Virtual Conference Agenda
Recorded videos of each session are available below
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18 (Pre‐Symposium Workshops)
10:45-11:00 ET
Welcome – Ethan Huffman
11:00-12:30 ET
SESSION 1
TRACK 1: Societal Benefits of Resilience / What does Resilience Mean to you
Chair
Bobby Jeffers, SNL
Presenters
Amanda Wachtel, SNL
Susan Spierre‐Clark, U Buffalo
Pete Larsen, LBNL
TRACK 2: Community & Infrastructure
Modeling Tools: Interdependent
Networked Community Resilience
Modeling Environment (IN‐CORE)
Chairs
Stephanie Pilkington, UNCC; Craig Rieger,
INL; Kevin Schultz, JHUAPL; Tim McJunkin
INL; Char Sample, MTSI
Presenter
Jong Sung Lee, U. Ill. UC
TRACK 3: Power Grid Resilience:
Needs and challenges
Chairs
Mohammed Ben‐Idris, UNR
Anurag Srivastava, WVU
Presenters
Alireza Ghassemian, DOE
Aranya Chakrabortty, NSF
12:30-1:30 ET
Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 ET
SESSION 2
TRACK 1: The Heat is on – An Interactive
Cyber Exercise
Presenters
Kimberly Denbow, AGA
Jon Monken, Converge Strategies
TRACK 3: Power Grid Resilience:
Definitions, metrics, and tools
Presenters
Aleksandar Stanković, Tufts Univ.
Jay Liu, PJM
Gary Huffman, Burns & MC & ComEd.
Mohammed Ben‐Idris, UNR
Mathios Pantelli, Univ. of Cyprus
Anurag Srivastava, WVU
3:00-4:30 ET
SESSION 3
TRACK 1: DOE GMLC Resilient
Distribution Systems (RDS) Projects –
What we learned and what’s next
Moderators
Abraham Ellis, Sandia
Emma Stewart, NRECA
Panelists
Clay Koplin, CEC
Kevin Schneider, PNNL
David Lovelady, National Grid
TRACK 2: Community & Infrastructure
Resilience Modeling and Simulation
Needs/Challenges
Moderator
Stephanie Pilkington, UNCC
Panelists
Ryan Hruska, INL
Jamie Kruse, East Carolina U
Thomas Overby, Texas A&M
John Van de Lindt, CSU
TRACK 3: Gaining Consensus on Power
Grid Resilience Metrics (brainstorming)
Presenters
Anuradha Annaswamy, MIT
Chris Dent, Univ. of Edinburgh
Svetlana Ekisheva, NERC
4:30-6:00 ET
SESSION 4
TRACK 1: Domain Components of the
Impending Cyber‐Physical Energy System
Transformation
Chair
Paul Roege, Typhoon‐HIL
Presenters
Rob Hovsapian, NREL
Charles Forsberg, MIT
Sarah Davis, SRD Consulting
TRACK 3: Tools for Enabling Power Grid
Resilience (Brainstorming)
Presenters
Marija lic, MIT
Michael Legatt, ResilientGrid