10th Annual Demand Response & Grid Edge Technologies Forum

The 10th Annual Demand Response & Grid Edge Technologies Forum is dedicated to helping utilities leverage the next-generation smart grid to optimize performance.

Topics

• Integrating and controlling grid edge technologies to effectively manage DERs
• Adapting DR portfolios to the evolving utility business model in the 21st century
• Regulatory and policy trends impacting grid edge evolution
• Technology infrastructure for price-based grid coordination
• New technologies and strategies for maximizing demand response performance
• Energy storage advances and implications for DER deployment
• Standards advances, trends and developments
• Managing the challenges and opportunities of EVs on the grid
• Next-generation load management strategies
• Electrifying everything: the role of grid edge technologies
• Valuation of PV and DER within distribution networks
• Cloud-Optimized smart buildings: Technologies, challenges and benefits
• Preparing the grid edge to accommodate massive forecasted load growth
• Working together across stakeholder groups to make DER work
• Green Button, customer interaction, and achieving new levels of end user engagement
• Using grid edge technologies to address distribution network challenges

Who should Attend

• Energy managers at large commercial and industrial end-user organizations
• Energy professionals at municipal, investor-owned, rural and co-op utilities
• Regional transmission system operators
• DER aggregators
• Building energy management (BEM) companies
• Curtailment service providers
• IT and software providers
• Regulators and government policy makers
• Communications network service providers and vendors
• Smart grid technology innovators and network operators
• Consultants and system integrators
• Investment and venture capital professionals
• Researchers, analysts, and university professionals