Connect with the Utility Leaders Shaping the Future of the Grid 

Join the largest and most influential transmission and distribution event in North America. 

Utilities are navigating unprecedented change, from load growth and grid modernization to reliability, resiliency, DER integration, AI adoption, and workforce transformation. DTECH® brings together utility professionals, industry experts, technology providers, and policymakers to tackle these challenges head-on and explore the solutions powering the grid of tomorrow. You will gain access to the education, peer connections, and technologies needed to support your organization and advance your career. 

Join your utility peers at DTECH® 2027 and discover what's next for transmission and distribution.

DTECH 2026 Keynote

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Join thousands of utility professionals and industry leaders for four days of education, networking, and innovation focused on the future of transmission and distribution. 


 

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Key Topics & Themes 

Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs)
DERMS
Grid Modernization
Digital Transformation

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9:00 AM
  1. 300 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and includes an additional fee. Already registered? Visit the Resource Center to add it to your registration. Step inside the future of energy and explore h …
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    Four generations are sharing the workforce—each bringing different experiences, expectations, and perspectives on leadership. At the same time, women are playing an increasingly influential role in sh …
10:00 AM
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    As distributed energy resources (DERs) continue to scale, stakeholders across the ecosystem—including utilities, aggregators, VPP providers, DER vendors, and gateway manufacturers—face growing challen …
  2. B201
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    Electric utilities are under pressure to move beyond AI pilots and deliver measurable operational value, yet many struggle to integrate advanced analytics into day-to-day grid decision-making. This se …
  3. B211
    50 mins
    As utilities and their partners evolve their managed charging solutions from small-scale demonstration pilots to early stage programs, key operational challenges, and solutions, have emerged. This pan …
  4. B202
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    As utilities accelerate the transition from legacy telecom systems to private LTE and 5G networks, they face a fundamental challenge: how to rigorously justify these investments in the face of overlap …
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    In today’s utility environment, affordability is one of the most urgent and visible drivers of customer trust, satisfaction and demand behavior. Yet many organizations still approach it as a collectio …
11:00 AM
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    The New York Power Authority (NYPA), New York’s largest public power utility and a central contributor to the state’s clean‑energy transition, aligned its data strategy with New York State’s statutory …
  2. B217
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    Utilities are facing a convergence of workforce challenges at the same time grid complexity, capital investment, and operating cost pressures are accelerating. As experienced workers retire, turnover …
  3. B215
    50 mins
    Keeping Electricity Affordable – Balancing Reliability, Resilience, and Cost in a High-Growth Era While there is broad consensus on the critical need for affordable electricity, utilities recognize th …
  4. B212
    50 mins
    Improving electric system reliability and resiliency increasingly depends on how effectively field crews can see, assess, and respond to outages in real time. This panel brings together speakers from …
  5. B201
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    With the modernization of grid infrastructure, the need for accurate, scalable, and current-time telecom asset management has become increasingly critical. The Telecom Operations Management system (TO …
1:00 PM
  1. B201
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    Southern Company has no shortage of data. The harder challenge is making that data trusted, governed, and usable across business units, operating companies, and a growing set of analytics and AI use c …
  2. B207
    50 mins
    Utilities across North America are increasingly turning to battery energy storage systems (BESS) to address a growing range of grid challenges, including distribution capacity constraints, acceleratin …
  3. B216
    50 mins
    In today’s era of explosive load growth, DER proliferation, extreme weather, and accelerating grid modernization, an accurate, dynamic, and enterprise-wide Grid Network Model is the foundational backb …
  4. B202
    50 mins
    As distributed energy resource (DER) plants continue to grow in size and complexity, power plant controllers (PPCs) have become central to achieving reliable and compliant operation. By coordinating m …
  5. B211
