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2018 Forecasting Workshop and Meeting Dates

January 10, 2018

The 2018 Itron Forecasting Workshops and Meetings have been scheduled. Registration for 101 is currently open at http://www.itron.com/forecastingworkshops. The others will be available soon.

Forecasting Workshops
  • Energy Forecasting 101 - Washington, DC; Feb. 28 - March 1
  • One-Day Modeling Workshops - Austin, Texas; April 24
    • Introduction to SAE
    • Advanced Forecast Topics
  • Fundamentals of Short-term Operational Forecasting - San Diego; Sept. 18-19
  • Fundamentals of Modeling Energy and Demand Forecasting - Chicago; Oct. 31 – Nov. 2

Forecasting Meetings
  • Energy Forecasting Meeting and Training - Austin, Texas; April 24-27, 2018
    • One-Day Modeling Workshop - Introduction to SAE - April 24, 2018
    • One-Day Modeling Workshop - Advanced Forecast Topics - April 24, 2018
    • 16th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting (EFG) - April 25-27, 2018
  • 12th Annual ISO/RTO Forecasting Summit - San Diego; May 15-17, 2018
  • European Forecasting User Meeting - TBD
  • Itron Utility Week - Scottsdale, Arizona; Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2018

Free Brown Bag Forecasting Seminars
  • Using Neural Networks to Build Robust Hourly Models - Feb. 20
  • Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook - May 22
  • 2018 Forecast Accuracy Bench-marking Survey and Energy Trends - Sept. 11
  • Short-term Load Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook - Dec. 4

By Paige Schaefer

Sr Forecast Analyst

Paige Schaefer is a Product Marketing Manager in Itron’s Outcomes group for the strategy, planning and implementation of projects supporting marketing functions spanning electricity, water and gas business units. She interacts directly with sales, product and corporate marketing to identify new marketing opportunities, recommend actions and the coordination of targeted campaigns to increase brand awareness and market share where she works closely with the teams to develop content and strategies. In addition, she provides website support, event coordination and manages Itron’s Energy Forecasting Group (EFG), which supports end-use data development, the Statistical End-use Approach (SAE) and coordinates their annual meeting for discussing modeling and forecasting issues. Paige has a B.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Marketing.