2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Resiliency Summit

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Date

October 6

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In-Person

Location

San Francisco, CA

Energy
AI
Policy
Data Centers & Cloud · Power & Utilities · Renewables

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Hosted by Pacific Gas & Electric, the summit addresses electric-grid reliability, resilience, affordability, AI and data-center load, wildfire mitigation, extreme-weather response, regulatory issues, forecasting, grid growth, and workforce development. Panels include “The Grid at a Crossroads: C-Suite Executives on Reliability, Resilience and Affordability,” “Big Tech, Big Load: How Innovation is Reshaping the Grid,” “The Affordability Imperative,” “Powering the AI Boom: Data Center Load and Grid Resilience,” “What Regulators Are Watching,” “Smarter Forecasting: Leveraging AI to Better Predict Load,” “Resilience Under Threat,” “Meeting Unprecedented Growth While Strengthening Grid Resilience,” “Reliability Without Borders,” and “Help Wanted: Educating, Training and Retaining a New Energy Workforce.”

Speakers(52)

C.Y. Chung

President, IEEE PES

Sumeet Singh

Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Executive Vice President, Energy Delivery

Shay Bahramirad

Vice President of Transmission & Distribution Engineering, PG&E; Past President, IEEE PES

David Whitehead

President, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

Terence Robert Donnelly

Former President and COO, ComEd

Yannick Phulpin

Head of Department, Customer & Strategy, EDF

Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher

Advisor, Danovo Energy Solutions

Marc Spieler

Senior Managing Director, NVIDIA

Avnaesh Jayantilal

Chief Technology Officer of Grid Innovation & Software, GE Vernova

Prithpal Khajuria

Segment Leader, Energy & Utilities, Intel Corporation

Aidan Mallamo

Launch Industry Executive, Energy & Utilities, Launch by NTT Data

Raj Beasla

Senior Director, T&S Engineering & Test, PG&E

Ali Yari

Director of Engineering, San Diego Gas & Electric

Aaron Johnson

Senior Vice President, Local Customer & Community Engagement and Chief Sustainability Officer, PG&E

Chris Shelton

Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer, The AES Corporation

Vishy Natarajan

Vice President, Customer Systems & Solutions, PG&E

Jens Nedrud

Director, Transmission Planning, PG&E

Jacob Bissell

Director of Customer Design & Delivery, CPS Energy

Carla Frieh

Vice President, Transmission & Substation Engineering, ComEd

Peter Muhoro

Chief Strategy, Technology and Innovation Officer, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative

Carlo Brancucci

Co-Founder and CEO, encoord

Wendy Al-Mukdad

Principal Risk Analyst, PG&E; Chair, IEEE SF Chapter

Evan Mickelson

Power Systems Engineer, North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Barry Mather

Group Manager, Integrated Devices & Systems, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Forest Kaser

Director, California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety

Peter Kenny

Chief Delivery Officer; Senior Vice President, Electric Transmission and Distribution, PG&E

Yun Wang

Head of AI Center of Excellence, PG&E

Matthew Green

Senior Vice President, Integrated Planning & Advisory, TRC Companies, Inc.

Shawn Chandler

Executive Vice President, Innovation of Energy & Markets, QGEMS Energy Limited

Zhenyu (Henry) Huang

Interim Deputy Associate Laboratory Director; Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

Simon Julien

Co-Founder, Inventor, Technical Lead, Latimer Controls

Aditya Tallapally

Director, Energy Resilience, Growth & BRM, PG&E

Andrew Abranches

Vice President, Wildfire Mitigation, PG&E

Scott Strenfel

Senior Director, Wildfire Risk, Meteorology Operations & Fire Science, PG&E

Colton Ching

Senior Vice President, Planning & Technology, Hawaiian Electric Company

Brian Pierre

Manager, Electric Power Systems Research, Sandia National Laboratories

Chris Arends

Director of Client Solutions, Western Weather Group

Tamara Mendelsohn

Chief Operating Officer, Overstory

Julio Aguero Ramero

Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation, Danovo Energy Solutions

Shinjini Menon

Senior Vice President, System Planning & Engineering, Southern California Edison

Heide Caswell

Administrator, Oregon Public Utility Commission; Chair, IEEE PES Distribution Reliability Working Group

Jon Eric Thalman

Senior Director, System Performance Reliability & Resilience Strategy, PG&E

Ben Kregel

Director of Engineering, ComEd

Damir Novosel

Chief Executive Officer, Dash Power Partners

Claudia Cosoreanu

Chief Technology Officer, GE Vernova

Pablo Mollá

President, Ferrovial Webber Energy Division, Webber, a Ferrovial Company

Vikas Manohar

Vice President, U.S. Sales, Tata Consulting Engineers

Vassilis Kekatos

Associate Professor, Purdue

Jeff Painter

Senior Director, PG&E Academy

Amin Khodaei

Co-Founder and CEO, Grident; Vice President of Education, IEEE PES

Maryam Khanbaghi

Director of Power Systems & Sustainable Energy Program; Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University

Mahyar Zarghami

Professor, Sacramento State University

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