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Celebrating Years of Excellence FALL 2013 CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 22 – 25, 2013 THE ADOLPHUS HOTEL TM DALLAS, TEXAS Your Energy Information Source Celebrating Years of Excellence Dear EUCG Colleagues, e On behalf of the EUCG Board of Directors, we welcome you to the 2013 Fall Conference & Workshop at The Adolphus Hotel. We are pleased that you are here to continue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of EUCG. We have truly come a long way! This workshop will give us all a chance to celebrate EUCG’s past and look forward with anticipation on the years to come. EUCG’s strength as an organization rests with all of you, our dedicated members. Without your passion and participation, EUCG would not exist and I thank you. The Committee Chairs have worked very hard to assemble the finest presentations at this workshop. I want to again give a special thanks to the members of our Workshop Task Team for welcom the integral role that they have played in putting together all aspects of this workshop. While we know you focus on your particular committee of interest, make sure to take a look at all of the committee schedules. You may find that there are things of interest for you or another member of your company. We are thrilled to have an outstanding line up of keynote speakers for this Workshop. To “kick- off” our workshop in the opening session Welcome Address, we have John Crawford, President and Chief Executive Officer of Downtown Dallas Inc. and Jim Greer, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Oncor Electric Delivery. Our Tuesday Keynote speaker is Mary Frances Burleson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ebby Halliday Companies. Mary started as a part-time secretary and receptionist in 1958 at Ebby Halliday, REALTORS. Mary will share her formulas for success gained in her fifty year journey to the top of one of the largest and most successful real estate companies in the United States. This diverse group of outstanding executives will give us all their unique perspectives on how they achieve excellence in their organizations every day. Our tradition of a fun and exciting Monday Evening Networking Event continues as we look forward to a great night of music, dancing, games, and fun at Eddie Deen’s Ranch. It is sure to be a great time! We are glad that you have joined us in Dallas as we continue to celebrate 40 Years of Excellence. Remember to mark your calendar and join us April 13 – 16, 2014 at The Westin Tampa Harbour Island in Tampa, Florida for the 2014 Spring Conference & Workshop and September 21 – 24, 2014 at The Hilton Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana for the 2014 Fall Conference & Workshop. George W. Sharp EUCG President 2 EUCG Fall 2013 Conference & Workshop Years of Excellence speakers JOHN CRAWFORD President and experience as a senior executive with four Fortune 500 Chief Executive Officer firms, and experience as a professional services executive, Downtown Dallas Inc consultant and principal with firms in the legal, financial services, insurance and real estate development/brokerage John F. Crawford was named industries. His experience also includes serving on the President and Chief Executive development team of the two largest real estate projects in Officer of Downtown Dallas Inc. in the downtown area — the 1.7 million square foot Bank of 2007, after serving as the volunteer America Plaza and the 1.4 million square foot Cityplace. Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2006. Downtown Dallas Inc. is a private non-profit Crawford is a long-standing community leader in Dallas, organization serving as the primary advocate and champion lending his expertise to numerous civic and charitable for Downtown, ensuring that Downtown grows as a vibrant organizations. Some of his past and present involvement center of urban life, recognized locally and globally for the includes serving as Chairman of the Board of numerous quality of its business, hospitality, entertainment, living and organizations. Furthermore, Crawford has a long history cultural environments. with City government as Chair of the Mayor’s Downtown Revitalization Task Force, a member of the City Plan John Crawford brings to Downtown Dallas Inc. over 30 Commission, the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Crime years of successful marketing and general management and Urban Rehabilitation Standards Board. JIM GREER Senior Vice President and Chief Christian University. He completed the Harvard Business Operating Officer School’s Advanced Management Program in 2007. Oncor Electric Delivery Jim is a registered Professional Engineer in the State Jim Greer joined the Texas of Texas, and serves on the Texas Board of Professional Utilities Company system in 1984 Engineers. Jim is a member of the Institute of Electrical and after completing his BS Electrical Electronic Engineers, and was the 2010 recipient of the IEEE’s Engineering degree at the University of national Leadership in Power award. He is also a member Texas at Arlington in 1984. In 1990, of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and