Esri’s annual User Conference gets underway mid-July at the San Diego Convention Center. As the largest global GIS conference, this event gathers the greatest minds in GIS in one place. Attendees will be able to take advantage of specialized training from leading experts, the Expo and Esri Showcase, and networking opportunities with thousands of everyday Esri users. Hearing from special guests and Esri staff experts in technical sessions, participants will discover how to apply the latest Esri technology in their organizations. Attendees will also have access to user presentations and the Map Gallery Entries. Join us at our booth to learn how UDC can help you leverage your Esri technology investments.
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Guiding You on Your Path to Utility Network
UDC meets you where you are and can take you where you want to be within ArcGIS Network Management. We believe your migration should be as unique as you.
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Presentations
UDC is participating with our clients in two main agenda User Presentations, and we’ll be featuring several 15-minute informative utility solution presentations within our booth. See below for a list of topics and schedule presentation times.
Main Agenda Session Presentations
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Preparing for a Gas UN Implementation with a Comprehensive Design Plan
Utility Network in Gas Utilities
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
SDCC – Room 27 A
Preparing for a Gas UN Implementation with a Comprehensive Design Plan
Dominion Energy of Ohio has embarked on a multi-phased plan to move its Ohio and West Virginia Gas GIS systems from GE Smallworld into Esri’s Utility and Pipeline Data Model (UPDM) with the Gas Utility Network. In this two-part presentation, UDC and Dominion Energy will discuss how the utility first prepared by generating over 100 detailed use cases and a system study. Then in a Design project, they identified 3rd party software needs, custom design needs, integration use cases, and data remediation issues as well as completing a pilot migration. They will also provide insight on specific data items encountered along with workflow considerations that may be needed before implementing your own Utility Network.
- Luke Klenotic – Dominion
- Angela Reising – UDC
- Kieran McMahon – UDC
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Managing Gas Outages and Restoration Within the Utility Network
Gas Utility Solutions
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
SDCC – Room 26 B
Avangrid is building capabilities within ArcGIS Network Management to support gas operations with outage and restoration management. Together with UDC, they have implemented an isolation trace application that enables the identification of customers and critical facilities that will be impacted by an outage event and placement of outage barriers to reduce the overall impact. The utility then can save traces and export them to SAP for reporting purposes.
- Dong Le – Avangrid
- Dax Wolfinger and Feichi Shih – UDC
UDC In-Booth Presentations
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Preparing for your Electric Network Migration
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
2:00 PM
Booth 419
Utility Network migration requires understanding of the new model for electric, understanding of your utility’s unique starting point with regards to data, workflows and systems, and a defined set of goals for how your utility will use and work within the GIS going forward to receive the most return from your investment. Join us to learn about what you may encounter migrating from your current Geometric network to the Utility Network and what functionality would benefit your utility. In addition, we’ll discuss what source data you may need to support the model and what the migration lift could look like for your electric utility.
- TJ Houle – Director Systems Integration, UDC
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Migrating from Smallworld to the Utility Network: A Gas Perspective
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
10:30 AM
Booth 419
GE Smallworld has a drastically different data model compared to Esri’s ArcGIS Utility Network and, as such, migrating from the former to the latter can involve a sizable effort on behalf of your utility. However, through using specially designed migration tools and following a well-established workflow, your utility’s overall migration workload can be significantly reduced, and final data fidelity increased. Learn what to expect and what your utility can do now to start preparing for a successful migration.
- Kieran McMahon – GIS Analyst, UDC
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Emergency Response and the Digital Twin
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
2:00 PM
Booth 419
Cleco Corporation, headquartered in Louisiana, is an award-winning utility in the areas of emergency recovery and assistance. The utility has adopted digital twin technology, built on top of its Enterprise GIS and fed by information from its ADMS and reliability data sources, to provide real-time, historic outage, and reliability views of its operating network. Learn how Cleco’s solution has elevated its ability to evaluate operations before, during, and after the storm.
- Frank Roberts – Project Manager, UDC
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Water Migration Tips and Tricks
Thursday, July 14, 2022
9:30 AM
Booth 419
Migrating water over can look different for utilities depending on how the model will be leveraged. Some organizations may choose to fully enable the Utility Network, while others may only migrate to ArcGIS Pro. Stop by to learn about what source data you may need to support the model and what the migration lift could look like for your utility. The presentation will include examples of UDC’s ToolKit Add-ins for ArcGIS Pro, which have helped clients make their data ready for the Utility Network.
- Angela Reising – Systems Integration Consultant IV, UDC
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Vegetation Management Technology 101
Thursday, July 14, 2022
1:00 PM
Booth 419
What does an end-to-end vegetation management solution look like? Join Karen as she discusses how today’s technology can be leveraged to provide a wholistic solution for vegetation management. From planning to monitoring progress, facilitating mobile or virtual asset collection, reporting and priority notification – workflow automation is being achieved at all levels of vegetation program management.
- Karen Smith – Director of Business Development, UDC
Please check back as more sessions are being added.
UDC In-Booth Discussions
CLOUD
Discover what ‘going to the Cloud’ actually entails and what using the Cloud could mean for your organization as a utility. See real world client scenarios of work UDC has done that returned value quickly to utilities in this new, emergent area.
Explore ArcGIS Enterprise in the Cloud.
Monitoring Gas Leak Compliance
See and interact with our gas distribution leak survey compliance dashboard built using ArcGIS Experience Builder. Filter to see progress by specific programs, activities, or operating company. Easily determine due dates, work completion, or exceptions for follow-on work assignment.
UN Data Assessment Program
Whether you are planning your migration to the Utility Network or simply looking for a data health check, UDC’s risk-free Data Assessment Program provides an automated approach to assessing the current state of your data. Determine your data readiness for migration and see how developing a specific data plan for improving the quality of your data can help your utility meet enterprise and regulatory goals as well as prepare for a successful migration.
Please check back as more discussion topics are being added.