SAP for Utilities 2018 | Eventful Conferences | 15 October 2018 | Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, 600 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205, USA

Disruptive business models have quickly become the “new normal” in the utilities space. Customers are playing a more active role in how they consume and manage their energy, advancing digital technologies risk leaving some companies behind, and creating actionable insights from the abundance of data and analytics have all helped to shape today’s shifting energy landscape. Utility organizations must digitize their business processes to succeed.The SAP for Utilities conference features customer case studies and expert presentations to unlock solutions and strategies to these major challenges. The annual event unites thousands of utility professionals across all industry sectors—including power generation, transmission, distribution, retail, gas, water, waste, recycling and more.

2018 Speakers

Tim Tebow
Professional Athlete

Paula Gold-Williams
Chief Executive Officer, CPS Energy

Michael O’Donnell
National Vice President, Utilities, SAP

Stefan Wolf
Solution Management Utilities, SAP

Retha Hunsicker
Vice President, Customer Connect- Customer Ops, Duke Energy Corporation

Kurt Sweetser
Director IT Customer Service Re-Platform, Southern California Edison

Jennifer Stafford
Vice President, Database & Data Management, Utilities, SAP

Brett Reynolds
Vice President, Marketing & Product Development, FirstEnergy

Mark Mitchell
Manager of Asset Management, CenterPoint Energy

Mike Hatsios
Director, DTE Customer Service Innovation, DTE Energy

Quincy Chapman
Senior Manager Project Management, OGE Energy Corp

Donna McNally
Director, Network Projects & Initiatives, AVANGRID

Matthew Croucher
Director of Business Analytics, Entergy

Ravi Malick
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Vistra Energy

Daniel Linder
Program Manager, San Diego Gas & Electric Company

Gerard Curley
Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Navajo Tribal Utility Authority

Terena Boyer
Director, Utility Customer Operations, OGE Energy Corp

Gerard Lonergan
SAP HCM/EAM Manager, City of San Diego

Gabriel Clivio
IT Manager, MetroGAS

Sanjeev Arora
Director IT, SAP Service Delivery, National Grid

Gururaj Veershetty
Senior Delivery Manager, Wipro Technologies

Cyndra Fulton
Business Analyst, NorthWestern Energy

David Baron
Performance Management & Organizational Strategy, SoCalGas

Ben Edelbrock
VP Digital Innovation – Utilities, SAP

Joanne Fletcher
Vice President, Energy & Water Solutions, SEW

Tammy Powlas
Senior Business Analyst, Fairfax Water

Ted Wagner
SAP NS2 Chief Information Security Officer, SAP, National Security Services

Ronald Pascual
SAP Service Owner, National Grid

Bill Ryan
Vice President SAP SuccessFactors Sales - Utilities, SAP SuccessFactors

Joe Brentin
Solution, Architect, Critigen

Stefan Lysenko
Manager Technical Infrastructure, E.ON AG

Karen Kirwan
Chief Information Officer, CPS Energy

Laura McCrae
Senior Data & Analytics Consultant, Snohomish County PUD

Ryan Lambert
Business Delivery Lead, Puget Sound Energy

Thomas Lord
Vice President, Chief Information Officer, UGI

Cindy Hoffman
Senior Manager, EDM, Xcel Energy

Jean Melton
Business Analyst Consultant, NorthWestern Energy

Paul Caffery
Senior Director, Enterprise Scheduling & Dispatch, PG&E

Joe VrBanek
Manager, Corporate Projects, Hydro One

Raiford Smith
Vice President, Energy Technology & Analytics, Entergy

Mike Boyle
VP, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships, ASUG

Robyn Tweedy
Manager of Retail Technology & Billing, Nebraska Public Power District

Robert Straubinger
Industry Solution Manager, SAP

Gautam Sonde
Architect - AMS/IG Data Analytics, CenterPoint Energy

Eric Cruz
IT Project Manager, CenterPoint Energy

Mansur Ali Mohammed
Senior Manager – IT Architecture, Digital & Innovation, AVANGRID

