Andres Carvallo to Speak at GridWeek

GridWeek is the annual gathering in Washington, DC, of Smart Grid stakeholders and thought leaders. GridWeek provides the opportunity for organizations focused onSmart Grid to hold meetings and participate in collaborative sessions,including leading speakers on the Smart Grid revolution.

A realization is emerging that a new view of energy, beyond oil, coal and other fossil-based fuels, will result in decentralized components of the electricity grid, a far cry from the central generation and structured system of the past. A smart information network for the electric grid is seen asnecessary to manage and automate this new world. GridWeek is focused on this vision.

http://gridweek.com/2008/default.asp#home

Andres Carvallo to Speak at Computerworld's Green IT Symposium

While the lower costs and environmental benefits associated with greener IT have long been proven, power consumption by the world's data centers has doubled since 2000 and continues to grow. What's more, this doesn't consider the footprint of technology outside the data center. So what are world-class CIOs and their teams doing to curb power consumption, environmental danger, and ongoing costs? How are early adopters of green IT philosophies creating and managing their green IT game plan? And what regulatory requirements are moving the conversation beyond social responsibility to required action?

The answers are at Computerworld's Green IT Symposium, where world-class IT leaders will examine the issues, and share best practices in reducing their IT organization's carbon footprint. Whether your priorities are to lower costs, comply with regulations, outline a green IT strategy for your entire organization, or to simply find out why 80% of IT executives say green IT is of growing importance to their organization, Computerworld's Green IT Symposium will help.

http://www.greenitsymposium.com/

Andres Carvallo to Speak at EPRI's Advanced IT Requirements of the Electric Power Industry Conference

The purpose of the CIO Workshop is to review the results of the EPRI-funded utility CIO survey carried out in Fall 2007. The workshop will also provide an interactive forum for IT executives from the utility industry to discuss case studies of cutting-edge "Smart Grid" technology implementations that they are undertaking with their colleagues. The workshop will offer a demonstration of the EPRI multi-vendor Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) technology testing suite in the Living Laboratory to the attending utility CIOs and CTOs to identify the opportunities and challenges in this critical area of "Smart Grid" development. The workshop will also help identify needs and opportunities for industry collaboration related to the development and implementation of IT for greater grid reliability, security, and availability.

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Andres Carvallo to Speak at Next Generation Utilities

The utilities sector is in the midst of unprecedented transformation. Several factors are driving fundamental change: liberalization and increased competition, strategic mergers and acquisitions, regulatory pressure around climate change, systems reliability and convergence of gas, electricity and water concerns.

Today, utilities do business with a highly educated customer base, demanding sophisticated service offerings and competitive pricing.

Utility companies find themselves under increasing pressure to modernize their business processes and enabling technologies. There is a competitive surge in the industry to secure market share with technology enabling the drive. Despite various initiatives, such as smart metering and the intelligent grid, companies struggle to drive a higher level of intelligence and automation across the entire value chain from generation straight through to the customer.

http://www.ngusummit.com/