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October 19 – 8:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Transition-AI: New York

Mapping the future of AI + energy.
Co-hosted with:

Industry and Media Partners

About

Transition-AI is the leading B2B event for energy practitioners and artificial intelligence experts. The conference series brings together business leaders across the energy sector who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.​

Building off its inaugural Transition-AI: Boston event, Latitude Media is joining New York Tech Week and reconvening experts from the energy, climatetech, and artificial intelligence sectors to discuss AI’s role in the energy transition. The New York event will explore current use-cases and deployments within electric utilities, the role AI can play in streamlining project development, its impact on DER integration, and emerging applications that will continue to shape and optimize our electricity system.

One of the central pillars of our transition to a net-zero economy is “electrifying everything,” from energy generation, to transportation, heating and cooling, heavy industry, even the cooktops in our homes. As this electrification is underway, it’s becoming increasingly clear an advanced digital layer to climatetech is essential to add the necessary intelligence to these systems and the electric grid. This intelligence will more and more be the province of AI and the rapid innovations underway in machine learning and distributed intelligence systems.​

Who should attend?

Transition-AI 2024 is designed for leaders and practitioners responsible for innovation, strategy, technology, security, and product development within the energy and utilities sectors. Titles will include:

  • C-Level Executives
  • Heads of Innovation
  • VC/Investors
  • VPs of Strategy
  • VPs of Product Planning
  • Energy and Utility R&D Specialists
  • IT decision makers
Over the course of one day, you’ll:
  • Gain an understanding of the use cases and market opportunities for AI in the power sector
  • Hear case studies that illustrate how AI is being piloted and deployed today
  • Understand how AI is forcing grid planners to rethink their forecasts and grapple with unprecedented load growth
  • Learn from experts and peers through a mix of keynotes, panels, and workshop sessions
  • Learn how utilities are setting KPIs for their AI deployments and how early deployments are measuring up against those
  • Hear from Latitude Intelligence on the outcomes of recent research into the AI market
Schedule
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    Breakfast and Networking
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
    Opening talk: The stakes for AI and the business of energy

    A multimedia exploration of how AI is shifting the world of business – and how lessons in other industries can be applied to energy. The presentation will feature expert voices who will set the big-picture context for AI.

    • Stephen Lacey
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
    Keynote interview – Hanna Grene, Microsoft

    An in-depth discussion with Hanna Grene on how Microsoft is thinking about the intersection of AI and power markets.

  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
    Deep-dive research: Insights from the front lines of utility AI deployments

    An exclusive look at findings from the ongoing research program between Latitude Media and Indigo Advisory Group on the opportunities and markets for AI solutions in the power sector.

    • David Groarke
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
    Networking Break
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
    Panel: How AI can optimize utility operations

    There are already dozens of use cases for AI on the grid. This discussion will map out many of the real-world applications for utility operations, maintenance, safety, resilience, and grid modernization.

  • 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
    Panel: The AI-empowered customer

    From demand response to electric vehicle charging to virtual power plants, AI can be a powerful tool for empowering the customer to save money, monetize distributed energy resources, and contribute to the health of the grid. This panel will dig into the customer-side impacts of automation.

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Lunch and networking
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Workshop: A grid expert’s guide to AI and power systems

    How can we optimize grids using neural networks and machine learning? Dr. Kyri Baker, an expert who focuses on integrating large amounts of distributed generation and demand-side resources into power systems, will walk us through a few modeling scenarios. Then we will break out into small groups to brainstorm possible uses for different kinds of artificial intelligence.

  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
    Utility AI/ML Presentation

    A discussion of Avangrid’s data science journey, with a presentation and demo of Avangrid’s geospatial data science platform for reliability and resiliency modeling.

    • Mark Waclawiak
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    Networking Break
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
    Panel: The future of AI-enabled energy markets

    As project owners looking to maximize the value of batteries and renewables in retail and wholesale power markets, we’ll explore the different AI platforms being developed to make trading more precise.

  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    Sponsored session: The AI-powered hardware unlocking distributed energy resources

    Sponsored session: We’re entering a new era for smart meters, powered by AI. If the benefits of an interconnected, customer-centric grid can be fully realized, utilities need to marry intelligent, AI-enabled software with utility-grade hardware to better support real-time energy analytics and provide the required protections to securely and reliably enable real-time grid control. In this session, we’ll hear from Sense and National Grid about the recent Revelo® meter rollout in New York, digging into the challenges they collectively faced in meeting the state’s reliability and security standards, and the opportunities their intelligent meters unlock for the region. They’ll also talk about the value of embedding AI and distributed computing software into meters to improve efficiency, enhance reliability and security, and support demand response.

  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
    Panel: Better, faster, cheaper – how AI is accelerating renewables and storage

    From rooftop solar to utility-scale renewables, companies are leveraging AI and digital tools to design, finance, and build projects in increasingly sophisticated ways.

  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    Reception
Speakers
  • Mark Waclawiak

    Avangrid

  • Stephen Lacey

    Latitude Media

About our Sponsors
  • Sense is making the energy transition accessible to everyone. Sense’s embedded intelligence redefines how utilities and consumers interact with homes and the grid. By partnering with meter manufacturers, Sense delivers software driven by high-resolution data that’s vital for utilities to better engage with customers, detect devices, balance load, forecast demand and identify anomalies. Our consumer-facing app makes homes smarter, empowering home dwellers to make better use of their energy, lower electricity bills, and reduce their carbon footprint. Learn more at https://sense.com.

  • Utilidata is bringing distributed artificial intelligence (AI) to the edge of the grid to accelerate decarbonization and better serve people. Utilidata’s smart grid chip, powered by NVIDIA, is an AI-driven, software-defined platform aimed to transform the way utilities operate at the edge of the grid.

Venue

Date

October 19 – 8:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Location

117 West 46th Street New York, NY 10036