Schedule
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST | Grab and Go Breakfast
7:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST | Registration Opens
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM CST | Workshop 1
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM CST | Workshop 2 – Solving the Climate Puzzle
Climate action plans are top of mind for companies and municipalities committed to climate change. How can we produce a sustainable solution that’s more actionable than aspirational? Walking through real-life scenarios, participants will review proven strategies for multiple criteria decision analysis and learn to guide various stakeholders to reach a sustainable, consensus-based climate plan.
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM CST | Workshop 3
2:15 PM – 2:40 PM CST | Networking Break
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM CST | Welcome to ETS23
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CST | Keynote
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM CST | Accelerating Access and Efficiency
This session focuses on the benefits of equitable policy as well as how to avoid blind spots in service and accessibility featuring how to bring community back into the conversation.
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST | Grid Supply Chains in a Volatile World
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM CST | How Public Funding is Enabling Modernization
A session that will discuss how recent legislation and policies will shape the industry as well as what actions local, state, and federal governments can make to help meet decarbonization goals.
5:15 PM – 5:20 PM CST | MC Closing
5:15 PM – 7:00 PM CST | Networking Reception
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST | Breakfast & Networking
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM CST | Zpryme Research
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM CST | Opening Keynote
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM CST | Fireside Chat – Resilience
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CST | Transportation Electrification Progress and Pitfalls
A pulse check on the state of electrification transportation and a forum for sharing lessons learned both in success and setback.
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CST | Networking Break
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM CST | ETS Talk – A Revolution We Can Manage: Overcoming 5 Pain Points of the EV Boom
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST | Fireside Chat – Future of Workforce
A look forward at what Gen Z entering the utility workforce is going to mean for the future of the industry as well as how to interest generations beyond in the space.
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM CST | The Many Facets of Resilience
A session that seeks to address a new era of resilience and sustainability challenges to keep electricity service uninterrupted, be it from changing climate, asset health, software issues, security, or other challenges.
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM CST | Lunch
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM CST | Breakout A – Managing the Potential of Distributed Energy Resources
A session about DER use cases demonstrating how solar, storage, and other distributed energy resources help utilities with long-term goals, and how utilities are managing the growing number of DERs on the grid.
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM CST | Breakout B – Decentralization as Resilience
A session about how decentralization can be used to make the grid more resilient against physical and virtual threats.
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM CST | Breakout C – Advancements in T&D tech
The clean energy transition is underway, and transmission & distribution systems need to adapt to larger amounts of renewable energy generation. This panel focuses on how utilities are approaching challenges to their T&D systems and how they can improve technological and operational efficiency as they decarbonize.
Khalil Shalabi
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM CST | Breakout A – Electric Vehicle Programs
A dialogue about best practices when designing EV programs as well as what the goals of such programs should be
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM CST | Breakout B – Utility as Community Leader
A breakdown of a utility’s role in a community and beyond a power supplier and what works best for creating a thriving relationship with a community.
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM CST | Breakout C – Resilient Cybersecurity: IT AND OT
A deep dive into the realities of modern cybersecurity – how it relates to asset management as well as new complications as IT converges with OT.
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST | Networking Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST | Fireside Chat – Grid Supply Chains in a Volatile World
An honest look at how global and US supply chains affect the grid nationwide as well as how standards can be put in place to keep the chains efficient and secure
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM CST | ESG more than investing
A look at how ESG standards are moving beyond the realm of investment strategy and are defining customer expectations
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CST | Keynote
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CST | Networking Reception
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST | Breakfast & Networking
8:30 AM – 8:40 AM CST | Welcome
8:40 AM – 9:00 AM CST | Opening Keynote
9:00 AM – 9:40 AM CST | Fireside Chat
9:40 AM – 9:55 AM CST | ETS Talk
9:55 AM – 10:40 AM CST | Panel – Designing Customer Programs for Evolving Needs
Customer demands are changing, and utilities As customer demands evolve, it’s not enough for utilities to meet them in the middle. Utilities must be forward thinking and keep the customer as the focal point as they design new programs. This session discusses designing programs to facilitate a fulfilling and individualized customer journey.
10:40 AM – 11:10 AM CST | Networking Break
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST | Fireside Chat
11:50 AM – 12:35 PM CST | Panel – Managing the Grid Edge
A session about the software, programs, and strategies that will manage the grid edge and leverage edge devices into useful utility resources.
12:35 PM – 1:45 PM CST | Lunch
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM CST | Breakout A – Customer Experience: Beyond Turning the Lights On
A look at changing customer expectations and how to create a better holistic customer experience as well as how decisions at every level can affect the customer experience.
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM CST | Breakout B – Prepping for the EV Revolution
A discussion about the data, infrastructure, workforce training, and planning needed for utilities to handle ever-increasing EV adoption among customers.
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM CST | Breakout C – Outage Prediction and AI
A session talking about how AI and modeling are helping track and prevent outages as well as other notable use cases.
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM CST | Breakout A – Bridging Communities Through Technology
Utilities are prioritizing digital transformation by adopting a human-centered approach that focuses on understanding and meeting the needs of customers and employees. This approach enables utilities to create more effective and sustainable systems that better serve their communities and ecosystem as a whole.
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM CST | Breakout B
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM CST | Breakout C – Communications Strategies are No Longer Optional
A discussion about how the changing role of utilities has made public-facing communications a critical business process, and also what some best practices for comms are.
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST | Networking Break
4:00 PM – 4:45PM CST | Panel – Accelerating Decarbonization
A session that will discuss progress and pitfalls of decarbonizing the grid through tech, policy, and strategy.
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM CST | Fireside Chat – The Energy Transformation: What’s Behind and What’s to Come
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CST | TLOY Announcement/Closing Keynote
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CST | Networking Reception
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST | Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM CST | Keynote
9:15 AM – 9:40 AM CST | Fireside Chat – Where Nuclear Stands in an Evolving Grid
A deep dive into what the increased attention and resources into nuclear energy will mean for nationwide and global decarbonization efforts as well as what challenges are keeping some apprehensive about it.
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CST | Modern Demand Response
A session that lays out how demand response is changing with new technology and customer realities.
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM CST | 🤝 Networking Break
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM CST | Panel – Creating a Culture of Innovation Within an Organization
A session that lays out how demand response is changing with new technology and customer realities.
John Kochavatr
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CST | Fireside Chat – Changing the Industry’s Thinking
Untried ideas, hot takes, just putting new ideas out there in general
12:45 PM – 1:00PM CST | Closing