Monday, October 27th - Substation Day

      7:30a: Welcome & Registration

      8:00a: Housekeeping Announcements and Utility Reports

      8:30a: Remediation of a Major Transformer Oil Spill by Oday Wadee, PDS

      9:30a: Questions for a Consultant's GPR Study by Brian Turner, NPPD

      10:15a: BREAK

      10:30a: Understanding the Demands on Generator Sync Breakers by Michael-Allen Lane, PDS

      11:30a: Beyond Blueprints: Unveiling the Power of 3D Modeling in Design, Richard McCoy & Peter Bergamini, Olsson

      12:00p: Lunch

      1:00p: Beyond the Nameplate: Extending Life Through Strategic Management by PDS

      2:00p: Enhancing Busbar Protection Reliability: Addressing Grounding Transformer Challenges in High-Voltage Systems by Mahfooz                              Hilaly, Burns & McDonnell

      2:30p: BREAK

      2:45p: Transformer Topic TBD

      3:45p: Securing the Grid: Past Lessons, Present Actions, Future Resilience by Andrew Henecke, OPPD

      4:30p: Closing Remarks

Tuesday, October 28th - System Protection Day

      7:30a: Welcome & Registration

      8:00a: Housekeeping Announcements and Utility Reports

      8:30a: Challenges and Solutions for Distance Elements Protecting Transmission Lines with Tapped Loads by SEL

      9:30a: Critical Redundancy Solutions by Renee Schaefer, RFL Products & Hubbell Power

      10:10a: BREAK

      10:30a: Enhancing Timekeeping in the Power Industry Through Multi-Constellation GNSS (Clocks) [from whitepaper] by Shane                                             Singleton & Saurabh Rajpal, Novatech 

      11:15a: Case Study: 25 Years of Using Digital Messaging for Communications Assisted Protection by SEL

      12:00p: Lunch

      1:00p: Revisiting Open-Phase Detection for Fuse-Protected Power Transformers by SEL

      1:45p: Ethics Presentation by Rob Bramon, Burns & McDonnell

      2:45p: Challenges and Solutions for Distance Elements Protecting Transmission Lines with Tapped Loads pt 2 by SEL

      3:25p: BREAK

      3:40p: NPPD 2025 Outage Highlights by Steve Wadas, NPPD

      4:20p: Improving Safety and Reliability on High-Voltage Lines with Broken Conductor Detection, A Utility's Perspective by SEL

      5:00p - 7:00p: Hospitality Night

Wednesday, October 29th - Grid Edge Technologies Day

      7:30a: Welcome & Registration

      8:00a: Housekeeping Announcements

      8:10a: Leveraging Intelligent Line Sensors to Improve Situational Awareness and Outage Response with OPPD by                                                                        Sentient Energy &  OPPD

      9:10a: Automatic Throwover Switches and Communicating Reclosers by Aaron Rasmussen, OPPD

      10:00a: BREAK

      10:15a: Smarter Substations Start Here: Practice AI Applications for Engineers by Expedium Consulting

      11:15a: Distributed Energy Resources by Jim Helmberger, OPPD

      12:00p: Lunch

      1:00p: Application of Synchro-Waveforms to Successfully Detect Impending Faults for CMI/SAIFI & Improve Grid Resilliency by                                       Sentient Energy

      2:00p: Advanced Metering Infrastructure by Aaron Smith, OPPD

      2:45p: BREAK

      3:00p: Future of SCADA Modeling and Management for Electric Utilities by Expedium Consulting

      3:45p: Improving Circuit Volt/VAR Optimization with Advanced Voltage Regulator and Capacitor Bank Controls by SEL

      4:30p: Closing Remarks