AWS Energy & Utilities Customer Meetup

Saturday

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October

28

2023

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7:00PM

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10:00PM

PKT

About the event

Join AWS for the upcoming Energy & Utilities Customer Meetup. Industry meetups are quarterly events where customers can come together to share experiences, learn how others in their industry are using AWS to solve industry-specific challenges, and discover new ways of expanding their mission using the cloud.

Who should attend

Participants of all levels are encouraged to attend, from junior engineers through senior technical leaders. This may include DevOps, Cloud Architects, Engineers, Operations, Data Scientists, or any others that build on AWS.

Want to present at a future meetup?

Industry Meetups are held quarterly and feature presentations from peers in your industry, and we invite you to submit topics to present as well. You can submit a brief summary of your presentation through your AWS account team which will be considered for inclusion in the meetup agenda.

Agenda

10:00AM - 10:30AM

Remote Monitoring and Inspection of Electrical Substations with AWS IoT Services

Luis Conde, Digitalization and Efficiency Manager, Iberdrola

Iberdrola will be presenting their electrical substation 4.0 project that they have built leveraging AWS IoT services. Iberdrola has installed IoT sensors to measure the temperature, inclination, voltage, and have also implemented geofencing to increase the worker safety. They have built a digital twin of one electrical substation and then they will replicate across 1000 electrical substations in Spain. The aim is to do remote inspections and training with digital twins.

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Leveraging Distribution Data Lake with Transformer Health Analytic

Mike Daniels, Director, Grid of the Future & Analytics, Ameren

Ameren leverages AIML analytics to interrogate their Distribution Data Lake to identify transformers that are showing signs of imminent failure, alerts supply chain to the need to replace, schedules truck rolls, and replaces transformers, limiting customer disruption and avoiding unplanned outages.

11:00AM - 11:30AM

Entergy’s Data Platform Modernization

Alex Preston, Sr. Manager Business Data & Insights, Entergy

Entergy has embarked on a transformative project to modernize its data lake by collaborating with industry leaders AWS, Snowflake, and Alation. By partnering with AWS, the company gains access to scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure, enabling efficient data storage and processing. Snowflake's platform provides the ability to easily query data and Alation's data cataloging and governance platform ensures efficient data discovery, promoting collaboration, and enhancing data quality. Together, these partnerships facilitate the company's data-driven decision-making and drive innovation within the organization.

Agenda

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The Horizon of AI

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Breakout Session 1

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host Jenkins, an open-source automation software predominantly used for CI/CD

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Breakout Session 2

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host WordPress, an open-source blogging tool and content management system

Speakers

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Spring, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, and more. Adam was previously the Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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