a past he obtained his MBA from Texas president of the Fort Worth Chapter of TSPE. MARY FRANCES BURLESON President and In November of this year, Mary Frances Burleson will receive Chief Executive Officer the National Association of REALTORS® 2013 Distinguished ® Ebby Halliday Companies Service Award. Out of approximately 1 million REALTORS , no more than two are recognized with the award each year. In 1958, Mary Frances Burleson Ms. Burleson is the third member of The Ebby Halliday applied for a job at Ebby Halliday Companies to receive the award. Of the thousands of REALTORS® as a part-time secretary residential real estate companies in the United States, The and receptionist. Today, she is Ebby Halliday Companies is the only one to have been President and CEO of the Ebby honored with three NAR Distinguished Service Awards. Halliday Companies, which includes 30 offices, two real estate brands, three service companies, and more than Over the years, Ebby Halliday and Mary Frances Burleson 1,400 sales associates covering more than 12,000 square have stuck to a simple formula for success in helping their miles of North Texas. The Dallas-based firm is the largest business to grow, what they refer to as the three points of independently owned residential real estate company in service: service to the customer, service to the industry Texas and ranks 12th in the nation. The 68-year-old company and service to the community. participated in approximately 16,000 property transactions in 2012 with a sales volume of $4.8 billion. September 22 – 25, 2013 | Dallas, Texas | The Adolphus Hotel 3 agenda at a glance 4 EUCG Fall 2013 Conference & Workshop agenda at a glance SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 TIME SLOT 7:30 am – 11:00 am Board of Directors Meeting Pat Morris Neff 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Registration & Hospitality Suite 1030 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm New Delegate Orientation Pat Morris Neff MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 FOSSIL HYDRO NUCLEAR T&D INFO. TECH TIME SLOT Anson Jones AB David G. Burnet Dan Moody Anson Jones C Sam Houston AB 7:00 am – 8:00 am Breakfast Grand Ballroom B Opening Session Welcome Address: John Crawford, President and Chief Executive 8:00 am – 9:30 am Officer, Downtown Dallas Inc. and Jim Greer, Senior Vice President and Chief Grand Ballroom A Executive Officer, Oncor Electric Delivery 9:30 am – 10:00 am Break Mezzanine Foyer H1 NC1 FP1 Opening Remarks TD1 Member IT1 Chairman’s and Business T&D Welcome, Introductions & IT General 10:00 am – 11:00 am Remarks / Fossil Update Update, and Nuclear Committee Business Meeting Keynote (30 mins.) Business Meeting Business Update (60 mins.) (60 mins.) (60 mins.) (60 mins.) H2 FP2 Review of Key NC2 TD2 Fossil Productivity Operational Events IT2 Member Issues Renewable Energy Database: and Organizational Enterprise 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Questions & Integration – Solar Identifying Best Updates Licensing Answers and Wind Performers (90 mins.) (60 mins.) (60 mins.) (60 mins.) (60 mins.) 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Grand Ballroom B NC3 H3 Proposal IT3 2012 Leading for a EUCG IT Benchmark 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Performers Decommissioning Reporting Review Analysis Information (60 mins.) FP3 (75 mins.) Framework TD3 Safety Process (60 mins.) Process Improvement/ Improvement Creating a Safety NC4 Methodologies Discussion of Culture Roundtable IT4 H4 major utility issues (105 mins.) (105 mins.) IT Benchmark 2012 Leading identified by the 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Reporting Review Performers Management (Continued) (30 mins.) Sponsors in May (45 mins.) 2013 (45 mins.) 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Break Mezzanine Foyer September 22 – 25, 2013 | Dallas, Texas | The Adolphus Hotel 5 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 | CONTINUES FOSSIL HYDRO NUCLEAR T&D INFO. TECH TIME SLOT Anson Jones AB David G. Burnet Dan Moody Anson Jones C Sam Houston AB TD4 Distribution Construction NC5 FP4 Trends and H4 Industry IT5 Calculating Outlook 2012 Leading Demographics IT Challenges at and Using a (45 mins.) 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Performers analysis and a Nuclear Power Commercial (Continued) Knowledge Station Availability Factor (45 mins.) Transfer (60 mins.) (75 mins.) (60 mins.) TD5 Vegetation Management H5 NC6 “Secret Shopper” Outage Planning/ Breakout - Program IT6 Scheduling/ Members Discuss/ (30 mins.) Software Licensing 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Execution Resolve Issues Compliance Roundtable Raised in NC2 (45 mins.) (60 mins.) (45 mins.) Meet in hotel lobby for buses to Wild 5:45 pm – 9:00 pm Conference Networking Event West night at Eddie Deen’s Ranch TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 FOSSIL HYDRO NUCLEAR T&D INFO. TECH TIME SLOT Anson Jones AB David G. Burnet Dan Moody Anson Jones C Sam Houston AB 7:00 am – 8:00 am Breakfast Grand Ballroom B H6 Safety Survey Results NC7 TD6 (45 mins.) Analysis of Costs Survey Results IT7 8:00 am – 9:00 am vs.