Thursday, July 25, 2024
2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 Hour
Sponsor: Salesforce
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In the transition to a clean, equitable energy future, more and more energy companies are turning to AI to help manage their customer and stakeholder relationships, improve employee productivity, and optimize their operations and margins. It all hinges on AI’s ability to help us make better decisions with massive datasets at unprecedented speed.
As we roll out electrification infrastructure at a record pace, utility companies can apply AI to inform energy system design, optimize decisions, and automate predictive maintenance. A great example of this use case is electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The available data from vehicle telemetry, grid sensors, and consumer behavior is unprecedented. But to orchestrate it will require equally unprecedented trust between service providers who have never had to collaborate before, offering a shared value proposition to EV drivers and utility customers.
In this webinar, Kelly James, SVP and GM of Energy & Utilities at Salesforce, and Apoorv Bhargava, CEO of WeaveGrid, share how utilities, automakers and charging companies are using data and AI to optimize EV charging networks, working together to deliver the best outcomes for customers and the grid.
Speakers
Apoorv Bhargava
CEO and Cofounder
WeaveGrid
Apoorv Bhargava is the CEO and Co-founder of WeaveGrid, a venture-backed software company that drives rapid decarbonization at the intersection of energy and transportation. WeaveGrid partners with utilities, automakers, and charging infrastructure providers to make charging reliable, easily accessible, and affordable for EV drivers everywhere. Since founding WeaveGrid 6 years ago, Apoorv has led the company to nearly 90 employees and over 15 utility customers across the United States.
Apoorv has spent over 12 years furthering innovation in the climate and energy sectors and has extensive experience piloting and deploying utility programs worldwide. At Opower (now part of Oracle), a leading demand-side management utility software company, he worked on product expansion, new markets, and regulatory affairs. At NRG Energy, he helped develop its behind-the-meter energy storage strategy and product. Apoorv also has experience in management consulting at BCG and in venture capital. He holds an MBA and an MS in Energy & Resources from Stanford University, a BS in Chemical Engineering, and a BA in Energy Economics from Rice University.
Kelly James
SVP & GM, Energy & Utilities Industries
Salesforce
Kelly James heads Salesforce’s energy and utilities industry strategy globally, delivering industry solutions and product innovations that help utilities and energy companies lead through the energy transition and transform their customer relationships. She also sits on the advisory board of WeaveGrid.
Over the course of her 20+ years experience in utility and energy software solutions, Kelly has led global teams building and delivering billing, meter data management, energy efficiency, CIS, asset, and customer experience solutions to utilities and energy companies. Kelly’s previous experience includes Oracle Utilities, Opower, where she was a Global Leader in Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management; First Data, where she led the Global Strategy for Competitive Retail Energy; and Vlocity, where as GM she built the Energy & Utilities practice that is now Salesforce Energy and Utilities.
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