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Overview

Geographic Information Systems for utilities are advancing with new mobile, server, and network capabilities. The functionality of new application programming interfaces (APIs) for use with mobile GIS along with the integration of revere proxy servers, web-based portals, increased asset inventory, and lowering costs all mean GIS is ready for the next generation.

Data that was once difficult to sort, append, deliver, and update is now being updated real-time by a utilities mobile fleet, while increasing on-the-job work hours an average of 12%. This means the efficiency of utilities should be increasing with the support of advanced GIS. However, some roadblocks remain.

Until lately, costs for mobile GIS solutions have been high, while the technology was somewhat untested in emergency or high-alert situations. This has changed with the increase in vendor products, the implementation by major cutting-edge utilities, and new funding programs including the Department of Commerce's Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) to assist with the initial financial burden of executing advanced GIS.

EUCI’s GIS 2.0 will enhance your base and advanced knowledge on emerging breakthroughs and novel applications in GIS. Delegates and speakers will be able to take away case examples of successful layering, increased performance, enhanced efficiencies, best practices for program execution, and the most modern technologies available.

PLUS: Pre Conference Workshop: GIS Training for Second-Level Users

Everything happens somewhere. Knowing where some things happen is critically important - especially when those things interfere with the flow and distribution of energy resources. For nearly three decades, utility information technologists have grappled with the issue of digital mapping of critical resources.   While many names have been given to this effort -- digital mapping, computer mapping, automated mapping and facilities mapping -- today, the term geographic information systems, or GIS, is the generally accepted umbrella term. 

In the past, GIS has been a technology understood by only a few practitioners and even few end- users. For the most part, senior level management has avoided the details. After all, at the manual level, facilities mapping was a low level engineering task requiring little more than a steady hand and a good eye for detail.   GIS, however, brings a new level to these otherwise mundane maps. GIS moves maps into the executive suite and an almost unlimited amount of data about a utility’s facilities can be produced in seconds. 

EUCI’s introduction to GIS conference presents a forum for senior level IT executives to understand the fundamentals of GIS to help shape the strategies that will employe GIS in the reshaping of the utility industry fro the 21st century.

Agenda

The Future of GIS
Chris Harlow, Editor, The Harlow Report-Geographic Information Systems/Founding Presdient, GITA

Enabling Field Automation at Atmos Energy
Ed Hazzard, GIS Project Manager, Atmos Energy
Andy Gay, GIS Operations Manager, GE Energy
Using GIS for Collaboration between Industry, Regulatory, and Technology
Sharon Rogan, President, Spatial Solutions Group

Analyzing the Impact on Transmission Systems Through GIS
Ruth Rowles, GIS Manager, Kentucky Public Service Commission

An Overview of Spatial Database
Jayant Sharma, Ph.D, Technical Director, Spatial Oracle

GIS for Utilities
Joel Ivy, Vice President, New Mexico Operations, Public Service Company of New Mexico

A Convergence of Trends in Enterprise GIS for Utilities
Jeff Rashid, Director, Utility Sector, ESRI

Enabling Spatial Intelligence
Aaron Patterson, General Manager, Engineering, Enspiria Solutions, Inc.

Data Visualization with Microsoft Virtual Earth-What is Microsoft Virtual Earth?
Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Powering Hydro One Business Performance with Enterprise GIS
Nargis Ladha, Manager of Spatial Systems and Technology Projects, Hydro One Networks
GIS for Geologic Hazards
David Slayter, P.G., GISP, GIS Manager/Geologist/William Lettis & Associates

Mobile GIS/GPS for Vegetation Management and Other Novel Applications
Ashok Wadwani, President, Applied Field Data Systems

FEMA Disaster Loss Preparedness with GIS
Eric Berman, HAZUS Program Manager, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

The Roles of GIS in a Smart Grid
Theo Laughner, TVA presented