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Topic: AI-Powered Knowledge Management for Energy System Monitoring
AWS Innovation with FlexGen
November 2024

About the Episode
On this episode, we go behind the scenes with FlexGen, an innovator in large-scale battery energy storage systems. Hear about their collaboration with the AWS Prototyping team to develop a conversational AI assistant to streamline knowledge workflows and empower frontline technicians.
FlexGen's CTO Hugh Scott and AWS Senior Prototyping Architect Allison Pryor share insights on embracing an iterative development approach, maintaining human decision authority, and building continuous learning capabilities. They also explore the broader potential to extend this generative AI approach across FlexGen's business processes.
Highlights
00:00 - Introduction to Flexgen and Its Energy Storage Systems
1:47 - The Challenge of Streamlining Operations at Scale
4:30 - Partnering with AWS Prototyping Team for Generative AI Solutions
6:11 - The Role of Rock Agents in Monitoring Energy Systems
9:38 - Training and Knowledge Transfer for Rock Agents
11:04 - Architectural Patterns and Technologies Used for the Rock Bot Solution
12:05 - Integrating Real-Time Data and Documentation into the Rock Bot
26:46 - Expanding the Use of Generative AI across the Business
27:14 - Future Roadmap and Continuous Innovation
28:51 - Lessons Learned and Best Practices

We spent a day with Allison and the team, and we went through [the implementation] almost line-by-line to understand it. But what was eye opening, wasn't the specifics of how the solution was implemented, but the architectural pattern!"
- Hugh Scott on the transfer of best practices from the AWS team.

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