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 Summer 2010 V-Summit Agenda

NOTE: The agenda for the Winter 2011 V-Summit is in development. Below is the agenda from the most recent V-Summit, held on July 29, 2010. Click on individual presentation title to view abstract.

9:00 - 10:15 am EDT -- Session 1: The Smart Grid To Date -- Lessons Learned from the Field
10:15 - 10:30 am EDT-- Networking Break

10:30 - 11:45 am EDT -- Session 2: Meeting the Security Challenges of the Smart Grid
    This session examines the requirements that are being developed to ensure smart grid cyber security, when those requirements will become mandatory, and what can be done now to offset the cost and effort of meeting future security requirements. We'll look at how utilities can best implement a cyber security foundation for distribution automation, as well as strategies for managing the security risk for smart grid deployments.

  • "Laying the Security Foundation for Distribution Automation in an Evolving Regulatory Environment"
    Chris McCormick, Princial Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin, Energy & Cyber Services

  • "AEP Case Study"
    Neil Greenfield, Information Security Senior Specialist, American Electric Power (AEP)

  • "Bringing Smart Grid Cyber Security into the Real World"
    Jon Stitzel, Senior Security Consultant, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc.
11:45 - 12:00 pm EDT -- Networking Break

12:00 - 12:30 pm EDT
Keynote Address: Charting a Course Forward -- The Role of Policy and Regulation in Smart Grid Deployment and Architecture
    This keynote address will examine the major policy and regulatory issues that are expected to define the nature, pace and scope of smart grid deployment in the United States over the next several years and beyond. Issues regarding federal and state jurisdiction will be explored with particular focus on how decisions could impact architecture, market players, access to and use of utility and customer information, interoperability and Cybersecurity standards and cost recovery mechanisms. In addition, several recent decisions by regulators provide important insight into what factors are most likely to determine how technology will be deployed.

  • Robert Mayer, Vice President, Industry and State Affairs, United States Telecom Association (USTelecom)
12:30 - 1:00 pm EDT -- Networking Break

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT -- Session 3: Building the Next-Generation Communication Infrastructure for Smart Grid
    This session examines the status of key communications and IT network alternatives in making the move toward a smart grid. What are the core requirements, standards, and best practices that must be observed? What are the particularly insightful case studies that utilities should look at in mapping their strategy forward? Speakers will look at the pros and cons of various technology options for the field-area network, as well as hard-won lessons learned from utilities leading the way in smart grid deployment. The goal is to give attendees an up to date, reality-based understanding of how best to achieve the goals of intelligent infrastructure for the electric grid.

  • "Achieving the Smart Grid Vision"
    Ashish Sharma, Vice President, Alvarion

  • "Making the Right Choices for the Smart Grid Communication's Network"
    Jay Cappy, Managing Principal, Verizon Business, Global Energy & Utility Practice

  • "AES Case Study"
    Dion Alley, Vice President, Global Infrastructure, AES

  • "Network Deployments: Perspectives from the Field"
    Michael J. Martin, Senior Managing Consultant, Global Center of Competency for Energy & Utilities, IBM.
2:15 - 2:30 pm EDT -- Networking Break

2:30 - 3:45 pm EDT -- Session 4: Smart Grid Wireless Architecture Alternatives and Strategies
    This session -- a continued discussion of issues brought up in the previous panel -- examines key requirements for utility communications infrastructure and the benefits/challenges of different wireless technologies. The session will examine integration techniques and how the smart grid is a “network of networks,” requiring different layers for AMI, distribution area networks for backhaul, as well as utility backend. We will hear from a Rock Hill, a municipal utility with deployment experience in this area, focusing on best practices, lessons learned, and success strategies moving forward.

  • "Wireless Broadband Mesh Network for City-Wide Smart Grid"
    Rob Pilgrim, Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, Tropos Networks

  • "Case Study: Accelerating Smart Meter Deployment and Its Associated Benefits"
    Jimmy Bagley, Jr., Chief Information Officer, Rock Hill Municipal Utility, SC

  • "Distribution Automation and AMI Integration in Europe"
    Rolf Adam, Director, Utilities & Smart Grid - Europe, Cisco Systems

3:45 - 4:00 pm EDT -- Networking Break

4:00 - 5:00 pm EDT -- Session 5: Providing Demand-Based Ancillary Services via the Smart Grid
    This session examines how smart grid applications like demand response can help manage the distribution of electricity while lowering energy consumption, reducing cost, and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative smart grid technologies have enabled an increasing number of demand response resources to provide ancillary services to grid operators and utilities by making it easier for end-users to respond to dispatch signals quickly and automatically. We will look at one case study of an innovative pilot project designed to demonstrate the capacity for water systems to provide demand-based ancillary services, such as system regulation, to Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). We will also discuss several other case studies where demand response is providing spinning serves, like PJM's Synchronized Reserves Market and ERCOT's Responsive Reserve Market.

  • "The Consumer Mindset"
    Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates

  • "Reliability of the Integrated Power System"
    Ron Dizy, President and CEO, Sempa Power

  • Nick Reid, Vice President, Ontario Clean Water Agency

  • "Case Studies of Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services"
    Gregg Dixon, Senior Vice President of Marketing, EnerNOC