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WCA Smart Grid SIG presents: Smart Grid Standards Soup: An Update on the State of Smart Grid Standards Evolution
May 23rd 2012 -- 2:30pm - 4:30pm (Sign-in begins at 2:00pm)
Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA
(Event will be held onsite at ConnectivityWeek 2012)
Cost: Early pre-registration is $30 before May 6th, $40 afterwards. Admission price includes access to ConnectivityWeek networking and refreshments event from 5:00pm - 6:30pm
The birthing of the Smart Grid is one of the most comprehensive, sweeping programs in US history, ultimately affecting everything from the way power is generated, distributed, controlled, and used, to the way users receive energy-related services, information, and billing. Bringing such changes from the lab to main street on an extremely aggressive schedule mandates the development of a dizzying array of standards controlling every aspect of Smart Grid activity. The way we interface to our meters and utility companies, the way services are scheduled and coordinated, how we access out grid-related information, how we interact with smart devices, how devices communicate, how services and devices are certified for interoperability and function - these are but a sampling of the issues that will require standardisation to take root in reality.
Moderator:
-- Erich Gunther, EnerNex / SGIP
Presenters:
-- Toby Considine, Principal, TC9 (Energy Usage Information)
-- Mary Ann Piette, DRRC Research Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Demand Response)
-- Rik Drummond, CEO and Chief Scientist, Drummond Group Inc (Testing)
-- Dean Prochaska, NIST (Standards)
-- Aloke Gupta, CPUC (Regulatory)
A huge amount of progress has been made since the last time the WCA Smart Grid SIG presented the status of activities in this arena in January 2010. Join us on May 23rd, in a joint event held onsite at ConnectivityWeek 2012, as we present a distinguished panel of experts who will:
- Update us on the current status of Smart Grid standardization activity
- Project the potential rate of development over the coming year
- Debate the relative merits, myths, and white elephants to help us discern the true state of maturity, and the near-term and long-term potential of this mammoth undertaking
Our panel will be hosted onsite at ConnectivityWeek 2012. Please note that the ConnectivityWeek staff will be handling registration on our behalf.
We've negotiated a special discount rate for WCA members so you can attend only the WCA event or enjoy a reduced rate for the full conference. Register now using code WCA12 to obtain your discount rate. Seating at our WCA event is limited! Cost for only the WCA event will be $30 before May 6th, $40 afterwards -- register via ConnectivityWeek.
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