2023 User Group Agenda
Business Cases | Lessons Learned | Future Directions
Industry Peers share experiences including Computer Guided Procedures, Forms, and Workflows
June 6-8, 2023
(Welcome Reception from 6pm on June 6th)
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| Tuesday, June 6th | |||
| 18:00-19:30 | Welcome Reception & Registration | Poolside | |
| Wednesday, June 7th | |||
| 07:00-08:00 | Breakfast/Networking | Concourse | |
| 07:00-17:00 | Registration | Concourse | |
| 08:00-08:05 | Opening Remarks | Camelia Room | Dan Bierbrauer (SNC) |
| 08:05-08:40 | Keynote: Defining the Digital Landscape | Camelia Room | Chuck Kharrl (SNC) |
| 08:40-08:50 | DEI & General Housekeeping Announcements | Camelia Room | Nicole Fortune (SNC) |
| 09:00-09:45 | Integrated Operations for Nuclear (ION) | Camelia Room | Bruce Hallbert (INL) |
| 09:45-10:00 | Break and Networking | Camelia Room | |
| 10:00-11:00 | NextAxiom Roadmap | Camelia Room | Ash Massoudi & Sandy Zylka (NxA) |
| 11:00-12:00 | Panel Discussion I: The State of Work Digitalization, Targeted Values & Starting Points | Camelia Room | Pending Confirmations |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch / Networking | Made Market | |
| 13:00-13:45 | Redefining Work in a Digital Nuclear World | Camelia Room | Tod Hurrle (Xcel) |
| 13:45-14:00 | Transition | ||
| 14:00-14:45 | The Digital Outage | Camelia Room | Spencer Harris (SNC) |
| 14:45-15:15 | Break and Networking | ||
| 15:15-16:00 | Empowering the Digital Worker | Camelia Room | NextEra / Florida Power & Light |
| 16:00-16:15 | Transition | ||
| 16:15-16:35 | Extending EWP with Dynamic Instructions | Camelia Room | Adam Smith (LANL) |
| 16:40-17:00 | Integrating Information to Drive Automation and Innovation | Camelia Room | Craig Primer (ION) |
| 18:30-21:30 | Evening Activity: TOPGolf | ||
| Thursday, June 8th | |||
| 07:00-08:00 | Breakfast/Networking | Concourse | |
| 08:00-08:15 | Opening Remarks | Camelia Room | Dan Bierbrauer (SNC) |
| 08:15-08:30 | Safety & Ice Breaker | Camelia Room | Thomas Brooks (SNC) |
| 08:30-9:30 | Keynote Presentation: Xcel - Innovative Vision | Camelia Room | Todd Conner (Xcel) |
| 09:30-10:00 | Panel Discussion II: Digital Journey | Camelia Room | Pending Confirmations |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break/Networking | ||
| 10:30-11:15 | The Dynamic Ecosystem | Camelia Room | Pending Confirmation |
| 11:15-12:00 | DWEP Interactive Session: Achieving the Next Level of Success | Camelia Room | Sandy Zylka & Blake Wiggins (NxA) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch / Networking | Made Market | |
| 13:00-13:45 | INL Work Digitalization Initiative Update | Camelia Room | Johanna Oxstrand (INL) |
| 13:45-14:00 | Transition | ||
| 14:00-14:45 | The DWEP Digitalized Factory | Camelia Room | Jim Plemmons (CNS Y-12)) |
| 14:45-15:15 | Break/Networking | ||
| 15:15-16:15 | Panel Discussion III: User Features / Driving the Road Map | Camelia Room | Pending Confirmations |
| 16:45-17:00 | Passing the Torch for 2024 | Camelia Room | To Be Announced |
Chuck Kharrl
Vice President, Operations Support
Southern Nuclear Corporation
Chuck Kharrl is the Vice President of Operations Support. In this role, he is responsible for Fleet Governance & Oversight, Fleet Capital Projects and Fleet Outage Services for Southern Nuclear Corporation. Chuck has more than 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry and has held Vice President positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and most recently at Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant. Chuck has held Senior Reactor Operator licenses at Palo Verde, Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station and St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant. He graduated from Naval Nuclear Power School and earned his master's degree in business administration from the University of Arizona.
Spencer Harris
Manager of Fleet Projects
Southern Nuclear Corporation
He went into engineering due to his love of machines and all things mechanical. He has pursued project management due to the ability to see things through to completion.
Spencer is currently managing a team of Project Mangers to develop fleet strategies for the implementation of like projects at each site (transformers, cranes, etc.). The vision is to provide a lower overhead implementation with an increasingly high quality through repetitive implementations and a fleet strategy for maintenance, operations, and supply chain. They are pushing to lower the cost to operate these modifications for the life of the plants.
He is the father of two beautiful daughters whose activities seem to take up all of Spencer's available time, but when he's free, he enjoys working with his hands. He also is a private pilot and an Auburn Football Letterman.
Introducing the
Dynamic Work
Execution Platform®
The DWEP accelerates digital transformation by guiding your existing work processes through computer-guided instructions and integrated forms driven by dynamic workflows on a platform designed for continuous improvement. Organizations achieve global awareness across all work processes with granular visibility of current state and cycle times of every instance of work executed and managed through DWEP.
The NextAxiom DWEP technology incrementally transforms the existing workforce across a large organization into a digital workforce. DWEP is the culmination of patent-pending NextAxiom technology with more than ten years of field experience in the nuclear industry focused on automating work processes. This is augmented by over seven years of human factors research around the Computer-Based Procedure (CBP) initiative from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the US Department of Energy.
