Webinar: From Zero to Storm-Ready: How the City of Starke built a GIS and Resilience Baseline in a Single Day

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (EDT)

Meeting will be hosted via Microsoft Teams. Meeting link will be sent in confirmation email.

Category: Webinar

Learn how one small public power utility used AI-enabled, vehicle-mounted cameras to build a complete GIS system for 2,300+ poles in under eight hours — establishing a powerful baseline for operations, resilience, and storm readiness.

This session garnered many thoughtful questions during FMEA's 2026 Hurricane and Storm Preparedness Forum. Accordingly, we thought it was worth revisiting during a webinar for any FMEA member.

Who Should Attend:

Any utility professionals within electric operations and field services
Engineering professionals and system planners
Technology professionals including GIS managers, IT managers
Storm preparedness and emergency managers, reliability and resilience coordinators

Speaker information

Joel Berntsen is Chief Growth Officer at Noteworthy AI and an award-winning commercialization and technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving innovation at high-growth organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to Inc. 500 startups. At Noteworthy, Joel is helping lead the transformation of utility operations through AI-enabled solutions that increase operational efficiency, enhance grid resilience, and support a more sustainable and connected energy future.

He’ll be joined by David Sparks—who spent years coordinating mutual aid for Gainesville Regional Utilities. David now serves as Electric Operations Manager for the City of Starke.