Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Industry Leaders Converge at Parks Associates’ Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer

Parks Associates will host over 150 executives from leading utilities and companies active in energy management and smart infrastructure at next week’s Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer. The executive conference, hosted in cooperation with Austin Energy, will take place January 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency, Austin, Tex., and will focus on the consumer, distribution channels, and the opportunities and challenges in residential energy technologies.

Event sponsors include Cisco, Control4, Direct Energy, Exceptional Innovation, HAI Smartgrid Solutions, HomeGrid Forum, HomePlug Forum, iControl Networks, INSTEON, Intamac Systems, ista, Lockheed Martin, OpenPeak Inc., People Power, RCS, Watteco, and Xanboo.

Keynote speakers at the conference are Andres Carvallo, CIO, Austin Energy; Dr. George W. Arnold, National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce; and Bob Heffron, Utility Market Manager, Verizon.

The conference features research from Parks Associates’ Residential Energy Management service, including data on consumer readiness to adopt new technologies and current usage of energy management tools.

For more information, visit www.smartenergysummit2010.com.

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