades.
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Note of Welcome:
Michael Marlaire – Director NASA Research Park, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael Marlaire is the Director of the NASA Research Park at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. The NASA Research Park (NRP), an integrated, dynamic research and education community located in the heart of Silicon Valley, cultivates diverse partnerships with academia, industry and non-profit organizations in support of NASA's missions. As the director of NRP, he manages and cultivates partnership development, land-use planning, leasing, and property management. Marlaire has worked at Ames since 1991. Between 1993 and 1998, he was chief of the External Affairs Division, which included public and legislative affairs, and education. Between 1998 and 2001, he also was given the NRP to manage and develop, and was made Chief of the Development and Communications Division. Between 2001 and 2004, he reported directly to Ames Center Director Scott Hubbard, and was given the role of Assistant Center Director for Development. In 2005, he was made the Director for External Relations and Development. Today, Marlaire is the Director of NRP, which has more than 80 partnerships.
After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, with a bachelor's degree in American history and political science, he went on to receive a master's degree in American history and public affairs and then received his Juris Doctorate in Law. He is licensed to practice Illinois law. After receiving a law degree, he competed for and was awarded the Presidential Management Fellow. In 1986, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. offered him a position, which moved him and his family to Columbia, Maryland for five years. While at NASA HQ, he worked on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (1987) and U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee (1988-89).
Steven Zornetzer – Associate Director NASA Research Park
Steven F. Zornetzer was formerly a neurobiologist and professor of neuroscience interested in the problem of how the brain processes information. Zornetzer has evolved from academic to a creative and dynamic leader and senior executive at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Currently serving as Ames' Associate Director, he formerly served as Director of Research and prior to that as Director of Information Sciences and Technology at Ames. He was lead author of the influential book, Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks (Neural Networks: Foundations and Applications, 1995). Recognized for his leadership in revolutionary information technology-based approaches to aerospace and space exploration missions, his interests range from cognitive, perceptual, and neural sciences to integrative and synthetic biology, biological information processing, molecular biology, genetic engineering, and biomedical science.
Before joining NASA in 1997, he headed the Life Sciences Directorate for the Office of Naval Research (ONR). In 2008 he received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award and in 2010 NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal. He is a driver for NASA Ames' leadership in environmental sustainability. Most recently he has focused his efforts on climate change and built environment.
Leading the design and construction of the highest performing, net energy positive building in the Federal Government, Zornetzer's vision is to design an intelligent adaptive building control system that will optimize dynamically the building's energy performance and working environment based upon the real-time demands of its occupants. Additionally, the control system is being designed to learn from its own past performance and improve over time.
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Keynotes:
Nancy Ryan – Executive Director and Former Commissioner, CPUC
Prior to her appointment Commissioner Ryan served as the CPUC's Deputy Executive Director for Policy and External Relations. She joined the CPUC in 2006 as Chief Energy Advisor to President Michael R. Peevey and subsequently served as his Chief of Staff.
Commissioner Ryan's career path has included positions in advocacy, academia and the private sector. Before joining the CPUC she was Senior Economist and Deputy California Director at Environmental Defense Fund, where she led advocacy efforts focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and power plants, curbing air pollution from diesel engines and restoring rivers and watersheds. She has also worked as a consultant in the energy field and for many years taught applied economics courses at UC Berkeley's Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy.
Dr. Ryan received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Economics from Yale University.
Erfan Ibrahim – Founder & CEO, The Bit Bazaar LLC
Dr. Ibrahim is the Founder and CEO of The Bit Bazaar LLC (TBB), a full service IT and business consulting firm, offering services to clients in the High Tech, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Energy sectors.
At TBB Dr. Ibrahim focuses on wireless communications, network management, and information security technologies with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage. Dr. Ibrahim is involved in standards related work for communications, network management and cybersecurity with applications in the electric, oil & gas, chemicals and healthcare sectors. He is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at Smart Grid related conferences in North America, Asia and Europe.
During March 2008 – November 2011 Erfan Ibrahim was serving as a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector of EPRI. He led the research that focuses on the communications, systems management and cyber security infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet based Wide Area Networking.
Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Dr. Ibrahim's career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Dr. Ibrahim received a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of California Berkeley, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, and a B.S. Honors in Physics from Syracuse University (Suma Cum Laude).
Dr. Ibrahim is a Phi Beta Kappa, a Tau Beta Pi, Who's Who Amongst American Colleges & Universities and Who's Who Amongst IT professionals.
Bradley Williams – VP Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities
Brad had more than 25-years utility technology innovation experience. Prior to Oracle, Brad was a Research Director in Gartner's Energy & Utilities Industry Advisory Services focusing on utility applications of GIS, SCADA/EMS/DMS, Outage and Work Management, and Transmission & Distribution Asset Management research. Prior to being a Research Analyst, Brad directed PacifiCorp's T&D Asset Management responsible for long-term asset strategies and Business Technology that developed and implemented comprehensive IT investment programs. As Director of T&D Infrastructure Planning, Brad was responsible for PacifiCorp's Subtransmission Planning, Telecommunications, and operations Technology Development groups. Brad also worked at Southern California Edison for 10-years where he was involved in transmission system planning, distribution automation, and reliability programs including innovation in renewable generation interconnection planning, voltage recovery and distribution automation.
Brad earned BSEE and MBA degrees from Cal Poly, holds 4 US patents on smart grid related technologies, is a registered professional engineer in the State of California, and active member of IEEE PES, UCA International Users Group, and CIM Users Group.
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Panel:
Emir Macari – Dean and Director, CA Smart Grid Center CSUS
Emir Marcari is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science as well as the Director of the California Smart Grid Center at California State University in Sacramento. Prof. Macari started his academic career in 1989 at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. In 1993, Dr. Marcari joined the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology as Associate Professor where he held a joint appointment between the Schools of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy. In 1998, Dr. Macari moved to Louisiana State University as Chairman and Bingham Stewart Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 2001, Dr. Macari accepted a science policy position in Washington, D.C. as Director of the Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program at the National Science Foundation. In 2004, Dr. Macari became the Dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University of Texas at Brownsville. In 2006, Prof. Macari became Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University Sacramento. In 2012, he also became a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology.
Prof. Macari received numerous awards and political assignments including his appointment as Commissioner of the California Seismic Safety Commission by Gov. Schwarzenegger, his re-appointment by Gov. Brown, as well as the award of the White House/NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship by President Bush or the invitation by President Clinton to support the draft of his science policy document "Science in the National Interest." Prof. Macari was also named a Distinguished Alumni of Virginia Tech and inducted to the VT Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2008.
Prof. Macari led an LSU delegation to Honduras to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch as a result of which he formed the LSU Hurricane Center which proved to be critical years later after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Macari was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering of Mexico where he provided testimony to the government oversight committee on funding and direction of ecological research in Mexico. He was also inducted into the Mexican Academy of Science.
Elizaveta Malashenko – Grid Reliability and Planning Supervisor, CPUC
Ms. Malashenko leads a team of policy and engineering experts in regulatory activities pertaining to grid planning and reliability. Her primary focus is on working on policy issues related to Smart Grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Prior to joining CPUC in 2011, Ms. Malashenko worked in the energy industry as a consultant with IBM, leading over a dozen largest U.S. utilities through grid modernization initiatives. Her roles as a consultant have ranged from developing executive-level business strategy to deeply technical work, such as managing data modeling teams. Ms. Malashenko holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Steven Ray – Distinguished Research Fellow, CMU Silicon Valley
Steven R. Ray is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, where he researches information interoperability and standards in application domains including disaster management, smart electrical grid, electronic business, supply chains, and manufacturing. A common theme of his work is the use of ontologies and formal representations to ensure unambiguous definitions of terms and relations. He has a twenty-seven year track record of initiating and leading technical R&D projects at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Until 2009, he was responsible for the management of a -13M division of 60 staff and visiting researchers dedicated to the solution of national problems related to measurements and standards supporting systems interoperation in the manufacturing sector. Dr. Ray's current activities include the establishment of new research programs at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley in disaster management and in smart grid interoperability, chairmanship (Emeritus) of the Ontology Summit and the OASIS Quantities and Units of Measure Ontology Standard (QUOMOS) TC, as well as consulting support for local technology companies.