Phil Prentiss
Senior Application Analyst, Snohomish County PUD

Matt Grover
Application Architect, Puget Sound Energy

Robert Osborn
Director Corporate Economic Development, Xcel Energy

Theresa Burch
Metering Services, Puget Sound Energy

Chad Edens
Senior Manager, CR&B/AMI , Utegration

Dondi Schneider
Managing Director, Accenture USA

Chetan Singh
Senior Manager, Utegration

Deepak Sood
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Auritas, LLC

Richard Catalano
Delivery Executive, Utopia Global

Jerry Cavalieri
Chief Executive Officer, HPC America

Rob Medary
Vice President, SAP Business Transformation, HCL

Andy Hancock
NA Regional Lead - Innovation & Industry 4.0, Digital Supply Chain, SAP

Erik Schrampf
Solution Expert - Digital Supply Chain COE, SAP

Justin Ladenburger
Director of Enterprise Solutions, Vesta Partners

Bob Stoyko
Vice President Marketing & Customer Relations , UGI Utilities

Sai Sridhar
Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Paul Kurchina
Community Advocate, ASUG

Sue Daulton
Management Analyst, City of Tacoma

Dieter Körber
Vice President, Head of Product Management & Development Utilities, SAP

Blake Thurman
Presales Engineer - Regulated Industries, SAP

Inge Opreel
Chief Information Officer, FARYS

Tarun Khanna
Sales Lead - Energy and Utilities- North America, Wipro USA

Robert Hancock
Vice President of Sales, SIGGA

Felecia Etheridge
Chief Customer Engagement Officer, CPS Energy

Carolyn Shellman
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, CPS Energy

Danielle Miller
CIS Transformation Manager, San Diego Gas & Electric

Rajani Adapa
Lead Application Developer, Atmos Energy

Dion DiCristofaro
oCFO Center of Excellence, SAP

Gavin Cain
Platinum Consultant, SAP

DJ Taylor
Delivery Executive, SAP

David Steinbruck
Senior Director Enterprise Architect - DDM COE, SAP

Raul Arenas
Innovation Manager & Enterprise Architect, SAP

Ramin Bagheri
Business Developer, SAP

Amanda Harris
Solution Engineer, SAP

Duke Lee
Director, Big Data Services, SAP

Ankur Jain
Director, Big Data Services, SAP

Robert Taylor
Senior Solution Consultant, SAP

Axel Memminger
Chief Product Expert & Lead Product Owner Cloud for Utilities, SAP

Calvin Wu
Industry Value Advisor, SAP

Matus Marusak
Industry Value Advisor, SAP

Al Guddemi
Vice President, Celonis

Alejandro Reyes
IT Program Management Director, AES

Andrea Maspero
SAP Services Director, SAP

David Hamilton
Sales Executive at Fieldglass, SAP

Joey Haney
Sales Executive at Fieldglass, SAP

Suzanne Audiss
Vice President at Ariba, SAP

Kathy Vaughan
Business Solutions, Technical Manager, City of Tacoma

Paul Federighi
Assistant Director of IT, City of Tacoma

William Donoghue
Director, Finance Technology Enablement, National Grid

Kathleen Wilhide
Office of CFO, SAP

Mike Callas
Senior Manager, Deloitte

2018 Sponsors:

COLLABORATION:
• Eventful Conferences
• Asug
• SAP

PLATINUM:
• Utegration
• SEW

GOLD:
• Power Plan
• Deloitte
• vertexone
• IBM
• NTT Data
• Rizing
• Avertra
• HCL
• PwC
• DXC technology

SILVER:
• Wipro
• Clevest
• SNP
• Itron
• Apporchid
• Havensight
• HPC
• Innovapptive
• Onapsis
• Opentext
• Sigga
• Evora
• utopia
• Critigen
• Natuvion
• Click
• We do it
• BI Solutions
• Paymetric
• Capgemini
• NS2
• Infosys
• KMPG
• Celonis
• Accenture
• EY

ASSOCIATE SPONSOR:
• Auritas

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• CIO Review
• Utility Dive
• Smart Energy International

HOST UTILITY:
• CPS