Smart Grid Observer
Industry Events
by SGO
April 30 - May 2, 2024 | San Diego | Website
September 24-25, 2024 | San Francisco| Website
January 28-29, 2025 | Atlanta | Website
- Achieving charging network reliability and resiliency
- Technology advances and enabling developments
- Success strategies for utilities and charging network operators
- Interoperability, standards and integration issues
- Addressing concerns over EV range, charger performance and reliability
- Energy storage and microgrid applications for EV charging infrastructure
- V2G potential and progress to date
- Wireless charging advances
- Utility case studies and programs to date
March 18-19, 2025 | Barcelona | Website
- Effective microgrid design, implementation and operation
- Refining the business case for off-grid, remote, and island mini-grids
- Latest technology advances for microgrids: rooftop solar, energy storage, fuel cells, AI and more
- Utilizing off-grid energy systems at the village level to advance zero carbon goals
- Key case studies and lessons learned from the field
- Policy and regulatory considerations for achieving rural electrification
- Financing issues, requirements and strategies for success
February 18-19, 2025 | London | Website
- Technology advances and challenges: Enabling V2X charging to be scheduled, remotely controlled, and aggregated across multiple locations and devices
- Achieving the scale-up of required enabling technologies for V2X
- Driving V2G commercialisation: Identifying customer preferences and value propositions
- Addressing barriers to innovating new products and services
- Progress toward vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-building in the UK
- Use cases and business models for V2X applications
- DNO perspectives on V2G challenges and opportunities
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
April 22-24, 2025 | Northern California | 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