7th Edition
EV Charging Infrastructure Summit - North America
July 15-16, 2025 • Chicago
Achieving performance, reliability and widescale deployment
The Edison Electric Institute estimates some 9.6 million charge points will be needed in the U.S. by the end of the decade to support an estimated 18.7 million EVs on the road. As of July 2024, there were 195,965 charging ports at 69,709 public and private stations, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center. This massive increase in EV charging infrastructure will have important implications for the grid, and present stakeholders with significant challenges - and opportunities.
Organized by the Smart Grid Observer, the 7th EV Charging Infrastructure Summit - North America, July 15-16, 2025 in Chicago convenes top industry experts and utility professionals to examine how growing EV adoption rates will impact the network, and what investments are needed to ensure grid stability and benefit. Case studies of current utility programs and deployments will be discussed with an eye toward refining strategies, identifying technologies, and implementing business models that will ensure widespread EV adoption is optimized for all parties involved.
Topics to be Addressed Include:
- Capitalizing on the explosive growth of EV charging networks
- Addressing concerns over charger performance, reliability and security
- Trends in EV adoption and market direction
- Success strategies for starting and growing a charging network in the U.S.
- Innovations in charging infrastructure and enabling technologies
- Expanding EV charging with learnings from automotive
- Collaborative solutions for equitable EV access
- EV and battery advances, and implications for charging infrastructure
- Enhancing the customer experience
- Infrastructure planning/mapping at a national level
- Utility case studies and programs to date
- Designing programs and compensation mechanisms for managed charging
- Expanding charging access in multi-family housing
- Regulatory requirements and standards developments
- V2G in fleet applications
- Dynamic pricing to drive EV charge point utilization and margin
- How to design, build, operate, train, maintain and scale up EV bus and truck infrastructure
- Municipal perspectives and initiatives
- Mitigating risk & maximizing value for EV charging providers
- And more
Previous Attendees Include:
Forum Audience:
- Network strategists and executives at investor-owned, municipal, and rural utilities
- Grid operations engineers and planners
- EV program managers and fleet managers
- Charging station infrastructure owners
- Consultants and system integrators
- EV manufacturers and charging network operators
- Regulatory and standards professionals
- Technology innovators and equipment vendors
- Energy storage, communications, and power control solutions providers
- Urban planners and municipal transportation analysts
- Researchers, analysts, and university professionals
- Renewable energy providers and technology vendors
- Financial and venture capital professionals
Be sure to join your EV charging industry colleagues for in-depth information-sharing and in-person networking - register today!
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