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A strong business strategy must align with a skilled, adaptable workforce. This track covers how utilities equip field teams with tools like mobile management, drones, and AR to improve safety and productivity, while also addressing talent attraction, upskilling, leadership development, and building diverse, inclusive teams. Learn how utilities invest in technology and people to strengthen today’s operations and build tomorrow’s workforce.
Core Concepts Discussed
- Utility business strategy development
- Strategic planning for grid transformation
- Workforce of the future
- Talent attraction and retention
- Succession planning and leadership pipelines
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
- Safety culture and training programs
- Workforce digital enablement
- Regulatory and stakeholder alignment with strategy
- Linking strategy to reliability, resiliency, and innovation goals
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Strategy & Workforce educational opportunities
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Four generations are sharing the workforce—each bringing different experiences, expectations, and perspectives on leadership. At the same time, women are playing an increasingly influential role in sh …Speakers
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Utilities are facing a convergence of workforce challenges at the same time grid complexity, capital investment, and operating cost pressures are accelerating. As experienced workers retire, turnover …Speakers
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The electric utility operating model is under pressure. Distribution systems are becoming more complex, customer expectations are rising, data center and electrification-driven load growth are acceler …Speakers
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When a field crew member can confirm a job and pull asset history without leaving the truck cab, a digital transformation has moved beyond rollout and into real adoption. Dominion Energy reached that …Speakers
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Dominion Energy plans to grow Virginia's transmission capacity by roughly 100% over the next decade, investing on the order of $2 billion a year, and nearly every one of those projects needs a planned …Speakers
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In a world where leaders are asked to operate under constant “grid stress”—from digital transformation to workforce strain to rising customer expectations—resilience is no longer just about time manag …Speakers
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The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has published typical time frames for data centers, generation, and transmission development. While the specific times to build infrastructur …Speakers
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Successful technology transformation in utilities depends as much on people as it does on systems. Organizational Change Management (OCM) helps utilities prepare employees, leaders, and stakeholders t …Speakers
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The ongoing workforce crisis in the U.S. energy sector has reached a critical inflection point, threatening our nation's economic growth and technological future. The demand for skilled labor is being …
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For utilities, contractor invoice review is more than an administrative task. It is a frontline financial control.At PPL, a single team can process more than 400 contractor invoices each month, with e …SpeakersChairperson
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Modelers and engineers at Dominion Energy spend a meaningful share of their time not doing engineering, but hunting. Hunting through spreadsheets, enterprise planning documents, project documentation, …SpeakersChairperson
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