Utilities are under pressure to act on data faster and across more parts of the business. This session will show how IEE Cloud, integrated with IEOS, creates a modern data foundation that goes well beyond meter-to-cash. We’ll discuss how IEOS amplifies the value of IEE Cloud—enabling streaming data, near real-time insights, and seamless integration with downstream applications—so teams can move from data collection to action with greater speed and confidence

Utilities have invested heavily in communications networks to support metering and grid operations. But what if that same infrastructure could deliver value beyond the meter?

Join industry experts as they explore how AMI communications networks are being leveraged to support connected safety applications that help protect workers, improve situational awareness, and strengthen operational response. Through real-world examples and deployment insights, attendees will learn how utilities can extend the value of existing network investments to support lone worker monitoring, emergency response, field visibility, and other critical safety initiatives.

This session will examine the technology, business considerations, and lessons learned involved in expanding AMI infrastructure beyond traditional metering use cases, while demonstrating how utilities can improve safety outcomes, enhance operational efficiency, and maximize the return on their communications investments.

Attendees will leave with practical insights into how connected safety solutions can become a natural extension of a utility's broader AMI and digital transformation strategy.

The future of the grid edge won't be defined by a single technology, vendor, or standard, but by how effectively the industry works together to make them interoperable.

Join representatives from GEISA, OMA, and Itron for a discussion on the evolving standards landscape and the collaboration required to advance grid edge interoperability. Explore how industry initiatives are working together to address utility needs, where progress is being made, and what challenges remain.

Learn how emerging standards can support scalable grid edge solutions, why cooperation across standards organizations is essential, and what utilities should consider as they plan for the next generation of grid modernization efforts.

The grid is becoming increasingly dynamic and complex, and utilities are at the forefront of this transformation. While some have established smart metering programs, others are embarking on grid edge and distributed intelligence by modernizing meter‑to‑cash and distribution operations. Whether driven by regulatory mandates or enabled by federal funding, building a defensible business case that supports a rate case is critical. This session shares utility perspectives from different stages of Grid Edge Intelligence (GEI) implementation, highlighting how open, interoperable, standards‑based platforms help meet regulatory requirements, prioritize high‑value use cases, operationalize benefits and reduce risk. Attendees will gain practical guidance on translating GEI value—such as improved reliability, decarbonization and customer outcomes—into actionable next steps that justify investment and support execution.

Utilities own thousands of streetlights across their service territories—an everyday asset hiding in plain sight. What if that same infrastructure could close one of the most persistent visibility gaps at the grid edge?

Join this utility leadership panel as we build the case for transforming streetlights into a powerful new layer of grid intelligence. AMI has unlocked tremendous value at the meter, but blind spots remain between the meter and the substation—right where extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and rising reliability expectations are hitting hardest.

Hear directly from utility leaders on how Networked Lighting Controllers (NLCs), deployed as Grid Edge sensors, turn existing streetlights into a real-time source of voltage anomaly detection, early outage indication, hyperlocal weather, and sharper situational awareness. The takeaway: a practical, low-cost path to a more reliable, resilient grid—and smarter, safer cities - built on assets you already own.

Delivering a UIQ AMI Head‑End System is complex under any conditions—but doing so alongside a major SAP S/4HANA CIS upgrade significantly heightens integration and delivery risk. Eversource is addressing this challenge by implementing a greenfield UIQ AMI integration framework designed to remain stable, scalable, and secure despite overlapping timelines, shared resources, and regulatory constraints.

This session highlights how Eversource advanced UIQ AMI integration blueprinting, design, and data governance while CIS SMEs remained focused on CIS delivery. Attendees will learn practical strategies such as reusable integration patterns, phased rollout of high‑risk interfaces, and early cross‑system dependency alignment. Eversource will also share lessons learned and early outcomes, including improved data quality, reduced manual workarounds, and more predictable delivery of UIQ AMI integration milestones.

See innovation in action at the edge. After a brief overview of Itron’s first edge App-A-Thon—where utility teams leveraged Itron’s distributed intelligence (DI) platform, virtual SDK and curated datasets— A panel of your peers will be describing their experience using Itron’s developer platform and virtual software developer kit (SDK). Hear firsthand how utility teams used Itron’s platform, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, to rapidly turn edge data into actionable insights. Discover how Itron’s edge-enabled developer ecosystem makes it possible to design, build and scale new applications that drive smarter, more reliable operations.

Gas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing conHear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.

Fault prevention is at the heart of Advanced Grid Reliability—shifting utilities from reactive response to predictive maintenance. This session explores how high‑resolution half‑cycle voltage and current waveforms captured by 32 kHz and 4 kHz sensors enable early detection of fault precursors across overhead, underground and low‑voltage assets. Attendees will learn what’s new compared to traditional practices, the role of power quality in corrective maintenance and the operational path to preventative maintenance. The session also highlights wildfire POC results, showcasing how predictive fault detection reduces unplanned outages, improves SAIDI/SAIFI, rebalances TOTEX and helps utilities avoid outages before they occur.

