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Full Schedule

  • Thursday, June 4, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CT
    Membership Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM CT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Membership Meeting
  • 8:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Case Study: WEC Energy Capitalized on Failover Protections with MetroSwitch
  • 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM CT
    Enabling PLTE Modem Deployment at Scale and the Tampa Electric Experience
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Ameren Digital Command Center Unifies Technology Operations
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Best Practices for Maintaining Coverage in Disasters and Remote Areas
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Challenges of Fiber Interconnect Projects with Customers new Data Centers/Solar/Windfarms: Utility Case Studies
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    FOSA Sponsored: Texas811 & Centerpoint - Damage Prevention with Validation
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Partners in Performance: Bridging Distribution and Telecom Projects
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Radio Frequency Exposure and Worker Safety
  • 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    SIM Card Management for Utilities
  • 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM CT
    IEC 61850 from a Communications Perspective: SV/GOOSE vs. RSV/R-GOOSE
  • 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM CT
    Integrated Terrestrial and Non Terrestrial Networks for Utilities
  • 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM CT
    Securing Utility Telecom: Federal Perspectives on GPS Vulnerabilities and Resilient Timing
  • 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM CT
    What do you do when your Radio System Coverage Isn’t Enough?
  • 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    A Framework for Unified Asset Management and Infrastructure Monitoring
  • 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    AMI 2.0 Hybrid Networks: Future-Proofing the Grid with Mesh + LTE/5G
  • 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    Fiber Through the Grid – Enabling the Future of Utility Communications
  • 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    Use Case Driven Network Design
  • 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    Spans to Splices: On the Transition of Fiber Optic Cable into Substations
  • 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    Augmenting Public Safety Radio with Low Earth Orbit Satellite
  • 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    Coverage Testing Basics – Technical and Operational Methodology
  • 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    High-Accuracy Time Synchronization for Power Utility WAN/LAN
  • 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    IEC-61850 Interoperability: Bridging Legacy and Digital Substations
  • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM CT
    Expo Hall and Lunch
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Water & Gas Summit

    Speaker: Steven Liegl – WEC Energy Group

    Speaker: Anthony F. Suppa, Jr., P.E. – Public Service Electric & Gas

    Speaker: Gary R. Vondrasek – JEA

  • 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    Exhibitor Move-Out
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    Inter-utility packet handoff without TDM or SONET while keeping cyber happy
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    LCRA's Journey to Delivering Robust, Reliable MC-PTT with PLTE Networks
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    Securing Your Cellular Device Stack: Public APNs to Full Private Deployment
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    The Short Bounce – an impairment unique to QAM Digital radio signals
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Hot Topic Roundtables
  • 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
    Closing Party
  • 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM CT
    Cigars Under the Stars