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Bridging Business and IT in the Heavily Regulated Energy Industry

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Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Robert Flowers, Senior Product Owner & Enterprise API Oversight at Duke Energy, to talk about being a bridge between business and IT, and the importance of data and feedback loops when it comes to delivering internal and partner API services in a heavily regulated industry like the energy sector.

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Kin Lane

Kin Lane

Chief Evangelist

Postman

Robert Flowers

Robert Flowers

Senior Product Owner & Enterprise API Oversight

Duke Energy

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Duke Energy, a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Our electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Our natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky. Our company employs 28,000 people.

In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Robert Flowers, Senior Product Owner & Enterprise API Oversight at Duke Energy, to talk about being a bridge between business and IT, and the importance of data and feedback loops when it comes to delivering internal and partner API services in a heavily regulated industry like the energy sector.

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