1898 & Co. is a business, technology and security solutions consultancy where experience and foresight come together to unlock lasting advancements. We innovate today to fuel your future growth, catalyzing insights that drive smarter decisions, improve performance and maximize value. As part of Burns & McDonnell, we draw on more than 120 years of deep and broad experience in complex industries as we envision and enable the future for our clients.1898 & Co. is a business, technology and security solutions consultancy where experience and foresight come together to unlock lasting advancements. We innovate today to fuel your future growth, catalyzing insights that drive smarter decisions, improve performance and maximize value. As part of Burns & McDonnell, we draw on more than 120 years of deep and broad experience in complex industries as we envision and enable the future for our clients.

Less Talk, Black & Veatch is a 100-percent employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable infrastructure. Since 1915, Black & Veatch has helped clients improve the lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Black & Veatch’s global professionals include experienced industry executives, senior analysts, and technology experts from across the electric, water, oil, natural gas and technology industries. This experience, combined with seamless access to the company’s professional engineering, procurement, construction and operations capabilities, executives, and internationally respected subject matter experts, makes Black & Veatch particularly qualified to assist clients with their most complex challenges. Its advisory solutions span financial, process, and technology solutions, and many of Black & Veatch’s experienced professionals possess cross-functional skills that include asset management, cost of service/rate design, business process, analysis, and implementation services.

Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion™, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability.

Colaberry is a highly-specialized Data Science and Data Engineering Services (Consulting) & EdTech (Training) firm. We typically engage with our clients to solve their most difficult and complex R&D projects within the Data Science & Data Engineering arena. Our company is built on the foundation of inclusivity, empathy, and a dedication to use technological innovations as a force for good. To help companies prosper in the age of AI. Whether you are looking to make a big change in your career or transition your company into a data-driven enterprise, Colaberry is here to help you reach the highest levels of your potential. We provide end-to-end solutions to develop today’s workforce for success in tomorrow’s workplace and transform organizations into agile, AI-powered industry leaders. Colaberry transforms data from an obstacle into an asset and ensures that our clients are set up to not only succeed – but thrive – in today’s technology-powered world. 

Dell Technologies provides a comprehensive end-to-end solutions portfolio and partnerships needed to enable electric utility companies to become agile, dynamic producers and suppliers of increasingly clean, efficient resources.

Why so much optimism in the face of the energy, resources, and industrials industry’s uncertain future? Because every day, industry’s most indispensable minds are shining a light on new ways to build, power, and protect Earth’s resources in route to a more sustainable future—all while providing the world with what it currently needs.

At Deloitte, we’re helping to amplify ideas and innovation, so that more ideas, inroads, and creative solutions can be ignited. We illuminate the possibilities today so that humanity can look forward to a brilliant tomorrow.

EN is a leading national engineering services firm providing comprehensive design, engineering, and consulting services to gas and electric utilities as well as other energy and industrial end-markets. EN offers customers an unparalleled spectrum of services with expertise in electric power transmission, distribution, generation and inspection, natural gas and oil pipeline infrastructure, gas distribution, automation systems, integrity management, and industrial and refinery solutions.

As an engineering firm, EN has a comprehensive understanding of data that meets the businesses needs of our clients. EN can provide the bridge between raw data and information required by our clients to support their critical decision making. EN has employed advanced technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing and population analysis to help clients gain insight into their businesses. These insights help them plan for the future, improve efficiency, prepare for potential major incidents and improve customer satisfaction. Technologies such as pattern recognition are helping them extract meaningful information from photographic images, lidar and scanned documents. Combining corporate data from customer systems and asset systems with publicly available data such as demographics, land use and market projections is opening new avenues for understanding business trends and consumer needs.

Add the power of location to modernize how you work. Esri helps to digitally transform utilities by enabling users to create, discover, share, and use maps anywhere, anytime, on any device. The Esri ArcGIS system is a comprehensive GIS allowing organizations to analyse and share their data across the organization. Operators and managers access ArcGIS for improved operational awareness and decision making. Field and office staff use ArcGIS to manage, update, and analyse information about customers, network assets, and work orders. To Find out how to Digitally Transform your Utility visit esri.com/electric to learn more.

