9:00 AM — 9:30 AM PDT 

Fire­side Chat with SAP Executive

Michael O’Don­nell — Nation­al VP, Util­i­ties, SAP 

Bri­an Roach  — Senior Vice Pres­i­dent and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Reg­u­lat­ed Indus­tries, SAP

Geoff Scott — CEO, ASUG

Join us as we kick off the sec­ond day of the SAP for Util­i­ties con­fer­ence with a fire­side chat fea­tur­ing Senior Vice Pres­i­dent and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Reg­u­lat­ed Indus­tries at SAP, Bri­an Roach, the nation­al vice pres­i­dent of util­i­ties; Michael O’Donnell and ASUG’s CEO, Geoff Scott. The three will have an in-depth dis­cus­sion on key top­ics like sus­tain­abil­i­ty, cli­mate change and car­bon reduc­tion, diver­si­ty, equi­ty, and inclu­sion (DEI) and what the future looks like for the util­i­ties industry. 

9:30 AM — 10:00 AM PDT 

Future-Proof­ing Your Work­force: Attract­ing, Retain­ing and Sup­port­ing Tal­ent in #the­newnor­mal

Steven Hunt – Chief Expert, Tech­nol­o­gy & Work, SAP 

Jim McAr­dle ‑VP Sales Util­i­ties- Plat­form and Tech­nol­o­gy, SAP 

The events of 2020/2021 rad­i­cal­ly changed how we work and forced orga­ni­za­tions to make changes in weeks that in the past would have tak­en years. Jobs, where we work, how we live, what we do, who we do it with…have all changed. The meth­ods com­pa­nies used to attract, devel­op and retain tal­ent no longer work in a world char­ac­ter­ized by grow­ing labor short­ages, shift­ing legal reg­u­la­tions and accel­er­at­ing social and eco­nom­ic change. We explore key pri­or­i­ties for lead­ers as they look to tech­nol­o­gy to enable new mod­els of work going for­ward includ­ing insights from our recent study of 200+ CIOs, CTOs and IT executives.

10:00 AM — 10:30 AM PDT 

Resource Con­straints vs. Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, Equi­ty, & Impact – A Prac­ti­cal Con­ver­sa­tion On ​“Where do we go from here?”

Ken­ny Cole­man, CIO at Cen­ter­Point Energy 

Lau­rie Dowl­ing – Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Nation­al Util­i­ties Diver­si­ty Council 

Emma Lawrence – VP Util­i­ties Cen­tral, SAP 

Mod­er­at­ed by: Jen­nifer Bea­son- Glob­al Pro­gram Direc­tor, SAP Cor­po­rate Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty, SAP