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Adaptability: How we’re rising to meet the challenge of energy imbalance

The CLEAResult Energy Forum is where our industry comes together to tackle the most pressing challenges and opportunities impacting grid resilience and utilities. This year our focus is on adaptability, as we explore how we can respond to the unprecedented energy supply and demand imbalance with smarter, faster, more scalable solutions.

We believe energy leaders must balance innovation with affordability to address this challenge. That’s why we’re investing in tools like AI-driven decision-making and smart workflow automation. We’re actively deploying these capabilities within our CLEAResult ATLAS™ platform to support our program teams with

Adaptability at the forefront: CLEAResult Energy Forum empowers utilities, policymakers, and communities to confront evolving supply-demand dynamics

Jennifer C. Clemente

The 2025 CLEAResult Energy Forum opened with a stark message: the energy sector is grappling with a deepening supply-demand imbalance that’s reshaping how we design, operate and future-proof our power systems.

At the heart of this year’s event was a call for adaptability – driven by collaboration and innovation – as the key to navigating this transformation. 

 In his opening keynote, CLEAResult CEO Rich McBee began by underscoring this urgency with bold data points. They illustrate how utilities face a perfect storm of price volatility, rising demand, political pressure, and climate disruption, but he emphasized that adaptability, paired with a diverse ecosystem working together, will be the defining factor between progress and paralysis.

“The world is

The Journey to Cloud Smart: Learning from Lloyds Banking Group

VMware Explore attracts a wide range of tech innovators and practitioners, who come together to share what they’ve learned as they navigate through their own cloud journey. It’s what makes our community so unique.

Our research shows that the vast majority of our customers have embraced two or more public clouds to run their business operations, and most (70%) are struggling to manage the inherent complexity of this “cloud chaos” phase.[1] All are working hard to get to the desired end state: “cloud smart.” In simple terms, cloud smart means taking an architected and planned

Pioneering the Factory of the Future: Insights from Audi

Since the birth of the car more than a century ago, innovation has been a driving force in automotive manufacturing. Today, as electric vehicles go mainstream, the auto industry is pushing harder than ever to reinvent manufacturing for a low-carbon future.

Audi is at the forefront of this push to create the factory of the future, and the auto giant has joined forces with VMware to power their production site in southwest Germany, as the two companies co-innovate to meet bold goals for sustainability and efficiency.

During VMware Explore Barcelona, I hosted a fascinating conversation with Dr. Henning Loeser, Head of the Audi Production Lab. Henning has long been a prominent voice in

Learn from Aon: A Cloud-Smart Approach in a Multi-Cloud World

Each year VMware Explore is an opportunity to convene the conversation on multi-cloud, bringing together a wide range of diverse perspectives - from developers to DevSecOps, from cloud architects to platform engineering teams, and from security teams to employee-experience experts. It was no surprise that recent breakthroughs in generative AI dominated this year’s gathering in Las Vegas. 

To share more about how leading enterprises are navigating today’s paradigm shifts in technology, I was joined in my keynote at VMware

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