POWERUP 2025
Highlights
KEYNOTE – Enhancing Readiness, Strengthening Response: CenterPoint Energy’s Emergency Preparedness Transformation
Over the past year, CenterPoint Energy has significantly enhanced its emergency preparedness and response capabilities. In this keynote session, Don Daigler, Senior Vice President of Emergency…
KEYNOTE – Resilience in the Heat of Crisis: Lessons from LADWP’s Wildfire Response
In this keynote session, two senior executives from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) — representing emergency management and customer service and communications…
Executive Perspectives on Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities in the Utility Industry
As utilities navigate an evolving risk landscape, resilience is more than grid hardening — it’s about organizational agility, crisis preparedness, and strategic investment in people, processes,…
Predicting Power: How Machine Learning is Transforming Estimated Times of Restoration
In this panel session, utility industry experts will explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping the way companies predict and communicate estimated times of…
Transforming Emergency Response: LUMA’s Award-Winning Journey
Discover how LUMA earned the prestigious Gold Emergency Management Chartwell Best Practices Award through its innovative approach to revitalizing its Emergency Response Plan. This session explores…
PG&E Revolutionizes Outage Communication with SmartComms and SmartETOR
PG&E embarked on a transformational initiative to improve its electric outage notifications after discovering that 37% of customers experiencing unplanned outages weren’t receiving timely updates. In…
