Description
This premier marcus evans conference will provide attendees with lessons learned from recent storms, wildfires, and incidents to more safely, efficiently, and effectively improve outage response and emergency management planning, preparation, and execution. Attendees with hear from experienced utility executives and leaders on streamlining outage and crisis communications, maximizing drills and exercises, utilizing post incident analysis, ensuring effective resource management, and leveraging grid hardening strategies and advanced tools and analytics to prevent outages and mitigate their effects. Finally, the conference will cover key strategies to prepare for the many threats and challenges to today’s grid, including climate change, cyber and physical threats, costs and benefits to undergrounding, preventative de-energizing (Public Safety Power Shutoffs), and more!