Please check back often:  The UC2007 Agenda will be updated regularly with more information
NOTE:  All sessions are at the Monterey Conference Center (MCC) unless specified otherwise            

Revised August 7, 2007
 SUNDAY, August 5, 2007  
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm Golf Tournament  Del Monte Course      
Tennis Tournament Monterey Tennis Center      
         
MONDAY, August 6, 2007  
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Company Meetings (Requires advanced sign-up)        
8:00 am - 9:00 pm Chart Your Course Information Desk Open Monterey Conference Center Lobby     
8:30 am - 10:00 am Training: RtWebParts and PI Notification MCC: Steinbeck Forum      
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break  MCC: Steinbeck Forum Foyer      
10:15 am - 12:00 pm Training: RtWebParts and PI Notification (cont.) MCC: Steinbeck Forum      
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm SIG and Training Lunch
 
MCC: Jeffers Plaza Terrace       
12:30 pm - 2:45 pm SIG General Session  Marriott Hotel: San Carlos Ballroom      
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break  Marriott Hotel: San Carlos Ballroom Foyer      
3:05 pm - 5:00 pm SIG Industry Breakouts Marriott Hotel: San Carlos 1-4, San Diego, Santa Monica,
San Francisco, Santa Barbara
     
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Chart Your Course: Welcome Reception Customs House Plaza: Tent      
         
TUESDAY, August 7, 2007  
7:00 am - 7:00 pm Chart Your Course Information Desk Open Monterey Conference Center Lobby     
7:00 am - 8:00 am Breakfast  Customs House Plaza: Tent      
  EA Customer Meeting (Invitation Only) Marriott Hotel: Ferrantes Bayview      
  Meetings: Companies with >10 employees (Sign-up in advance only) Available upon sign-up      
  Guest Breakfast: With Anne the Hotel Concierge as Speaker Marriott Hotel: San Diego Room      
8:00 am - 8:30 am Welcome Address
Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy, CEO and Founder, OSIsoft, Inc.
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
8:30 am - 9:10 am Fleet Optimization through Process Information
John C. Kapron and Sumanth K. Makunur, DTE Energy
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
9:10 am - 10:00 am A Voyage Around the Products in 50 Minutes
Gregg Le Blanc and Brian Bostwick, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break MCC: DeAnza Ballroom      
10:15 am - 10:55 am Standardized Infrastructure, Leveraging Best Practice Deployment and Lowering Total Cost of Ownership: Benefits of Implementing an OSIsoft Enterprise Agreement
Robert Gamber, Amgen
Serra Grand Ballroom      
10:55 am - 11:35 am Microsoft Datacenter Management with OSIsoft: Laying the Foundation for Operational Intelligence Across a Global Infrastructure
Jeff O'Reilly, Microsoft
Serra Grand Ballroom      
11:35 am - 11.40 am Announcements Serra Grand Ballroom      
11:40 am - 12:45 pm Lunch Customs House Plaza: Tent      
  EA Customer Meeting (Invitation Only) Marriott Hotel: Ferrantes Bayview      
  Meetings: Companies with >10 employees (Sign-up in advance only) Available upon sign-up      
12:15 pm - 6:30 pm Learning Lab  MCC: Colton Ballroom   Learning Lab  
12:30 pm - 6:30 pm Partner Expo MCC: DeAnza Ballroom Partner Expo  
     
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Take Exception to Being the Last to Know: How PI Notifications Keep You in Charge
Don Baron, Alex Zheng, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  Find What You've Been Looking For: How AF 2.0 Helps You Organize Your Information
Laurent Garrigues and Ray Hall, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  PI ProcessBook 3.1: Notifications, Annotations and U(I)
Chris Coen and Andy Singh, OSIsoft
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  OPC 3: The Sequel for UA
Tom Burke, OPC Foundation; Jay Lakumb and Alisher Maksumov, OSIsoft
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  Ad-hoc Reporting Using the RtReports WebPart
Tamara Carbaugh, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  Rolling RtWebParts 2.0, Gathering MOSS in the Process
Rebekah Atkinson and Paul Kaiser, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
1:55 pm - 2:35 pm How PI Notifications Ensure that SmartSignal's Early Warning Intelligence Is Turned into Action
Todd Spencer, Smart Signal Corporation
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  CIM Models, AF 2.0 and Automatic Substation One-Line Generation
Dr. Jun Zha, FibrLINK; Charles Campbell, Data South Systems; Herb Falk, SISCO
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  Optimizing Production in the Gulf of Mexico
Albino Castro, BP
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  Implementation and Management of a Global Distributed PI Infrastructure
Jim Cummins, Specialty Minerals; Mike Purcell, Omicron
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  IT Monitor in the High-Performance Computing Data Center: Controlling TFlop Performance and Power Utilization
Jason Banfelder, Weill Cornell Medical College
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  RtWebParts Data Convergence in Cargill Deicing Technology
Stan Pamel, Cargill; and Jim Pederson, TEC Companies
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
2:35 pm - 2:50 pm Break MCC: DeAnza Ballroom  
     