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    This multi-utility session brings together Tampa Electric and Sacramento Municipal Utility District to explore how customer engagement strategies are shaping the next phase of EV and DER program growt …
2:00 PM
  1. B207
    50 mins
    As utilities deploy and expand Advanced Distribution Management Systems, model quality becomes a critical success factor—but validating that model is often treated as an in-house, manual process, or a …
  2. B215
    50 mins
    NCEMC is a G&T cooperative serving 25 member-owned distribution cooperatives which in turn deliver power to over 2.5 million North Carolinians. NCEMC has a combined ~600MW of DER and DR capacity, incl …
  3. B217
    50 mins
    The electric utility operating model is under pressure. Distribution systems are becoming more complex, customer expectations are rising, data center and electrification-driven load growth are acceler …
  4. B212
    50 mins
    Utilities are replacing aging infrastructure, absorbing load growth that has outrun nearly every forecast, and hardening systems against climate hazards that keep getting worse. Most capital planning …
3:00 PM
  1. B211
    50 mins
    This session presents findings from the MassCEC V2X Program that funded approximately 1MW of bidirectional charging stations. The Mobility House (TMH) is the technology partner and optimizing both res …
  2. B215
    50 mins
    As distributed energy resources (DERs) and electric vehicle (EV) charging continue to expand across distribution networks, utilities are facing increasing voltage variability and hosting capacity limi …
  3. B217
    25 mins
    When a field crew member can confirm a job and pull asset history without leaving the truck cab, a digital transformation has moved beyond rollout and into real adoption. Dominion Energy reached that …
  4. B201
    50 mins
    Utilities want agentic capabilities that improve daily work: faster triage, consistent investigations, reliable reporting, and guided decision support. However, those outcomes depend on whether operat …
  5. B207
    50 mins
    The integration of large exporting inverter-based distributed energy resources onto the distribution system introduces critical voltage regulation challenges. While IEEE 1547 establishes default smart …
  6. B212
    50 mins
    Wildfire risk is a shared threat, but the tools and resources utilities have available to them, and the regulatory environments they operate in, vary widely. This session will examine how utilities tr …
  7. B216
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    The grid's hardest emerging problems are high-frequency phenomena that the industry has largely been unable to see. Inverter-based resource instability, the volatile load of hyperscale data centers, i …
3:25 PM
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    Dominion Energy plans to grow Virginia's transmission capacity by roughly 100% over the next decade, investing on the order of $2 billion a year, and nearly every one of those projects needs a planned …
9:00 AM
  1. B203
    50 mins
    Transformational Grid Modernization Achievement: Tampa Electric Company (TEC), in partnership with Peoples Gas System (PGS), successfully delivered the Bearss Operations Center (BOC) and Energy Manage …
  2. B209
    50 mins
    The sudden emergence of Large Hyperscalers brought to the forefront a term that is as old as the grid itself-Affordability.  The grid has always been a shared infrastructure that answered major criter …
  3. B214
    50 mins
    This session explores how utilities are leveraging automated solutions analysis to scale time-series distribution planning and help planners automatically identify, evaluate, and compare mitigation al …
  4. B212
    50 mins
    Grid modernization spend keeps growing, but the evidence behind it lags. Utilities are putting more DER and large loads on the same feeders, replacing relays, and modernizing control rooms. Most of th …
  5. B201
    50 mins
    ComEd has invested in advanced communications infrastructure to support clean energy and grid modernization objectives, delivering a high-speed, high-bandwidth, secure, redundant, and resilient networ …
  6. B216
    50 mins
    Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has long provided utilities with unprecedented visibility into grid conditions through outage notifications and alarm signals. While power outage alarms are wide …
  7. B215
    50 mins
    FortisAlberta, a Canadian utility recognized with Electricity Canada’s Centre of Excellence Award for its solar interconnections process solution, will share how it modernized its customer portal and …
  8. B217
    50 mins
    In a world where leaders are asked to operate under constant “grid stress”—from digital transformation to workforce strain to rising customer expectations—resilience is no longer just about time manag …
  9. B209
    50 mins
    The power industry needs a new set of cyber-security technologies, and soon.  In fifteen years or less, experts predict that quantum computers will be able to break most of the cryptographic mechanism …
  10. B207
    50 mins
    For decades, utility protection and control (P&C) engineers maintained absolute authority over the substation through physical isolation and hardwired copper loops. That era of pure isolation is endin …
