2026 Event Schedule

This workshop is designed to equip utility leaders, engineers, and planners with the practical, multi-faceted look necessary to effectively analyze, mitigate, and manage the growing threat of wildfires, integrating strategy, technology, and prudent investment. The curriculum has been broken out into three parts with specific timing and a break in between, enabling attendees to engage with one or both pieces:

• A series of case studies will define the first part of the workshop (1-3:00pm), which will cover immediate, high-impact strategies for hardening the grid against ignition threats that can avoid utility-caused wildfires. This includes foundational risk methodologies, deep dives into utility case studies, strategy around vegetation grow-ins and overhanging branches and advanced techniques for transmission asset management using image-based inspections for long-term health.
• In the second part of the workshop (3:15-4:00pm), solution providers will come together for a practical discussion that outlines learned regarding technology deployment, data integration challenges, and actionable advice for moving from reactive to predictive risk modeling and vegetation management.
• In the final part of the workshop (4:10-4:55pm), utility presenters and executives will take the stage to discuss the business case for investment, the framework for cost-benefit analysis, and the organizational shifts required for defensible, long-term planning that achieves both wildfire resilience and continuous operational improvement.

Attendees will gain the tactical 'how-to' for immediate risk reduction that can define a technology adoption and integration process. Presenters and panelists will outline the strategic insights needed to evaluate and implement critical risk-reduction options within organization of all types and sizes, regardless of where they are in that process.