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Please join us for our next professional networking event on
Thursday, August 20th, 6-8 pm, at the American Public Power Association (APPA) in Arlington, Virginia (Crystal City, accessible by Metro) on "Building a Responsive Energy Infrastructure for the Future." We will be looking at extreme weather events and measures to improve the resiliency of the electric grid.
Severe weather is the number one cause of power outages in the United States and costs the economy billions of dollars annually. Moreover, the aging nature of the grid - much of which was constructed over a period of more than one hundred years - has made Americans more susceptible to outages caused by severe weather. (See "Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages," Executive Office of the President, August 2013).
Come hear our panel's perspective on developments to provide advanced notice of weather threats, improved intelligence on identifying power outages, and efforts underway by American's public utility sector to enhance the overall resiliency of the electric utility grid, including the use of distributed resources. We will also look at workforce challenges and career opportunities in the public power sector.
Our event sponsors include the American Public Power Association and Business Radar.
Christopher (Chris) Strong will join us as one of our panelists. Chris is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office. His office issues the watches, warnings, and advisories for various weather threats for the Mid Atlantic - everything from Tornado Warnings to Winter Storm Watches & Warnings.
Pizza and beer (and non-alcoholic beverages) will be provided. Register now to take advantage of early bird pricing.
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Introducing Our Panel
Moderator
Carla A. Fleming
is the Marketing Director for Leaders in Energy. She is also the Principal & Chief Mission Officer for
Renewable Marketing LLC, a marketing strategy consulting firm for small businesses.
As a senior marketing management professional, Carla has developed marketing strategies and marketing campaigns for book publishing, technology solutions, government, small, medium, large businesses, and non-profit organizations. Her career experience includes working for IBM as a Senior Product Marketing Manager, Global Product Manager, Senior Marketing Manager, and Sales Representative. She was also a Marketing Manager at The Brookings Institution. Carla has served as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University and The George Washington University where she taught marketing strategy and marketing management to MBA students.
Featured Speakers/Panelists
Mike Hyland
is the
Senior Vice President, Engineering Services at the
American Public Power Association (APPA). Mike is the APPA expert on issues related to transmission and distribution, safety, smart grid, system planning, industry standards, security, environmental, broadband and energy services. His department is the home of APPA's Demonstration of Energy Efficiency Developments (DEED) research and development program, the annual Engineering & Operations Technical Conference, the Public Power Lineworkers' Rodeo and the Reliable Public Power Provider designation program (RP3).
Mike is a registered professional engineer and chairman of the National Electrical Safety Code. He is also a member of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Committees. He has been with APPA since 1996, having spent eight years in engineering positions with Public Service Co. of New Hampshire. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Carolyn Slaughter
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s currently the Director of Environmental Policy with the American Public Power Association (APPA). Carolyn brings more than 10 years' professional experience working on environmental and air quality policy issues. She
served most recently as the director of strategic planning for Marsulex Environmental Technologies (MET), where she formulated strategies to improve marketing and business plans, and analyzed and monitored regulatory issues. She also provided mergers and acquisitions valuation support.
Prior to joining MET, Carolyn was the senior program development manager for the Institute of Clean Air Companies. While at ICAC, she developed outreach programs on emission control requirements and analyzed economic, legislative, regulatory and political trends.
Christopher (Chris) Strong
is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office located in Sterling, Virginia. His forecast office serves Maryland east of Garrett County to and including the Chesapeake Bay, northern and northwestern Virginia, eastern West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. As WCM he is in charge of outreach and networking for his office, and to make sure that the National Weather Service's programs, forecasts, and warnings are effectively used by the government, the media, and the public at large.
Chris grew up in the Annapolis area. He was selected to the Penn State Meteorology program, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1993. He entered the National Weather Service at the forecast office in Buffalo New York as a student intern, and then moved to the NWS Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office in the summer of 1993. While there, he has risen through the ranks of forecasters to the position of Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the office. Chris currently resides in Falls Church, Virginia.
Deepak Swamy
is the Founder and CEO of
Business Radar, developers of the award-winning iRestore mobile platform and intelligent assistant that helps utility workers restore power more rapidly during an emergency power outage. Deepak is a product leader, former strategy consultant and entrepreneur who has led product teams at three startups and someone who loves travel and new experiences -- he has lived and worked on 3 continents.
Deepak is a former consulting partner with Infosys Consulting and with Gemini Consulting. He developed the Flypp enterprise mobile marketplace platform and was formerly chief strategy officer for Trendium, an early innovator and market leader in network and service intelligence.
He has built a strong advisory team to deploy mobile software platforms for low-cost early power outage intelligence (iRestore) to fire and police departments and municipalities in partnership with a major East Coast utility.
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DIRECTIONS to the American Public Power Association; 2451 Crystal Drive, Suite 1000; Arlington, VA 22202-4804
(The building is located near the intersection of 23rd S Street and Crystal Drive).
See the attached files and websites for directions:
Metro - The event is about a ten minute walk from the Crystal City Metro Station.
Parking - Please see the attached link with links to parking garages in the Crystal City area; many of them are free during the week after 4 pm. There is a parking lot across the street from the APPA building where the event will be held. See the
Century Building Parking Lot on 2450 Crystal Drive (#16 on the attached map)
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by Kerry Worthington, Leaders in Energy
by Travis High, Leaders in Energy, Product Strategy Manager
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We believe that our group is playing an important role in building the capacity for positive change and action by convening this community of energy and sustainability professionals who are working to make a difference. In addition, we help our members to network in finding jobs, locating better jobs (if they are already are employed), and partnering to develop new business and other related opportunities. We appreciate your support and attendance at our professional networking events on key clean energy and sustainability topics. We look forward to seeing you at the American Public Power Association on Thursday, August 20th, 6-8 pm.
Sincerely,
Clean Energy Ambassador and Founder
Leaders In Energy
703-203-0766
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