IT Users Group

Description

IT USERS GROUP
June 8, 2023 (Th 9-3:30pm)
Lake Country Power, Cohasset, MN


The MREA IT User Group's mission is to bring co-op IT professionals together to learn and share information. This group recurrently discusses issues from billing software and smart grid, to utility social networking concepts, to identity theft—Just to name a few. The invited presenters and round-table discussions have proven helpful to attendees.  So helpful, in fact, the once-annual event has blossomed into a bi-annual meeting! Those of you who either bear the title of the Information Technology Manager, those who have just assumed these responsibilities over the years as well as employees in the co-op engineering and operations departments will want to attend this one-day meeting.

Guest speaker: Kristi Robinson from STAR Energy will join us. 
Background: STAR, PSE, and MREA have been working together on a project under the bipartisan infrastructure bill that would result in over $400 million of innovative projects moving forward to enhance the resiliency of the cooperative transmission and distribution grids in our region. Many of the state’s cooperatives have submitted projects as part of this effort. Kristi will provide an overview of the projects moving forward in the near future under this effort, and tea up considerations for the IT community related to these activities.

AGENDA
9:00      Coffee and continental breakfast 
9:15      Welcome & introductions
12:00    Networking lunch 
1:00      Roundtable discussion
3:30      Adjourn

*breaks will be inserted at natural transitions in discussion 

Roundtable format:

• Prior to starting the roundtable discussion, we will quickly go around the room and ask what projects/initiatives each co-op is currently working on, please come prepared with 2-3 topics.  
• After creating our list, each person get 3 votes (we will use colored dots).  
• The topics with the most votes get discussed first, and we will move down our list, as time allows.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The person who bears the title of Information Technology Manager and/or the person who wears the IT hat by default will want to attend. Some topics may also be of interest to employees in the co-ops engineering & operations department.

COST
$206 Education Member 
$306 Non Education Member