10:00 AM
  1. B207
    50 mins
    Utilities across North America are interconnecting a rapidly growing fleet of transmission-connected inverter-based resources (IBRs) and large computational loads. Each is studied and required to meet …
  2. B202
    50 mins
    Direct-to-device (D2D) satellite communications are rapidly evolving from an emergency communications capability into a potential extension of utility operational technology (OT) and workforce connect …
  3. B213
    50 mins
    As utilities scale distributed energy resource programs, DERMS implementations are increasingly shaped by evolving regulatory requirements, overlapping use cases, and compressed delivery timelines. Th …
  4. B216
    50 mins
    At Duquesne Light Company (DLC), serving more than 600,000 customers across an 812 square‑mile territory in Pennsylvania, we reached a point where grid planning work was being slowed by manual data ex …
  5. B201
    50 mins
    As electric utilities transition toward decentralized, data-intensive grid operations, Private LTE (PLTE) is no longer just a connectivity upgrade—it is emerging as a foundational operational platform …
  6. B204
    50 mins
    As distributed energy resources (DERs) scale rapidly, utilities must evolve beyond traditional control paradigms to unlock their full grid value. PG&E is advancing a DERMS-centric architecture that ex …
  7. B212
    50 mins
    Power Distribution systems are evolving rapidly as electrification, data‑center growth, and widespread DER adoption reshape both the scale, temporal and locational patterns of demand. Traditional dist …
  8. B209
    50 mins
    The policy and regulatory landscape shaping the electric grid continues to evolve in response to sustained load growth, accelerating electrification, rising data center and industrial demand, and the …
  9. B211
    50 mins
    The rapid growth of electric vehicle (EV) fleets presents both opportunities and challenges for grid operators. This session will explore a pioneering partnership between Portland General Electric (PG …
11:00 AM
  1. B217
    50 mins
    The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has published typical time frames for data centers, generation, and transmission development. While the specific times to build infrastructur …
  2. B204
    50 mins
    As distributed energy resource adoption accelerates, utilities are under increasing pressure to process interconnection applications faster while maintaining grid safety, regulatory compliance, and a …
  3. B209
    50 mins
    IEEE 2030.5 is rapidly emerging as a leading protocol for DER management, driven by increasing utility adoption and regulatory momentum. However, a consistent and growing challenge has begun to surfac …
  4. B202
    50 mins
    As utilities modernize the grid, communications networks are becoming critical infrastructure. Increasingly, utility leaders are looking beyond single-network strategies and toward communications arch …
  5. B213
    50 mins
    As electrification, distributed energy resources (DERs), energy storage, and microgrids continue to grow, utilities are facing new challenges in modernizing underground (UG) network systems originally …
  6. B203
    50 mins
    In 2023, DTE embarked on a 5-year transformative journey to enhance grid reliability and operational efficiency through the implementation of Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) …
  7. B214
    50 mins
    The rapid evolution of electric power systems—driven by inverter-based resources, distributed generation, large synchronized computational loads, and increasingly dynamic operating conditions—has expo …
  8. B215
    50 mins
    When a line of severe storms tears across southeastern Wisconsin after midnight, or when wildfire conditions force a Public Safety Power Shutoff in San Diego County, the first thing hundreds of thousa …
  9. B211
    50 mins
    As load growth from electrification and AI data centers is driving increasing strain on secondary distribution infrastructure up to the bulk system, utilities need managed charging solutions they can …
1:00 PM
  1. B204
    50 mins
    From Asset Monitoring To Asset Performance: A Risk-Based APM Case Study at Humboldt Utilities   The problem is not data. It is the absence of standardized decisions.   Most utilities have deployed onl …
  2. B201
    50 mins
    As utilities address aging infrastructure, increasing grid complexity, and rising DER penetration, asset management is evolving toward more intelligent, data-driven approaches. This session brings tog …
  3. B209
    50 mins
    In this panel discussion, utility and industry leaders from Pacific Gas & Electric, SA Power Networks, Hatch Consulting, and Black & Veatch will discuss how leading organizations are defining value, e …
  4. B213
    50 mins
    As VPPs move from pilot programs to widespread grid resources, custom one-off integration between thousands of aggregators and utilities is becoming too costly, too slow, and too complex to scale. Dis …
  5. B212
    50 mins
    As distribution systems evolve with increasing penetration of inverter-based distributed energy resources (DERs), the grid is becoming more dynamic and complex. Many of the emerging challenges—such as …
