Attend One of our Featured Sessions at the Conference
Knowledge Hub: Resiliency
Getting Surgical: How Green Mountain Power is using remote sensing and AI to build a proactive, transformative vegetation management practice
Tuesday, March 25 | 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Booth 1001, Exhibit Floor
Track: Vegetation Management
Report From The Future: What Entergy has learned after 6 years of optimizing their vegetation management program with satellites and AI
Tuesday, March 25 | 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM | Room C156
Entergy was the first utility to use satellites and AI to optimize their vegetation management program at scale. In this session, you’ll glean actionable insights from Entergy’s six-year journey moving from a strict time-based trim cycle to one optimized by satellite inspections and AI-powered recommendations.
You’ll get specific examples of how Entergy improved reliability and increased agility. Despite rising vegetation management costs, they prevented reliability from suffering drastically. Learn how they’ve used vegetation condition and criticality scores to prioritize circuits and trim the right ones at the right times. Additionally, by creating OpEx efficiencies, they’ve been able to reprioritize based on changing environmental conditions, such as wildfire risk.
Knowledge Hub: Innovative & Emerging Technologies
Tales From The South Pacific: How New Zealand’s Powerco navigated change in their vegetation management program amid a changing climate.
Wednesday, March 26 | 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM |
Booth 4733, Exhibit Floor
The challenges Powerco is facing today portend the future for all utilities. The world is getting warmer and wetter, new trees are growing in new places, and the longer growing seasons are leading to increased threats from vegetation. All of this significantly impacted SAIDI performance for Powerco.
Join us to gain actionable insights into how Powerco found the right technology for what they needed, but also how they navigated those changes internally and created a business case for their investment in the technology to meet the needs of a changing climate.
Meet Our Customer Speakers
Don Adcock
Sr. Manager, PD, Veg Mgmt Operations Field Services
Robert “Don” Adcock
Senior Manager, Power Delivery, Vegetation Management Operations Field Services, Entergy
Carl de Haan
Engineering ReliabilityPowerco
Carl de Haan
Engineering Reliability Manager, Powerco, New Zealand
As Engineering Reliability Manager for Powerco, the second-largest gas and largest electricity distributor in New Zealand, Carl leads the team responsible for ensuring the network can operate reliably as designed. Carl has a passion for strategic planning, reliability, and operational support for power systems.
His current certifications include International Professional Engineer, Chartered Member (CMEngNZ), and Chartered Professional Engineer ( CPEng), Engineering New Zealand Te Ao Rangahau. He achieved his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Ken Couture
Grid ResiliencyGreen Mountain Power
Ken Corture
Grid Resiliency Leader, Green Mountain Power
Ken Couture is the Leader of Grid Resiliency, NERC and Critical Infrastructure at Green Mountain Power, which is headquartered in Colchester, VT. Mr. Couture works with the IT, OT, Engineering, Vegetation Management, System Restoration Incident Command, and Field Operations Teams in carrying out strategically focused grid resiliency projects. During his time at GMP, Mr. Couture has served as the leader of the Engineering, System Operations, Distribution Design, Substation Operations and Demand Side Management teams.
Mr. Couture has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Vermont and a M.S. in Managing Innovation and Information Technologies from Champlain College.
David Wolpa
Chief RevenueAiDASH
David Wolpa
Chief Revenue Officer, AiDASH
Emily Turner
Sr Customer Success & Transformation Manager
Emily Turner
Senior Customer Success & Transformation Manager, AiDASH
Emily leads a team at AiDash, where she oversees a portfolio of clients, including many cooperatives and investor-owned utilities across the Americas. She began her career in the Federal Government before transitioning to management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent three years working with industrial clients, including those in equipment manufacturing, mining, and shipbuilding, focusing on operations and HR.
Emily holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics from Carleton College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.