DAY 1
| Day 1 – Wednesday April 1st, 2026 | |||
| Start | End | Presentation | Speaker |
| 7 : 00 | 8 : 00 | Registration Open, Breakfast at 7:15 | |
| 8 : 00 | 8 : 15 | Opening Remarks | NWESS Chair |
| 8 : 15 | 9 : 45 | Keynote Speaker – Michelle Vargo from Puget Sound Energy (Title is TBD) | Michelle Vargo |
| 9 : 45 | 10 : 30 | ||
| 10 : 30 | 10 : 45 | BREAK | |
| 10 : 45 | 11 : 20 | DERMS | Fei Ding, NREL Automation and Controls Manager |
| 11 : 20 | 12 : 00 | Database for Wildfire Mitigation Plan | Andre Coleman |
| 12 : 00 | 1 : 00 | LUNCH + OPEN DISCUSSION ROOM & NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY | |
| 1 : 00 | 1 : 45 | Seismic Transformer Study | Aisha McKee / John Bender |
| 1 : 45 | 2 : 00 | BREAK | |
| 2 : 00 | 2 : 45 | Proposed Pannel Session for Supply Chain Issue and Mitigation Strategies Related to Transformers | SCL/TPWR/PSE/SNOPUD |
| 2 : 45 | 3 : 30 | Transformer Loading/FERC Order 881 | Daniel Kuraspediani – BPA |
| 3 : 30 | 4 : 00 | Integrated Load Planning Study | |
| 4 : 00 | 4 : 30 | EPRI E-Roadmap Tool / NEVI | Jamie Dunkley |
| 4 : 30 | 5 : 00 | The Grid Center for Reliable Electricity Delivery (GridCRED) | Jacob Reidt |
DAY 2
| Day 2 – Thursday April 2nd, 2026 | |||
| Start | End | Presentation | Speaker |
| 7 : 00 | 8 : 00 | Registration Open, Breakfast at 7:15 | |
| 8 : 00 | 8 : 45 | Load Seer – Darrin Kinney (Top Down and Bottom Up and how you plan for electrification and climate change) | Darrin Kinney |
| 8 : 45 | 9 : 30 | Preparing for Middle Housing and EPRI Tool for Secondary Design | Tanya Panomvana |
| 9 : 30 | 9 : 45 | BREAK | |
| 9 : 45 | 10 : 45 | Data Center Load Growth | Travis Metcalf – AWS, Mike Miller – Sr VP of Transmission Svs at BPA Kevin Ludwig – Black & Veatch Eleanor Ewry – Pugest Sound Energy |
| 10 : 45 | 11 : 30 | Greg on the BPA Allocation of Capacity / BPA to talk about Markets Plus Choice over EDAM | Todd Kochheiser |
| 11 : 30 | 12 : 30 | LUNCH | |
| 12 : 30 | 1 : 15 | Grid Enhancing Technologies | George Lynch (money to bring in national speakers) |
| 1 : 15 | 2 : 00 | Possible: Panel Approach- Challenges for new transmission line routing, push back from the public, to meet load growth, What are other utilities experience | |
| 2 : 00 | 2 : 15 | BREAK | |
| 2 : 15 | 3 : 00 | Energy Justice or Energy Equity – Continutation Requested How are changes in federal energy policy impacting grants when in the context of DEI |
Regan Price |
| 3 : 00 | 3 : 45 | AI for Power Utilties by NVIDEA | Shawntia McNeil, NVIDIA – Global Energy Partner Ecosystem Mgr |
| 3 : 45 | 4 : 30 | AI for Power Utilties by NEETRAC | J.C. Hernandez-Mejia or Geon Seok Lee from NEETRAC |
| 4 : 30 | 4 : 40 | Closing Comments, Post Event Survey, Feedback | |
| END | |||
Updated Dec 10th, 2025
