ATLANTA, Aug. 7, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Pepco will host the advanCES 2003 industry conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 26-29. A premier event for thought leaders in the electrical utility industry, advanCES 2003 will draw delegates from more than 60 companies.
CES International produces the annual advanCES conference, now in its fifth year, in conjunction with its Centricity customer advisory group. This year's conference features a keynote address from Peter LaPorte, director of the District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency. Other speakers include Stanley Wisniewski, vice president of operations at Pepco, and John Blend, chairman, president and CEO of CES International.
In addition, the conference will feature an industry trends panel on distribution security, user workshops focused on the Centricity software suite and on outage response, and case studies and presentations from experts in emergency response and cyber security at utilities.
The advanCES 2003 conference hotel, the Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C., is situated in the heart of downtown D.C. A limited number of discounted conference rooms are available now by calling the Grand Hyatt at 1-800-233-1234 and mentioning advanCES 2003.
Attendance at advanCES 2003 sessions, to be held at both Pepco's Edison Place headquarters and at the Grand Hyatt, is strictly limited to pre-registered CES International customer delegates, partners and special guests of the Centricity advisory committee. Conference registration begins Aug. 12. For more information, call (770) 680-7627.
About CES International
CES International supplies real-time software solutions to utilities on five continents, serving more than 35 million metered accounts. CES International is the developer of the Centricity operations resource management (ORM) system, which includes the market's leading outage-management system, and the newly developed Energy Delivery Management (EDM) suite of network-management software. For more information, visit www.ces.com or call 1-800-450-0266. CES International - Redefining Connectivity.
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