Battery VPPs are breaking new MW records. On September 9, 2026, approximately 110,000 Tesla Powerwalls delivered 517 MW during a dispatch across California. This session will explore Tesla’s virtual power plant (VPP) programs across the U.S., including its participation in California’s Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP), and best practices for designing VPP programs and aggregating batteries into a dependable grid resource. Attendees will learn about existing aggregation models and how utilities can design programs that scale and strengthen reliability during periods of peak demand.

Hydro One is doing something most utilities have not yet attempted. By treating AMI data as an enterprise asset, the utility is integrating grid edge intelligence and advanced analytics to feed operations, maintenance, investment planning, and demand-side management, not just billing. AMI data is moving out of the meter-to-cash niche and into the enterprise with grid edge intelligence.

 At the center of this work is an enterprise data and AI platform that integrates AMI data alongside data from other systems, with data solutions built for the needs of different business lines. In parallel, the utility is deploying distributed intelligence applications directly on the meters. Use cases already in progress include optimizing outage restoration times, enabling predictive maintenance, prioritizing capital investments, and developing non-wires alternatives.

 The session will also explore the broader opportunity AMI creates across the utility enterprise. When data flows freely from the grid edge into the right systems and the right hands, it changes what decisions are possible. Grid utilization is one example: AMI data makes it possible to see where unused capacity sits, flatten load curves, and defer infrastructure builds. The same data can drive predictive maintenance, inform capital investment priorities, and support affordability goals. Before AMI and enterprise intelligence, these decisions at best were educated guesses.

 Hear directly from Hydro One and Util-Assist on how one of the first utilities in Canada to leverage grid edge intelligence built its enterprise data strategy, aligned IT with the business lines, and is turning AMI data into measurable business value.

Grid awareness is foundational to advanced grid reliability—enabling faster detection, smarter control and more resilient operations. This session highlights progress in grid awareness through transformer‑level distributed intelligence (DI), advanced monitoring and enhanced location awareness. Tampa Electric shares how it is operationalizing grid awareness by integrating transformer monitoring and high‑resolution data into daily workflows, improving Volt/VAR optimization, power factor correction and control room response. Attendees will learn how real‑time visibility across feeders and transformers supports forecasting, scenario planning and seamless ADMS integration—reducing asset risk while strengthening reliability and resilience across the distribution system.

Itron’s Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio is a comprehensive, integrated, end‑to‑end suite of solutions that unlocks the power of data across a utility’s service territory—from the grid edge and neighborhood transformer to the substation. Learn how our grid edge intelligence–based platform supports utilities’ decarbonization, reliability, sustainability and customer experience goals through interoperable, standards‑based, pre‑integrated solutions that build on existing AMI infrastructure to deliver real‑time visibility and distribution load management.

Discover what it really takes to successfully move meter data management to the cloud—and what your utility stands to gain —by learning directly from Itron experts. In this session, attendees will walk away with clear, practical insight into how to prepare their organization for IEE Cloud, reduce risk during migration, and build the technical readiness needed for long-term success. Learn about the benefits utilities will realize—from greater scalability and resilience to reduced IT burden and faster access to trusted data. If you’re evaluating cloud-based MDM or planning your next platform evolution, this session will help you set realistic expectations, avoid common pitfalls, and confidently chart your path forward with IEE Cloud

Itron CityEdge brings together intelligent street-lighting capabilities, IoT connectivity, smart devices and sensors, real-time status and control, advanced scheduling, and fault detection. TerraGo operationalizes these CityEdge capabilities—turning connected-lighting data, alarms, and controls into coordinated utility workflows that deliver measurable outcomes.

This session explores how the TerraGo Platform uses full-lifecycle asset management, no-code configuration, customer-specific mobile applications, and integrations with utility systems to enable advanced operational use cases that improve efficiency, lower maintenance costs, enhance customer service, and deliver new services. While most utilities know TerraGo for streetlight installation and maintenance, this session showcases the more advanced solutions TerraGo offers today.

Learn how utilities can extend the value of their connected-device investment by turning intelligence and control into measurable operational outcomes.

The path to grid flexibility increasingly runs through the home, as smart panels, Matter-enabled devices and connected EV chargers are turning individual houses into active grid participants, and the same load disaggregation data that powers customer programs is now informing grid operations and planning. This session looks at how utilities are orchestrating that edge: smart panels for circuit-level visibility and control, the Matter standard's energy management clusters (device energy management, EV charging, tariffs and grid signals) for talking directly to in-home devices, and customer engagement for driving enrollment and keeping DERMS and smart home data in sync. Chris Moris, Chief Grid Architect at PG&E and Spencer Gill, VP of Planning at Hydro One, will share how their organizations are connecting customer programs with grid operations/planning around a shared home-to-grid data foundation, and what it takes to make smart homes and DERMS work together at scale.

Distributed Intelligence (DI) initiatives often begin with a focused use case but scaling them into operational programs requires new approaches to technology, processes and organizational alignment. In this session, Patrick Varuzza, PG&E and Tom Williams, VASS Solutions will share PG&E's journey from an early ChargeBoost proof of concept to today's quasi-production deployment and the roadmap toward full operationalization. Attendees will gain insights into the decisions, challenges and lessons learned along the way, including what worked, what didn't and how those experiences are shaping future DI strategy and implementation efforts.