The inaugural IEEE Power & Energy (PES) Summit on Achieving a More Reliable and Resilient Energy Future will focus on practical experiences by the power and energy industry to achieve a more reliable and resilient electric power grid. The summit will focus on efforts to drive for reliability performance through outage reduction and quicker response. The summit will also include system level thinking to mitigate against high impact low probability or resilience events. Since the summit will be hosted in the west coast a specific topic of reliability and wildfire mitigation will also be covered. The event will include one track technical track (super session format) and not include breakout sessions. The presenters invited are practitioners who will discuss their organizations’ approaches to a more reliable and resilient grid. See the event website for latest schedule and speaker names and topics. Our Bay Area PES and IAS chapters are providing this event notice to publicize it to our Bay Area members. This Summit is sponsored by PG&E and the Power & Energy Society. Our chapter will attend the Summit, and we are providing the Registration link to the PES Summit site, which also names the 20+ speakers and panelists. There are discounts for IEEE and PES members, so we want to point out that Mid-Year PES memberships (for IEEE members) are half off: PES membership for IEEE members: $15.00 Catalog IAS membership for IEEE members: $5.00 Catalog Co-sponsored by: Pacific Gas & Electric Agenda: Monday May19 4:00-7:00 Registration 5:00-7:00 Welcome Reception Tuesday May 20: Registration 7:00 am to 6:00 pm Conference 8:30 am to 5:00 pm 8:30 Welcome & Fireside chat: VP PG&E, Mayor of San Jose 9:30 1: Reliable Energy Delivery: ComEd, Quanta, Oncor 11:00 2: Preventing Catastrophic Outages for Transmission & Substations: PG&E, ComEd, Pepco, Eversource 1:30 3: Data Centers and Their Impact on the Grid (Panel): PG&E, Exelon, Georgia Power, Meta, RTE 3:00 4: Reliability Improvement – Recent Utility Experiences: Challenges, Success Stories, and Lessons Learned: Duke, PG&E, Southern, Quanta 4:00 5: Innovation In Forensics and Failure Analytics: ComEd, Quanta Wednesday May 21: Conference 8:30 am to 3:30 pm 8:30 6: Reliability, Resilience, and Optimization of Capital Investments: PG&E, Duke, NERC 10:00 7: Reliability, Resilience & Wildfire Mitigation: PG&E, OPUC, Sandia 11:00 8: Technology Panel on Reliability: PG&E, Quanta, S&C, Eaton, NuGrid 1:30 9: Climate Resiliency & Major Event Response: Quanta, ComEd, PG&E 2:30 10: Western US Experiences: PG&E, Microsoft, CPUC Bldg: Signia By Hilton San Jose, 170 S. Market St, San Jose, California, United States, 95113

The combined Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco, & Oakland/East Bay IEEE PELS is very pleased to invite you to our upcoming in-person event. We are excited and honored to have Assistant Professor Jungwon Choi of the University of Washington to speak on the topic of Challenges and Opportunities in High-Frequency Wireless Power Transfer Systems. Here's more about the talk from the Speaker: Modern electronic systems have rapidly transformed to realize automation, such as in factories or warehouses, and autonomous vehicles. As demand for automation grows, enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, control, and intelligent charging systems become beneficial. However, while other technologies have been considerably revolutionized, the effort to develop an innovative and efficient charging system for automation has not. In this talk, I will first discuss high-frequency converters in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems to improve the efficiency and power density of the system. Then, I will introduce challenges and opportunities to design coupling coils for WPT systems at high frequencies. Finally, I will preview the direction of future work, such as developing efficient high-frequency converters for emerging applications. Speaker(s): Jungwon Choi Room: Team Room (3rd Floor) - Auditorium, Bldg: Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 N Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085