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Here, you can explore articles and videos dedicated to meeting the challenges and opportunities facing the industry
Here, you can explore articles and videos dedicated to meeting the challenges and opportunities facing the industry
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: This year we had not one but two keynote addresses to encapsulate the excitement surrounding the industry and event. Chairman & CEO of Evergy, David Campbell, delivered this keynote at the 2024 UBBA Summit...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Chair & CEO of Burns & McDonnell, Leslie Duke, delivered the opening keynote to kick off the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest. Click below to see the recording of her keynote from Kansas City!
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they discuss information and opportunities facing the industry with the next generation of metering. Hear from these experts as they came together to discuss this topic at the...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they discuss the important questions revolving around cybersecurity for utility critical infrastructure. Given the everchanging nature of technology, the landscape of utility critical infrastructure is always evolving and...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they examined the challenges and opportunities facing rural electric cooperatives across the United States. While rural coops face similar challenges to that of the rest of the industry,...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they shared what Utilidata and NVIDIA are building together through the framework of AI in utilities and the implications it may have within the market. Hear from these experts...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join two Public Utilities Commissioners as they give a look into the insights and information their offices use to make decisions shaping the utility industry. This insightful discussion offered a rare opportunity to hear first-hand...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Matt Olson from Burns & McDonnell examined ways to utilize customer innovation to drive value in the utility space. SPEAKERS: Matt Olson from Burns & McDonnell. Click the image to watch the video in...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Matt Olson from Burns & McDonnell hosted a discussion with Evergy COO, Kevin Bryant and Evergy CTO, Charles King on the strategic motivation to pursue private LTE. Hear what these industry leaders had to...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they took a deeper look into how the grid will be built out in order to support AI as well as the utility applications and value from utilizing AI. Hear...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they discuss the rise in global energy demand from AI, EVs, cryptocurrency and data centers, and the impact that this rise is having on the grid. A hot topic...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they discuss the impact that quantum computing may have to meet the high compute needs for the utility of the future. With the breakthrough potential that quantum computing offers...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join these industry thought leaders as they discuss the myriad of advancements being made in the field of artificial intelligence and the impact that A.I. is having on utilities. A.I. is everywhere these days and...
Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City: Join utility industry experts as they explore the major policies and politics that impact and influence the evolution of the grid. As utilities continue to innovate and invest in new initiatives, the landscape becomes increasingly...
Listen as utility industry leaders share thoughts on the importance of cybersecurity and private LTE at the 2023 Summit & Plugfest
2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest Voice of the Members
2023 Voice of the Members
Recorded at the 2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Minneapolis: Join utility industry experts as they explore communications strategies and integrated technologies designed to ensure safety across the energy grid. From substations to meters, and from initial detection to final response, utility physical and cyber security...
Recorded at the 2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Minneapolis: From forecasting demand to advanced self-healing grid management, Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered utility infrastructure is the talk of the year. These next-generation intelligence systems can monitor equipment for potential outages or failures and respond to disruption...
Recorded October 11, 2023 at the UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Minneapolis: Utility Industry Perspectives – “Trends in Utility Innovation” Jennie Bratten will open with session with her insights on the latest trends in the energy/utility industry, and then invite panelists to join her for...
Recorded October 12, 2023 a the UBBA summit & Plugfest in Minneapolis. – Grid Modernization goals for enhancing reliability and resiliency require a highspeed network to enable a variety of supporting utility use-cases. Integrating Electric Vehicles and Distributed Energy Resources, and migration of the next generation...
Recorded October 12, 2023 in Minneapolis – Utilities collectively are under increasing pressure to act to ensure their critical infrastructure is ready to meet aggressive clean energy targets and harden the electric grid for improved resilience and security. Data and communications technologies underpinning grid operations...
Panel recorded Oct 12, 2023 at the UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Minneapolis. No one size fits all in the utility space! This session will offer insights into four utilities’ journeys to private LTE for operational use cases and future grid solutions. SPEAKERS: Alan McIntyre...
UBBA Summit & Plugfest 2023 Keynote CEO of UScellular, Laurent Therivel offers his insights as the special keynote at the 2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest. Click the image below to listen to his key messages with an introduction by Kim Kerr, SVP at UScellular.
Recording from the 2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest Click the image below to watch this panel from the 2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Minneapolis. Join Xcel Energy’s Tim O’Conner, EVP & COO, Eric Levin, Chief Architect and Tawnya Fielder, VP of Applications for a...
2022 UBBA Summit & Plugfest unedited recording of the Plugfest Testing area
2022 UBBA Summit & Plugfest testing unedited recordings
2022 UBBA Summit & Plugfest was the culmination of utility collaboration and ecosystem leaders coming together to solve utility LTE challenges. Watch the Women in Utility Leadership Panel
2022 UBBA Summit & Plugfest was the culmination of utility collaboration and ecosystem leaders coming together to solve utility LTE challenges.
