Planning for Success - Considerations for Deploying and Managing a Full-Scale Smart Grid

Free Webcast | 9.28.10 | 12-1pm ET
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A full-scale Smart Grid — which integrates distribution automation, metering, and demand-side management — promises long-term benefits through operational efficiencies, renewable resources integration, peak-demand shifting and consumer-enablement programs.

Realizing these benefits, though, requires forethought about how the Smart Grid impacts the IT department and the head-end systems required to manage it.

This webinar will focus on uncovering and managing the complexity of securing and integrating distribution, metering, and consumer operations into a cohesive IT management framework. 

Attend to hear this detailed discussion that will cover the management complexities associated with each stage of a Smart Grid deployment:

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The electrical grid has been labeled as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering. Utilities around the world are now architecting the 21st century grid, with two-way communications to elements throughout the grid to provide broader command and control as well as providing far more data for analysis and management. Architecting an optimal solution requires expertise from all departments, and IT departments need to know how to tie all of this together into their head-end systems.

IT departments need to be prepared for the magnitude of operations involved with the Smart Grid. Properly architecting IT business processes and management will provide great flexibility and efficiency; failing to properly provision could, of course, lead to potential consequences and impact the ability to react to change.

Who Should Attend

This webinar targets:

Register now and you will learn how you can help initiate the dialogue about proper design of Smart Grid operations and management. Attendees will be given an overview of Smart Grid network systems to understand how two-way communication can provide centralized command and control. 

This discussion will include both day-to-day and exception-based use cases and provide insight into what IT departments need to consider when building back-office systems.

Meet the Panel:

Jason Poague  is a software product manager at Trilliant. Jason has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and, prior to joining Trilliant, Jason spent five years at Symbol Technologies (and at Motorola after the acquisition) in a variety of roles culminating as the lead product manager for Symbol's network management products. Jason has an extensive background in networking, including managing the networks for the New York Fire Department after 9/11. He holds a degree in Computer Information systems from James Madison University. 

Mickey Nix is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Tivoli Industry Solutions organization. Mickey specializes in architecting customer solutions for Intelligent Utility Network projects. Prior to his current role, Mickey was an Executive IT Architect in the IBM Autonomic Computing organization. 

Make plans now to attend this Free webcast:

Planning for Success — Considerations for 
Deploying and Managing a Full-Scale Smart Grid

Tuesday | 9/28/10 | 12:00-1:00pm Eastern

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