CIO Utilities Summit

The Beginning of a Major Transformation: From Smart Grid and Big Data to Mobility and Social Media

Utilities are currently experiencing an accelerated deployment of smart grid infrastructure, such as smart meters, advanced metering infrastructure/automated meter reading (AMI/AMR), and meter data management systems (MDMS). Largely dependent on the success of the smart grid transformation, the next step to follow very quickly is the critical transformation of Customer Information Systems (CIS) and billing.

Crucial for the future of the industry is also the challenge of embracing and enhancing customer interactions. CIOs and IT executives are facing a new reality in which social networking web sites and mobile services have become primary communication media for a new generation of technically-savvy and digitally aware consumers. Driven by high broadband penetration, maturing social connections and readily available/affordable personal devices, these sites and services are gaining more and more impact.

In order to create true change in the industry, technology executives need to take the lead at their organizations and work together to establish a set of best practices and implementation tips.

The CIO Utilities Summit is an opportunity for leading IT executives to discuss these issues as well as other critical business technology topics and trends in a relaxed, yet focused business setting. Take advantage of this opportunity to network, attend interactive agenda sessions and have in-depth discussions with industry peers.

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The CIO Utilities Summit team announced today agenda details for the upcoming event, including a CIO Thought Leadership session on smart grid security

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Case Studies

Empowering Growth Over the past decade, Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., has been expanding its medical facilities to meet the community's growing health care needs. The hospital has relied on Duke Energy to provide a constant and reliable supply of electric power.

Energy Efficiency for Business An incentive from Progress Energy assisted Piggly Wiggly in dramatically improving their grocery refrigeration while doubling capacity and lowering their monthly energy bills.

Integrating mainframe applications and corporate portal with EMC Documentum applications to improve and streamline buisness processes By using EMC Documentation Business Process Services to integrate business processes between different systems and applications, Constellation Energy is getting a lot more out of their other technology investments.

Yorkshire Water keeps data flowing clearly Working with IBM to deploy two mirrored IBM XIV Storage Systems, Yorkshire Water had significant capital and IT operational cost savings through server virtualization and consolidation.

Whitepapers

The Top Three Most Violated NERC-CIP Standards AlertEnterprise, Inc. works closely with companies across the utility spectrum to address and resolve all areas of NERC CIP compliance. Our objective in this paper is to increase awareness of three most violated NERC CIP standards and the one step you can take to effectively avoid blame as part of NERC's Most Wanted.

Smart Grid Introduces Big Risks to Meter-to-Cash Processes There are four main risk areas that Smart Grid's complex meter-to-cash processes exacerbate which utilities ought to address proactively.

Cyber Security and Electric Utility Communications This paper will provide a general introduction to the NERC CIP Standards and the NIST Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security. It will also summarize the relevance of the NERC CIP standards to communications systems utilized by electric utilities in general with emphasis on MW radio.

Utilities Industry Pitney Bowes Business Insight's solutions help utility providers manage assets, improve operational efficiency, minimize risk and offer customers/constituents the services they demand at the best value.

Eclipse Packet Node uniquely combines high speed native IP transport with advanced convergence features, providing operators with an 'LTE-ready' solution that also supports a smooth transition from their existing network infrastructure.

Executive Content

Bringing Smart Meters to the Public In this Thought-leadership Series Interview, Elisabeth Brinton, Chief Business and Public Affairs Officer at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District talks about SMUD's plans to install 600,000 smart meters by 2012. Brinton outlines the advantages these meters will provide SMUD and the public, as well as the next steps toward smart grid implementation.

Digitizing As-Built Gas Utility Asset Data For GIS: Digitization involves migrating the existing asset data available in hard format to GIS. This migrated asset data is important to GIS as all the functionalities of GIS are woven around that.

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