Smart Grid Modernization | Detailed Agenda

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Opening Comments From the Chair

LATEST CHANGESOpening Keynote Address

Every Day is Different: Balancing Supply and Demand for Electricity in a Changing World

Be equipped with latest updates on the changing energy landscape to ensure your path to grid modernization. Kim Warren, VP Operations and Chief Operating Officer of the IESO, will describe some of the changes impacting Ontario's changing energy landscape, including:

• The rapid growth of renewable generation
• Changing demand profiles
• Energy storage and demand response
• Enabling technologies and their impact on grid operations
• Price signals and the evolving role of the consumer

Get the most up-to-date analysis from the IESO to better plan for the changing world.

NORTH AMERICA'S FIRSTToronto Hydro / First Urban Community Energy Storage Pilot Project

Leverage Community Energy Storage to Modernize the Aging Distribution System

This collaboration project is the world's first CES and a showcase of the latest R&D in the industry. Improve your power quality, energy flow, and reliability to overcome aging infrastructure. Develop your roadmap to:

• Mitigate peak demand
• Optimize your delivery system
• Incorporate community storage into utility-scale systems

Optimize your distribution system through lessons learned in this pilot project.

Mid-Morning Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. Secure new contacts and discuss your ideas!

NEW STUDYBCIT/ Smart Microgrids

Create Your Roadmap to Integrate Renewable Energy Through Enabling Smart Microgrids

The future of Canada's smart grid will be a network of microgrids. Analyze the latest research findings in near-real testing environments and apply this to your future planning. Build your blueprint to:

• Identify the areas of highest return value to make the business case for grid technologies
• Examine the operational challenges that need to be addressed
• Determine next steps in integrating renewable resources

Plan the integration of your local renewable energy sources through practical lessons learned from smart microgrids.

Advanced Distribution Management System

Optimizing Your Grid Operations Through the Advanced Distribution Management System

Through a common visibility, the ADMS presents a consistent and real-time view of the distribution network. Determine how you can make smarter distribution decisions with a comprehensive distribution network monitoring, analysis, and control system. Take away specific solutions to allow for efficient and reliable management of grid operations.

• Stay on top of the newest developments in self-healing automation
• Overcome reliability challenges in distributed energy
• Leverage real-time weather analysis to manage network load

Transition into a fully modernized grid with ADMS.

Networking Luncheon

Join the conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon.

Grid Security

Improve Grid Security and Stay on Top of New and Evolving Threats

Continued collaboration within the industry will be essential to protect critical grid infrastructure. Better understand security threats and strengthen your ability to address them effectively. Devise your strategy to:

• Improve collective understanding of evolving threats
• Leverage knowledge and expertise of the government and industry
• Examine further developments in cyber security and know what to expect moving forward

Advance collaboration and leverage best practices to secure your critical infrastructure.

Case Study: City of Summerside/ Public-Private Partnership

Collaborate Through Public-Private Partnerships to Enable Seamless Grid Integration

The City of Summerside is an innovative Maritimes community with a vast amount of wind energy. Take away strategies on building public-private partnerships and capitalize on wind energy. Create your action plan to:

• Overcome wind intermittency through automated demand response capabilities
• Work with different sectors to empower and engage users
• Collaborate to build the infrastructure for wind integration and future energy needs

Better integrate new technologies into your grid through crosssector collaboration.

Mid-Afternoon Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees.

Future Grid Developments

Develop a Long-Term Roadmap for Future Smart Grid Deployments to Sustain Modernization

A wide range of technology is being tested in different parts of the grid to guide future investments and implementation. Determine where you can best deploy future grid technologies. Take away key strategies to:

• Examine the cost-effectiveness of new technology integration
• Determine reliability improvements to maximize technology benefits
• Evaluate customer benefits in energy savings and customer satisfaction

Improve and sustain your grid modernization efforts with a clear roadmap.

NEW CONCEPTTransactive Energy

Explore the Future of Transactive Energy in North America

As consumers become prosumers in the energy market, developing the architecture for transactive energy is becoming increasingly imperative. Prepare your operations for this new approach in managing energy as transactions. Take away key strategies to:

• Develop a roadmap for transactive energy architecture
• Improve cost-effectiveness through coordinated economic and reliability constraints
• Assess how transactive controls can improve the integration of intermittent, distributed renewables

Advance operation efficiency and cost-effectiveness through the development of transactive energy architecture.

