Welcome to the OpenText Utilities User Group, where like minded professionals from Electricity, Gas and Water Utility companies like yours gather for an immersive 60-minute session quarterly. Whether optimizing asset maintenance or managing critical information and operations, subject matter experts take this time to shine a light on OpenText use cases and solutions that will transform your day-to-day.
As a member of the Utilities User Group, you will:
- Discuss real, feet on the street challenges in the industry
- Gain new knowledge of your OpenText tools and insider intel on the latest version releases
- Discover how to make the most of your technology and best practices
- Provide your feedback and topic requests to make this user group your own
2023 meetings
- March 9th: Application decommissioning & InfoArchive - Platform 3 Solutions
- June 8th: Asset Navigation - Cad Capture
Program Hosts
Phil Schwarz
Sr. Industry Marketing Strategist, OpenText
Phil Schwarz is the Industry Strategist for Energy at OpenText. With two decades of energy industry experience, Phil has become a trusted SME, having supported operators, EPCs, service providers, and OEMs across the entire value chain. Phil is an engineer by education and has a MBA, M.S. in Economics, and a Graduate Certificate in Smart Oilfield Technologies. He resides in the Anchorage, Alaska area and loves to hike and enjoy the outdoors.
Kevin Conroy
Sr. Account Executive, Public Utilities, OpenText
Kevin Conroy has been consulting regulated organizations specific to the journey of their Customer Experiences with an emphasis on Enterprise Information Management solutions for the last two decades. Residing in Arizona he takes advantage of the weather by favorite pastimes of golfing, hiking, walking his Labradors and attending his children's sporting events.
Marc Rosson
Enterprise Architect, Snohomish County PUD
Marc brings over 34 years of experience within the Information Technology industry. During his career he has made many roles from programmer to CIO and has been in the Enterprise Architect role for Snohomish County PUD for the past 14 years.
Prior to utilities, Marc worked as the CIO for Seattle Housing Authority providing public housing in the city of Seattle for 10 years and before that 10 years in Oil & Gas for multiple companies including Exxon/Mobil/BP/Conoco-Phillips.
Marc has an MBA and a BS in Computer Science.
Magali Germain
Customer Programs and Engagement, OpenText
With 20 years of B2B marketing experience, Magali is a specialist in customer experience. She previously worked at HP and Quadient, where she was responsible for EMEA marketing. She has supported the Digital Experience Product Marketing team at OpenText, before joining the customer marketing team. She lives with her 2 children in Switzerland and enjoys outdoor activities.