7 – 8 am Breakfast – Palm Terrace
8 am – 12 pm Salon C Optimization
Hands-On Training: Concepts and Techniques, PCI GenTrader® Overview & Application Buck Feng & Justin Cook
Salon A Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Hands-on BI and Reporting Training for Business Analysts: Connecting to PCI data sources such as the reporting database, BI Analyzers and GSMS to create custom reports and visualizations. Exercises cover the use of BI tools such as PCI Data Export Utility (DEU), Power BI, Qlikview, and Excel. Familiarity with SQL statements and intermediate Excel skills are helpful but not required. Paul Davis
Salon D Energy Trading (Front Office & ISO Scheduling) Hands-On Training for Front Office Business Users: Setup, configuration
and reporting with PCI Front Office tools including ETRM, Deal Management/Deal Capture and ISO Scheduling (Bid Formulation). Justin Shearer & Brandon Leslie
Salon B Energy Accounting Hands-On Training: Setup, configuration, and use of meter data
management and energy accounting tools Julie Rogers & Lei Tan
Salon E IT Basic Administration Hands-On Training for Administrators: Setting up any PCI Application
within the PCI Platform Jeremy Alleman
Gaslamp 4 Managing Bid-to-Bill Workflow in CAISO EIM Market Hear key updates and lessons learned on CAISO EIM. PCI will illustrate
how its EIM Solutions Suite can be used to support the complete Bid-to-Bill workflow for both Merchant and BA sides. PCI will showcase how to derive hourly balanced Resource/Capacity Plans, create Unit Energy Bids and submit balanced schedules to CAISO. The workshop will cover CAISO EIM Settlement Workflows and provide a deeper understanding of how to validate key charge codes. Tony Delacluyse
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Breaks will be held at 10 am & 3 pm
TRAINING DAY – MONDAY, APRIL 3
12 – 1 pm Lunch – Palm Terrace
1 – 5 pm Salon C Optimization
Hands-On Training: Application of Case Study Buck Feng & Justin Cook
Salon A Asset Operations Hands-On Training: PCI Outage Management setup, configuration
and use Arun Devarakonda
Salon D Back Office Hands-On Training: Setup, configuration and reporting with PCI Back
Office Tools Justin Shearer & Jeremy Pober
Salon B Energy Accounting – Transmission Billing Hands-On Training: Setup, configuration and use of Transmission
Billing functionality Suiyi Su & Lei Tan
Salon E Admin Advanced Development Hands-On Training for Developers: Coding and source code
management within the PCI Platform. A special focus will be on Web Services, the Eclipse (BIRT) plug-in, PCI Reporting Tool and building Position Management dashboards. David Matejka & John Bizon
Gaslamp 4 Potential Impacts of FERC Order 825 on Meter Data Management, Back-Office and Market Operations This workshop will cover the pros, cons, goals and potential impacts of FERC Order 825 on Meter Data Management as well as Real-Time, Back Office and IT operations. PCI will also review the potential influence of Order 825’s associated implementation plans for 5-Minute Settlement (in MISO/PJM). Khai Le
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast – Palm Terrace
8:30 – 10:30 am Grand Ballroom PCI Welcome Fred Lee – PCI Chief Executive Officer
Customer Presentations on End-to-End System Implementation PCI In Focus Conference Overview and Product Roadmap Jason Kram & Javier Martin – PCI
10:30 am – 12 pm Grand Ballroom DTE Energy
Using PCI’s Suite to Manage Bid-to-Bill and Portfolio-Management Workflows for DTE Assets in MISO Nelson Worner & Raghu Kavalakuntla, Michael Fortini
Arizona Public Service Highlights of APS Go-Live in CAISO EIM Market Justin Thompson
Basin Electric Power Cooperative Using PCI’s Suite to Manage Basin Assets in MISO and SPP Markets: Lessons Learned Chris Vizenor
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Using PCI GenTrader to Optimize Cascaded Hydro System Chaise Vidal & Jon Olson
12 – 1 pm Lunch – Palm Terrace
1:30 – 3 pm Salon C ISO PANEL
ISO Leaders Discuss Latest Market Changes and Developments Khai Le – PCI Moderator 1. CAISO – Guillermo Alderete 2. SPP – Bruce Rew 3. ERCOT – Joel Mickey 4. PJM – Ray Fernandez