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm Millions of Data Points at Your Service - What’s New with the PI Server
Denis Vacher, Rulik Perla and Chuck Muraski, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  mPI: What’s in It for You?
Benny Gallardo, Dianne Bricco and Dennis Ju, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  Curiosity Killing Your Spreadsheets? Discover the New DataLink for Excel Services and DataLink for Office 2007
Jay Lakumb and Jason King, OSIsoft
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  Everything but the Kitchen Synch - What Smart Connectors Will Do for You
Rebekah Atkinson and Julie Zeilenga, OSIsoft
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  Event Frames Give Your Real-time Data Context: A Preview of What’s to Come
Chris Coen and Ken Coates, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  Not Seeing 20-20? See Better with RtPM Business Package for SAP Enterprise Portal
Michelle Kuiee and Dr. Gretchen Schwenzer and Mike Sloves, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm Piloting a Centralized Remedial Action Scheme (C-RAS) with Emerging Telecomm / Protection Technologies
Patricia L. Arons, Southern California Edison
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  Implementing an Enterprise Agreement Project
King Becerra and Gerardo Palacios, CEMEX
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  Driving Six Sigma Improvement with the PI System
Russell Gregg, Applied Extrusion Technologies
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  3D Navigation: Adding a New Dimension to PI and AF Data
Douglas Coene and Massimo Galli, Visiant Pimsoft
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  RtReports at Protein Design Labs: The Early Adoption of RtReports and Subsequent Migration to the Current Product
Nate Anderson, PDL Biopharma
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  Pipelines Monitoring in Pemex
Cesar Felix and Mauro Arenas, Petroleos Mexicanos
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
4:50 pm - 5:30 pm Merging Financial and PI Operational Data to Monitor the Financial Health of a Wind Generation Site
Scotty Gilbert, PPM Energy
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  Data, Data Everywhere and Not an Action to Take
Mark Whitson, Cargill; Sudy Bharadwaj, Informance International; 
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  Production Accounting and Data Reconciliation: Cornerstone of a Pacesetter MES Architecture
Patrick Truesdale, Emerson Process Management
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  Ekho a suite of MES Applications that leverage the Application Foundation AF 2.0
Patrick Ramsey and Yannick Galipeau; Inexcon Technologies
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  Eastman Chemical Company Uses IT Monitor for Corporate Email Service
Karen Chastain, Eastman Chemical
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  Thermal Power Operation Assistance System
Hoon Jung, Korea Western Power Co., Ltd; Jaeju Lee, AID Corporation
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Partner Expo    
         
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Departure by Bus for Monterey Bay Aquarium Portola Plaza Main Entrance      
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Offsite Event  Monterey Aquarium      
         
WEDNESDAY, August 8, 2007  
7:00 am - 6:30 pm Chart Your Course Information Desk Open Monterey Conference Center Lobby     
7:00 am - 8:00 am Breakfast  Customs House Plaza: Tent      
  EA Customer Meeting (Invitation Only) Marriott Hotel: Ferrantes Bayview      
  Meetings: Companies with >10 employees (Sign-up in advance only) Available upon sign-up      
8:00 am - 9:00 am Partners Chart Course for Success by Early Platform Adoption
Patricia Garner, Director of Channel Sales
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
         
         
9:10 am - 9:50am Learning Lab  MCC: Colton I, II & III   Learning Lab  
       
  Collaboration Onshore/Offshore at ConocoPhillips Norway - The Results
Henning Lillejord, ConocoPhillips; Mike Purcell, Omicron Consulting; Børre Heggernes, Amitec
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2    
       
  Improving Reliability and Saving Money with Condition Based Maintenance
George Muller, Conectiv Energy; Dennis Kilgore, DLL Solutions
MCC: Steinbeck Forum    
       
  Utilizing OSIsoft PI in Electric Distribution at Duke Energy
Shawn Ervin, Duke Energy; Dan Riddell, OSIsoft
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom    
       
  Downtime Tracking in the Mining Industry
Scott Cordwell, Alliance (for Zinifex Rosebery); Keith Flynn, ADM
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2    
       
  The Considerations and Architecture for One of the Industry’s Most Integrated and Automated MES Programs
Ashley Howard, Bristol Myers Squibb
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4    
       
