Don’t forget to get signed up for UtiliPoint’s North American Conference being held in The Woodlands this year. The event will be next week, Oct. 16 & 17. We’ve got a great line-up of speakers, including:

- Barry T. Smitherman, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas
- Jeffrey E. Sterba, Chairman & CEO of PNM Resources, Inc.
- Raymond E. Gogel, Vice President-Customer and Enterprise Solutions and Chief Administrative Officer of Xcel Energy
- Donald P. McConnell, Corporate Senior Vice President and President, Battelle Energy Technology
- Peter Hartley, George & Cynthia Mitchell Professor of Economics, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice Scholar Academic Director, Shell Center for Sustainability Rice University
- Michael Murphy, Partner, Pillsbury Gobal Sourcing, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The theme of this years conference is The Smart Utility and Energy Company. While its not on the offical agenda, your humble blogger is rumored to be involved in some sort of a debate over energy policy…

Click here for more info on the conference.