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Southern California Smart Grid Symposium

Talk Title: The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium will explore the smart grid, discuss research challenges, and is a collaborative forum for the interchange of thoughts between academics, industry, government and other stakeholders.

Abstract: 9:00am – 9:05am: Opening Remarks
Viktor Prasanna, Professor – Electrical Engineering, USC
9:05am – 9:10am: Welcome
Don Paul, Executive Director, USC Energy Institute
9:10am – 9:50am: Hank Kenchington, Senior Manager, DOE
9:50am – 10:30am: Southern California Edison’s Smart Grid Vision
Jim Kelly, SVP of Transmission & Distribution, SCE
10:30am – 10:50am: Break: Refreshments
10:50am – 11:30am: Cisco’s Smart Grid Strategy
Paul De Martini, Smart Grid CTO, Cisco
11:30am – 12:10pm: Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid for Catalina Island
Steven Low, Professor – Computer Science, Caltech
12:10pm – 1:20pm: Lunch
1:20pm – 3:00pm:

Panel Discussion – Renewable Integration
Moderator: Gordon Roesler, Director of Energy Research, ISI
Cristina Archer, Asst. Professor – Environmental Science, CSU Chico
Mohammed Beshir, Manager of Resource Planning, LADWP
Rajit Gadh, Director, WINMEC
Hal La Flash, Director – Emerging Clean Technologies, PG&E
3:00pm – 3:20pm: Break: Refreshments
3:20pm – 5:00pm:

Panel Discussion – Electrifying Transportation
Moderator: GP Li, Professor – Electrical Engineering, UCI
Tim Brown, Senior Scientist, UCI
Doug Kim, Director of Advanced Technology, SCE
Joel Pointon, Manager of Electric Transportation, SDG&E
Anand Ranganathan, Research Staff Member, IBM
5:00pm – 6:30pm: Coffee and Dessert Bar concurrent with Poster Session

Host: The Symposium is sponsored by the Southern California Smart Grid Research Consortium, an industry-university collaboration between Southern California Edison, LADWP and leading research universities including USC, UCLA, UCI and Caltech.

More Info: http://socalsgs.org/

Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) -

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Eric Mankin

Event Link: http://socalsgs.org/