emPOWERUP Live: Colorado

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

GrayMatter & GE Vernova’s emPOWERUP Live Workshop

Hosted by City of Aurora Water

9 a.m. (Denver Time) – March 11, 2026

Agenda

9 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome & Intro by Shaun Judd, GrayMatter, and Angela Sims-Ceja, Water Technical Operations Superintendent from City of Aurora

9:15 – 10:15 a.m. SCADA Optimization & Alarm Management with Proficy iFIX & CIMPLICITY 2026 Release + Future Roadmap & Universal Package, Gimmi Filice, Sr. Product Manager, GE Vernova

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Proficy Historian 2026 & Using Historian Data with CSense Analytics and Proficy Operations Hub to Improve Processes and Predictive Maintenance – Gimmi Filice, & Smita Bhat, Sr. Product Managers, GE Vernova

11:30 – Noon Lunch Will Be Provided

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Cybersecurity & Building Secure OT Network Infrastructure – Scott Christensen, Cyber Practice Director, GrayMatter

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Leveraging Zero Trust, Network Segmentation, Secure Remote Access and Cybersecurity for Legacy Systems – Brandon Determan and Joe Baxter, OT & ICS Cybersecurity Advisors, Blastwave; and Eric Dowdy, Fort Collins-Loveland Water District - Client Viewpoint

1:30 p.m. Q&A + Troubleshooting Roundtable

GE Vernova Electrification Software LLC (formerly GE Digital LLC) discussion on moving to their new entity - InnovatePro Management USA LLC – Ron Lasecki, Sr. Channel Manager

Hands-On: Dashboards & Digital Logs