APIC FORUM 2025
Monday, May 5 (08:45 – 04:30 PM)
Join us for the 2025 Alberta Power Industry Consortium (APIC) Forum, which brings together leaders, innovators, and stakeholders from across Alberta’s power and energy sectors. Keynote presentations from all APIC member companies will highlight current initiatives, innovations, and strategic priorities shaping the industry.
This year’s event will be held jointly with the Resilient and Clean Energy Systems (RCES) initiative, a new program supported by the Government of Alberta’s Major Innovation Fund and led by the University of Alberta. The program will feature a panel discussion including representatives from government and industry, offering valuable insights into policy, regulation, and the future of Alberta’s energy landscape.
POSTERS
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AGENDA
| Time | Activities and Speakers |
| 08:45 – 09:00 am | Opening Remarks |
| 09:00 – 09:30 am | EPCOR’s AMI Journey Jennifer Rolph EPCOR |
| 09:30 – 10:00 am | Adventures with ACCC: Learnings from a Groundbreaking project using High-Temp, Low-Sag Conductor Ashley Yue ATCO |
| 10:00 – 10:20 am | Break |
| 10:20 – 12:00 pm | AI and Energy — A Technical Discussion Plenary Panel Discussion |
| 12:00 – 01:00 pm | Lunch Poster Display |
| 01:00 – 01:30 pm | Distribution Voltage Management Program – Implementation and Learnings Jack Tuo FORTIS ALBERTA |
| 01:30 – 02:00 pm | Downtown Substation Rebuild Paul Mocan, Syed Jafri, Mark Campbell and Truman Seto ENMAX |
| 02:00 – 02:10 pm | Coffee break |
| 02:10 – 02:30 pm | Energy Hackathon Winners Presentation |
| 02:30 – 03:00 pm | AltaLink’s Initial Experiences with Data Centre Connections Roggero Ciofani ALTALINK |
| 03:00 – 03:10 pm | Closing Remarks |
| 03:10 – 04:00 pm | Poster Session |
KEYNOTES
EPCOR
Jennifer is the Senior Manager, Meter Operations at EPCOR. She leads a team responsible for the design, maintenance and operation of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). This includes Meter Field Operations, the Head End Team and the Meter Lab. In her previous roles, Jennifer led the energy settlement, meter data management, tariff billing, data analytics and GIS teams within EPCOR. Jennifer has experience in several different industries including telecommunications, forestry, emergency response and electric utilities. Jennifer has a PMP designation and an MBA, and is passionate about group facilitation, public speaking, business process improvement and leveraging data to derive actionable insights across organizations. She is an energetic and enthusiastic leader who loves to have fun at work with great people!
ATCO
Ashley joined ATCO Electric in 2012 after completion of her Master of Engineering degree with the University of Alberta. She worked in the Line Construction team during her rotational EIT program and finally landed in Transmission Line Design in 2016. Ashley is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Alberta, Canada and currently works as Senior Engineer in ATCO Electric Lines Engineering group. Through the past 9 years, Ashley has designed transmission lines from 72 kV to 240 kV for new-build and maintenance projects, with the tallest steel structure being 54m within an oil and gas facility. She is also involved with standard development, material tendering and procurement, and construction support. In her spare time, Ashley likes to surprise her family with different recipes for baking and cooking.
FORTISALBERTA
Jack graduated from the University of Calgary in 2014 and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. Jack has ~10 years of experience in the power distribution industry and is currently the Manager of DER & Operational Planning at FortisAlberta. Jack’s team is responsible for supporting DER interconnection studies, DER interconnection process and overseeing operational planning activities for both loads and the DERs. The team also looks after the distribution voltage management projects. Prior to the current role, he worked in Distribution Planning, Regulatory and Emerging Customer Solution teams at FortisAlberta.
ENMAX
Mark Campbell is the Manager of Transmission Integrated System Planning at ENMAX Power. He has over 18 years of both direct and leadership experience in the areas of engineering, project management, and regulatory applications. Mark has a passion for building the transmission and distribution infrastructure needed to power the economy and people of Calgary. Mark holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Calgary, and is both a Professional Engineer and a Project Management Professional.
Paul Mocan is a Senior Lead Engineer, Civil, Structural within the Office of the Chief Engineer at ENMAX Power. With over 25 years of experience in construction and building design, Paul has dedicated the past decade to advancing structural requirements in the energy industry. His expertise has been instrumental in developing the standards and guidelines that ENMAX uses. Paul’s leadership and vision continue to drive the department’s mission of integrating cutting-edge solutions with established practices.
Syed is the Senior Lead Engineer, Transmission & Substation within the Office of the Chief Engineer at ENMAX Power. With over 25 years of experience in substation & Transmission design, estimation, standards, and equipment. Syed has been with ENMAX for 13 years where he has leads and governs technical change, resolves technical issues, and provides technical guidance and growth to all stakeholders. In recent years he’s been applying his knowledge to help and advance ENMAX’s Secondary Network area as well.
Truman Seto is the Manager of Operations Planning, Distribution Automation and Protection and Controls at ENMAX Power. He has over 15 years of experience in the Transmission and Distribution utility focusing on real time operations. His main areas of expertise are transmission and distribution reliability analysis and simulation. Truman works alongside a highly technical team that delivers core utility analytics to improve decision making and business investments.
ALTALINK
Roggero is currently a Senior Project Engineer with the Project Engineering group at AltaLink. He has had several different engineering roles and responsibilities throughout the last 15 years including substation design, project engineering, operational engineering, equipment procurement, manufacturer approvals, equipment specifications, and development of maintenance requirements. Roggero graduated with a BSc Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 2008.