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Cindy Hoffman

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Director of Enterprise AI Xcel Energy

Cindy Hoffman leads Xcel Energy’s Enterprise AI enablement and expansion and brings a wealth of experience and expertise in data governance and strategy, leveraging her 20-year utilities industry expertise. She has a long running and extensive focus on working across the business partners to drive operational alignment amongst people, process, technology, and data. Starting in Finance, then moving to Investor Relations, Cindy’s finance experience, combined with IT and Business collaborations, paved her path to solution architecture and ERP implementation leadership. These roles culminated in her spearheading the data strategy and Data Science and AI initiatives at Xcel Energy.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Sponsored by: Lovelytics | Predict and Mitigate Asset Risk: Unlock Geospatial Analytics with GenAI

Discover how Xcel Energy and Lovelytics leveraged the power of geospatial analytics and GenAI to tackle one of the energy sector’s most pressing challenges—wildfire prevention. Transitioning from manual processes to automated GenAI unlocked transformative business value, delivering over 3x greater data coverage, over 4x improved accuracy, and 64x faster processing of geospatial data. In this session, you'll learn how Databricks empowers data leaders to transform raw data, like location information and visual imagery, into actionable insights that save costs, mitigate risks, and enhance customer service. Walk away with strategies for scaling geospatial workloads efficiently, building GenAI-driven solutions, and driving innovation in energy and utilities.