Top Innovators
Cam Carroll, Nisha Menon, and Joaquin Sebastian represent the Wildfire Next Generation System (WiNGs) team at San Diego Gas and Electric.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: Cam, describe the innovation that led to your team winning the Bertha Lamme Top Innovator Award for Generation, how it works, and the benefits to San Diego Gas & Electric.
Cam Carroll: Almost two years ago, we started on this journey out of our Innovation Engine Team, which is essentially an innovation lab, a rapid prototyping team. We're seeing an explosion in the value of data science and models, and we needed a way for users and the business to be able to utilize and interact with those models.
We started with a prototype that we ultimately called the Community Impact Platform, and that initial innovation was for an advanced analytics visualization platform. That has transitioned and been scaled to what we now have with our Wildfire Next Generation System, WiNGs.
PUF: Nisha, what is your role in the development of the innovation?
Nisha Menon: I'm the Wildfire Mitigation Program Strategy Manager. The Wildfire Next Generation System (WiNGS) is a platform and a product of innovation, collaboration, and teamwork.