Visit with peers and chat with conference sponsors at this informal breakfast.  

Kick off the conference with this opportunity to network and build lasting relationships in this relaxed setting. Enjoy music, food, and drinks while connecting with friends and colleagues. Be sure to get your Rocket Launch Map stamped!

Imagine planning a trip without choosing a destination, mapping an itinerary, or deciding who you’ll travel with. Many of us approach our careers this way — hoping things will work out without ever taking the wheel. This is your invitation to stop wandering and start steering — not just for yourself, but for the teams you lead and influence. Learn how to begin to take ownership of your career and individual leadership development, while also learning how to cultivate accountability, foster a growth mindset, and empower others on your team. First, reflect on your values, uncover your strengths, and learn tools to help you create a personalized roadmap for growth. Then, explore how to effectively encourage your team to adopt a growth mindset, take accountability, and create a team development action plan. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reignite your path, stop waiting for someone else to lead and start practicing how to guide your own journey toward a fulfilling career and culture of results.

Part 1: Lead Yourself

• The Five KNOWs to build clarity, confidence, and direction.
• Identifying stealth development opportunities.
• Your leadership brand and impact.
• Building your “nextwork” to accelerate career momentum.

Part 2: Lead Others

• How to foster a culture of accountability and results within your team.
• Developing and empowering others through coaching, feedback, and recognition.
• Instilling a growth mindset across your team.
• How to create a team development action plan aligned with your leadership values and organizational goals.

A public power utility’s distribution system is its most visible and valuable asset. It is essential to business success and connected to every customer. In addition to delivering energy safely, affordably, and reliably to a traditional electrical load base, today’s distribution system must be robust in its capacity and resilience to support an increasingly electrified economy. This includes connection points and capacity for large data center loads, throughput for distributed energy resources, and infrastructure for communications and information management systems. This seminar will cover both technical and business aspects of strategic planning and proactive investment necessary to manage the system’s capacity for growth, reliability, and resilience to achieve the vision of a fully supported local economy at the lowest total cost of ownership. 

Topics

• Trends in distribution system management (e.g., reliability, automation, costs)
• Best practices for analyzing system performance
• State-of-the-art planning approaches and tools
• New technologies in infrastructure condition assessment and life extension
• Overhead and underground component lifecycle management
• Economic models to support financing system updates

Gain the knowledge and tools necessary to conduct thorough incident investigations, including overseeing effective root cause analyses. Truly understanding the underlying causes of workplace incidents creates the foundation for implementing corrective actions that prevent future occurrences. Walk through what to do and expect in the entire investigation process, from initial response and data collection to analysis, reporting, and follow-up. Learn the latest suite of incident investigation techniques and root cause analysis methods and review tools for data collection and documentation. Discover how to effectively create and track corrective actions and keep up with reporting requirements.

Topics

• How incident investigations happened in the past vs. what they entail now
• Different types and components of root cause analysis, and how to conduct one properly
• Metrics driving regulatory and management systems
• Developing corrective actions
• Preparing your facility for investigation and analysis
• How to build a “go kit”