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Who Should Attend:

IT professionals and others who are responsible for information technology programs as well as members of the operations and engineering functions who would like to build a stronger relationship with IT.

Conference Pre-session:

For a complete description and to register, just follow this link:
PowerShell for Administering Windows Workstations, Servers, Domains

Conference Overview:

• IT Services to Support a Changing Utility Industry, presented by Charles J. Black, Energy Economics
• IT/OT Collaboration at Benton and Pend Oreille, panel discussion with Chris Folta, Benton PUD and Rhonda Thomas, Pend Oreille PUD
• Monitoring and Vulnerability Assessment: Cybersecurity Starts with Finding Out What You Don’t Know, presented by Brad Luna, n-Dimension Solutions
• Email Security, Archiving, and Cloud Backup, presented by Bijan Ghazizadeh, Barracuda Networks
• Roundtable discussion: open topics
• Evening Reception

Thursday

• Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery Planning, presented by Alec Taylor, IVOXY
• Windows 10 Implementation, roundtable discussion
• Big Data Analytics: How Utilities are Leveraging the AMI Data, presented by Steve Pascoe, NISC
• Roundtable discussions: open topics
• Optional Dinner Outing: Romanza Restaurant at the Peppermill

Friday

• Managing Millennials, presented by Grant Axtell, Trajectory Consulting
• Business Continuity, Disaster RecoveryCase Study, presented by Ged West, Ged West Tech Solutions

Conference Schedule:

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, and the conference will run from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday; and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Friday.

Full breakfast buffets will be provided at 7:30 a.m. each morning. Lunch will be provided on Wednesday and Thursday and a reception will be held Wednesday evening. There is an optional dinner outing on Thursday evening.

Conference Fees:

Conference Location & Hotel Information:

Hotel Reservation Scam Alert
Recently NWPPA has become aware of a hotel room block scam that may have touched some of our members. NWPPA books its own room blocks. No other organizations are holding room blocks for NWPPA for our events, nor has NWPPA authorized any other organization to contact attendees to assist with hotel reservations for our events. If you are contacted by an organization other than NWPPA about booking hotel reservations, please contact NWPPA at (360) 254-0109 and do not give your information out to them.

Peppermill Resort Spa Casino
2707 South Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502
(800) 282-2444

Room rate: $79 for a room in the Peppermill Tower

Please book your room as soon as possible, but no later than February 5, 2016, to secure this rate. Mention that you are with the Northwest Public Power Association, Group Code ANPP316, when booking your reservation.