Conference Adjourns to Day Two

Evening Social Activities

Network with industry leaders and stakeholders. Start by joining fellow delegates and speakers for complimentary appetizers.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Opening Comments From the Chair

NEW STORAGE INNOVATIONSCase Study: EDF France/ Energy Storage

Discover New Ways to Maximize Value on Energy Storage Innovations

Energy storage is one of the most important elements in grid modernization. Stay on top of the latest innovations and determine new ways for you to maximize value. Take away new strategies on:

• How to best realize the benefits of energy storage
• How to leverage storage technologies to balance demand and supply
• Lessons learned from demonstration projects
• The outlook for utility-scale storage

Stay on top of the innovations and maximize your investment on energy storage.

Case Study: Minnesota Power / Grid Modernization

Determine the Best Allocation of Investment Funds to Accelerate Your Grid Modernization Efforts

Minnesota Power has been effectively upgrading their legacy system through the Smart Grid Investment Grant program. Take away strategies from this leading innovator to modernize your grid with the right choices. Develop your action plan to:

• Analyze aging infrastructure pain points to maximize operational benefits
• Determine the best approach to balance cost and reliability goals
• Involve customers in your grid modernization process

Apply best practices to cost-effectively upgrade your aging infrastructure.

Mid-Morning Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. Secure new contacts and discuss your ideas!

NEW STANDARDSUpdate! OpenADR

Get the Newest Updates on OpenADR to Optimize Your Demand Response Programs

OpenADR provides a high level of interoperability and new opportunities in demand response programs. Apply the most up-to-date information to optimize your grid. Devise your framework to:

• Enable more predictable load control and accessibility to customers
• Overcome issues in increasing demand and integration with renewable energy
• Improve grid stability and reliability during peak demand through secure and automated two-way communication

Improve your DR programs with the latest updates on OpenADR.

Case Study: London Hydro/Home Area Network Interoperability

Enable Smart Integration and Deliver Interoperability to the Home Area Network

Supporting communication and networking between various components is imperative in the Home Area Network. Find out how you can smoothly transition to smart home integration. Develop a blueprint to:

• Use energy and endpoint data to support engagement programs
• Optimize the integration of electric vehicles
• Establish long-term compatibility between smart appliances and utilities

Enable and support the integration of new technology into your HAN to ensure interoperability.

Networking Luncheon

Join the conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon.

Incorporate Customer-Centricity into Future Planning Through Innovative Engagement

Customer knowledge and expectations are important drivers in innovation. Determine how you can improve engagement and foster better energy literacy to pave the way for a sustainable energy future. Create a roadmap to:

• Understand the role and importance of the customer in a sustainable energy future
• Improve service and communications with customers to build knowledge and confidence
• Align the needs and expectations of different customers

Empower your customers and embed their needs into future investment planning.

Mid-Afternoon Networking Break

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees.

JUST RELEASED! NEW STUDYConnected Homes/Exclusive Study

Examine the Impact of Smart Grid on Connected Homes to Better Plan Residential Grid Deployment

CABA and Frost & Sullivan have just completed a collaborative research study designed to improve the industry's understanding of the residential smart grid. This exclusive study will show you how to plan future grid developments for your residential customers. Better formulate your plans to:

• Address consumers' perspectives, needs, and confusion regarding the connected home
• Evaluate success factors in raising consumer awareness
• Accommodate projected market trends for the next 5 years and what it means for local utilities
• Prepare for current and future developments of connected home technologies

Come away with a clear roadmap for you to better plan for connected homes.

Peer-to-Peer Session

Plan and Execute Your Smart Grid Roadmap: Exclusive Interactive Exchange with Conference Delegates

The perspectives and experiences of individual delegates, along with the insights of speakers over the past two days, will be brought together for this exclusive exchange on strategies that worked and those that have not. Conference delegates will focus on two questions:

• What are the key strategies and future developments that will affect the electricity system in North America?
• What are your planned solutions for overcoming current issues facing the power industry?

Take away valuable lessons from your peers in this unique interactive session.

Conference Adjourns