PROGRAM:
Broadband Power Line 2006
September 17-20, 2006
Omni Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
Sunday
7:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Golf Outing
Location: Highland Creek Park Golf Course
Buses will leave the Omni Charlotte promptly at 7:00 a.m. Breakfast and lunch will be served to golfers. Clubs can be rented – contact meetings@utc.org for more information.
5:00-7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
Arrive early and spend some time in the Broadband Power Line 2006 demo hall. See the latest and greatest BPL products and services. This is a can’t miss time to prepare attendees for the actual product demonstrations happening on Monday.
5:10 p.m. Broadband Power Line 2006 Grand Opening by UPLC’s Co-Chairs
Joe Cufari, Technology Co-Chair, UPLC Board of Directors; Vice President – Business Development, Current Communications Group
Tim Frost, Utility Co-Chair, UPLC Board of Directors; Director –Corporate Planning, Consolidated Edison
Monday
7:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Broadband Power Line 2006 Demo Hall Open
See it live! This is a chance to see what all the BPL vendors on the floor have to offer. Sprinkled throughout the day will be 10 minute presentations by each of the vendors on the floor highlighting their products and services – what they have available now and what they have plans to include. What better way to prepare for Tuesday’s educational program than to see where the industry is headed based on what the industries vendors have available?
12:30-1:30 p.m. Networking Lunch in the Demo Hall
1:00-5:00 p.m. BPL Site Visit – Duke Power
Duke is one of the largest and oldest BPL deployments in the country. Their deployment includes several vendors’ equipment as part of the demonstration. They are deploying BPL for a variety of commercial and utility applications, and have a team of personnel devoted to implementing BPL throughout the company’s operations. This site visit truly will offer a different take on BPL than any other tour you might have taken before.
*NOTE: The first group of buses will leave promptly at 1:00 p.m. from the Omni Charlotte. The remaining site visit groups will be staggered. Once you complete your registration, site visit times will be set up.
5:30-7:00 p.m. Networking Reception
After the demonstrations and site visit, join all the attendees back at the hotel to discuss the day’s events and prepare for the educational sessions yet to come.
5:30-6:30 p.m. UPLC Board of Directors Meeting
(Open to UPLC Board Members Only)
Tuesday
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50 - 9:00 a.m. Opening Welcome from UPLC's Co-Chairs
The co-chairs of the UPLC will offer their thoughts on the past year and the issues for the future. This is an opportunity to learn more about the UPLC, the industry and to outline the goals for the conference.
Joe Cufari, Technology Co-Chair, UPLC Board of Directors; Vice President – Business Development, Current Communications Group
Tim Frost, Utility Co-Chair, UPLC Board of Directors; Director–Corporate Planning, Consolidated Edison
9:00–9:30 a.m. Utility Keynote Address
Hear from a utility that is putting BPL in motion! This keynote will give the utility perspective of why BPL is important and why utilities need to capitalize and invest in this capability.
Sandra Meyer, Group Vice President of Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing, Duke Power
9:30-10:00 a.m. Special Address – Investors’ Perspective
For a broader view, we’ve invited a leading Wall Street BPL analyst to discuss what Wall Street and shareholders expect when it comes to BPL and utilities.
Judy Warrick, Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley
10:00-10:30 a.m. Networking Break
10:30-11:30 a.m. Business Case for BPL
This session will provide a high level assessment of the business case for BPL. It will examine the technology from a wide variety of angles including capital costs of deployment; the revenue opportunity; cost savings from utility applications; competitive analysis of the technology and the market; and landlord, developer and retail service provider business models. Additionally, it will take a real-world look at the successes and challenges from actual BPL deployments in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Samir Sammoun, President, SHS Technologies, Inc.
Subodh Nayar, Director of Operations, Powerline Telco Inc.
David Shpigler, President, Shpigler Group
10:30-11:30 a.m. BPL Technical Roundtable
This session will look at the latest technical developments: bandwidth, interoperability, notching, etc. from the leading BPL providers. Just some of the technical questions that will be discussed during this roundtable debate include: The next generation chipsets are reaching the market, but what are they really capable of providing? What advances have been made in couplers to bring down the cost of deploying BPL and reducing potential interference? This is a can’t miss session on all the advancements out there for BPL and their use.
John Butler, Portfolio Manager, Motorola
Tom Willie, President & COO, Current Technologies
Steve Turner, Chief Operating Officer, IBEC
Ram Rao, Chief Network Architect, Ambient Corporation
Brian Donnely, Director of Business Development, Corinex
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Show Me the Money: Why Invest in BPL Now
This session will include investors with a broader perspective about market trends to evaluate the relative risk versus reward of investing in BPL today. Attendees will get the big picture on BPL, and how it fits within the portfolio for telecom and energy investments. Hear insiders’ thoughts on where the investment opportunities are and how to get funding for a BPL deployment.
Rodrego A. Byerly, Vice President, Blue Beacon Capital
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. How To Design a BPL Network
This session will focus on the practical issues when deploying a BPL network. What are the capacity, safety and reliability issues for the equipment? What types of networks are better or worse for BPL than others? What are the unique issues for underground and overhead installations? Questions you need answered when designing a BPL network.
