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

As neurotechnology advances, the integration of cyber-physical systems (CPS) with neural sensing is opening new frontiers in human augmentation, healthcare, and cognitive computing. However, these systems introduce new security, privacy, and resilience challenges that are often overlooked in traditional CPS security paradigms. This talk will explore the intersection of cyber-physical security and human-in-the-loop neural systems, drawing on recent work in neurosymbolic sensor fusion and real-time, multimodal sensing for closed-loop brain stimulation. We will discuss ongoing research into real-world signal variability, synchronization challenges, privacy risks in shared environments, and adversarial threats to neural inference pipelines. Using deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a case study, we will examine how IoT-integrated neuroscience applications present novel attack surfaces and safety considerations that go beyond traditional CPS security models. We will also highlight our latest work on sensor-based privacy risks, the ethical considerations of AI-mediated neural interventions, and the challenge of aligning security and resilience frameworks with dynamic human behavior. Speaker(s): Luis Garcia Agenda: 6:50 - 7 PM: Registration 7-8 PM: Talk and Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/484536