On The Grid

The Zpryme content crew is back! After our WE3 water-energy nexus event, we had a lot on our minds about issues and trends revealed through the discussions.

Erin, Erin and Chris have their own ideas about what the relationship between water and energy will look like in the future and what everyone in this industry needs to be looking toward in this space. Pour yourself a glass of water and join us!

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Last week we joined with CPS Energy to put on our first ever City of the Future event in San Antonio, Texas. There were talks about evolutions in transportation, city planning, water, customer expectations, data, and so much more. But at the center of all of it was people. People are the driving force of innovation in the city of the future and that was the starting point for the event.

If you weren't able to attend, we've got you covered! Our recap podcast today. We gathered the research team in Austin to break down our favorite talks and lessons learned from the conference.

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Today on the podcast we have Ross Smith, a digital transformation and complex program delivery expert at PA Consulting. We discuss the digital operation model, organizational agility, and how utilities form partnerships in the digital age.

This podcast was sponsored by PA Consulting.

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Live (sort of) from New Orleans we have a full Zpryme crew of Erin Hardick, Erin Autin, Chris Moyer, and CEO Jason Rodriguez to break down the trends present in Distributech 2019.

How does this conference color the energy discussion of 2019 and what are the tech providers saying about the viability of the utilities in the future? All that and more in this cajun-flavored podcast.

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PG&E has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. How did this happen? What does it mean for the people of California? What lessons can other utilities learn from this? Is this in part due to the complicated business models of utilities?

All these questions and more are discussed by Erin Hardick and Chris Moyer of the Zpryme content team.

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Utilities are starting to think about predictive modeling and analytics to help protect their assets and avoid disaster, but to utilize these tools you need the right data. That's where monitoring comes in. We talked with Bernie Cook to discuss the importance of asset monitoring now to avoid catastrophe down the line, and acquire data to improve asset health. We also talk about changes in utility culture in the digital era.

This podcast was sponsored by Aveva

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Happy New Year one and all! 2018 was a year stuffed full of exciting energy developments, so out of respect we stuffed this podcast with plenty of Zprymers! We got the entire research and content team together at a library in Austin to go over how our predictions of 2018 panned out and what we're looking forward to in 2019. We also argue about blockchain for a bit.

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Today we have Itron's Vice President of Global Marketing and Public Affairs, Marina Donovan to help us break down their 2018 Resourcefulness Report. We use the data to talk about what customers see in a more resourceful world and what strategies utilities should be implementing to meet those demands.

We also discuss customer education and what role it plays in bridging the gap between customers and utilities on the who bears the responsibility for creating a resourceful future.

To find the report, go to https://www.itron.com/na/about/resourcefulness-report

This episode was sponsored by Itron

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Today we have SparkCognition CEO and Founder, Amir Husain. We talk about Artificial Intelligence, how it changes the energy industry, and how it's a necessary step in human evolution.

A bit later on we get pretty deep on the nature of human obsolescence and what about us as people has intrinsic value. Of course we also nerd out about Star Trek.

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We're rounding up a bunch of our research from the past couple months to deliver our findings to you the listener!

Erin and I are joined by Zpryme Senior Director of Content Chris Moyer to go through research we were a part of and what projects we're excited for coming up. If you wondered what we did when we weren't podcasting, enjoy this peak behind the curtain!

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