David Masters, Network Manager, Duke Energy
Chris Britton, President and CEO, PowerGrid Communications, Inc.
Greg Moore, Director of Business Development, IP Applications
12:30-1:30 p.m. Networking Lunch
1:30-2:30 p.m. BPL Technical Standards "Deep Dive"
This session will take a "deep dive" into the technical coexistence and interoperability issues for BPL. Specifically, this session will address the progress being made within the IEEE, and within various consortia including HomePlug, Universal Powerline Association (UPA) and the Consumer Electronics Powerline Communications Association (CEPCA). Other highly charged issues for BPL that will get answered during this session - How will the standards improve performance for commercial applications? What consideration has been given to utility applications? You won’t want to miss these answers as you plan for BPL’s future.
Michael Stelts, President, CEPCA
Oleg Logvinov, President and CEO of Arkados, and Chief Strategy Officer, HomePlug Powerline Alliance
Gary Stuebing, System Integration Manager - PL Communications, Duke Energy
1:30-2:30 p.m. BPL Investment Case Study
This session will feature one company’s story of how it found funding for a BPL project, and identify the drivers, challenges and surprises along the way. This session is targeted to companies ramping up to provide BPL and will provide an eye-opening insight into the real-world of rolling out BPL.
David Matusoff, Director of Technology Planning, Whiteboard Broadband Solutions
2:30-3:30 p.m. Wholesale Business Opportunities Created by BPL
This session will examine the business opportunity for utilities to partner with BPL providers and ISPs. Many utilities are interested in a landlord business model, and this session will provide success stories from CLECs, ISPs and other companies that are working currently with utilities to provide BPL applications and services.
Bob Zach, Director, EarthLink
Michael Britt, Managing Director, Britt Consulting
2:30-3:30 p.m. BPL Case Study – TXU
The TXU deployment is the largest commercial deployment in the country, passing 2 million homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This session will identify the key drivers in their go-to-market approach, the challenges that they have encountered and the view ahead as the deployment continues to grow. Everything from VoIP to smart-grid will be covered during this comprehensive case study.
Michael Quinn, Project Manager, TXU
Terry Wingfield, Vice President of Business Development, Current Communications Group, LLC
3:30-4:00 p.m. Networking Break
4:00-5:00 p.m. BPL Federal & State Legal/Regulatory Update
This session will examine the legal/regulatory situation, covering issues such as RF technical issues (e.g. interference issues, standards, measurement and requirements), regulatory classification for BPL, other regulatory obligations (e.g. regulatory fees, E-911, CALEA USF) including the Energy Act implications for Internal Applications. Get the latest developments and learn how regulatory certainty is paving the way for BPL.
Bruce Romano, Associate Chief, Office of Engineering & Technology, FCC
Jay Bradbury, Regulatory Consultant, Powerline Communications
Brett Kilbourne, Director Regulatory Services & Associate General Counsel, UPLC
4:00-5:00 p.m. Value-Add Opportunities – Internal BPL Applications
This session will assess aspects of the business case that utilities may be overlooking on the internal side. For example, utilities are deploying BPL for electric meter reading, but what about water and gas? Similarly, utilities are looking to use BPL to identify anomalies and to predict failures in electrical cabling, but what about offering similar services for large industrial customers? Among other value-adds, this session also will consider the opportunities for using BPL in campus environments for security applications. This is a session that thinks outside the box in ways that have been developed for cable and DSL, and expands the horizon to the broader business applications that BPL can enable. Additionally, this session will examine the real state of development of BPL internal applications featuring experts with actual experience in BPL deployments using internal applications.
Greg Angst, Consulting Engineer, CenterPoint Energy
Jeff Tolnar, Chief Technology Officer, BPL Global
5:00-7:00 p.m. Networking Reception
Wednesday
8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 a.m. BPL for IT
This session will look at BPL from a different layer -- utility IT. So much of utility communications systems are being driven by IT and BPL presents a unique opportunity to aggregate more data and integrate disparate communications systems. At the same time, there are security concerns about accessing the Internet generally, especially when BPL may be handling both internal and commercial traffic. This session will address those and other issues upfront by experts in network management systems and information security.
Tom Moses, IT Architect, San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Paul Finlay, Launch Mngr & Subj Matter Expert, Motorola Canada Limited
9:00-10:00 a.m. BPL for Landlords
Landlords and building management companies are realizing that BPL enables them to provide better services to their tenants compared to other technologies. They also realize that BPL can enable them to operate more efficiently and effectively. This session will talk about what’s happening in the landlord market for BPL, the unique technical issues that exist and what’s on the horizon in terms of new services and applications.
Celine Anelone, Sr. Manager, EarthLink
Mary Ashe, Business Development Manager, Motorola Inc.
Scott Skokan,VP-Maintenance & Tech Services, Bozzuto Management
10:00-10:30 a.m. Networking Break
10:30-11:30 a.m. Real-Time Wrap-Up
This session will recap the conference, making it easier for attendees to report back on everything they learned. Also, it will explain what the UPLC has done and will be doing in the future to drive the development of BPL.
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