Topics Covered:

• Smart Grid Real-world Experience
• Smart Grid Software Security
• Future Proof Smart Grid Architecture

Richard Mark Soley, PhD
Chairman & CEO
Object Management Group

Dr. George W. Arnold, PhD
National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability
National Institute of Standards and Technology

David O'Brien 
Director of Regulatory Strategy & Compliance
Bridge Energy Group

John will discuss the relationship between people and their usage of electrical energy; the end to end process of electrical consumption framed by the ability of consumers to access their energy usage information (EUI); and the effect of sharing that EUI with members of the value chain related to energy availability in our energy marketplace. We will focus on information that supports stakeholder relationships within the circular energy economy. Focusing on communities and the underlying information technologies used in sharing and supporting the consumers' daily life-cycles. The Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI) Standard, enabling consumer access to their EUI, will be described within the context of the national Green Button initiative with emphasis on how this will change the historic relationship between the consumer and their electric utility. Finally, how we might leverage OMG resources to articulate and standardize business processes supporting these future consumer driven energy markets.

The advent of Smart Grid is enabling a more direct utility-customer interaction, which is transforming the utility-customer relationship and transforming the customers from passive consumers of electricity who are only concerned with the once-monthly electricity bill, to more active players, who manage their electricity consumption patterns in response to incentives, or event signals, or price signals.

The active customer engagement in managing its electricity consumption is the fundamental basis of Demand Response. Event or price responsive Demand Response is helping to make the power system operate more efficiently and reliably while reducing the overall cost of the electricity service.

This presentation will provide an overview of the interplay of smart grid and demand response, and the role of analytics, data management, and system integration in transforming the dynamics of electricity supply and demand.

Chris will provide an overview of the prime technical components of a Smartgrid solution, the practical challenges with implementation and how the Regulatory environment can influence Smartgrid programs.
He will also make a comparison of the USA with Europe and the UK, and summarize what lessons can be learned for deployments in New England.

Paul Fechtelkotter
Segment Executive Energy and Utilities, Rational Division, IBM Software Group IBM
Irv Badr 
Worldwide Go To Market Manager for Energy, Utilities, and Communications Industries at IBM Rational

Compliance and collaboration are major challenges faced by the extended energy ecosystem. We will describe a potential solution that can aid in addressing the challenges, and present several examples of where the solution has been implemented and by participants across the energy ecosystem.

Dirk Mahling, PhD
Director of Distributed Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA

One of the defining elements of the smart grid is the presence of lots of smaller scale generation, including PV on the roofs of private homes, micro-turbines, small CHPs, as well as wind power. With these smaller energy resources and their distributed nature comes the problem of managing a distribution network that was originally built to deliver power only downstream, not upstream. By adding energy storage, we see the emergence of islandable microgrids and virtual powerplants, which need to be properly monitored and controlled. Recent research at the forefront of the integration of renewables into the German grid, in particular around IEC61850, openMUC, and OGEMA provides data points for innovative distribution standards.

Dr. Compton is currently an Associate Director in the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) with responsibility for operating in Thailand and Indonesia on Power and Energy Projects. His current projects are in the areas of microgrids, sustainable power production and hybrid systems for providing power in remote regions. Prior to joining ONRG Dr. Compton spent thirty years engaged in academic and industrial research in the biotechnology and analytical instrument sectors, working for a number of multi-national companies, start-ups and academic institutions.