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2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Summit
This is your ticket to the inaugural IEEE Power & Energy (PES) Summit on Achieving a More Reliable and Resilient Energy Future. Emcee, Quinn Nakayama, Senior Director, Grid Research Innovation & Development, PG&E, offers guidance and on-the-spot analysis as our panelists share practical experiences and perspectives on their efforts to achieve a more reliable and resilient electric power grid.
The Summit is focused on efforts to drive reliability performance through outage reduction and quicker response. The summit includes system level thinking to mitigate high impact low probability or resilience events.
Hosted on the west coast the Summit offers a special look at the topic of reliability and wildfire mitigation. The event is comprised of a single technical track (super session format) with no breakout sessions. The presenters are all practitioners who openly discuss their own organization's approach to building a more reliable and resilient grid.
The output of the two day session is offered here on-demand via IEEE.tv for you to view at your convenience.
Welcome: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Welcome:
Shay Bahramirad
President, IEEE Power & Energy Society
Agenda Overview:
Quinn Nakayama – Senior Director, Grid Research Innovation & Development, PG&E
Topic 1- Key Success Factors for Reliable Energy Delivery: IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Damir Novosel (Moderator) – President and Founder, Quanta Technology
Terry Donnelly – Past President & COO, ComEd
Mark Carpenter – Senior Vice President, T&D Operations, Oncor
Shay Bahramirad – Vice President of Transmission and Distribution Engineering, PG&E
Topic 2 - Preventing Catastrophic Outages for Transmission & Substations: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Raj Beasla (Moderator) – Senior Director, Transmission and Substation Engineering, PG&E
Cheryl Maletich – Senior Vice President Transmission & Substations, ComEd
Sarah Lacey – Director Transmission and Substations, Pepco Holdings
James Hanson – Manager Operations Analysis, WECC
Billy Raley – Senior Vice President Engineering and Operations, Long Island Lighting
Topic 3 - Data Centers and their Impact on the Grid: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Bryon Winget (Moderator) – Vice President Electric System Planning, PG&E
Josh Stallings – Vice President, Strategy and Support, Georgia Power
Selver Corhodzic – Global Director Data Center Electrical Systems, META
Florent Xavier, Director of R&D Partnerships, Valorization, and Transformation, RTE
Mandy Ulrich – Senior Manager AMER West/Latam Energy, Water, CFE, AWS
Topic 4 - Reliability Improvement – Recent Utility Experiences - Challenges, Success Stories, and Lessons Learned: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panalists:
Julio Romero (moderator) – Senior Vice President Strategy & Business Innovation, Quanta Technology
Brett Stockton – Reliability Engineering Manager, Duke Energy
Julio Aguilar – Vice President Distribution and Reliability, LUMA Energy
Rod Robinson – Vice President Electric System Operations, PG&E
Gerald Ramsey – Reliability and Automation Manager, Southern Company
Topic 5 - Innovations in System Reliability , Outage Prevention, Forensics and Failure Analytics: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Carl Segneri (moderator) – Vice President Grid Asset Solutions, Quanta Technology
Jamie Ortega – Director Grid Analytics, ComEd
Shinichi Imai – VP, Renewable Energy, Power & Energy Solutions – INPEX Corp.
Farnoosh Rahmatian – President, NuGrid Power Corporation
Marianna Vaiman – CEO, V&R Energy
Topic 6 - Reliability, Resilience, and Optimization of Capital Investments: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Joe Bentley – Senior Vice President Electric Engineering, PG&E
Sarah Wambles – GM Distribution Asset Management Governance, Duke Energy
Howard Gugel – Senior Vice President of Regulatory Oversight, NERC
Joe Svachula – Senior Vice President Transmission & Compliance, Exelon
Topic 7 - Reliability, Resilience & Wildfire Mitigation: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Matt Pender (moderator) – Vice President Undergrounding & System Hardening, PG&E
Heide Casswell – Oregon PUC
Kristie Cocco – Sr Director, T&D Engineering & Construction, APS
Brian Pierre – Manager, Electric Power Systems Research Dept, Sandia National Labs
Topic 8 - Technology Panel on Reliability: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Quinn Nakayana (Moderator) – Senior Director, Grid Research Innovation & Development, PG&E
Aleksi Paaso – Vice President Distribution, Quanta Technology
Ernst Scholtz – Chief Technology Officer, S&C Electric
Calvin Zhang – Global Technology Director, Eaton
Hamed Khalilinia – Power Systems Lead, Tapestry
Tim Barat – Co-Founder & CEO, Gridware
Topic 9 - Climate Resiliency & Major Event Response: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Wayne Bishop (Moderator) – Vice President Industry Outreach & Strategy, Quanta Technology
Shikhar Pandey – Chair, IEEE Distribution Resiliency Task Force
Teresa Alvarado – Vice President, South Bay and Central Coast Region, PG&E
Dan Smith – Vice President of Research & Innovation, LCRA
Rob Brook – GM and Senior Vice President Americas, NEARA
Topic 10 - Western US Experiences: 2025 IEEE PES Summit
Panelists:
Jon Eric Thalman (Moderator) – Sr. Director Reliability, PG&E
Audrey Lee – Senior Director Energy, Microsoft
Wendy al Mukdad, Senior Utilities Engineer – California PUC
Yanfeng Gong- Fellow Engineer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Sahar Hendabad – Vice President, Grid Modernization Strategy, AECOM
