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Pre-Autovation Courses — Sunday, Sept 30, 2007 Course 1: Pre-Assessing Communication Technologies for AMR and Added-Value Applications Instructor: Sioe T. Mak, PhD, EE Learn about the fundamental requirements of a large-scale communications system for AMR and the major building blocks of the system architecture. Topics will include:
Who Should Attend: Sioe Mak, PhD, EE, is a researcher in high-voltage phenomena and dielectrics. He is involved with the design and testing of distribution equipment and research and development of a bi-directional communications system for utility applications. He is an IEEE Life Fellow. Mak has served as senior lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia, an instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Course 2: Utility Business Transformation with AMR, DR, and Smart Grid Instructors: Ivo Steklac and Hahn Tram Gain insights into DR, Smart Grid technologies and advanced metering infrastructures (AMI), their impact on utility operations and how to capitalize on them to achieve the most benefit through utility case studies. Topics will include:
Who Should Attend: Ivo Steklac is the president and founder of Enspiria Solutions, Inc. He has 19 years of energy and utility industry experience with particular emphasis in distributed real-time communications and consulting and system integration in utility operational and asset management systems. He provides consulting in AMI strategy and business case, AMI technology and AMI implementation. Stecklac holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE). Hahn Tram is an executive consultant with Enspiria Solutions. He has more than 25 years of worldwide utility experience in energy management, digital utility, outage management, operations and maintenance, T&D asset management, engineering and network automation. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering. He was a recipient of the Westinghouse Engineering Achievement award and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE). Course 3: Water and Electricity Don’t Mix —So What Are the Best Water Utility AMR/AMI Strategies? Instructor: Michael Wiebe Explore deployment planning issues unique to network AMR/AMI projects. The session will include examples of network AMR projects as well as a discussion of the industry’s first water AMI project. Topics will include:
Who Should Attend: Michael Wiebe is the president of MW Consulting. He is currently supporting the industry’s largest and first water AMI project involving several hundred thousand meters. Wiebe has previously supported six water network AMR projects as well as a mobile meter reading project. Course 4: Addressing AMR/AMI Risks with Effective Vendor Negotiations and Contracts Instructors: Rod Dow, Fritz J. Vorlop, Karl Hochkammer and Mark F. Foley This presentation will address basic models for AMR/AMI solutions and common associated risks, general negotiating strategies to mitigate risks, and common issues presented by most AMR/AMI contracts with suggestions for resolution. Topics will include:
Who Should Attend: Rod Dow, Fritz J. Vorlop, Karl Hochkammer and Mark F. Foley are all partners with Foley & Lardner LLP, a national law firm with offices in the Midwest and on both coasts. They are all members of Foley’s Information Technology & Outsourcing Practice Group. Each of them is experienced in information technology and outsourcing transactions. Dow and Vorlop, who are also members of Foley’s Energy Industry Team, have extensive experience with AMR/AMI transactions and co-authored “Contracts: Making the AMR Solution Your Solution,” Electric Perspectives, Sept/Oct 2006, which affords additional previews of of course subject matter. Course 5: What are AMR/AMI Standards and Why Do They Exist? Instructor: Avygdor Moise, PhD This course will give a historical perspective of industry standards, the challenges experienced by the utility industry and how standards can be used to address those challenges. The presentation will focus on ANSI, IEEE and Measurement Canada suite of protocols, implementation requirements and services they provide. Built on ANSI C12.19, it will be explained how standards benefit the utility and the supplier alike. Topics will include:
Who Should Attend: Avygdor Moise, PhD, is president of Future DOS R&D Inc. He is an AMR and network implementation consultant to American and Canadian electrical utilities. Moise has been instrumental in the development of testing procedures of protocols and communication interfaces for wireless Internet-based electricity meters and the infrastructure for AMR clients. He is the developer of the audit trail management principles for Measurement Canada and TDL/EDL date exchange technology used by enterprise AMR. Course 6: Implementing the AMI Vision Instructor: Kevin Cornish Embarking on and AMI implementation project? This course will address the challenges, issues and opportunities including: business case issues, organization challenges and implementation preparedness. It will not involve significant discussion of actual deployment or post-deployment activities. Topics will include:
Who Should Attend: Kevin Cornish is the project manager for Distribution Control Systems, Inc. (DCSI) in the Pacific Gas & Electric, SmartMeter project. His experience includes regulatory activities in the western states involving AMR, new rate structures such as Critical Peak Pricing and TOU, and demand response investigations. Cornish has a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley, an MSEE in Power Systems Engineering form Santa Clara University and an MBA in Marketing and Telecommunications Systems Management from California State University-Hayward.
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