HEAVY.AI, is the solution for real-time utility analytics. HEAVY.AI provides real-time interactivity at scale for utility providers, all on an intuitive, customizable dashboard. Monitor asset performance in real-time, track resource use, and cross-filter by time of day or week. Drill into hundreds of millions of smart meter and smart sensor data points for unparalleled insights and cost savings.

IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. For more information about IBM visit: www.ibm.com.

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Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions to communities in more than 100 countries. Our portfolio of smart networks, software, services, meters and sensors helps our customers better manage electricity, gas and water resources for the people they serve. By working with our customers to ensure their success, we help improve the quality of life, ensure the safety and promote the well-being of millions of people around the globe. Itron is dedicated to creating a more resourceful world. Join us: www.itron.com.

Neara is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets, providing the ability to run real-world scenarios, assess current and future risk, and prioritize maintenance and disaster response. Our cloud-based solutions provide energy and utility companies with an engineering-grade digital twin of their transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure. Neara’s digital twin unlocks a wide breadth of analytical, economic and risk-based use cases, enabling utilities to identify, remediate and mitigate risks across their network efficiently and accurately.  Perform sophisticated analytics at scale such as FEA (finite element analysis), cascading pole failure analysis, weather simulations and more. Neara produces a 3D physics-based model, meaning, it shows power lines and utility poles bending and moving to realistically see how your assets behave, and will behave, under certain operating conditions. We are focused on using our technology to solve the complex problems facing infrastructure companies globally.

Neo4j is the leading graph database platform that powers data-driven, mission-critical applications for real-time data discovery and intelligence, driving innovation and competitive advantage for startups and enterprises. It’s an open source technology that reveals inherent connections in data, and uses those connections to create powerful intelligent, data-context driven applications. The company boasts the world’s largest dedicated investment in graph technology, has amassed more than 20 million downloads, and has a developer community of more than 220,000 deploying graph applications around the globe.

Using this relationships-first approach, applications built with Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Neo4j enables connected data applications for over 75% of the Fortune 100. 7 of the world’s top 10 retailers, including eBay, rely on Neo4j to drive recommendations, promotions and streamline logistics.

Neudesic Power and Utilities Innovation Group is the trusted technology partner in business innovation, delivering impactful business results to a global portfolio of power and utility companies through digital modernization and evolution. Our industry consultants bring business and technology expertise together, offering a wide range of industry  cloud and data-driven solutions and accelerators, fast-tracking custom application development, data and artificial intelligence, hyperautomation, and comprehensive managed services. Founded in 2002, Neudesic is a privately held company headquartered in Irvine, California.

Leading energy companies are using NVIDIA technologies to transform the industry and improve quality of life around the world. By pursuing renewable energy sources, building smarter, more resilient grid operations, expediting energy exploration and production, and ensuring safe conditions for workers and communities, they’re helping us move toward a brighter, more sustainable future.
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Overstory helps utilities optimize their vegetation management work to reduce cost and improve reliability across their network. We use machine learning to interpret satellite imagery around transmission and distribution corridors, showing utilities where they can direct pruning efforts to make the biggest impact on key business metrics like outages, SAIDI, SAIFI, and O&M budgets.

Curiosity is our code. SAS analytics solutions transform data into intelligence, inspiring customers around the world to make bold new discoveries that drive progress.
 

Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale. Only Teradata gives you the flexibility to handle the massive and mixed data workloads of the future, today.

West Monroe’s Energy & Utilities practice partners with utilities and energy companies to manage innovation and change at today’s pace. Our areas of expertise include analytics, cybersecurity, grid modernization, customer experience, digital, regulatory and advisory, and more. West Monroe’s dedicated team of business consultants and deep technologists help our clients proactively plan and execute for the future, enhance the customer experience, and manage strategic communications.

For over two decades Xtensible has been supporting the utility industry worldwide. Members of the Xtensible team lead and participate in over 30 different smart grid related standards development efforts. We leverage these standards and best practices in our services and product supporting:

• Business and Technology Consulting
• Strategy and Architecture
• System Integration
• Enterprise Information Management
• BI & Enterprise Analytics

At Xtensible, we know that the road to a smart grid is paved with smart data. That’s why we focus on one thing: helping utilities make sense of the data that drives smart grid operational efficiency, reliability, and safety. Through our service and product offerings, we can help you optimize your system integrations and use of your data. This can maximize your investments, is a bridge to new services, and generates new business insights.