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October 16-17, 2024
Denver, Colorado

Agenda

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Wednesday, October 16
12:00-1:30pm

Lunch, Exhibits, and Networking
Exhibits and food – Alpine 4
Seating for meals – Upper Mountain View Room

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1:30-3:00pmGENERAL SESSION – presented by SkyFoundry – Alpine 1, 2, and 3
  • Welcome – Roger Quesnel, COO
  • Project Haystack and Other Ontologies in the Built Environment – Roger Quesnel, COO
  • Xeto as the Foundation for SkySpark 4 – Brian Frank, Founder and CEO
  • 3.1 Features Review – Ross Schwalm, IoT Data Enthusiast
  • Haystack and Arcbeam at the Unitary Controller Level – Pawel Szarmanski, Solution Product Manager, iSMA Controlli
3:00-3:30pmBreak and Exhibits – Alpine 4
3:30-5:00pmGENERAL SESSION, cont'd – presented by Brian Frank, Founder & CEO, SkyFoundry – Alpine 1, 2, and 3
  • SkySpark 4 Vision
  • Skyspark 4 Demo
6:00-8:00pmReception, Dinner, and Exhibits 
Exhibits and food – Alpine 4
Seating for meals – Upper Mountain View Room

Thursday, October 17
8:00-9:00amBreakfast and Exhibits
Exhibits and food – Alpine 4
Seating for meals – Upper Mountain View Room
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9:00am-10:30amAPPLICATIONS & BUSINESS TRACK – Alpine 1 and 2
  • Learn How to Leverage Machine Learning: Practical Case Studies in Building Operations – Adam Wallen, CEO, Ziva Tech
  • End User Perspective: Lesson Learned Deploying Skyspark in Healthcare – Matt Wilson, Energy Management Manager, Intermountain Health
  • Enhancing Building Operation with SkySpark – Grace Gillenwater, Sr Energy Project Manager and Manuel Morales, Building Analytics Developer, Group14 Engineering
TECHNICAL TRACK – Alpine 3
  • SkySpark 4 Technical Deep Dive – Brian Frank, Founder & CEO, SkyFoundry
  • Block Programming in Rule Engine – Matthew Giannini, Senior Developer
  • Performance Diagnostics and Tuning – Ross Schwalm, IoT Data Enthusiast
10:30-11:00amBreak and Exhibits – Alpine 4
11:00am-12:30pmAPPLICATIONS & BUSINESS TRACK – Alpine 1 and 2
  • Prioritizing Sparks to Help Technicians Get to What Matters Most – Mike Robbins, Fault Detection & Diagnostics Lead, Lockheed Martin
  • Maximizing the Value of Analytics: Bringing Control to SkySpark Services and Implementations — Armando Casilla, Lawrence Berkley National Labs
  • Improving Your Monitoring Tookit: two apps to find drift – Delaney Moore, Software Developer and April Guymon, Vice President, Bernhard
TECHNICAL TRACK – Alpine 3
  • Niagara Arcbeam Connector – Mike Jarmy, Consultant, SkyFoundry
  • Haystack & Xeto Modeling for Electric Points – Rick Jennings, Data Analytics Application Engineer, SkyFoundry
  • Phable Python Haystack API – Rick Jennings, Data Analytics Application Engineer, SkyFoundry
  • Best Practices for Distributed Architecture – Ross Schwalm, IOT Data Enthusiast, SkyFoundry
12:30-1:30pmLunch, Exhibits, and Networking
Exhibits and food – Alpine 4
Seating for meals – Upper Mountain View Room
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1:30-3:00pmAPPLICATIONS & BUSINESS TRACK – Alpine 1 and 2
  • Perspectives from the DOE — Dr. Amir Roth, Technical Manager, Department of Energy (DOE)
  • SkySpark to the Rescue: Saving a Microgrid Controller Application – Going from Operator Driven Manual HMI Interface to a Reliable Automated Real-time Control Process – Justin Davies, Vice President of Operations, Intellastar
  • Arcbeam Connectors in Practice – Phillip Birch, Software Developer, SkySpark Team Lead, and Brooke Foster, Sustainability Process Manager, Bernhard
TECHNICAL TRACK – Alpine 3
  • Extending SkySpark for Portfolio Operations and Management: (i) Operationalizing Sparks Through Alerting, Notifications, Escalation and Reporting Via Voice, Text, and Email; and (ii) Managing and Deployment of Configuration and Updates to Nodes at the Edge – Philip Buonomo, Vice President of Product Development, Intellastar
  • Using SkySpark for High-frequency Control to Prevent Energy Flow Back to the Grid from a Microgrid – Philip Buonomo, Vice President of Product Development, Intellastar
  • Integrating SkySpark with Utilities to Provide Interactive Demand in a Secure, Scalable Manner – Keith Bishop, Sr. Data Scientist, entroCIM
  • Converting Xeto Specifications to RDF for Enhanced Data Interoperability in the Built Environment – Shadi B. Tabasi, Data Scientist, Altura
3:00-3:30pmBreak and Exhibits – Alpine 4
3:30-4:45pmAPPLICATIONS & BUSINESS TRACK – Alpine 1 and 2
  • Case Studies: SkySpark in Higher Education – Jason Houck, Sr. Director Platform, and Amy Huizenga, Director of Innovation, entroCim
  • Managing Technical Debt in the World of Data Analytics – Steve Eynon, CTO, Fantom Factory
TECHNICAL TRACK – Alpine 3
  • NREL Wattile Extension: Machine Learning Models for Predicting Building Energy Consumption – Stephen Frank, Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • Applied Xeto: Automatic Device Onboarding – Michael Melillo, Solutions Architect, Albireo Energy