EcoMetricx COO, Martyn Fricker, attended this event. The event organizers suggest "In 2024, the impacts of AI on the power sector are stunning. Across the country, utilities, IPPs, and transmission operators are evaluating, piloting, and deploying AI-based solutions to address critical challenges across their networks. At the same time, they’re seeing unprecedented load growth driven by AI-specific data centers.
At Transition-AI 2024, Latitude Media is bringing together a broad range of experts for fireside chats with our editors, case study illustrations, panel sessions, and analyst presentations around three urgent themes:
Reliability; Customer analytics and experience; and Load growth.
Transition-AI 2024 is designed for the community of leaders and practitioners responsible for innovation, strategy, technology, security, and product development within the energy and utilities sectors. Titles will include: C-Level Executives; Heads of Innovation; VC/Investors; VPs of Strategy; VPs of Product Planning; Energy and Utility R&D Specialists; IT decision makers."
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The future of healthcare is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements, changing demographic trends, and a growing emphasis on achieving health equity and mitigating disparity. Several key trends are likely to shape this landscape, and addressing these can inform a regional data strategy aimed to improve health outcomes. The objective of this distinctive conference was to foster collaborations on health data towards accelerating the development of accessible treatments to all individuals.
EcoMetricx CEO, Matt Harding, hosted a session introducing this year’s PhD students on the job market. He also presented research on the 'Monetization of GenAI in Marketing' in a joint session with Changshuai Wei (Senior Staff Engineer, ML, LinkedIn) and Xiannong (Sean) Zhang (Data Scientist, Google), moderated by Margaret Pierson (Director of Machine Learning, Wayfair).
Each year, NABE’s Tech Economics Conference (TEC) brings together hundreds of applied economists, data scientists, academics, and graduate students for an intellectual exchange on how developments in economics and data science are impacting approaches, frameworks, tools, and techniques employed by practitioners at tech companiesand other businesses. NABE TEC also features an Industry Job Fair designed to connect top economics candidates with tech firms and other institutions hiring applied economists.
This conference delved into the status of decarbonization solutions in the industrial, commercial, and governmental sectors. There was also a session on incentives, policy, and legislation and some highlighting of local energy innovators. Speakers included key decision makers from corporations in various industries, innovators, public and private investment firms, government, agencies, utilities, banks, non-profits, and other industry leaders. Topics included electrification, hydrogen, Inflation Reduction Act, renewables, built environment, agriculture, grant incentives, investor trends, ESG, and innovation.
EcoMetricx COO, Martyn Fricker, spoke at this event focused on exploring real life strategies and innovations in water capture, storage, reuse, desal, groundwater replenishing, and combatting contamination. Investor, policy, and big data trends in Southern California will also be addressed.
EcoMetricx CEO, Matt Harding, hosted a virtual webinar at 12.00 Pacific time on "Business, Government, or Consulting? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics." This event forms part of the National Association of Business Ecomomics' Econ Career Week (August 19-23, 2024), which aims to help candidates find an applied economics job or information about various career paths in economics. Matt attended in his UCI capacity alongside renowned economists from International Finance Corporation, Bureau of Economic Analysis, LinkedIn, Cornerstone, and Spotify.
EcoMetricx COO, Martyn Fricker, presented "AMI-powered lessons from US power utility practice" at 1.30pm on Thursday, August 15, 2024. In it, he will drew on EcoMetricx's 7 years' experience of using US power utility AMI data to provide forecasts, insights, evaluations, and more to Xcel Energy, Dominion, etc. to showcase products & directions the power industry is using & following to inform water industry roadmaps. The audience (1) gained insights & best practices from an industry that is also deeply invested in AMI & climate resiliency; and (2) gauged progress on specific AMI data-powered initiatives, such as Normalized Meter Energy Consumption & hot/cold/emergency day Behavioral Demand Response.
Outside of his presentation, Martyn made new friends and contacts at the conference.
EcoMetricx CEO, Matt Harding, recently visited contacts, friends & family in Austria and UK. Yes, he did enjoy the odd slice of strudel & roast beef – but he also flew the EcoMetricx flag.
Nice job, Matt!
Ionut joined EcoMetricx as a Signal Processing Engineer in March 2024. We proudly confirm he recently graduated with his master's degree in information and computer systems engineering from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology. Ionut started this degree in October 2022 and graduated top of his class.
From February to July 2024, Martyn Fricker, EcoMetricx COO, mentored the CEO (Kiran Manchikanti) at Mapsol, a Geographic Information System start-up and an incubated company within RevHub OC's Climate Action Business Incubator. Here is a picture of Martyn & Kiran on the occasion of Mapsol completing the RevHub program at an event at UC Irvine on June 25, 2024.
CEO Matt, COO Martyn, and Lead Product Manager Garrett met Jeff Rouser, VP - Client Technology Services and Gregg Caggiano, Director - CTS Business Development to flesh out and roadmap new product initiatives.
Our AI Data Engineer, Mihai Mermezan attended this workshop and met quantum computing thought leader Brendan Barry, Equal1's CTO. Mihai captured this slide from the session (as well as some of a fellow attendee sitting in the row ahead).