  6. B209
    50 mins
    Utilities are transitioning from first-generation AMI 1.0 toward AMI 2.0, a flexible, software-enabled edge platform that combines distributed intelligence, AI-driven analytics, and remote upgradeabil …
  7. B207
    50 mins
    As distributed energy resources (DERs) continue to scale rapidly across distribution systems, utilities are encountering a growing and often unexpected challenge: power quality and stability issues in …
2:00 PM
  1. B204
    50 mins
    As electric utilities face increasing pressure to improve grid reliability, reduce operational costs, and mitigate wildfire risk, traditional inspection programs are being challenged by the scale and …
  2. B201
    50 mins
    As extreme weather becomes more frequent and severe, the utility sector is moving beyond isolated AI pilots into full-scale enterprise deployment. The ability to predict grid impacts, prepare proactiv …
  3. B214
    50 mins
    When major storms hit, utilities can’t afford fragmented responses. Yet in many utilities, storm insights remain siloed — disconnected from control room systems and real-time grid operations. In this …
  4. B213
    50 mins
    Distribution reliability and resilience reporting is at an inflection point. Traditional service interruption indices are not enough to quantify gray-sky and high-impact events, the customer-level imp …
  5. B202
    50 mins
    Distribution grid operators worldwide are caught in a perfect storm: skyrocketing electrification demand colliding with volatile, extreme weather events and the operational bottleneck of manual asset …
  6. B209
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    New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) set out goals to have 70% of the state’s electricity generated by renewable energy by 2030 and 100% zero-emissions electricity …
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    Panel Description: As utilities accelerate grid digitization, integrating IT and OT environments introduces unprecedented cyber risk across field devices, control systems, and cloud-connected infrastr …
9:00 AM
  1. B204
    50 mins
    Infrastructure readiness, not application configuration, turned out to be the primary determinant of how fast PPL could move. That finding reshaped the program. PPL Corporation is in the middle of a m …
  2. B203
    50 mins
    Advanced metering infrastructure was once defined by what it replaced: manual reads and estimated bills. AMI 2.0 represents something fundamentally different—a distributed sensing, communications, and …
  3. B214
    50 mins
    As utilities race to connect unprecedented load growth from AI, data centers, electrification, and industrial reshoring, a new bottleneck is emerging across the industry: Substations. Utilities are in …
  4. B202
    50 mins
    Utilities generate massive amounts of operational data, but the greatest value comes from connecting that data into a complete decision-making ecosystem. This panel will explore how modern wired (fibe …
  5. B212
    50 mins
    The growing penetration of distributed generation (DG) alters power flow in distribution networks, introducing operational challenges such as voltage rise, transformer overload, and reverse power flow …
  6. B215
    50 mins
    During outage events, customers often have valuable real-time information about field conditions, yet utilities have traditionally relied on phone calls and manually reviewed reports to understand wha …
  7. B201
    50 mins
    The modern utility network is more distributed, dynamic, and exposed than ever before. As operational technology converges with IT infrastructure, thousands of edge devices now serve as critical conne …
  8. B216
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    CELESC (Centrais Elétricas de Santa Catarina S.A.) is the Brazilian electric power distribution utility responsible for serving almost the entire territory of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It s …
  9. B217
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    Successful technology transformation in utilities depends as much on people as it does on systems. Organizational Change Management (OCM) helps utilities prepare employees, leaders, and stakeholders t …
  10. B209
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    Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is focused on expanding their patching of all devices beyond those that are required to be updated under CIP-007 R2.  With the expanded population of equipment re …
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    Bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) are proliferating with more and more OEMs coming to market with the technology in their next EV models. As of Q2 2026, Ford Motor Company (“Ford”) manufactured ov …
10:00 AM
  1. B217
    50 mins
    The ongoing workforce crisis in the U.S. energy sector has reached a critical inflection point, threatening our nation's economic growth and technological future. The demand for skilled labor is being …
  2. B209
    50 mins
    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 in …
  3. B209
    50 mins
