Join the Itron product management team as we discuss the latest updates around our ChoiceConnect Fixed Network solution including new releases, product lifecycle updates and options to begin incorporating Itron’s latest generation AMI technologies into your current solution.

Join this panel as they explore the strategies and challenges faced as they advance their networks with newer technologies. This session will delve into the approaches utilities are adopting for deploying 500G/500W/Intelis to cellular migrations. Discover the successful frameworks developed to manage changes in workflow, data management, and customer service, and learn how these utilities achieved success.

Modernizing the electric grid demands a communications foundation that is secure, scalable, and future-ready. Private LTE networks are emerging as a key enabler of this transformation, giving utilities with greater control, resilience, and flexibility than traditional public networks.

This session will explore the critical factors utilities must address when planning, designing, and deploying Private LTE networks - including spectrum acquisition, network architecture design, cybersecurity requirements, device ecosystem readiness, and integration with existing operational systems. Panelists will share  real-world deployments, highlighting both technical and organizational challenges.

Attendees will gain practical guidance on leveraging Private LTE to reduce operational costs, enhance grid reliability, and accelerate the shift toward a more decentralized, decarbonized, and digitized energy system.

Wildfire threats, intense storms, changing load profiles, an aging population and the increased reliance on electricity due to EVs, AI and natural gas moratoriums are key business drivers to ensure that outages are minimized and quickly mitigated. By combining grid edge intelligence use cases such as high-performance ping, location awareness, advanced transformer load monitoring, outage identification analysis and services, advanced outage awareness can be realized. Learn how utilities are enhancing their outage management programs through best practices that are ultimately leading to key benefits including SAIDI/CAIDI reduction, accurate customer notifications, reduced patrol time and staging points for storm preparations, faster outage identification/restoration, predictable O&M requirements and higher customer satisfaction.

Gas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.

Get a glimpse of the future as we discuss Itron’s Gas Edge Solution roadmap. Our portfolio includes an end-to-end platform of gas edge devices, intelligent connectivity, Itron's Edge OS, and advanced software applications. Together, these elements revolutionize safety, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience. Gain key insights of our product development, the problems they solve and see how our solutions fit into your growth strategy.

Ensuring the resilience and reliability of electric distribution networks is a top priority for utilities, especially as they navigate new sources of electrification, rising consumer demands, and escalating natural disasters. In this session, we’ll delve into the latest trends in distribution automation technology, shedding light on optimizing connectivity through hybrid mesh and cellular networks, and using solutions like IoT-connected line sensors to quickly identify and restore outages. Hear real-world experiences, lessons learned, and innovative approaches to enhancing the resiliency and reliability of distribution networks to improve CAIDI and SAIFI numbers, enhance safety, and push more intelligence, real-time decision making and analysis to the edge of the grid.

This session offers an anecdotal look at MPC's ongoing efforts to enhance resiliency, maintenance, and recovery across its electric grid. It will highlight how MPC is leveraging all smart sensors to monitor and document the impact of severe climate events on electric distribution and transmission systems—enabling improved planning and response. Additionally, the session will cover MPC’s pilot deployment of weather stations at key grid locations to capture hyper-local weather data that is otherwise cost-prohibitive or unavailable through commercial sources. The pilot aims to explore how this granular data can support maintenance strategies, improve worker safety, and strengthen overall grid resiliency.

The Itron Riva meter is a foundational component of the Grid Edge Intelligence solution enabling both Distributed Intelligence as well as maintaining existing business processes to support key AMI1.0/Meter-to-cash applications.  In this session, you will hear from a utility who has gone through the process of qualifying, approving, and deploying this new class of device.  Gainsville Regional Utility  will share their lessons learned and challenged encountered as well as provide insight into their deployment strategy.  The Itron team will also share views of the most common hurdles that utilities experience during this process and key recommendations and strategies to overcome these barriers.

Don’t miss this opportunity, join a panel of your peers as they discuss the impacts of ultrasonic metering and the advantages of AMI. The expansion to two-way communications enables features that are not available with AMR. What are the key drivers needed to develop your utility’s business case?  Would operational benefits such as remote disconnects, on-demand reads, soft shutoffs offer valuable operational flexibility?  Do safety features including safety alarms or real time pressure or temperature readings move the needle? Or would billing flexibility to enhance customer service or develop better energy efficiency or improve emission reductions create a compelling narrative? Learn more from this panel how they are developing a business case for their next phase, migrating to AMI.

Are you considering taking benefit of new technologies like DI-enabled meters? Do you have questions on the challenges, but also the benefits, of migrating from an Itron legacy RF mesh technology to a GEN5 Riva solution? Join this panel for strategic & tactical tips and tricks that Itron network customers that are planning for this technology transition have learned along the way. Utility presenters will share insights and anecdotes from their journey through strategizing and planning for this technology transition. Gain actionable strategies and best practices that could enable you to successfully execute the transition process.

Many utilities have moved through the initial deployment phase of their AMI networks and are now reaping the benefits of mature, functioning Field Area Networks (FAN). Join this panel for tactical tips and tricks that Itron network customers with mature deployments have learned along the way. Utility presenters will share insights and anecdotes on refining maintenance practices, optimizing network performance, adjusting to changing topography due to factors like seasonal changes and new construction, optimizing GIS, OMS, and AMI data analysis, and balancing IT needs across the organization. Gain actionable strategies and best practices to unlock the full potential of your industrial IoT (IIoT) network, enhancing operational efficiency, improving maintenance practices, and driving business success across your organization.

Listen to the insights from this water utility panel, as they discuss deploying Cellular AMI with  valuable tips they gained along the way. Discover how they’ve embraced change to enhance their strategies across the utility, using data to streamline water operations, improve operational efficiency, and deliver better customer service through detailed consumption data.   

The Itron City Edge planning module application was utilized to improve streetlight inventory data quality, resolve billing issues, and lay the groundwork for the deployment of smart LED streetlights. PHI used Itron City Edge to establish an accurate baseline for street lighting infrastructure and will now use City Edge to execute a multi-phase deployment plan that will accelerate energy savings and improve operational efficiencies.

Since the pandemic supply chains have been under much more scrutiny, with a view to building resilience and multi sourcing. Coupled with the energy transition and a wide-spread skills shortages in the utility sector, interoperability and the standardization of meter to cash use cases has never been more important.  While on the surface an easy concept, real interoperability is difficult to achieve without established and battle-hardened standards and specifications. This presentation explores the value and the practicality of the DLMS/COSEM Electricity Smart Meter GCP as adopted for the North American market as well as a glimpse into the wider world of International Standards adjacent to the smart meter being established to help the energy transition.

Learn about the transformative impact SBAP is providing for utilities exploring network advancements. The new Solar Battery AP introduces an innovative approach for Automated Meter Infrastructure (AMI) for Gas and water utilities. The battery mesh is ideal for utilities with limited physical infrastructure, allowing them to bypass the historic constraints of AMI deployments with dedicated networking equipment.

Join fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.

Join fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.