john silkey

AI and DSR’s - facilitate conversations on basics of what it is, what are the big complex challenges you see, how might these intersect?

what are the conversations you’re having on AI right now?

-How might AI help you scale the deployment and predictability of DRS’s?

SEO Round table idea:

-share your bright spots right now? What’s working? What’s surprised you in a good way?

What opportunities do you see in your state now? What’s in your way of doing it? What info from your peers would help? How can SEEA help?

Utility round table ideas:

-hear about other programs in the region including HERO - what did we learn from HERO 1.0 to 2.0"?

Cox Clean Tech Accelerator - working to build new companies by helping with commercialization in hopes they move here and build here

Needs:

Exposure to potential customers

Amplification

Connections

SEEA’s angle on a collab:

—connecting our members to innovation

-economic development

Ideas:

-present at summit or Miguel as part of a working group so he can

Key piece of mature economic engine - rather than giving ever larger tax breaks and incentives to recruit from out of region, invest in local startups, building new companies and industries.

Don’t do what pittsburgh did, waiting decades to choose healthcare as its new industry.

Industrials - get utilities to look at the capacity savings of SEM programs

Help industrials rethink what community impact looks like to them and include energy use for their workers at home.

SEEA -we want to help you be successful here, including thinking about what success here means and looks like. Jobs, yes, but what else up and down stream?

Industrials - do an SEM cohort.

Grab the capacity data as proof for our utilities to dive in and invest in it.

SEEA runs the cohorts

what if the utilities looked at all the big facilities on one feeder where a Data Center is going to go and offered SEM? Its a more surgical approach.

Her impact was immediate. Lauren Messier ’25, who is pursuing a professional women’s hockey career following graduation in June, says Crowell transformed the team.

“She came into a pretty broken group of girls with no direction. We had little motivation, and she just lit a spark for us and showed us which direction we wanted to go, and helped us

Slide 5: Impact of Industrial Departure

Title: "From Prosperity to Decline"

• Economic Collapse: Unemployment above national average, income levels plummeted • Population Loss: Syracuse metro lost 100,000+ residents (1970-2010) • Urban Decay: Abandoned factories, declining downtown, residential abandonment • Fiscal Crisis: Shrinking tax base,