November webinars — the year-round series starts
SAP for Utilities 2026 had more than 80 sessions, over half of them utility-to-utility. Not everyone can be there, and nobody can be in every room, so this month we start a year-round series that keeps that sharing going between conferences. Full details for each session are on our Utility Events page.
Monday, November 2 — Evolving Enterprise Architecture with an Integrated SAP Toolchain: NiSource’s LeanIX Journey. 1:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm CT / 10:00 am PT. Evan Prince and Jeff Carbol, Senior Enterprise Architects at NiSource, reprise their conference session on how NiSource built an integrated SAP toolchain to run enterprise architecture at scale across six states: LeanIX across nearly 390 applications, Signavio processes connected to the CMDB and project management, utility-specific architecture governance, and getting the most out of standard functionality before customizing. Interactive Q&A, candid lessons. Register here.
Tuesday, November 10 — Moving to SAP S/4: data AI-readiness included. 11:00 am ET / 8:00 am PT. A live Expert Talk with Paul Kurchina, Jean-Marc Pestoni, Sebastian Wernicke and me on the bigger data picture behind the move to S/4HANA: what to do with decades of historical data without moving all of it, retiring legacy systems without losing access, keeping the business context that gives data its meaning, and getting that data ready for AI. Register here.
Wednesday, November 18 — SAP Espresso: Industry AI for Utilities, Engagement Model and Utilities Ontology Preview. 4:00 pm CET / 10:00 am ET / 7:00 am PT. Frederik Meyer and Paul Roth of SAP introduce SAP’s Industry AI engagement model and its Forward Deployed Engineering co-innovation approach, then give a live preview of the Utilities Ontology, a domain-specific knowledge layer meant to give AI on the SAP platform real utility business context. They cover the design principles, scope and structure of the first release, how the ontology supports agentic AI deployments, and a step-by-step view of instantiating and operationalizing it in a customer’s own architecture. Aimed at anyone leading AI strategy, digital transformation, enterprise architecture or SAP platform work. Register here.
Still being scheduled: Sara Burke of PG&E on organizational change management across a workforce of nearly 60,000 employees and contractors. Watch for the invitation.
Early December, so you can plan ahead: SAP Espresso, Update and Outlook for SAP S/4HANA Utilities Innovations (December 2); ASUG, You Can’t Transform What You Can’t See, Avista’s journey from complexity to clarity with SAP’s integrated toolchain (December 8, 9:00 am PT); and the Mirata customer group meeting (December 9, Mirata customers only).
Utility.Community is now on iPhone and Android
The free Utility.Community app is now on both the App Store and Google Play. It puts your working groups, discussions, webinars and the weekly digests in your pocket, with Face ID or fingerprint sign-in and optional announcements about upcoming webinars. Sign in with your existing utility.community account; no new account is needed. Setup help is on the app support page.
October newsletters from SAP and ASUG
SAP Utility Newsletter, October 2026 — earlier editions are on our SAP Utility Community Content page.
ASUG Utility Voice, October 2026: AI Ambition Meets Industry Readiness in the SAP for Utilities Keynotes — earlier ASUG content is on our SAP Community Newsletter supported by ASUG page.
Utility Voice — Agents on the Slides, Migrations in the Room
San Antonio packed 79 sessions into three days, and the decks tell a clearer story than the agenda: SAP brought agents that now have dates, and utilities brought migrations, clean-core discipline and AI they built themselves. Article 12 works through six layers, from the 2027 maintenance calendar to the people-and-process work that still decides every program, adds what SAP told investors in its Q3 results two weeks later, and covers the SAP DER demo on the vendor floor. Read Article 12: Agents on the Slides, Migrations in the Room.
Utility Voice — The Answers That Came Back
Article 10 asked roughly fifty questions and promised a report on what came back from San Antonio. Article 11 scores sixty-six of them room by room: eleven answered, twenty-eight partly answered, twenty-seven not answered at all. The surprise is where the answers came from: utilities that have already shipped AI answered the governance questions on their own slides, while on agents acting on operations SAP has since offered a principle and nobody, utility or SAP, has offered a control. It also covers FERC’s new staff guidance on AI tools under CIP and the New York AI inventories due November 16. Read Article 11: The Answers That Came Back.
Autonomous Enterprise:
SAP Utility Voice: The Answers That Came Back – the report card on the questions, room by room.
The scorecard: all sixty-six questions, room by room, and what came back.
SAP Utility Voice: Agents on the Slides, Migrations in the Room – what SAP for Utilities 2026 actually showed us.
SAP Utility Voice: The Questions We Need Answered – four rooms, one ask, before San Antonio.
The full list of questions, sorted by who can answer them.
SAP Utility Voice: The Meter Is On. Now Who Controls It? – what SAP’s new AI pricing actually asks of utilities.
SAP Utility Voice: Europe Certifies the Artifact – why your vendor’s certificate is not the thing you think it is.
SAP Utility Voice: The Accountability Gate – who owns the outcome when an AI agent acts.
SAP Utility Voice: Important Updates to the API Policy and the Audits you need to do now.
SAP Utility Voice: Strategic Agreements – What we all agree on.
SAP Utility Voice: The customer an agent sees.
SAP Utility Voice: The Data an agent reads.
ASUG Utility Voice: Who secures the Autonomous Enterprise
ASUG Utility Voice: A call to action for Utilities to influence SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise
The weekly DER digest keeps running — distributed energy research synthesised and published every Friday. Browse the digest archive here.
The weekly Utility AI digest is updated every Friday too.
Two other things worth bookmarking: our webinar library, which now runs to two years of sessions, and the topic subscription page if you would rather only hear about the areas you work in.
If you would like any of the recordings, or if something here is useful and you want to talk about it, email me at marc@utility.community.
Marc Rosson
Utility.Community
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