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Ken Beard
Information Architect,
TECO Energy Inc
Ken has over 20 years of experience architecting the data ecosystems that power major utilityoperations. He specializes in modernizing legacy environments such as SAP HANA and MS SQL intoscalable, cloud-native architectures, including Snowflake and Azure, to drive operational efficiencythrough BI and agentic analytics. Ken speaks fluently in both utility and technology, helping bridge thegap between Data/IT and business units. He also understands the unique challenges across utility datadomains, including Generation, Distribution, Transmission, Finance, Asset, People, and Customer.