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Chris Rezendes

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Chris Rezendes has been a guest on The Energy Gang .

Recently: “AI in energy: How can new technology strengthen the resilience of energy systems? | From ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi” on The Energy Gang (November 2026).

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“Right now, the vast majority of energy companies' data estates look like our garages before we clean them out for spring cleaning. They serve a function, and the intention was there to keep it neat and clean, but needs come up. So these businesses are built through acquisition. They're not monolithic IT estates or OT estates.” — Chris Rezendes, The Energy Gang

Rezendes explains why energy companies need to prepare their data before pointing AI models at it. Messy data stores built up through acquisitions are the gap his company says it closes.

The Energy Gang · 2026-11-12 Permalink → Listen →
The Energy Gang Around 32:53 into the episode
Chris Rezendes

…Dhabi: that it's about empowering the asset to make more of those decisions independently and not need the humans or the robots to come in from the outside. And what does that do? Increase up. It's all this, it's all the increase uptime, reduce mean time to failure, mean time to repair, all that.

Ed Crooks

Right, which directly goes to the big issue that everyone is talking about here at Adepec, which is the resilience of energy systems.

Chris Rezendes

…where our new product distillery enables us to automate all of this data preparation for AI that right now is billions of dollars in professional services with IP leakage all over the place. It's like we've created a cottage industry of batch building the tools we need to feed AI. We need to automate. So there's a zoo of data pools, data stores, data storage. And here's the way I describe it. Right now, the vast majority of energy companies' data estates look like our garages before we clean them out for spring cleaning. They serve a function, and the intention was there to keep it neat and clean, but needs come up. So these businesses are built through acquisition. They're not monolithic IT estates or OT estates. So you have by nature, and it's not a bad thing, but you have a broad collection of data stores and data sets that you want to run through rapidly and cleanly with low risk and high impact these new models. But there's a mismatch. So the key for us is to say, how can we be part of inserting code, inserting machine learning, inserting AI for the data to enable that data to enable AI? And so in…

Per Erik Holsten

This episode of The Energy Gang is brought to you by Adipec, the world's largest energy event, which took place in Abu Dhabi from the 2nd to the 5th of November. As demand rises and global energy markets evolve, the challenge is clear. Meet today's energy needs while building more resilient…

Ed Crooks

showcasing technologies, building partnerships, and advancing the projects needed to move the industry forward. Discover more at adepec.com. Chris Rezendes, thank you very much. I next spoke to Jim Masso, who is the president and CEO of process automation at Honeywell Technologies. And I began by…

Jim Masso

So I think the difference is real, but there's two. Grounding points probably worth making. The first is we're an automation and controls company in the most critical processes in the world. So what we do has to work. And actually, I was just having a conversation with a customer in this room…

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“The highest risk decisions need to have the highest true currency of information behind them. In other words, garbage in, garbage out. With agentic AI, it's garbage in, one million garbage out.” — Chris Rezendes, The Energy Gang

Asked what AI can do for the energy industry, Context Labs' Chris Rezendes argues that agents multiply whatever quality of data they are fed, so the source of the data matters more than the model.

The Energy Gang · 2026-11-12 Permalink → Listen →
The Energy Gang Around 26:08 into the episode
Chris Rezendes

…take this ethereal thing called emissions or emissions intensity that maybe has some traction in a compliance or in a voluntary sustainability domain? Can we help make it strong enough to turn it into a commercial commodity market or capital market term? And we've been doing that with our clients.

Ed Crooks

…he had a good line about what we're now looking at is what AI can do for the energy industry. And that sense that obviously there's a lot of talk about AI needing energy, but you can reverse it and say AI can make a huge contribution to energy as well. What's your sense of what that impact can be?

Chris Rezendes

…trading, or investment business. It's to give these large, capital-intensive, highly regulated, high-risk, and in some cases, some might say, more vulnerable than we knew, industries and assets, companies, and balance sheets, and give them the opportunity to make better decisions faster because they'll have a better set of data. There's a concept called TCI or true currency of information. The highest risk decisions need to have the highest true currency of information behind them. In other words, garbage in, garbage out. With Agentic AI, it's garbage in, one million garbage out. And so it just becomes the leverage that one could achieve by having these parallel processing systems driven by these GPUs, driven by NVIDIA, optimized for your application. What are you feeding the application? And where does the data come from? Does the data come from the unwashed internet? Does the data come from a hypothecation in a model? Does the data come from a synthetic data set? The…

Ed Crooks

Context Labs then was founded in 2013. You've been in this business for a while. Obviously, there's a trend. I've been in the business since 2018. Right, and there's a tendency, as you all know, for people to talk as if AI was magically invented in 2022 with Chat GPT. It's obviously been around for…

Chris Rezendes

Sure, so first things first, our founder, Dan Harple, and our CTO, Gavin Nickel, were two of the essentially co-inventors of the real-time streaming protocol, RTSP. That's the protocol that enables us to broadcast this in its digital, but to the human ear, feels analog. So it is the real-time…

Ed Crooks

Meaning, what does that mean?

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