2027 Event Agenda

Electric utilities face a rapidly evolving threat landscape that includes physical sabotage, insider threats, copper theft, drone incursions, cyber risks, and sophisticated attacks against critical infrastructure. When critical infrastructure is disrupted, the consequences extend far beyond a single facility, impacting public safety, essential services, and the communities that depend on reliable power every day.

At the same time, security teams are being asked to protect larger, more distributed networks of substations, transmission assets, renewable energy sites, and unmanned facilities with limited personnel and budgets, while meeting increasing regulatory and stakeholder expectations.

This session explores how AI-powered security technologies are helping utilities move from reactive to proactive threat detection, operational intelligence, and risk management. Attendees will learn how utilities are leveraging AI, edge analytics, thermal imaging, and real-time event detection to improve situational awareness, accelerate response times, enhance employee safety, and strengthen operational resilience.

With utility, technology, risk management, business continuity, and national security perspectives, the panel will examine how AI can help identify insider threats, detect suspicious behaviors, break down silos between physical and cyber security, support regulatory compliance, protect shareholder value, reduce enterprise risk, strengthen organizational resilience, and improve operations.