May 27-29, 2025 | San Jose, CA

Peer-to-Peer Roundtable: Moving Your Utility from AI Ambitions to AI Decisions

May 29, 2025
Crystal
Peer-to-Peer Roundtable , Planning and Utility Collaboration

This structured, interactive session is exclusively for utility professionals ready to build and advance their AI implementation strategies. Expert advisors from Realize 2050 will guide participants through exercises to evaluate build/buy/partner decisions and systematically assess AI use cases through a practical feasibility-ROI framework. Facilitators will lead focused breakout discussions that go beyond casual conversation to deliver actionable insights on AI team structures, investment prioritization, and implementation pathways that can be tailored to utility-specific challenges. 

What You’ll Leave With:

  • Insights from Realize and peers on how utilities are structuring AI teams, making investment decisions, and identifying specific high-ROI AI use cases
  • Insights on how peer utilities are structuring AI teams and making investment decisions
  • Practical approaches to evaluate AI use cases based on both feasibility and ROI, enriched by peer perspectives on the same applications
  • Decision framework for evaluating build/buy/partner options specific to your utility's capabilities
  • Strategies for overcoming common AI investment and implementation barriers in utility environments

Realize 2050 is an energy solutions consultancy that works with leading utilities at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and technology.

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Speakers
Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson, Partner - Realize 2050
Mary Brown
Mary Brown, Principal - Realize 2050
Leo Trudel
Leo Trudel, Principal - Realize 2050