Special guests including: Michael Bussinger from Burns & McDonnell, Cory Byrnes from Beta Engineering, Anthony Contino from SBS, Ben Ferneau from Black & Veatch, Josue Sanchez from Quanta Technology, and Shawn Weekly from POWER Engineers join me to talk about AI in the electric utility industry.

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Get in touch with our guests:

Anthony Contino anthony.contino@spatialbiz.com

Ben Ferneau ferneaubj@bv.com

Cory Byrnes cory.byrnes@betaengineering.com

Josue Sanchez jsanchez1@quanta-technology.com

Michael Bussinger mlbussinger@burnsmcd.com

Shawn Weekly shawn.weekly@powereng.com

Katie Muer from Black and Veatch joins Scott Dimpfl, our SDSIC Vice Chair and myself so we can chat about this year's amazing SDSIC live conference in Kansas City that Black & Veatch hosted! We talk about what it takes to host an event, Katie offers some advice and Scott runs the Q&A! Listen in!

Cory Byrnes from Beta Engineering joins me and we chat about his Civil and Structural engineering work at BETA, his newly minted membership in the SDSIC, advice for other SDSIC newbies, why your should get involved, and of course ... we talk technology and AI.

In this episode we close out 2023 by pulling some tidbits of advice on the SDSIC from each conversation through the 2023 year.

Scott Dimpfl is Director of Transmission Line Engineering at AEP and our current Chair for the Technology committee. With over 20 years of experience, Scott has some in depth knowledge to share and we explore some of what he's championing at AEP these days.

Michael joined me to talk about his work as our SDSIC co-Chair for the Civil Structural committee. We also talked about the work he does at Burns & McDonnell and, as an Adjunct Instructor at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods where we discover that Michael has a true passion for teaching others. Have a listen!