Anticipate agenda

All sessions are listed in Eastern Time.

Tuesday, October 26

• 12:00 pm - Welcome Address

  An opening address from Urbint Founder and CEO Corey Capasso.

• 12:10 pm – Captain Phillips: Keynote Address

  As the captain of the Maersk Alabama, Captain Richard Phillips knows about making high-risk decisions to protect the lives and safety of his crew. When Somali pirates boarded his ship and took his crew hostage, Captain Phillips had to make split-second decisions that ensured his crew survived and returned home to their families.
  
  Captain Phillips wrote a best-selling novel about his story, which became a major motion picture in which he was played by Tom Hanks.
  
  

• 1:00 pm –Preventing Damages with AI: A Conversation with Black Hills Energy

  Hear from Nathan Stewart, Black Hills Energy Damage Prevention Manager, about how the company takes a risk-based approach to damage prevention to keep its community safe. Learn the company’s approach, how it uses technology to address multiple causes of damage and allocate field team resources, and the outcomes of program changes.

• 2:00 pm – Damage Prevention Veterans Roundtable

  The Federal Communications Commission declared 811 the universal number to call before you dig in 2005. In addition, the Common Ground Alliance was founded in 2000. But, these damage prevention experts from ComEd, National Grid, and Verizon were protecting critical underground infrastructure long before either. Tune in to learn about damage prevention's past, present, and future from folks who have seen it all.

• 3:00 pm – Urbint Lens for Damage Prevention Product Roadmap

  Informed by your feedback, find out what features and updates are coming to Urbint Lens for Damage Prevention.

• 3:30 pm – The State of Infrastructure Damages in America: The DIRT Report

  Jemmie Wang, lead author of the Common Ground Alliance DIRT Report, offers a comprehensive analysis of damages to buried infrastructure in the U.S. and Canada.

Wednesday, October 27

• 12:00 pm – America’s Infrastructure Report Card 2021

  Maria Lehman of the American Society of Civil Engineers discusses the condition and performance of American infrastructure.

• 12:45 pm – Federal Legislation and the Future of American Infrastructure

  This year marks historic progress in federal funding and programs to rebuild U.S. infrastructure. In particular, the $1.2T Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will grant programs to boost the resilience of our electricity system and fund new, necessary electric transmission infrastructure.
  
  Urbint Vice President of Strategy and Policy Mishal Thadani will be joined with representatives from EEI and AEP to discuss the impact of the legislation, how utilities can best prepare themselves to apply for funding, and what we can learn from past grant programs to maximize consumer benefit.

• 1:30 pm – Health and Safety Leaders Roundtable

  Protecting workers from injuries and fatalities is one of the most critical responsibilities of companies in high-hazard industries. Unfortunately, it's also among the most challenging. Moderated by Nick Stavropoulos, former COO of PG&E and National Grid US, this panel features health and safety leaders Bryan Adams, Jesus Soto, and Emily Whitcomb, who will discuss how they're putting safety at the center of their businesses to prevent worker safety incidents.

• 2:10 pm – Worker Safety at National Grid

  Join Alfredo Vidal, Director of Project Controls & Compliance Execution at National Grid, and Dr. Lindsay Jenkins, Urbint's SVP of Strategy and Technical Operations, to discuss National Grid's approach to worker safety, and why the utility is implementing Urbint's AI technology to prevent injuries.

• 2:45 pm – Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

  Dr. Yoichi Funabashi, author of Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, examines failures, at both the corporate and governmental levels, of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and the long-term lessons learned.

• 3:30 pm – Closing Address

  A closing address from Urbint Founder and CEO Corey Capasso.

• 3:45 pm – Closing Activity: At-Home Workout

  Join your colleagues and other conference attendees for an at-home workout with personal trainer and fitness guru Adam Schersten.