Below is the schedule from the event earlier this year.
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Wednesay, January 18, 2017
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Pizza & Pints Networking Reception | Magnolia Patio |
Thursday, January 19, 2017
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8:00 am - 5:30 pm | Registration Open | International Ballroom Foyer |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Opening General Session: Ensuring Performance Through Innovation & Perseverance | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
The Opening Session features a panel of industry experts who will delve into common challenges and opportunities in the maturing field of solar operations and maintenance. Learn how value-optimizing innovation and steadfast reliability ensure performance at peak efficiency for your customers. MODERATOR: SPEAKER: |
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10:00 am - 11:00 am | Networking Break with Exhibits | Pavilion |
Speed Networking! Bring your business cards, and engage in one-on-one business conversations during this fast-paced break!
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Big Data: Little Orange Button | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
This session will address the challenges of non-standardized data in asset management, the complications that it presents, and examples of situations where standardized data would have provided more effective asset management. Additionally, the discussion will include a review of the U.S. DOE-funded SunShot initiative Orange Button, which “…supports the creation and adoption of industry-led open data standards for rapid and seamless data exchange across the solar value chain from origination to decommissioning. Standardizing data will allow for a reduction in soft costs by making it easier to share solar data and speeding up processes like financing. SunShot defines success of this program as the wide adoption of data standards by stakeholders representing at least 60% of the U.S. solar industry, in terms of deployed and distributed solar assets.” MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: |
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Networking Lunch with Exhibits | Pavilion |
Curated lunch and learn presentations are unique and intimate presentations and discussions on the following topics:
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | 60 Minutes of Best Practices | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
This session will showcase five innovative, demonstrable, and repeatable ‘best practices’ to overcome common challenges found in the solar operations and maintenance space.
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Hot Topics in Standards: What’s new. What’s not. What now? | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
In-depth, interactive discussion to address updates to standards relating to rapid shutdown and smart inverters. MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: |
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Networking Break with Exhibits | Pavilion |
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Can’t work with ‘em, can’t succeed without ‘em (Suits and Boots) | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
Connecting asset managers with operations professionals to articulate the value of reconciling risk, quality, and value both up and down the operations and maintenance chain to promote understanding challenges asset managers face regarding reliability and performance. MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: |
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Networking Reception | Garden at the Bay |
Friday, January 20, 2017
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8:00 am - 12:00 pm | Registration Open | International Ballroom Foyer |
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Networking Breakfast with Exhibits | Pavilion |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Mastering Handoffs | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
This session will identify best practices for effectively on-boarding new O&M projects and breaking down documentation barriers along the plant delivery process. MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: |
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10:00 am - 10:30 am | Networking Break with Exhibits | Pavilion |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
Successful O&M organizations, regardless of who they serve, must deliver a service that meets their client’s needs. This session will investigate the challenges that both large and small portfolio and ‘big PV’ clients demand the O&M industry address, as well as best practices to proactively identify and address them. SPEAKERS: |
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Get it Right the First Time: Finding the ‘Right Programs’ to Avoid the Big Problems | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
Learn how to collect analytical data that can be effectively mined and utilized to develop proactive and accurate forecasts for asset management programs that keep systems producing, while avoiding costly maintenance overruns. MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: |
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Networking Lunch with Exhibits | Pavilion |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Business Institute: Linking Assets to Performance – Developing, Delivering, and Maintaining a Successful Solar O&M Program | Monte Carlo/St. Tropez |
The Asset Management & Performance Business Institute is a two-and-a-half-hour interactive group learning activity designed to equip participants with the tools and techniques to evaluate challenges, identify opportunities, and develop solutions common to the solar O&M profession. Participants should expect a professionally facilitated, interactive educational experience featuring case studies, group discussions, and unique knowledge sharing by experienced industry experts. Additional details regarding the speakers will be announced closer to the meeting to maximize the timeliness of the content. MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: |
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Beers With Peers | Pavilion |