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The forum’s theme was Innovation for Sustainable Development.

Kim Wagie, Director of Digital Transformation: The ultimate goal is to become a digital utility.

Charles Vinsonhaler: Value is specific to a utility. A company thinks about sustainability value from an internal perspective.

A conversation with Kirk Ellison and Jeffery Preece.

Luiz Cheim: In 15 to 20 years, nobody will do transformer inspections with humans.

Clifton Black: Visualization is a critical component of situational awareness that often does not get the focus and attention it deserves.

A conversation with Patrick Barnett, Mychal Kistler, and Ihab Salet at PPL Electric Utilities.

A conversation with PSEG’s Emmanuel Ansah, Will Barnes, Lauren Biernacki, Julie Duncan, Lisa Garcia, Sal Orsino, and Jared Osorio.

Conversations with top innovators at four utilities – APS, PPL, PSEG, Southern Co., one vendor, and two from EPRI.

Among 43 nominations we selected the most outstanding in ten categories: customer service, distributed resources, energy efficiency, environmental care, infrastructure safety, new technologies, regulatory effectiveness, smart grid, system efficiency, utility culture.