He is a member of ASME and SME. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1981 from Princeton University, and his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Bristol, England.
Robert Greene – VP Technology, Versant Corporation
Robert Greene has served in various managerial positions with Versant since 1997 and currently oversees Versant's strategic technology partners, developer relations programs, and business development for the emerging markets in China and India. An industry thought leader with extensive experience in object-oriented system design, Mr. Greene presents regularly at developer conferences and seminars on the topics of object persistence, NoSQL and Big Data information systems.
Mr. Greene is also responsible for providing strategic technical expertise in areas including Versant's product portfolio, product architecture, product roadmap, and implementation to Versant's key accounts. In prior years, Mr. Greene was responsible for Versant's open source initiatives, online developer community and key account services.
Prior to Versant, Mr. Greene held roles as Chief Engineer and Director of Operations and Senior Technical Manager at Seaboard Systems, managing teams of professionals working on F4 and F16 aircraft systems for the U.S. Air Force.
Mr. Greene holds a BSEE from a Florida State University.
Scott Hublou – Co-Founder and SVP Products, EcoFactor
Scott has established himself as a leading voice in the clean tech and energy industries through his consumer advocacy in the residential energy efficiency space. He is a frequent speaker on emerging smartgrid technologies and the important role that smart homes play in creating a truly efficient energy system. Scott has been a featured speaker at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference and was a regular guest lecturer at both Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley business schools, sharing his knowledge and expertise on business intelligence and SaaS platforms.
Prior to EcoFactor, Scott has a long history of building successful software solutions that leverage SaaS platforms and was the CMO of Sapria Design and Technology Group, as well as the CEO of Asimba. Scott has also held product development and marketing roles at SAP, PeopleSoft and HP.
Moderator:
Kurt Yeager – Vice Chairman, Galvin Electricity Initiative
Kurt E. Yeager retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in September 2004. Mr. Yeager assumed the Presidency of EPRI in August 1996 after serving as EPRI's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined EPRI in 1974, progressing through a series of technical management and executive positions from department director to senior vice president.
After retiring from EPRI, Mr. Yeager created the non-profit Galvin Electricity Initiative with Robert Galvin, the father of the cell phone revolution, and he now is serving as Vice Chairman of the Initiative that is focused on transforming the reliability and value of U.S. electricity service. Mr. Yeager is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has served on several National Academy of Engineering Committees and the Energy Research Advisory Board to the Secretary of Energy. He is now also serving as an Executive Counsel and Convening Lead Author for the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) "Global Energy Assessment" report to the United Nations and the World Bank. Mr. Yeager has authored over 200 technical papers and publications on energy and environmental topics. Most recently, he co-authored with Bob Galvin the 2008 McGraw-Hill published book entitled, "Perfect Power".
Mr. Yeager received a Bachelor's degree from Kenyon College and completed post-graduate studies in chemistry and physics at Ohio State and the University of California, Davis. He has also completed post-graduate management programs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance. He is listed in "Who's Who in the World" and was named the 2003 Technology Policy Leader for Energy by Scientific American.
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Thursday, April 5th
5:30-6:38pm Check-in, Networking, Complimentary Hors D'Oeuvres
6:38-6:40pm Welcome by Kellogg and Carnegie Mellon
6:40-6:45pm Welcome by Director of NASA
6:45-7:00pm Keynote by Regulator
7:00-7:15pm Keynote by Erfan Ibrahim, Founder & CEO of The Bit Bazaar (formerly EPRI)
7:15-7:30pm Keynote by Bradley Williams, VP Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities
7:30-8:45pm Moderated Panel with Industry Leaders
8:45-9:00pm Networking and Wrap-up
Produced by:
Kellogg Clean Technology and Energy Affinity Group SF Bay
Carnegie Mellon University SF Alumni Association
In Cooperation with:
NASA Ames Research Center
Oracle Utilities
Energy Division – California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
California Smart Grid Center – California State University Sacramento (CSUS)
Green Committee – Silicon Valley San Jose Chapter of California Society of CPAs
Sponsored by:
www.cpuc.ca.gov
www.ecs.csus.edu/CASmartGrid
www.calcpa.org
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