9:50 am - 10:10 am Break MCC: DeAnza Ballroom    
       
10:10 am - 11:10 am Millions of Data Points at Your Service - What’s New with the PI Server
Denis Vacher, Rulik Perla and Chuck Muraski, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1    
       
  Find What You've Been Looking For: How AF 2.0 Helps You Organize Your Information
Laurent Garrigues and Ray Hall, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2    
       
  PI Security Best Practices
Bryan Owen, OSIsoft
MCC: Steinbeck Forum    
       
  OLEDB Goes Enterprise - The PI System Data Provider
Bodo Bachmann and Martin Freitag, OSIsoft
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom    
       
  Managed PI: Software Update Services
Benny Gallardo, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2    
       
  Rolling RtWebParts 2.0, Gathering MOSS in the Process
Rebekah Atkinson and Paul Kaiser, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4    
       
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Take Exception to Being the Last to Know: How PI Notifications Keep You in Charge
Don Baron, Alex Zheng, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1    
       
  mPI: What’s in It for You?
Benny Gallardo, Dianne Bricco and Dennis Ju, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2    
       
  Curiosity Killing Your Spreadsheets? Discover the New DataLink for Excel Services and DataLink for Office 2007
Jay Lakumb and Jason King, OSIsoft
MCC: Steinbeck Forum    
       
  Making Convergence a Reality: Bringing Value to the "Plant for IT"…the Enterprise Data Center
Martin Otterson and Christian Luckock, OSIsoft Data Center and IT Solutions Group
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom    
       
  Event Frames Give Your Real-time Data Context: A Preview of What’s to Come
Chris Coen and Ken Coates, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2    
       
  Not Seeing 20-20? See Better with RtPM Business Package for SAP Enterprise Portal
Michelle Kuiee and Dr. Gretchen Schwenzer and Mike Sloves, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4    
       
12:20 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Customs House Plaza: Tent    
  Meetings: Companies with >10 employees (Sign-up in advance only) Available upon sign-up    
1:00 pm - 6:30 pm Partner Expo  MCC: DeAnza Ballroom Partner Expo  
     
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm Arizona Public Service Company's Use of IT Monitor
Scott Griffith, Arizona Public Service Company
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  Leverage Your PI System with AF 2.0 to Implement and Manage Your Operational KPIs
Michael Saucier, Transpara Corporation
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  GrITS in Space: Operational Visibility at NASA Glenn Research Center
Robert Norman, Mainthia Technologies Inc; Charles Campbell, Data South Systems
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  Effective Virtualization of the PI System using VMware Virtual Infrastructure
David Baldwin, Vaxgen
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  How to Get the Best of the Daily Mass Balance System Operation
Oscar Rotava, Petrobras; Alexandre Sampos, Soteica
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  MVDC Roadmap: From Proprietary to Standard PI 
Rick Smith, International Paper
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
2:20 pm - 3:20 pm OPC 3: The Sequel for UA
Tom Burke, OPC Foundation; Jay Lakumb and Alisher Maksumov, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  Real-time Web Services for OSIsoft in the SAP NetWeaver Platform
Michelle Kuiee and Dr. Gretchen Schwenzer, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  PI ProcessBook 3.1: Notifications, Annotations and U(I)
Chris Coen and Andy Singh, OSIsoft
MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
  Everything but the Kitchen Synch - What Smart Connectors Will Do for You
Rebekah Atkinson and Julie Zeilenga, OSIsoft
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  OLEDB Goes Enterprise - The PI System Data Provider
Bodo Bachmann and Martin Freitag, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  PI Security Best Practices
Bryan Owen, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
3:20 pm - 3:35 pm Break MCC: DeAnza Ballroom  
     
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Creating Real Value from Real-time Process Monitoring
Holger Amort, Arkema Inc.
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1  
     
  Using AMR Data to Improve the Operation of the Electric Distribution System
Glenn Pritchard, Exelon / PECO
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2  
     
  Advanced Equipment Monitoring on Combined Cycle Power Plants
Miguel Chavero and Maria Martin, Iberdrola
MCC: Ferrante Ballroom  
     
  What Value the PI System Can Bring to China Utility Industry
Dr. Jun Zha, FibrLINK
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2  
     
  Condition Based Maintenance from PI and SAP
Alvaro Muro, Pemex Refinacion
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4  
     
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Enterprise Customer Forum MCC: Steinbeck Forum  
     
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Enterprise Customers (Wine and Cheese followed by dinner) Memory Gardens  
     
