From Challenges to Solutions – Chartwell’s Networking Roundtables

Collaborate with peers who live and breathe outage communications and emergency response. In this interactive roundtable session, you’ll connect with utility professionals from across North America who face the same high-stakes challenges — keeping customers informed, restoring power quickly, and managing crises effectively. Share your questions, strategies, and lessons learned while gaining insights from others on the front lines. Don’t just trade ideas — build lasting connections with a network of go-to resources you can rely on during your next major event. Attendees consistently cite this kind of peer-to-peer exchange as one of the most valuable aspects of the conference.

 

Topics include:

 

• Utility Readiness for Major Public Events

• “One Voice:” Aligning People, Processes and Technology for Unified Communication

• Strengthening Community Partnerships for Emergency Response

• Major Event Communications: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

• Using AI and Machine Learning to Generate Storm and Blue-sky ETRs

• PSPS – Communications Best Practices for Public Safety Power Shutdown

• Tools and Dashboards for Situational Awareness

• Technologies for Wildfire Prevention

• Field Crew Tech for Improved Operations and Communications

• Planned Outage Communications Best Practices

• Empathy and Precision: The Art of Customer-Friendly Messaging

• Auto-enrollment for Outage Alerts

 

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