June 1, 2011 - Southern Company Programming Day
June 2-3, 2011 - Open Industry Days
Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center
Atlanta, Georgia

Thank you for a successful Grid ComForum East!

Thank you to all of the speakers, sponsors, and industry leaders that gathered in Atlanta for Grid ComForum East 2011.

Hosted by Southern Company and Georgia Institute of Technology, GCF East brought together the electric power utilities, vendors, and suppliers involved in Smart Grid technology deployment in the Eastern region.

We look forward to seeing you next year as Duke Energy and Progress Energy host GCF East, May 22-24, 2012 in Raleigh, North Carolina!

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Conference Chairperson

  Susan N. Story
President and CEO
Southern Company Services

Southern Company Core Planning Team

  • Becky Blalock, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Southern Company
  • Mike Clanton, Vice President, Energy Sales & Efficiency, Georgia Power
  • Bryan Fletcher, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Southern Company Services
  • Danny Glover, Vice President, Distribution, Alabama Power
  • Chris Hobson, Vice President, Research and Environmental Affairs, Southern Company Services
  • Don Horsley, Vice President, Customer Services Organization, Mississippi Power
  • Bernard Jacob, Vice President, Customer Operations, Gulf Power
  • Carrie Kurlander, Vice President, Corporate Communication, Southern Company Services
  • Rich Mandes, Vice President, Transmission, Alabama Power
  • Wes McDowell, Vice President, CIO, Georgia Region, Southern Company
  • Leslie Sibert, Vice President, Distribution, Georgia Power
  • Anthony Wilson, Vice President, Transmission, Georgia Power

Keynote Panelists

Thursday, June 2
8:15 am - 9:45 am

Keynote Panel: Visions for the 21st Century Grid

Moderator:
Chris Baltimore
Houston Bureau Chief
Reuters

Panelists:

  Thomas Fanning
Chairman, President, and CEO
Southern Company
  G.P. "Bud" Peterson
President
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kateri Callahan
President
Alliance to Save Energy
  John Estey
President & CEO
S&C Electric Company

Thursday, June 2
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Keynote Panel: Policy and Regulation

 

Moderator:
James Kerr
Partner, McGuire Woods LLP
Former North Carolina Public Service
Commissioner 

   
Panelists:      
Tony Clark
President
NARUC
 

Mignon Clyburn
FCC Commissioner

Patricia Hoffman
Assistant Secretary, Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability
US Department of Energy 

John Norris
Commissioner
FERC 

Thursday, June 2
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Keynote Panel: Smart Grid Technology Roadmap

  Moderator:
Arshad Mansoor
SVP
EPRI 
   
Panelists:    
  Becky Blalock
Senior Vice President
Chief Information Officer
Southern Company
 

Bob Gilligan
VP Digital Energy
GE Energy Services

Peter Mainz
CEO & President
Sensus 

  Mark Moskvitz
Partner
IBM Global Business Services
  Guerry Waters
Vice President, Industry Strategy
Oracle Utilities 
 

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