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22nd Edition Outage Resilience, Response and Restoration Management March 5-7, 2024 – Atlanta

PROMO CODE: ME_200 for $200 discount

About the event 
This premier marcus evans conference will provide attendees with lessons learned from recent storms, wildfires, and incidents to more safely, efficiently, and effectively improve outage response and emergency management planning, preparation, and execution. Attendees with hear from experienced utility executives and leaders on streamlining outage and crisis communications, maximizing drills and exercises, utilizing post incident analysis, ensuring effective resource management, and leveraging grid hardening strategies and advanced tools and analytics to prevent outages and mitigate their effects. Finally, the conference will cover key strategies to prepare for the many threats and challenges to today’s grid, including climate change, cyber and physical threats, costs and benefits to undergrounding, preventative de-energizing (Public Safety Power Shutoffs), and more!
Keytopics:
• Analyze lessons learned from recent adverse weather events to improve outage resilience and response
• Discuss the value of preventative power shutoffs for preventing outages
• Analyze effective strategies for grid hardening and ensure ROI
• Ensure resilient systems to prepare for cyber and physical threats to the grid
• Leverage social media to enhance outage communications and improve the customer experience
• Consider effective strategies for calculating and communicating Estimated Time of Restoration (ETR) to customers