    For most of three decades, Dominion Energy managed every transmission facility rating subject to compliance monitoring in a legacy spreadsheet application. Engineers calculated the limiting rating by …
  4. B215
    50 mins
    Delivering electricity across a service territory that has an estimated population of 14 million people and spanning more than 54,000 square miles, Oncor operates the largest pure-play wires utility i …
  5. B203
    50 mins
    Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) implementations frequently meet technical requirements but still struggle to deliver expected operational outcomes. One common gap is operator readiness. …
  6. B213
    50 mins
    Large-load and data-center interconnection requests are surging, and the studies that tell developers where the grid can absorb new load have become the bottleneck. At Dominion Energy, a full-area hos …
  7. B201
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    LCRA operates at significant scale- managing the lower 600 miles of the Texas Colorado River, delivering water to more than 1.4 million people, and supplying power to over 30 retail electric cooperati …
  8. B211
    50 mins
    This presentation will highlight innovations and insights learned from SMUD’s 2026 Integrated Distribution Resources Plan (IDRP).  An IDRP helps a utility understand how their distribution system will …
  9. B207
    50 mins
    This panel presentation will provide an overview of Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s 36-month pilot using the ANYbotics ANYmal robot to assist with substation inspection.  The motivation of the …
11:00 AM
  1. B204
    50 mins
    As utilities accelerate distributed energy resource deployment, they must define how Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) work tog …
  2. B212
    50 mins
    As electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates, utilities face increasing pressure to manage electrification impacts on local distribution systems while maintaining affordability, reliability, and cust …
  3. B209
    50 mins
    Cloud migration is no longer a theoretical question for utility operations. Asset owners are actively evaluating and intend on deploying cloud-hosted control systems, and asking a harder question alon …
  4. B207
    50 mins
    Utilities have generated enormous volumes of AMI data, but the real challenge is not collection — it is trust. As utilities shift from data accumulation to operational decision-making, the central que …
  5. B202
    50 mins
    Forward-looking utilities are upgrading their connectivity and taking control of it. As grid complexity accelerates, the performance of the communications network is becoming as critical as the grid i …
  6. B216
    50 mins
    This presentation introduces Oncor’s enterprise data analytics platform and highlights several predictive analytics use cases developed for Operations. These capabilities are rooted in the large-scale …
  7. B201
    50 mins
    As utilities accelerate the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) are becoming a foundational capability for enabling visibility, c …
  8. B214
    50 mins
    Operational Technology applications like ADMS and DERMS sit at the heart of modern grid operations, yet deploying or upgrading them directly in production carries significant risk to reliability, safe …
  9. B213
    50 mins
    For the T-Flex initiative, PG&E is focused on delivering an initial Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that improves transmission interconnection speed-to-power through enhanced system monitoring, automatio …
1:00 PM
  1. B201
    50 mins
    Utilities are under pressure to modernize asset management, integrate DERs, support flexible connections, evaluate non-wires solutions, prepare for energy markets and apply AI to planning and operatio …
  2. B209
    50 mins
    As the energy transition accelerates and capital expenditures rise, the industry is facing significant challenges when it comes to balancing necessary grid modernization with ratepayer affordability. …
  3. B202
    50 mins
    When APS set out to modernize grid operations, the first challenge was not technology. It was knowing which capabilities to build, in what order, and why. As Arizona's largest electric utility serving …
  4. B212
    50 mins
    As inverter-based resources continue to replace conventional generation, utilities are exploring how advanced inverter controls can support system stability, power quality, and resilience. Grid-formin …
  5. B214
    50 mins
    Wildfire risk is growing for the U.S. electric utilities and the customers and communities they serve. Extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide over the last two decades and has evolv …
  6. B207
    50 mins
    Building EV managed charging programs that move the needle on grid reliability and energy affordability requires automakers, utilities, and platforms working in coordination to orchestrate for constra …
2:00 PM
  1. B204
    50 mins
    As utilities work to improve reliability performance and reduce repeat outages, a critical but often underrepresented function is the role of field-based reliability engineering in identifying and res …
  2. B202
    50 mins
