Draft Agenda (as of February 25, 2015) JW Marriott, Bangalore, India – March 2, 2015 0830 – 0930 REGISTRATION Continental Breakfast and Sponsors Expo Opens 0930 – 1000 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS  Representative, Consulate General of the United States, Chennai  Representative, Government of India  Henry Steingass, Regional Director for South and Southeast Asia, U.S. Trade and Development Agency 1000 – 1100 GLOBAL SMART GRIDS: HIGHLIGHTS, DRIVERS, TRENDS In this stage-setting panel discussion, Indian and U.S. power sector stakeholders will discuss, compare and contrast major U.S., Indian and global smart grid initiatives, best practices and technology trends fueling smart grid deployment. Moderator: Katherine Michaud, Country Manager, South and Southeast Asia, U.S. Trade and Development Agency      1100 – 1130 Glenn Pritchard, Principal Engineer, Exelon Christopher Villarreal, Senior Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission Reji Pillai, President, India Smart Grid Forum Bhaskar Natarajan, USAID PACE-D TA Program, Nexant Russell Conklin, Policy Analyst, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy NETWORKING BREAK 1 1130 – 1300 USTDA IN INDIA: SMART GRID DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES USTDA is active in the India power sector working in partnership with leading Indian utilities to support their smart grid deployment plans. This session will provide a brief overview of some of the technology initiatives, strategies, lessons learned and next steps resulting from recent USTDA-funded studies. Moderator: Mehnaz Ansari, Country Representative, U.S. Trade and Development Agency Mumbai Demand Side Management Pilot Power Project  Raghavendra Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, Reliance Infrastructure Limited - Mumbai Distribution  Chris Hickman, Chief Executive Officer, Innovari Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited Smart Grid Project  Praveer Sinha, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, TATA Power Delhi Distribution Limited’s (TPDDL) BESCOM Smart Grid Project  Pankaj Kumar Pandey, Managing Director, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company’s Limited’s (BESCOM)  Jerry Melcher, PMC Project Manager, BESCOM DAS Project, KEMA, Inc. CESC Smart Grid Project  Debasis Gupta, General Manager, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited (CESC)  Rakesh Kumar Goyal, Director, Tetra Tech 1300 – 1400 NETWORKING LUNCHEON 1400 – 1415 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Devendra Chaudhry, Special Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India 1415 – 1515 SMART GRID TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS This panel will review various technologies and present case studies demonstrating the effective deployment of smart grid technologies in distribution systems featuring AMI deployments, metering and communications infrastructure to improve efficiencies and to mitigate losses. Moderator: Pamela Peseux, President, Cimperium LLC Short presentations by:  Glenn Pritchard, Principal Engineer, Exelon  Sachin Gupta, VP Sales, Asia Pacific, Trilliant  Raj Vaswani, Chief Technology Officer, Silver Spring Networks Inc. 2 Followed by a moderated panel discussion including the presenters and:  Shri N. Murugesan, Director General, CPRI  Jayanta Chatterjee, General Manager – Distribution (Automation), Calcutta Electric Supply Company 1515 – 1530 NETWORKING BREAK 1530 – 1645 BIG DATA TO IMPROVE TO OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES Smart grid technologies have increased the availability of huge amounts of data to utilities. Shared data across the enterprise, engineering, and operations departments of utilities can increase efficiency and reliability. This session will discuss how utilities can use “big data” to improve accurate operational and market decision making and customer service. Moderator: TBD Short presentations by:  Lance Brown, Vice President of Customer Service, SUS  Jim Connaughton, Executive Vice President, C3 Energy  Sarah J. Montgomery, Director of Client Solutions, Asia, Opower Followed by a moderated panel discussion including the presenters and:  Rajesh Bansal, Vice President (EMG & New Technical Initiatives), BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd. 1645 – 1800 LOAD BALANCING STRATEGIES Smart grid technologies enable the utility to more effectively manage energy supply and demand. This session will discuss load balancing strategies utilizing demand response, energy efficiency and energy storage technologies. Moderator: Christopher Villarreal, Senior Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission Short presentations by:  Rajsekhar Budhavarapu, Head-Wind Business & CTO- Renewable Investments, IL&FS Energy Development Company Limited  James Karavakis, Business Development Manager, Imergy Power System.  Ambassador (Ret.) Thomas T. Riley, Senior Adviser on International Development, BrightSource Energy, Inc. Followed by a moderated panel discussion including the presenters and:  Chris Hickman, Chief Executive Officer, Innovari 3 1800 – 1815 WORKSHOP CLOSING REMARKS  Henry Steingass, Regional Director for South and Southeast Asia, U.S. Trade and Development Agency 1815 – 1945 NETWORKING RECEPTION Sponsored by: 4