San Diego Convention Center

2025 Technical Conference Sessions

Architecting the modern grid: Justifying connectivity investments

26 Mar 2025
D220
Peer-to-Peer Exchange , AMI

Peer-to-peer exchange is a discussion on a specific topic. Discussions provide attendees access to knowledge and expertise to help them address the critical challenges facing the industry today in a smaller, yet targeted setting. These sessions offer an engaging interactive experience, encouraging and welcoming active participation from the group.

As utilities plan for their next generation of grid infrastructure investment to maintain the highest levels of resiliency and security, it’s important to have the right commercial strategy to show how a particular solution meets both the business and financial objectives.  In this peer-to-peer session, Itron will lay out the building blocks needed to justify the solutions required to move utilities from AMI 1.0 to AMI 2.0. We will dive into topics including how to optimize the commercials for a solution, how to best align across your organization for stakeholder buy-in and how focusing on facts allow for a stronger business case.  We invite you to join us as we dive into a conversation to share what you know and learn from others. 

Session sponsored by: Itron

Panel Moderator
Oleg Pachkovets
Oleg Pachkovets, Sr Product Marketing Manager - Itron
Speakers
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith, Director Product Management - Itron