![]() Call for Presenters is Open through May 17, 2021 ClosedWe're Changing! Come Change With Us!The Advisory Committee is now accepting session proposals for the 15th Rocky Mountain Utility Exchange as a virtual event. The Rocky Mountain Utility Exchange is a networking and professional development forum for utility and government organization staff as well as industry allies who provide products and services to support utility customer programs. This will be an online-only conference again this year with a mix of live and pre-recorded content as well as networking opportunities. The target audience is the staff of energy utilities serving Colorado and neighboring states who are responsible for the design and delivery of customer-centric utility programs, including resource efficiency/sustainability, load management/growth, distributed energy, and customer/member service operations. CLICK HERE TO PROPOSE A SESSIONThe agenda will explore best practices and lessons learned about initiatives related to energy (gas and electricity) efficiency, water conservation, strategy, issues, and integration with renewable energy, flexible load management, strategic load growth, and other customer-facing initiatives. Share with us how your organization is collaborating with other utilities and/or other departments in your own utility to take a customer-oriented approach to achieve greater impacts in residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial end-use applications. The agenda format is being adjusted to the virtual environment in a way that will encourage online small group discussion around common topic themes that focus on case studies presented primarily by utility staff. Current plans are for the agenda to include up to eight Topic Sessions up to 90 minutes in length to be presented over 4 days. Each session will be moderated by an Advisory Committee member following this format:
During the agenda development process the Advisory Committee will review and rank all session submissions. They reserve right to assign submissions to different topics, combine/eliminate topics, etc. Those submissions selected for the agenda will be notified in June and offered the opportunity to present live or as a pre-recording. The session presenters for a designated topic will be invited to meet online in July with the moderator and other presenters to coordinate their remarks. Those submissions not accepted for a topic session may be offered the opportunity to pre-record a stand-alone "poster" of up to 5 minutes with a single slide/graphic. Presentation submitters will be asked to choose the best fit for their submission from the broad topics listed below. When choosing a topic, consider some of these potential themes for how the session moderator may relate your presentation with the others that will be included in your session for small group discussion. Preference in the session selection process will be given to presentations by Rocky Mountain region utility staff who present case studies that focus on the challenges of designing and implementing comprehensive utility/customer solutions/experiences in ways that demonstrate utility-ally collaboration. Presentations from and about utilities from other geographical regions will be considered if relevant/replicable to the Rocky Mountain region. Session topics and themes of primary interest to the Advisory Committee are: Silo-Busting Collaboration, Partnership, and Innovation Development
Consumer Engagement with Communication Strategies and Tactics That Work
Evolution of Utility Leadership in Business Models/Markets
Equity and Income-Qualified Program Considerations
Beneficial Electrification as a Paradigm Shift
Electric Vehicles: Driving Change in the Utility
Energy Efficiency: Swipe Right or Left
Distributed Energy Resources: Feeling unDER the Stress
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