About Grid ComForum

The Grid ComForum Series

The Grid ComForum series of events creates unique venues for the electric power industry to come together in an intimate setting to discuss technology deployment and management issues associated with Smart Grid. With each event hosted by a leading regional utility, the programs address Smart Grid issues from the power utility perspective.

What Makes the Grid ComForum Series Unique?

• Hosted by utilities that are leaders in their regions in Smart Grid planning and deployment
  
  
• Oriented toward deployment of Smart Grid technologies, including business issues, technology management, operations, and workforce development
  
  
• Targeted at regional needs, recognizing the variations in regulatory policy at the state level and its effect on Smart Grid deployments
  
  
• Featured networking hospitality, that complements each Grid ComForum program with corporate Smart Grid technologies, applications, solutions, and service stations.
  
  
• Prominent academic participation through the involvement of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmeht Heads Association (ECEDHA).

Who Attends Grid ComForum?

• Major host utilities and their regional counterparts that are reviewing the latest technologies and solutions while seeking relationships with suppliers in order to build a secure, next-generation power grid
  
  
• Regulators and policy makers, who need to understand Smart Grid technology and its impact on the utilities they regulate as they seek to secure and advance the electric power infrastructure
  
  
• Equipment makers and software technology vendors that provide the technology components to add the communications layer to the grid for performance monitoring and load response
  
  
• Communication service providers and systems integrators, that manage the deployment of the two-way communication component through the use of their network services, thus enabling the next-generation power grid
  
  
• Academia from regional universities, who must prepare the next generation of industry professionals and whose research contributes to advances in Smart Grid technology