The Future of Distribution Grids – Two Visions, A World Apart

February 25, 2021 - 4 PM EST / 3 PM CST / 1 PM PST / 9 PM GMT

1 Hour.

Certificate of Attendance will be offered.

Brad Williams, Vice President, Industry Strategy & Innovation Engineering, Oracle Utilities
Jason Jones, Manager – Distribution Systems, Compliance, and Emergency Preparedness, Louisville Gas & Electric/Kentucky Utilities
Adam Gellie, General Manager, Service Delivery, United Energy

Bradley Williams is VP of Oracle Utilities Industry Strategy & Innovation Engineering, responsible for utility operational solutions including ADMS, DERMS, and grid analytics. Brad has more than 34-years of utility industry technology innovation experience. Prior to joining Oracle, he was an Analyst in Gartner’s Energy and Utilities Industry Advisory Services. Brad spent the first 20-years of his career at Southern California Edison and PacifiCorp supporting T&D engineering, grid modernization, and asset management. Brad holds 5 US patents, was recognized with an IEEE PES Prize Paper Award, and is a licensed professional engineer by the State of California.

Jason has been applying technology to improve business processes and deliver value in the utility industry for over 30 years.  He has worked in the water, cable TV, gas, and electric utility industries.  He has held a variety of front-line and management positions in both Operations and Information Technology across the utility space. In his most recent position, Jason was responsible for the successful implementation of a $112 million Distribution Automation program that included the installation of over 1500 reclosers, the deployment of a mobile application for field crews and the implementation of an advanced distribution management system (ADMS). The ADMS project involved a number of core and advanced features including SCADA, PowerFlow (PF), Feeder Load Management (FLM), Fault Location Analysis (FLA), Suggested Switching (SS) and Fault Location Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR). Jason and his team are also responsible for the administration of distribution IT systems, ensuring Electric Distribution Operations compliance, and emergency preparedness as it relates to outage restoration.  Additionally, he is responsible for the Public Safety Response Team (PSRT), which responds to downed wires and performs damage assessments.

Adam is an accomplished executive leader with almost 20 years’ experience across multiple industries including utilities, renewables, transport, water and renewable power generation. His key strengths span across many functional areas including operational management, business transformation, infrastructure delivery, customer development and business growth. As a leader who always enjoys a challenge, Adam has delivered bold transformation programs that leverage technology to deliver rapid improvements in productivity and safety across enterprise, design and real-time systems – all with the goal of strengthening United Energy’s industry leadership position. Outside of work, Adam dedicates time to mentoring people with incredible ideas for technology-related start-ups. He also enjoys spending time with his family and being entertained by his crazy pets.