arcos webinar week
WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD: DRIVING OPERATIONAL READINESS
Even the hardest-working trucks need regular maintenance. The same goes for your operations! Join the Arcos Utility Operations Tune-Up Series - a webinar series for keeping your response engine running strong.
Register once to access all four days of content! Scroll down to view the agenda and topics.
Date
June 15-18, 2026
Time
2pm ET
Schedule and Topics
Mobilizing Crews: Tuning Up Your Operations Engine
When events unfold, speed matters—but mobilizing crews is often slower and more complex than expected. Availability, compliance, communication, and coordination all create friction at the worst possible time. This session examines why mobilization becomes a bottleneck and what it takes to move faster with confidence.
Accelerating Response: Staying on the Road as Conditions Evolve
In high-pressure moments, gaining a clear, real-time picture of operations becomes surprisingly difficult. Information lives in multiple systems, updates lag, and field reality doesn’t always match what’s on the screen. This session explores why visibility breaks down—and how that impacts every decision that follows.
Optimizing Work: Steering Operations Toward Efficient Execution
Getting crews deployed is only the beginning—keeping work coordinated as conditions change is where the real challenge begins. Competing priorities, limited visibility, and constant adjustments can turn execution into a reactive process. This session explores how utilities can maintain control and momentum in the field.
Driving Operational Readiness: Building a Storm Response Framework That Lasts
For many utilities, the heart of operational readiness lies in their process—clear guidelines on how to deploy crews, execute critical work in the field, and restore safely and quickly. In this webinar, you’ll hear about how one utility is in the process of redefining their storm response with a clear, stage-based framework that helps operations teams and executives prepare, mobilize, and review work with greater consistency. A key driver behind the effort was the need for stronger post-event accounting and clearer public utility commission reporting, supported by more complete, consistent data from the field.
You’ll learn about how the team rebuilt its storm process around training, visibility, and disciplined use of technology—starting with the expectation that for daily work, every crew is built in the system by 9 a.m. From technology as a “virtual whiteboard” to acronyms as teaching tools, this discussion will provide a snapshot of a utility improving readiness with a laser-sharp focus on the fundamentals of process.
Speakers:
Debra Googins, Program Manager – Operational Excellence , Avangrid
Featured Speaker: June 18th Session
Debra Googins, Avangrid
