February 13 – 16

Join us for the Utility Management Conference, one of the leading and most informative management conferences, March 28-31. The conference will host 34 technical sessions and 7 pre-conference workshops. Featuring various BC experts, attendees will have access to premiere education, timely insight, and networking.

Tuesday, February 13

Workshop A

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

From Disrepair to Prepared (from reactive to proactive): Leveraging the Fundamentals of Maintenance Reliability for Effective Operations and Sustainable Utility Mangement

Pam Elardo, Steve Hutchings, Speakers

Workshop B

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Commissioning Capital Projects as a Life Cycle Process

Diala Dandach, Speaker

Wednesday, February 14

Session 03: Strategic Planning A

11:30 AM

Strategic Planning and Execution of a Unified SCADA System for Water Utility Management

Leo Rodgers, Speaker

Session 06: Asset Management and Capital Program Frameworks

2:00 PM

So, You Think You Can Inspect? The Saga of City-Wide Inspections in the Nation’s Capital

Kaylin Kramer, Pono Hanson, Speakers

Session 08: Digital Transformation in the Water Sector

2:00 PM

Preparing for and Implementing Process Optimization Using Advanced Data Visualization

Kelly Kimball, Speaker

Session 10: Best Practices for Capital Program and Asset Management

4:00 PM

Using Digital Technologies in Capital Planning: Parker Water & Sanitation District’s Water Supply Capital Planning Process

Andrew Goldberg, Speaker

Thursday, February 15

Session 13: Incorporating Equity into Utility Decision Making

8:30 AM

How Do You Say ‘Aquifer’ in Spanish? How Incremental Changes Result in Meaningful Advancement of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Through the City of Boise’s Recycled Water Program

Andrea Hall, Tiffany Torres, Speakers

Session 19: Utility Planning: Essential to Success

11:30 AM

The More You Know the Less You Realize You Do – Boise’s Journey in Understanding Reliability and Redundancy

Matthew Gregg, Speaker

Session 27: Utility Financing – A Multi-Faceted and Long-Term Effort

4:30 PM

What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Building Alignment Around a (One) Water Resiliency Strategy to Prioritize, Fund, and Communicate Capital Project Needs

Rachel Garrett, Holly Tichenor, Speakers

Session 28: Applications of Data Management and Analysis

4:30 PM

Leveraging to Dataverse to enable Living Data Management from Design to Operations

Kirk Olds, Riley Middlebrook, Speakers