6:30 pm Partner Expo Closes
(Wine and Cheese 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm)
MCC: DeAnza Ballroom  
6:30 pm  Learning Lab Closes      
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Hospitality Suites Open Marriott Hotel: Suites 201, 205, 207 & 209  
7:15 pm - 10:30 pm Sales and Partner Dinners Offsite Restaurants      
         
THURSDAY, August 9, 2007  
7:00 am - 6:00 pm Chart Your Course Information Desk Open Monterey Conference Center Lobby     
7:00 am - 8:15 am Breakfast
 
Tent at Customs House Plaza      
  Meetings: Companies with >10 employees (Sign-up in advance only) Available upon sign-up      
         
8:15 am - 10:30 am Learning Lab MCC: Colton Ballroom   Learning Lab  
       
8:15 am - 8:55 am Taking on the World’s Toughest Challenges - PI in the Upstream Oil and Gas Environment
Vince Roberts, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1    
       
  In a Blink of the Eye - PI and CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) at Rhodia Brazil
Hamilton Roberto Baldo, Rhodia; and Fabio Santos, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2    
       
  Using OSIsoft Products to Create High Value Added Applications and Solutions for Diverse Industry Segments
Jason Konoff, Telvent
MCC: Steinbeck Forum    
       
       
  The Power of PI in Paper Manufacturing
Trevor Richardson, Mondi Paper
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2    
       
  Achieving Scalability and Grid Measurement: Using PI for Wide Area Grid Monitoring (WAMS)
Floyd Galvan, Entergy; Matt Heere, OSIsoft
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4    
       
9:05 am - 9:45 am Optimizing Wind Generation Resources with PI
Brian Hollaway, AEP
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1    
       
  Corporate Implementation of PI in Bulk Manufacturing Sites
Joe Pluckebaum and Tom Wagener, Eli Lilly & Company
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2    
       
  PI on the Fly: Creating a Dynamic Response Strategy in the Utilities Market
John Ragone, KeySpan and Michael Saucier, Transpara
MCC: Steinbeck Forum    
       
       
  The Iraq Power System Challenge
George Gramatikas and Chris Crowell, Turbine Technology Services
Marriott: San Carlos  1-2    
       
  IT Monitor Deployment and ROI for US Army
Rex Peralta and Kevin Lucier, US Army / DOIM
Marriott: San Carlos 3-4    
       
9:55 am - 10:35 am Creating a Corporate PI Server
Roger Roth, Kennecott Utah Copper
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 1    
       
  3D Navigation: Adding a New Dimension to PI and AF Data
Douglas Coene and Massimo Galli, Visiant Pimsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom 2    
       
  Early Equipment Failure Detection at Reliant Using PI & SmartSignal
Joseph Milton and Billy Crosby, Reliant Energy
MCC: Steinbeck Forum    
       
       
10:30 am  Learning Lab closed until 1:00      
         
10:35 am to 11:00 am Break MCC: DeAnza Ballroom      
11:00 am - 12:00 am HA - A Better Way to Manage a PI System
Harry Smith, Chuck Thompson and Sam Jenkins, OSIsoft
MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
12:00 noon - 12:10 pm Announcements MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Customs House Plaza: Tent      
  Meetings: Companies with >10 employees (Sign-up in advance only) Available upon sign-up      
         
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Learning Lab        
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm OSIsoft Product Expo  MCC: DeAnza Ballroom      
  Company Meetings (Requires advanced sign-up) Available upon sign-up      
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm OSIsoft-led Focus Groups:
 Manual Entry
 Event Frames
 Smart Connectors
 Data Quality
 Next Generation User Interface
 Analysis/Notification
 (VLFPI) Very Large Federated PI Server
 PI IT Monitor

 
Marriott Hotel: San Carlos 1-4, San Diego, Santa Monica,
San Francisco, Santa Barbara
     
5:00 pm Learning Lab closes        
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm California Beach Bonfire Event Pirates Cove      
         
FRIDAY, August 10, 2007  
7:00 am - 1:00 pm Chart Your Course Information Desk Open MCC: Portola Lobby       
7:00 am - 8:15 am  Breakfast  MCC: Steinbeck Forum Foyer      
8:30 am - 12:00 pm Training: PI System Manager Update  MCC: Steinbeck Forum      
10:00 am - 10:15 am  Break MCC: Steinbeck Forum Foyer      
10:15 am - 12:00 pm Training: PI System Manager Update (cont.) MCC: Steinbeck Forum      
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  Lunch  MCC: Serra Grand Ballroom      
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Training: PI System Manager Update (cont.) MCC: Steinbeck Forum      
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm  Break MCC: Steinbeck Forum Foyer      
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Training: PI System Manager Update (cont.) MCC: Steinbeck Forum      
         

 

   

 

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