The Smart Grid has the potential to provide overwhelming amounts of data about residential, commercial and industrial energy consumption. Further, it offers the possibilities of two-way interaction between consumer and provider. What is a vision of data management as the Smart Grid is deployed? From user and provider perspectives, what anticipated changes to data management will occur as increased intelligence and digital infrastructure is deployed? What solutions are economically viable?

Speakers include:

• John McDonald, P.E., director of technical strategy and policy development, GE Digital Energy  — John has 35 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry. As director of technical strategy and policy development, John provides the strategic leadership and develops the long term plans to optimize GE Digital Energy’s competitive position. John is on the board of directors of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC), and is the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) governing board chair for 2010. John teaches a course on Modern Energy Management at Georgia Tech and a Smart Grid course for GE. 
• Musaddeq Khan (MK), Founder and CEO, Verdeeco  — ‘MK’ has spent over 12 years developing and marketing software with half of that time spent in the energy and utilities industry with advanced metering and smart grid solutions. He founded Verdeeco because he believes there is a better way to fulfill the promise of advanced metering and the “smart grid” without investing in experimental technologies or embarking on massive enterprise-scale implementations.  
• Sanjoy Malik, Founder and CEO, Urjanet — Malik is an experienced executive and CEO who has built and operated successful technology businesses. He currently serves as CEO of Urjanet, which provides businesses a reliable source of data to help them reduce energy cost and analyze and manage the economics of new and ongoing energy initiatives. Urjanet’s UBus platform collects, transforms and delivers an intelligent stream of energy, climate, and pricing data to business applications.