Salon B ANALYTICS Customers Present their Use of PCI Optimization and Analytical Tools
Buck Feng – PCI Moderator
Jacksonville Electric Authority Using PCI GenTrader to Optimize Joint Operations in Florida Garry Baker
Orlando Utility Commission Using PCI GenTrader to Optimize Pool Operations in Florida Ed Bemis
Southern California Edison Using PCI GenTrader to Evaluate Asset Upgrades at SCE Vibhu Kaushik & Anita Shu
Salon A INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Installer and High Availability PCI will discuss new installer features and answer your questions about high availability Bill Spens – PCI Moderator
3:30 – 5 pm Salon C ISO PANEL
ISO Leaders Discuss Latest Market Changes and Developments Khai Le – PCI Moderator 1. ISO-NE – Ron Coutu 2. NYISO – Ethan Avallone 3. MISO – Invited
Salon B ENERGY ACCOUNTING Benefits of Using of PCI Energy Accounting Applications to
Validate Meter Data Bryan Kelly – PCI Moderator
We Energies Deploying PCI Energy Accounting to Validate Meter Data for Units,
Loads and Tie Lines Maura Royston
Duke Energy Using PCI Energy Accounting to Manage Meter Data for
Four Balancing Authorities Dana Adams & Tim Fox
Salon A INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
GSMS Security PCI will discuss current and upcoming security features for
IT Administrators Bill Spens – PCI Moderator
5:15 – 8:30 pm Welcome Reception and Bay Dinner Cruise – Omni Lobby
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DAY 1 – TUESDAY, APRIL 4
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast – Palm Terrace
8:30 – 10 am Grand Ballroom Day 1 Review and Day 2 Planning
Walter Hobbs, Jason Kram & Khai Le – PCI Arizona Public Service APS Experience with Using PCI’s Transmission Billing Solution
Adam Wardell & Judy Tsai Power Costs, Inc. Potential Impacts of FERC Order 825 on Meter Data Management, Market Operations and RTO Settlements Khai Le DTE Energy
Using PCI GenTrader to Simulate the Impacts of 5-mn Settlement on Asset Operations Derek Arnold
Duke Energy Using PCI GenTrader to Support Mid-Term Planning Matt Jones
10:30 am – 12 pm Grand Ballroom PCI Solutions Presentations OG&E
Using P&L Analyzer to Provide Feedback to OG&E Front Office and Plant Personnel in SPP Market Shawn McBroom
Entergy Entergy’s Experience with PCI Back Office to Validate MISO Settlement Henry Chu
Consumers Energy Benefits and Lessons Learned from Deploying PCI Energy Accounting to Validate Meter Data Ben Coon
Puget Sound Energy IT Infrastructure to Support EIM Operations at PSE Sandi Hart
12 – 1 pm Lunch – Palm Terrace
1:15 – 3 pm Salon C MARKET SYSTEMS
Implementation and Use of PCI Market Systems Software in RTO Markets Javier Martin – PCI Moderator
Puget Sound Energy Review of CAISO EIM Go-Live at Puget Sound Energy Bob Harshbarger
East Kentucky Power Cooperative Improving EKPC Operations in PJM Market Fernie Williams
Sunflower Electric Power Coop Benefits of Using PCI P&L Analyzer to Improve Operations in SPP Chandler Brown
Salon B ASSET OPERATIONS/POST ANALYSIS Company Presentations on the Implementation and Use of PCI Tools for Asset Operations and Post Analysis Bryan Kelly – PCI
Arizona Public Service APS Experience with Using PCI Asset Operations to Improve Plant Operations in CAISO EIM Market Moe Sakkijha
Basin Electric Power Cooperative Experience with Using PCI Asset Operations Suite to Manage
Plant Operations in SPP Market Chris Vizenor
Santee Cooper Running PCI Post Analysis to Monitor KPIs Bob Carbonaro & Sean Ames
Salon A INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Monitoring and Performance
PCI will discuss recommendations in system configuration and performance troubleshooting Andres Barbaro – PCI Moderator
3:15 – 5 pm Salon C BACK OFFICE Company Presentations on the Use of PCI Back Office Tools for
Specific Markets Paul Davis – PCI Moderator
Ameren Ameren’s Experience with Using PCI Back Office to Validate MISO Settlement and Perform Month-End Closing Eric Rodis
Big Rivers Electric Cooperative Deploying PCI P&L Analyzer to Improve Market Operations in MISO Michael Schulz
