GridWeek 2009

Ronald Reagan Building

Washington DC, USA

GridWeek provides the opportunity for organizations and businesses focused on Smart Grid to hold meetings and participate in collaborative sessions and learn from leading experts on Smart Grid.

Background on Smart Grid

A realization is emerging that a new view of energy, beyond oil, coal and other fossil based fuels, will result in decentralized components of the electricity grid, a far cry from the central generation and structured system of the past. A smart information network—the Energy Internet—for the electric grid is seen as necessary to manage and automate this new world.

• Showing Smart Grid Implementation
• Implementing EISA 2008 / ARRA
• Integrating Renewable Energy
• Understanding End-User Perspectives
• Facilitating Efficiency/Carbon Reduction
• Exploring New Business Models
• Improving Operational Efficiencies
• Integrating Smart Appliances/Vehicles

• Utility Executives & Staff
• Congress & Congressional Staff
• Federal & state agencies
• Technology & service providers
• Electricity consumer & advocate groups
• Environmental groups
• Smart Grid stakeholders
• Investors, VCs & financial organizations
• Press, analysts & observers

Following the innaugural summit in 2008, the International Smart Grid Summit at GridWeek 2009 is set to become the world’s prominent opportunity for global Smart Grid players to compare implementation experiences and share best practices to facilitate broader highly successful adoption of Smart Grid.

9:00    Registration & Coffee
10:00    International Plenary
Welcome and opening comments
Keynote
11:00    Enabling Consumer Choice
12:15    International Lunch
1:30    Enabling Renewables
2:45    Break
3:15    Driving Reliability and Operational Efficiency
4:30    Smart Grid Collaboration
5:15    Closing Comments
5:30    International Reception
7:00    Free Time

Tuesday September 22, 2009
Smart Grid Today in the USA
Tuesday at GridWeek will be dedicated to exploring the rich aspects of real implementations of Smart Grid in the USA. With a holistic approach, all of the sessions during this day will perform a deep-dive on a range of key aspects that are necessary for Smart Grid deployment to be successful.
Drawing from a range of projects being undertaken by IOUs (Investment Owned Utilities) as well as Co-op and municipal utilities, the sessions specifically highlights projects from California, Texas, and Colorado.
The objective of this day is to paint a picture of the intricate nature and interrelationships of the broad array of issues to be considered, from policy to technology, environment to end-user benefits, and business case to job creation.

7:00    Registration & Coffee
8:30    Tuesday Plenary
Tuesday Keynote
Governors Roundtable
10:00    Break
10:30    Standards: Help or Hindrance in Smart Grid Deployment
State and Local Collaboration: Enabling a Recipe for Success
End-User Value: From Promise to Reality
12:00    Lunch
1:30    Cybersecurity: Dealing with Your Smart Grid Insecurities
Making the Business Case: Quantifying a Vision
Driving Efficiencies and Optimization: Maximizing the Operational Value of Smart Grid
3:00    Break
3:30    Grid Operations: Improved Performance from the Data Storm
Economic Development and Job Creation: Value of Smart Grid to the Economy
Environmental Impact: Is a Smarter Grid a Greener Grid?
5:00    Free Time – Travel to the National Press Club
5:30    Reception at NPC
7:00    Free Time

Wednesday September 23, 2009
Charting Smart Grid Industry Direction

7:00    Registration & Coffee
8:30    Wednesday Plenary
State of the Grid
Industry Roundtable
10:00    Break
10:30    CyberSecurity & the Grid: Locking Down this Critical Infrastructure
End-User Perspectives: Do Utilities Truly Understand Future Customers?
Storage & Renewables: Beyond Green, Game-changing Power Storage and Production
12:00    Wednesday Lunch
1:30    Data Management: Digging for Data without Getting Buried
Marketing the Smart Grid: Plugging into Madison Avenue
Grid Reliability: Hardening our Critical Energy Infrastructure
3:00    Break
3:30    Microgrids: Building Smart Grids, One Community at a Time
Workforce Development: The Human Side of the Smart Grid
Electric Transportation: Challenges & Opportunities for Charging & Storage
5:00    Sponsors Reception
6:00    Free Time
7:00    Dinner Talk
Smart Grid Awards

Thursday September 24, 2009
Smart Grid Next Steps

7:00    Registration & Coffee
8:30    Interoperability Standards: Connecting Disparate Systems, Mission Impossible?
Policy and Regulation: Spurring Smart Grid Investment?
Business Models: Creating Innovative Businesses Around the Energy Internet
10:00    Break
10:30    Closing Plenary
Closing Roundtable
Call To Action
12:00    Concluding Networking
1:00    End of GridWeek 2009

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