Conference Agenda

Session

D2-1: Cybersecurity and Smart Communications for Resilient Power Grids

Time:

Thursday, 02/Oct/2025:

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: Room 522A

Session Topics:

D2 Information systems telecommunications and cybersecurity

Presentations

1:30pm - 1:45pm

Open Innovation and Technologies for Artificial Intelligence in Power Systems

Alexandre Parisot

Linux Foundation Energy, United States of America

1:45pm - 2:00pm

Towards demonstrating the win-win Cohabitation of Open Source and Standardization

Alexandre Parisot¹, Laurent Guise², Boris Dolley³

¹Linux Foundation Energy, United States of America; ²EnergySemantic.com, France; ³RTE, France

2:00pm - 2:15pm

Forecasting Customer Demands in Distribution Service Operations at Hydro-Québec

Amira Dems¹, Jai kumar Drave²

¹Hydro-Quebec Research institute- IREQ, Canada; ²HEC Montreal, Canada

2:15pm - 2:30pm

A Review of SCADA Considerations for HVDC Projects

Frida Ceja Gomez, Hung Tran

AtkinsRealis, Canada

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Bridging the Data Management Gap

Christopher Johnson¹, Maria McMurtry (Hydro One)², Kristen Loney (Hydro One)²

¹Amidyne Solutions, Canada; ²Hydro One

2:45pm - 3:00pm

Utility Hybrid PLTE and Fiber Network Deployment in Support of Grid Modernization Use-Cases

Jayson Brian Shiau¹, Thomas Flanagan¹, Arien Majette², Michael Morgan²

¹ComEd, United States of America; ²Exelon, United States of America

3:00pm - 3:15pm

The Need for a Comprehensive Communications Strategy to Support the Evolving Utility Grid: Tampa Electric – A Case Study

Philip Andrew ZInck¹, Bruce Albright²

¹Tampa Electric; ²Burns & McDonnell

3:15pm - 3:30pm

Passive Optical Network Deployments for Enhanced Grid Communications

Juan Ornelas¹, James Conway², Michael Morgan¹, Hugo Castaneda²

¹Exelon, United States of America; ²Commonwealth Edison, United States of America