    How do you turn a torrent of SCADA signals into decisions that actually move the needle on reliability and cost? In this session, the Digital Operations Manager from AES will share the inside story of …
  3. B212
    50 mins
    Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is a privately owned, vertically integrated electric utility company (generation, transmission and distribution), and the sole distributor of electricity in the island of …
  4. B215
    50 mins
    Customer engagement has long been "table steaks" for utilities, but today, the stakes have never been higher, particularly as AMI modernization, distributed energy resource growth, and affordability p …
  5. B213
    50 mins
    Wildfire is no longer only a Western utility problem. As ignition risk expands into new geographies, utilities outside California are facing a question they weren't originally designed to answer: how …
3:00 PM
  1. B214
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    PPL Pennsylvania's protection engineering team manages coordination across 80,000+ protective devices — spanning reclosers, circuit breakers, and fuses — across a continuously evolving distribution gr …
  2. B201
    50 mins
    In an era of explosive load growth, DER proliferation, AI-driven operations, and relentless pressure to modernize the grid, siloed data systems remain the single biggest barrier to speed, scale, and r …
  3. B215
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    Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) investments have significantly increased data availability across utilities, yet many organizations continue to rely on these systems primarily for billing, leav …
  4. B207
    50 mins
    Lessons from a Commercial EV Dynamic Flexible Service Connection Pilot Built Across Disparate Protocols and Technology Readiness Levels  As utilities look to integrate commercial EV charging as a grid …
  5. B213
    50 mins
    While often overlooked, momentary outages can serve as a positive indicator of grid performance—signaling that protective devices successfully isolated faults and prevented longer, sustained interrupt …
  6. B204
    50 mins
    For a large transmission system, the processing power required to reconstruct the thermal history of tens of thousands of conductors isn't a software problem. It's an engineering problem at a scale ut …
  7. B209
    50 mins
    As the U.S. power system evolves toward greater electrification, renewable integration, and distributed energy resource (DER) adoption, demand-side flexibility is becoming a key enabler of reliability …
10:00 AM
  1. B214
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    Exelon is building an integrated AI suite that spans the full storm lifecycle—from outage prediction days before a storm, through crew mobilization planning, to real-time estimated time of restoration …
  2. B216
    50 mins
    As electric distribution systems become increasingly complex, utilities require greater visibility beyond traditional data sources such as substation breakers and mid-line reclosers. Wide-area line se …
  3. B201
    50 mins
    Electric utilities are increasingly using models to understand the behavior, condition, and failure risk of critical overhead components such poles, towers, and conductors subjected to environmental l …
  4. B213
    50 mins
    As the bulk power system undergoes rapid transformation driven by electrification, extreme weather, resource transitions, and load growth from data centers and economic development, system operators a …
  5. B209
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    The US Department of Energy Office of Electricity is developing a Grid Modernization Investment Framework, (GMIF) a structured, adaptable, in-depth maturity model guide that sets a benchmark approach …
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    Utilities and states are investing billions in incentives for heat pumps, EV charging, panel upgrades, and weatherization — counting on those programs to drive efficiency and decarbonization. Yet many …
11:00 AM
  1. B217
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    For utilities, contractor invoice review is more than an administrative task. It is a frontline financial control.At PPL, a single team can process more than 400 contractor invoices each month, with e …
  2. B211
    50 mins
      Utilities face a common challenge: electrification demand is accelerating faster than traditional distribution upgrades can be delivered. EV charging plazas, fleet depots, data centers, batteries, a …
  3. B214
    50 mins
    As electric load growth accelerates due to large data center interconnections and generation retirements, utilities face increasing pressure to deliver transmission upgrades that often require years t …
  4. B201
    50 mins
    As increased low carbon generation is connected to the grid, changes in load profile driven by this evolving usage means that traditional approaches to assessing transformer asset health may be out of …
  5. B216
    50 mins
    The continued growth in residential, commercial and industrial electricity demand is placing increased pressure on existing transmission infrastructure and accelerating the need for innovative operati …
  6. B207
