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2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Resiliency Summit
Livestream schedule is below:
All times are PST
8:30am – 9:00am – Safety message and welcome video from C.Y. Chung, President, IEEE PES
9:00am – 9:30am – Keynote Address
Sumeet Singh – Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Executive Vice President, Energy Delivery
Description: Energy systems have hit an inflection point, and CEOs are charged with leading the response. The C-Suite shares their perspectives on top reliability, resiliency and affordability issues shaping the modern utility landscape.
Description: Technology and energy have become intrinsically linked. The biggest players in tech discuss their role in ensuring a reliable energy grid that can handle large loads.
1:30pm – 2:30pm – Panel 3: The Affordability Imperative: Balancing Costs While Delivering Performance and Growth
Description: Consumers expect their energy bills to remain affordable. Utility leaders compare notes on what they are doing to accomplish this in their respective service areas.
Description: Utility leaders will discuss how data centers have created unique challenges for grid operators, and how they are addressing concerns regarding balancing supply and demand, and resilience and reliability needs in the age of AI and surging growth.
4:00pm – 5:00pm – Panel 5: What Regulators Are Watching – How Energy Utilities Can Plan for What’s Next
Description: Policy must be updated to stay current with a rapidly changing energy landscape. Federal and state regulators examine today’s most pressing issues and preview the next debates on the horizon.
8:30am – 9:00am – Keynote Address:
Peter Kenny – Chief Delivery Officer, Senior Vice President, Electric Transmission and Distribution, PG&E
9:00am – 10:00am – Panel 6: Smarter Forecasting: Leveraging AI to Better Predict Load
Description: Artificial Intelligence presents utilities with a key opportunity to enable resiliency goals. See how they are integrating AI that enhances their forecasting models.
10:00am – 11:00am – Panel 7: Resilience Under Threat: Strategies for Extreme Weather and Wildfire Risk
Description: Preparing for extreme weather events has become a full-time job for energy providers. Chief meteorologists and utility leaders break down strategies they deploy to mitigate the effects of storms and wildfires.
11:30am – 12:30pm – Panel 8: Meeting Unprecedented Growth While Strengthening Grid Resilience
Description: After more than 20 years of flat overall load growth, utilities are experiencing record new business and growth demands, while facing significant challenges driven by the increasing frequency and severity of major weather events. Utility leaders explore how they can continue to improve reliability and resiliency during an era when exponential growth and climate change are the new normal.
This will include a discussion on new technology solutions to improve reliability and resilience, new standards and indices to evaluate performance, and evolving regulatory and policy challenges.
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Panel 9: Reliability Without Borders: International Perspectives from Utility Leaders
Description: Common themes exist for utilities grappling with reliability around the world, but every region has its own unique challenges. Global experts reflect on key lessons learned and share how they provide reliable power for their communities.
3:00pm – 4:00pm – Panel 10: Help Wanted: Educating, Training and Retaining a New Energy Workforce