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Host: Brian Barish, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Presenters: Christian Grant, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Craig Rizzo, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Electric distribution companies must accomplish more with less while enabling decarbonization. They face challenges such as building customer and employee loyalty and undergoing significant technical transformations. In this webcast, we will explore actions these companies can take to accelerate their readiness to identify, implement, and expand artificial intelligence and analytics. We’ll discuss:
- IT/OT infrastructure requirements to develop, pilot, and scale solutions
- Targeted use cases and an approach to accelerate solutions into operations
- Talent requirements and how to organize for success
Meet the speakers
Brian Barish
Brian is a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s Industrial Products practice, where he has served for over a decade. He also currently serves as Deloitte’s US Energy, Resources, & Industrials Smart Operations Leader. In his role as the US ER&I Smart Operations leader, he is responsible for a portfolio of sector-targeted offerings that improve process efficiency, productivity, and quality through the application of technology and digital intelligence. He specializes in helping executives at highly engineered product manufacturing companies overcome the complex issues that constrain growth and performance. Brian has a proven track record of delivering measurable step-function improvements in cost, quality, and delivery achievement through scaled transformation efforts and initiatives. He has deep experience in operations strategy, end-to-end supply chain, production system architecture, lean operations, and integrated operations and technology solutions. Brian holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University.
Christian Grant
Christian Grant is a principal in the Power, Utilities and Renewables practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP, focused on his clients' strategic and operations challenges. He brings more than 10 years of management consulting experience working with power and utilities companies as both a consultant and business leader in the industry. Grant architects and delivers smart operational solutions that address regulatory, technological, and consumer shifts. His projects include operational improvement, business transformation, M&A, and green field strategy design.
Craig Rizzo
Craig is a managing director with Deloitte Consulting’s Energy, Resources & Industrials practice, focusing on helping public and private sector clients transform their operating models and technology systems to accommodate evolving digital and clean energy technologies. Craig has more than 25 years of experience leading projects involving electric utility distribution grid modernization information, and operational technologies, data management and analytics solutions, distributed energy and microgrids, and smart city solutions. He also provides clients with strategic planning, business transformation, business model development, systems engineering, systems integration, feasibility planning and analysis, project/program management and customer relationship management.
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