What East Coast Utilities Can Learn from the West Coast (And Vice Versa)

November 19, 2025
Grid Modernization , Reliability and Resilience , Strategy and Workforce , Advanced Operations , Asset Management

In the growing chill of a Boston November, it might sound nice to escape to the west coast. But for utilities, the other side of the country isn’t all sun, palm trees and surf. While some of the challenges faced by west coast utilities are unique to that region, there are also similarities in how they approach solutions, especially in using technology as a force multiplier to help improve operations and outage response.

Join us for a moderated dialogue with a technology leader from a major West Coast utility, who will share his experiences and lessons learned in leveraging technology to better manage daily work and emergency restoration. Drawing from real-world challenges and successes, this panel will invite an open conversation, designed to help an east coast audience learn some best practices from a utility expert working thousands of miles away.

Speakers
Cameron Hoffman-Brown
Cameron Hoffman-Brown, Expert Business Systems Specialist - Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Bill Brackett
Bill Brackett, Vice President of Product Strategy - ARCOS
Matt Springer
Matt Springer, Director of Product Marketing - ARCOS