The risk of weather-triggered emergencies is growing.
Learn how Slalom is helping Power & Utilities mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters.
These emergencies—including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, extreme heat, and severe storms—are putting communities at risk, affecting their well-being. These events have catastrophic financial consequences, infrastructure damage, and stricter regulatory scrutiny for the Utilities.
Overview
Our suite of tailored solutions and accelerators, crafted with leading-edge technology and strategic insights, empowers Utilities to elevate risk mitigation. These tools not only enhance safety and compliance, but also improve operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. By integrating our solutions, Utilities can proactively manage and mitigate risk with greater precision and agility.
This approach fosters a resilient infrastructure, minimizes disruptions, and promotes proactiveness with communities, customers, and partners.
Utilities must take a proactive approach using advanced data, AI, and geospatial technologies to mitigate risks:
- Data & Analytics: Predictive modeling, weather risk forecasting, extreme weather simulation
- Mitigate: Vegetation management, grid hardening, infrastructure resilience, flood protection, storm-proofing
- Prepare: Planning, training & exercises, regulatory compliance, emergency response readiness
- Respond: Near real-time risk monitoring, emergency operations, bi-directional communication, disaster response coordination
- Recover: AI-driven regulatory reporting, infrastructure restoration, community safety measures
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Slalom's global customers include innovators of all sizes, including seven of the top 10 Power Utilities in the US.
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Energy & Natural Resource engagements in 2024
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Building resilience before trouble begins.
Natural disaster mitigation starts long before the damage begins. Slalom's preparation & planning solutions help Utilities assess, plan, and enhance mitigation strategies using advanced analytics, AI-powered risk models, and geospatial insights.
We work with Utilities to leverage existing fire science, weather, and vegetation data to build predictive insights and risk assessments that inform decision-making. By integrating risk analysis, scenario planning, and asset vulnerability assessments, we enable Utilities to take proactive steps in weather risk preparedness.
Solutions:
- Prediction Risk Index & Impact
- Digital Scenario Planning & Modeling
- AI-Powered Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) leveraging our proprietary DRIFT product
Helping Utilities respond to disasters with speed & precision.
Slalom's Response & Recovery solutions provide near real-time risk monitoring, emergency response coordination, and automated post-event reporting to minimize damage and accelerate recovery efforts.
We partner with Utilities to evaluate, implement and build data-driven tools, digital response strategies, and regulatory compliance workflows that ensure effective response and post-event assessment.
Our AI-powered dashboards and digital alerting systems ensure that Utilities can make data-driven decisions, coordinate with emergency services, and keep customers informed throughout an event. After the emergency, we help Utilities meet regulatory requirements with automated compliance reporting and post-event analytics to strengthen future mitigation strategies.
Solutions:
- Unauthenticated Customer Alerts & Notifications
- Emergency Response Community Partner Portal
- Proprietary Wildfire Data Model
- AI-Driven Post-Event Reporting (Regulatory Compliance) leveraging our proprietary DRIFT product
- Operational Dashboards & Near Real-Time Risk Monitoring
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Data & platform enablement.
Whether it's populating situational awareness dashboards, informing investment planning calculations, or meeting increasing regulatory requests for information, a cohesive data model that includes enterprise information such as asset health and location, reliability metrics, project plans, customer information, and environmental conditions is essential. This foundation increases confidence and reduces risk.
This cohesive data model, or digital twin, integrates high-resolution weather forecasts, geographically refined fire potential indices, and internal system data, to enhance awareness of early warning signs for grid disruptions. By leveraging that model, Utilities can make data-informed decisions to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events. Over time, Utilities can move from a reactive to predictive stance, using analytics derived from the digital twin.
Get in touch with our Utilities experts.
Tim Stafford
Managing Director, Energy & Utilities
With over 20 years of experience in the Utilities industry, Tim Stafford is a recognized leader in energy transformation. He has led large-scale initiatives for Utilities, advising on system modernization, customer information systems, and robotic process automation. His deep expertise in utility operations, customer engagement, and emerging technologies positions him as a trusted advisor for innovative wildfire mitigation strategies.
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Sam Berger
Wildfire Mitigation & Resiliency Strategist
Sam has extensive experience leading wildfire mitigation planning and regulatory compliance for Utilities. She has guided the development of Wildfire Mitigation Plans, worked on resiliency strategy roadmaps, and implemented GIS-based asset management programs. Her expertise in cross-functional program execution makes her a key strategist in mitigating wildfire risk.
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Scott Pollack
Emergency Operations & Public Safety Expert
Scott has spent over 25 years managing large-scale transformations for Utilities, focusing on emergency operations and regulatory compliance. He has led critical initiatives for public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) and emergency communication strategies, ensuring that Utilities are prepared to manage crises effectively.
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Danielle Funston
Emerging Technology & Scenario Modeling Expert
Danielle specializes in scenario modeling, digital twins, and emerging technologies that support predictive analytics and wildfire risk mitigation. Her experience in AI-driven strategy, geospatial analysis, and simulation technology enables Utilities to build more resilient, data-driven decision-making frameworks.
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Mike Quinn
Digital Data & Strategy Lead
With a decade of experience in the Utilities industry, Mike specializes in digital transformation, data strategy, and customer engagement. He has led go-to-market strategies for groundbreaking products, emergency management data solutions, and customer analytics programs that help Utilities proactively manage risk.
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Peter Ashley
OT & Smart Metering SME
Peter has over 15 years of experience working with Utilities on Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AM), data analytics, ADMS, outage management and OT systems. He has led strategic initiatives for customer data management, network optimization, and IoT-driven analytics, enabling Utilities to leverage real-time data for improved wildfire risk assessment.
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Anthony Gould
Geospatial & Emerging Tech Strategist
Anthony brings a unique blend of field operations, geospatial intelligence, and AI strategy to wildfire mitigation and climate resilience efforts. With experience leading digital twin development, satellite imagery analysis, and augmented reality tools for utilities, he translates cutting-edge innovation into real-world outcomes. His background in telecommunications, product strategy, and remote infrastructure makes him a key expert in enabling proactive wildfire adaptation through integrated data and technology solutions.
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Brian Hurst
Advanced Analytics & Utility Transformation Leader
Brian brings over 28 years of experience in the utility industry, including serving as Chief Analytics Officer at Exelon, where he led a $500M+ portfolio of enterprise AI and analytics initiatives. A nationally recognized thought leader, Brian has delivered measurable impact for over 50 utilities through digital transformation, customer experience strategy, and demand response optimization. His unparalleled experience designing and scaling analytics-driven operating models positions him as a critical voice in shaping predictive wildfire mitigation strategies.
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Matthew Hiser
Strategy & Innovation Expert in New Energy and Utilities
Matthew blends deep energy industry experience with a sharp strategic lens honed across startups and Fortune 10 firms. His work includes leading digital product strategy, utility of the future roadmaps, and commercialization of carbon capture and IoT energy solutions. With direct market experience in CAISO and WECC, and a focus on emerging technologies and business models, Matthew brings unique insights into building resilient, forward-looking wildfire mitigation strategies for modern utilities.
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