UBBA’s Plugfest was the culmination of collaboration and ecosystem leaders coming together to solve utility LTE challenges. “Each utility strategy is different and UBBA is the best resource for utilities to ask questions and collaborate about broadband solutions to meet the coverage, resilience, reliability, and cybersecurity requirements for their utility,” said UBBA Vice Chairman John…
UBBA’s Plugfest featured critical use cases such as FLISR (Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration), Capacitor Bank Controllers, Smart Streetlighting, and next-gen smart meters, to name a few. Hosted by UBBA founding member Ameren Missouri, the test cases were identified by the UBBA Use Cases & Testbeds Working Group and led by the UBBA Plugfest…
The Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA) held its inaugural Utility Broadband Plugfest to test LTE networks for utility use cases in St. Louis. UBBA delivered a sold-out, in-person event culminating with the first Utility Broadband Plugfest, which showcased the innovation, collaboration, and interoperability of utility use cases and devices on public and private LTE networks
Why are Alliances so critical to utility infrastructure evolution? Our industry leaders will share their experiences and vision for collaboration among associations. Speakers: Jerry Gentry (NYPA), Tim Godfrey (EPRI), John Hughes, Vice Chairman of UBBA (Ameren), Koustuv Ghoshal (Ericsson), and Mar Tarres (Anterix) Moderated by: Matt Olson (Burns & McDonnell)
UBBA delivered the first LTE Plugfest to St. Louis in October 2021, to showcase the innovation, collaboration and interoperability of utility use cases on private LTE networks. This is the recording of the first morning plugfest on Day 1 of the event. Moderated by: Matt Olson (Burns & McDonnell)
UBBA delivered the first LTE Plugfest to St. Louis in October 2021, to showcase the innovation, collaboration and interoperability of utility use cases on private LTE networks. This is the recording of the afternoon Plugfest tests on Day 1 of the event. Emcee: Matt Olson (Burns & McDonnell)
UBBA delivered the first LTE Plugfest to St. Louis in October 2021, to showcase the innovation, collaboration and interoperability of utility use cases on private LTE networks. This is the recording of the morning Plugfest tests on Day 2 of the event. Emcee: Matt Olson (Burns & McDonnell)
Anterix Active Ecosystem Demos during lunch at the UBBA Summit & Plugfest
Watch the 2 minute video montage to experience the Leadership of UBBA!
Speakers: Bhavani Amirthalingam (Ameren), Omar Zevallos (SDG&E), Jerry Gentry (NYPA), Joe Mellott (Evergy)...
The Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA) held its inaugural Utility Broadband Plugfest to test LTE networks for utility use cases in St. Louis. UBBA delivered a sold-out, in-person event culminating with the first Utility Broadband Plugfest, which showcased the innovation, collaboration, and...
The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is a video from Koustuv Ghoshal from Ericson.
The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is a video from David Allen from UScellular. Click below to watch this…
The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is one from Dr. Mauricio Subieta from Nokia. Click below to watch this…
Griselda Aldrete from Alliant Energy and one of the new UBBA Board of Directors shares her Voice of the Member. Click below to watch this UBBA Voice of the Members segment:
The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is a video from Ron Brady of Xcel Energy. Click below to watch…
Ensuring home broadband internet access—particularly in rural areas—has long been a national priority, but efforts to bridge the digital divide gained increased urgency in the face of safety measures taken to combat the pandemic. As the federal government amplifies its longstanding strategy of providing funding to entice commercial deployment of broadband service in otherwise uneconomical…
The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is one from Rob Schwartz, CEO of Anterix. Click below to watch this…
Whether Utilities want to operate their own private LTE network, use the existing mobile operator’s networks, or a hybrid approach in between, Mobile Network Operators can support a range of integrated solutions that balance the Utilities need for control, data localization and security with access to mobile networks for coverage, roaming, and fail-over capabilities. Speaker: James…
Ameren Chief Procurement Officer & VP of Supply Chain will insights on planning for innovation and procurement strategies for the future of the utility networks. Speaker: Pardeep Gill (Ameren)
Utilities are experiencing the next-generation evolution of SCADA, AMI and Smart City applications. With rising software and penetration attacks – the potential for sophisticated cyber attackers to breach and gain control of a utility’s smart grid. This panel will build off Gill’s keynote and discuss strategies for working with supply chain partners can pull all…
Utilities are increasingly focused on the wireless broadband data communications networks necessary to enable their historic efforts to modernize the grid. A major concern in selecting network technology and radio spectrum: ensuring a broad, vibrant marketplace for equipment, applications, and services to support initial deployment as well as ongoing operations and maintenance. Nobody wants to…
How to leverage technology transition to reap the massive potential of the smart utilities market. We will discuss the advantages for utilities in the new 5G world. Intelligent communication capability built into the IoT network and layered with security that best protects utility operations. Panelists: Jitender Vohra (Telit), Jeff Tufts (Cisco), David Allen (UScellular) and…
Insights from the Business Working Group paper focused on what happens after deployment. What skills utilities need to hire for and what options are available to them. Panelists: Tom Bedics (SouthernLinc), Ron Brady (Xcel Energy), Mauricio Subieta(Nokia), and Patrick Nolan (Ameren). Moderator: Paul Anuszkiewicz (Palmetto Technology Associates)
Get the background and the latest status on the FCC’s efforts to permit unlicensed use of the entire 6GHz Licensed Microwave band for Wi-Fi. Plus speakers will share the results of real-world testing by Southern Company, Lockard & White and EPRI of the first commercially available 6GHz Wi-Fi Access Points; Demonstrating the true interference with…