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    Hydro One implemented a Real-Time Load Transfer Study (RTLTS) capability within its Schneider Electric EcoStruxture Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) to modernize outage response and impr …
11:25 AM
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    Modelers and engineers at Dominion Energy spend a meaningful share of their time not doing engineering, but hunting. Hunting through spreadsheets, enterprise planning documents, project documentation, …
1:00 PM
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    With the spillover of cyberattacks from the conflict in Ukraine and the increasing threat vectors from DERs, cybersecurity has become a critical consideration in resilience planning. As DERs prolifera …
  2. B211
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    Georgia Power recently initiated a new risk evaluation initiative with the potential to set a new standard for decision-making across the Southeast. Having led the effort, Josh Stallings, VP, Distribu …
  3. B202
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    As utilities deploy private LTE, fiber, and hybrid communications networks to support modern grid applications, the complexity of designing, operating, and maintaining these systems continues to grow. …
2:00 PM
  1. B201
    50 mins
    As utilities race to deploy advanced analytics and AI, they inevitably hit a fundamental wall: legacy data is rarely mature enough to power true asset intelligence. Building a trustworthy Asset Health …
  2. B216
    50 mins
    The next frontier for virtual power plants is not proving that distributed energy resources can respond to a dispatch signal. Many utilities have already done that. The harder question is how to insti …
  3. B202
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    As utilities scale AMI 2.0 across mesh, cellular, and hybrid architectures, traditional traffic models and macro-level network KPIs are proving insufficient. High-level metrics like throughput and lat …
Rebekah Eggers
I really feel like DTECH is creating the platform to expand the conversation. We need resiliency. I think that's what it's all about and that goes far beyond just transmission and distribution.
Rebekah Eggers
Attendee |  IBM
Yutong Chen
So my favorite part of DTECH has been that, as a weather startup, it’s really valuable to understand what utility companies are focused on and how we can contribute to helping utilities be better prepared for weather events.
Yutong Chen
Attendee |  WindBorne System
Joe Zerdin
You think you know everything about what's going on in the business. Then you come to DTECH and learn a lot more is happening.
Joe Zerdin
Attendee |  Hydro One
Ashley Pope
I was able to send out meeting invites from the DTECH app. No problem. Got meetings back-to-back, 25 meetings booked, cold meetings...I've never had that happen at a conference before, and it's just very well orchestrated, very well run. You'll get a lot for your money at this conference.
Ashley Pope
Attendee |  Oxit
Syed Hasan
The reason why it's important for us to be here at DTECH is really that a lot of our customers are here; existing customers, and a lot of prospects are here. We want to educate our peers in the industry as to what we're doing and where we see the industry growing. And we also want to learn from them.
Syed Hasan
Exhibitor |  Survalent
James Helmberger
OPPD regularly attends DTECH with both a ‘mission list’ of answers we are looking for and with an open mind for new ideas, products and services. In all aspects, Dallas 2025 didn’t disappoint. From a distribution utility standpoint, the amount of information and industry interaction available at this conference is unmatched.
James Helmberger
Attendee |  Omaha Public Power District
Gwen Lopez
What made us decide to exhibit here at DTECH is that it is a great platform to collaborate with utilities and also with electrical vendors. We have been an exhibitor for a long time and we have seen throughout the years the excitement of our customers meeting us here in person to see the durability of our product.
Gwen Lopez
Exhibitor |  Scott Manufacturing
Sinisa Grkovic
For me, DTECH is an extremely informative and effective mechanism to stay in touch with new electrical utility technologies, and it represents a great networking opportunity to see many utility vendors (and utility colleagues) in person and all at one location.
Sinisa Grkovic
Attendee |  Burlington Hydro
John Gounaris
This is one of the most important shows for us each calendar year. It's got a very high concentration of utilities, and many of our customers come to the show each year. So it's usually in a nice place. There's a ton of traffic every year. So it's a nice, convenient place for us to show all our newest and greatest wares.
John Gounaris
Exhibitor |  G&W Electric
“Every year as I evaluate industry conferences to send our Engineering teams to we look at DISTRIBUTECH® as the crown jewel. We typically send a large group who specialize across multiple disciplines. With the flexibility that the Utility Partner Program offers, it gives us access to all of the conference sessions, exhibition hall and network events. The discounted rate with the UPP is ideal for any Utility that plans to send a large group.”
Attendee |  National Grid