Electric Operations Technical & Leadership Summit May 3-5, 2022

Agenda subject to change.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Registration
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Keynote

Jefferson A – Hybrid Room Harrison A Harrison B Harrison C Harrison D Harrison E Jefferson B – Hybrid
Committee Planning Room
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Electronic Manual Library Open Session Open Session Moving from Hammers to Distribution Automation LiDAR and Drones Planning Session
System and Management Coming Soon Coming Soon Computers: New technology System Op|System Dis patch Technology for Substation Reliability
Substation for line crews Engineering
Overhead Substation

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Reliability Improvement via
Data Analytics
Reliability
4:50 PM – 7:30 PM Networking Reception and Exhibits
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast and Exhibits
Jefferson A – Hybrid Room
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Electrification Landscape at
ComEd
Reliability
Alliant High School Cable Preparation for
Recruitment Program Terminating and Splicing
Overhead Underground
Harrison A Harrison B
Open Session New Solutions for Working in
Coming Soon Heights in any Industry
Safety & Training
Keeping Current: Updating
network models
System Op|System Dispatch
Harrison C
Where have at the Operators
gone? Training and retaining
Operators
System Op|System Dispatch
Meter Site Testing The Importance of
Metering Reconditioning SF6 &
Inventory Management
Substation
Harrison D Harrison E
Current Issues in Grounding Manufactured Distribution
Overhead Poles
Codes and Standards
Planning Session
Safety & Training
Jefferson B – Hybrid
Committee Planning Room
Planning Session
Substation

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Send in the Dogs: Spot Utilities and General Use and Purpose of Cameras Distributed Energy Resource There’s an App for that: EV Charging Across the Planning Session
Robot Technology Standards for Electrical in Manholes Management System Analytics at the Meter Nation Overhead
Substation Safety in the Workplace Underground (DERMS) System Op|System Dispatch Codes and Standards
Safety & Training Reliability

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Exhibits

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM What is New in Wild Life
Guarding Issues
Overhead
Utility Pole Safety Instrument Transformer
Safety & Training Testing
Metering
Open Session Follow the Data: Reducing the EV Impact on the Planning Session
Coming Soon frequency of dispatching Distribution System and Underground
troublemen Evergy BTM Battery Pilot
System Op|System Dispatch Program
Reliability

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch and Exhibits

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Asset Management Open Session Open Session Open Session Which Pole is the Right Pole: Vac Excavations with Air Planning Session
Inspection Programs: The Coming Soon Coming Soon Coming Soon Pole treatments and Storm vs. Water Metering
Evolution from Concept to hardening Underground
Concrete Overhead
Reliability
 Electric Operations Technical & Leadership Summit May 3-5, 2022
Agenda subject to change.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 - Continued

Jefferson A – Hybrid Room Harrison A Harrison B Harrison C Harrison D Harrison E Jefferson B – Hybrid
Committee Planning Room
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Asset Lens Recruiting and Retention, Reliability Initiatives to meet System Improvement Open Session Hierarchy of Control: More Planning Session
Reliability with Lead Cable Splicing Reliability KPIs Upgrades – An Evergy Coming Soon than just PPE System Op|System
and Network Knowledge Overhead Perspective Safety & Training Dispatch
Underground Codes and Standards

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Break

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Where Have all the Materials Open Session Restoration Activates with Safely Working Around a Open Session AMI Maintenance Planning Session
gone? Strategies for moving Coming Soon AMI in the Driver’s Seat Self Healing Smart Grid Coming Soon Activities: How to Plan for Codes and Standards
forward with construction System Op|System Dispatch Safety & Training the future
projects Metering
Reliability

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Committee Planning and Recap Reception

Thursday, May 5, 2022
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast
Jefferson A – Hybrid Room Harrison A Harrison B Harrison C Harrison D Harrison E
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Overhead Line Failure Supply Chain Issues Porcelain Cutout Breaking Storm Response in the Field The Move to Solid Dielectric In the Balance: Making
Investigations – A Brief Affecting Materials at Issues and with Operators Switches time for training with
Overview of the Do's and Utilities Overhead System Op|System Underground current workloads
Don’ts Codes and Standards Dispatch Substation
Reliability

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Cable Commissioning There’s an App for that: Usage of Electronic Reclosers Taking a Technical at Strategic Undergrounding's Arc Flash Protection
Testing (KCI) Mobility with Outage in the Field Electric Tripsafe Distribution Pole Structural Role in the 21st Century Grid Safety & Training
Reliability Management Systems and Telerupters Analysis Software Underground
System Op|System Overhead Codes and Standards
Dispatch

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM That’s a Wrap

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