Salon B ETRM Company Presentations on the Use of Various Components of PCI’s ETRM System Javier Martin
TransAlta Using PCI Contract Settlement to Manage Settlement for Tolling Agreements David Jackman
CPS Energy Deployment of PCI Gas Management Ken Skaer
Salon A INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Best Practices
PCI will discuss best practices and integration topics Bill Spens – PCI Moderator
5:30 – 7 pm Salons D and E Drinks and Demos
Demo stations for Optimization, Business Intelligence, ETRM, Energy Accounting, ISO Back Office, ISO Front Office, Asset Operations, Client Services and Hosted Solutions
7 – 8:30 pm Customer Appreciation Dinner – Palm Terrace
8:30 – 10 pm PCI Entertainment – Salons A and B
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DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5
8 – 9 am Breakfast – Palm Terrace
9 – 10 am Gallery 2 Front Office Roundtable
This session will allow for product feedback and enhancement requests along with PCI plan for Front Office Tools Stanley Eng – PCI
Gallery 1 Analytics Roundtable This session will allow for product feedback and enhancement requests along with PCI plan for Optimization, Analytics, DW, Reporting database and BI Tools Justin Cook, Hicham Mansouri & Paul Davis – PCI
Gaslamp 4 Energy Accounting Roundtable This session will allow for product feedback along with PCI’s plan for our Energy Accounting solution Julie Rogers – PCI
Salon E Back Office Roundtable This session will allow for product feedback and enhancement requests along with PCI plan for Back Office Tools Jeremy Pober – PCI
Salon D IT Roundtable This session will allow for product feedback and enhancement requests along with PCI plan for IT Platform Dan Crawford – PCI
10:15 – 11:15 am Gaslamp 4 Asset Operations
PCI will discuss and demo our latest asset operations tools for enhancing communications between plants and trader Arun Devarakonda – PCI
Salon E Optimization PCI will discuss and demo our latest optimization developments for hydro/thermal technologies and the joint optimization of various resources. Long term, mid-term and short-term analytics will be covered here Justin Cook – PCI
Gallery 1 Settlements PCI will discuss and demo our latest features of the PCI GenManager for the settlement analyst Jeremy Pober & Justin Shearer – PCI
Salon D GenPortal® New Features PCI will demonstrate new features of PCI GenPortal for IT administrators and developers Bryan Kelly – PCI
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch – Palm Terrace
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DAY 3 – THURSDAY, APRIL 6
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1 – 2 pm Salon E Deal Management & ETRM
PCI will discuss and demonstrate latest developments in ETRM — See the interaction of ISO and non-ISO workflows Brandon Leslie – PCI
Gallery 1 Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence PCI has an expanded DW and BI suite with several analyzers that can be packaged together – PCI will discuss and demo these new modules and product enhancements Paul Davis – PCI
Gallery 2 Energy Accounting PCI will take a deep dive into Energy Accounting and the new features associated with meter data management and meter data quality Julie Rogers – PCI
Salon D Client Services & Release Management PCI will discuss client services to better support our customers via both internal process changes and tools Jeremy Alleman – PCI
2 – 3 pm Gallery 1 “How To:” Deal Management
Attendees will learn how the Deal Management application is applied to deal capture and scheduling, which will include demonstration and hands-on examples Brandon Leslie – PCI
Salon D “How To:” Post Analysis PCI will discuss and demonstrate analyzing operations through post analytics and update on how our customers are using KPIs to better overall performance and profitability Hicham Mansouri – PCI
Gallery 2 “How To:” Energy Accounting Attendees will learn how the Energy Accounting application is applied to meter data management, which will include demonstration and practical examples Julie Rogers – PCI
3 pm Salon D Conference Recap Walter Hobbs – PCI