SmartSignal Announces Speakers for Summit 2010: Avoid Surprises

LISLE, Ill.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SmartSignal Corporation today announced the speakers and agenda for Summit 2010: Avoid Surprises, an international gathering of the most advanced users of Predictive Analytics and Diagnostics for monitoring of critical industrial assets. The conference, scheduled for Sept 7-9, 2010 at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, is expected to attract over 250 attendees from the Power and Oil & Gas industries.

“We encourage both SmartSignal customers and all others interested in Predictive Analytics and Diagnostics to attend the Summit. There’s no better place on the planet to hear experts talk about how to optimize the performance of their plants and businesses.”

Keynote speakers include Michael Polsky, founder, president, and CEO, Invenergy LLC and an internationally recognized pioneer and leader in cogeneration and independent power project development. He will be joined by Terry O’Hanlon, publisher, Uptime Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com, and Robert DiStefano, chairman and CEO, Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG). Other confirmed speakers hail from companies worldwide: Alyeska, APS Nuclear, Chevron, Consumers Energy, Constellation Energy, Edipower, EnMax, Entergy, Gas Natural Fenosa, Invenergy, Laborelec, Mirant, New Harquahala, RRI Energy, RWE Npower, Scottish and Southern Energy, SRP, We Energies, and many more.

The Summit will focus on how companies can reduce risk in their operations, optimize scarce resources, and integrate Predictive Analytics and Diagnostics into their organizations. Attendees will hear from industry experts and their peers about how they are implementing innovative best practices and combining SmartSignal and partner capabilities to develop unique solutions for their businesses.

Jim Gagnard, SmartSignal president and chief executive officer and a Summit Keynote speaker, commented: “We encourage both SmartSignal customers and all others interested in Predictive Analytics and Diagnostics to attend the Summit. There’s no better place on the planet to hear experts talk about how to optimize the performance of their plants and businesses.”

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About SmartSignal

SmartSignal is the leading provider of Predictive Diagnostics software and services used to anticipate and avoid surprise equipment failure. SmartSignal customers detect equipment problems with enough advanced timing to optimize maintenance resources, reduce risks, and eliminate failure. With over 40 patents and tens of thousands of prevented impending equipment failures and operational errors, SmartSignal technology has won over twenty awards for excellence, including an international Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award. www.smartsignal.com