Smart Grid Observer
Industry Events
by SGO
June 3-4, 2025 | Chicago | Website
- The current status of nation-state level APTs
- Defense-in-depth strategies for ICS/SCADA environments
- Meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements
- Protecting ICS networks from ransomware attacks
- Architecting a network security solution to address cyber threats
- Deception technology and other emerging innovations
- Conducting in-depth risk assessments
- Case studies, lessons learned, and success strategies moving forward
July 15-17, 2025 | Chicago | Website
- Utility advances and programs for enabling EV charging
- Scaling up existing charging operator networks
- Impact of EVs on grid operations and planning
- Regulatory requirements and standards developments
- Technology innovations enabling the next-generation of charging efficiency
- Modeling and grid architecture planning: ensuring that charging is a grid benefit
- Municipal perspectives and initiatives
May 6-8, 2025 | San Ramon, CA | Website
- Enhancing customer experience and acceptance
- Compensation mechanisms for customers, utilities and stakeholders
- Role of the aggregator in VGI fulfillment
- DOE perspectives on V2G
- Policy and regulatory enablers for V2G in the U.S.
- Gap analysis and integration of competing industry standards
- Mapping the migration path from V1G to V2G
October 21-23, 2025 | Detroit| Website
- Live demos of standards-based V2G systems
- Addressing issues for including V2G in utility planning
- Optimizing the pathway from V1G to V2G
- Standards harmonization to enable widespread adoption
- Refining the business case for multiple stakeholders and customers
- Market trends, opportunities and challenges -- in N. America and internatioinally
- Latest enabling technology advances, deployments and trials to date
May 14, 2025 | Chicago | Website
- The Future of AI in the Energy Sector
- AI's Role in Modernizing the Electric Grid: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions
- From Chaos to Creation: Navigating AI Complexity to Drive Real Business Impact
- Distributed AI in Utilities: Strategic Advancements in Grid Modernization
- Hybrid Intelligence: Developing Sustainable AI Programs for Utilities
- Generative AI for Smart Grid Design and Optimal Operations
- Deploying AI for Data Enrichment, Intelligent Automation and Improved Decision-Making
September 30 - October 1, 2025 | Austin, TX | Website
- Microgrids for servicing fast-growing data center, building electrification and EV charging loads
- Energy storage microgrids for enhancing grid stability and resiliency
- Off-grid, remote, and rural use cases and deployments
- System feasibility, design, and implementation
- Ownership models and benefits for multiple stakeholders
- The state of enabling technologies
- Utilizing microgrids to cope with grid outages and crisis situations
- Microgrids for mining and C&I applications
November 25-26, 2025 | Amsterdam | Website
- Achieving the scale-up of required enabling technologies for V2X
- Key use cases and business models for V2X
- Identifying customer preferences and value propositions
- Addressing barriers to innovating new products and services
- Addressing significant regulatory and legislative hurdles - such as double taxation
- Interoperability and cross-border integration: Coordinating grid requirements and standards
- Reducing upfront capital costs for bidirectional charging infrastructure and necessary grid upgrades
______________________________________
Recently Concluded
January 28-29, 2025 | Atlanta
October 22-24, 2024 | Detroit
September 24-25, 2024 | San Francisco
July 15-17, 2024 | Chicago
April 30 - May 2, 2024 | San Diego
March 19-21, 2024 | Chicago
January 30-31, 2024 | Los Angeles
3rd EV Charging Infrastructure Summit - North America
July 11-12, 2023 | Chicago
April 18-19, 2023 | Chicago
June 13-14, 2023 | Washington, D. C.