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QualityLogic, Inc  | Cross Cutting |
Event Over There are numerous issues that cut across multiple Smart Grid domains and topics - that is, they are important and relevant to most every aspect of interoperability standards and Smart Grid systems and applications. Many of these issues are identified in the GWAC Context-Setting Framework (the GWAC Stack) but also include other issues such as conformance and interoperability testing, risk management, safety and system reliability. We are fortunate to have four sessions focused on three of the critical cross-cutting issues. The SGIMM and GWAC session looks at the practical application of the GWAC Stack and the developing Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model (also the subject of the Foundational Session in the opening Plenary). Two sessions focus on Cyber-Security, one of the most critical of the cross-cutting issues. Finally, the issue of achieving interoperability from one end of the communications network to another end through a series of smart grid domains and standards is addressed in the End-End Interoperability Session. Steve Widergren - Session leader Principal Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)   | |
This Session will show the complexity and many dimensions that go into achieving interoperability among Smart Grid participants in a community required to interoperate at multiple levels in regional or local electricity markets, balancing authorities, generation regions or other technical and business requirements that bring multiple participants together. Papers will discuss the use of the GWAC Stack and principles of the SGIMM in practical applications and the emerging SGIMM model being developed by GWAC. Steve Widergren - Moderator Principal Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) John Simmins - Speaker Senior Project Manager - Smart Grid
EPRI  James Mater - Speaker General Manager, Smart Grid and Director
QualityLogic, Inc Austin Montgomery - Speaker Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon  Mark Knight - Speaker Executive Consultant, Energy Solutions
CGI 
Patrick Miller - Session leader President and CEO - EnergySec
Principle Investigator - NESCO   | |
Practical implementations that address cyber-security requirements are addressed in this Session. In the real world, organizations take risks every time they agree to have a technology interface with a customer, a business partner, a vendor or even internal organizations. Risks can be business (failure of an interface to transmit correct, timely information); security (opening a possible intrusion portal to your own systems); privacy (inadvertent theft of consumer information); quality (deterioration of service if a partner’s system is slow to respond to drops key data), etc. In this session papers address security and risk issues ranging from the semantics of security to the need and requirements of cyber security in smart grid applications to cyber security testing. Patrick Miller - Moderator President and CEO - EnergySec
Principle Investigator - NESCO Russell Silva - Speaker Principal Consultant and Project Manager
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.  Efrain Gonzalez - Speaker Cyber Security Architect
Southen California Edison  Mike Ahmadi - Speaker COO
GraniteKey LLC  Sandy Bacik - Speaker Principal Consultant
EnerNex 
Bob Saint - Session leader Principal Distribution Engineer Member-GridWise Architecture Council
NRECA  | |
Achieving end-to-end interoperability in smart grid applications requires the availability of standards; the selection of appropriate standards for a specific architecture platform or application and then getting the various products and technologies to work together on an end-end basis. Papers in this session address the selection of standards and standards-based products; highlights progress in key standards and looks at interoperability for systems that include components in differing Smart Grid domains and/or incorporate components based on multiple standards, either in one product or across the system. Finally, the issue of achieving actual conformance to standards is considered as a key building block in the achievement of end-end interoperability. Bob Saint - Moderator Principal Distribution Engineer Member-GridWise Architecture Council
NRECA Eruch Kapadia - Speaker Sr. Solutions Architect
Cisco Systems Inc. Thomas Basso - Speaker Senior Engineer
NREL  Tim Schoechle - Speaker Chief Technical Officer
Evolution 7 Labs 
Darren Highfill - Session leader Founder & Managing Partner
SCE - UtiliSec  | |
This Session starts looking at how interoperability standards can be “cyber-secured” in design and development rather than have security added to an inherently insecure standard design? The biggest challenge in the smart grid domain is the achievement of end-end interoperable systems with adequate attention paid to security and how to incorporate security at the standards and systems development level. Darren Highfill - Moderator Founder & Managing Partner
SCE - UtiliSec John Camilleri - Speaker Executive Vice President
Green Energy Corp  Chris Blask - Speaker Founder and CEO
ICS Cybersecurity, Inc.  Sandy Bacik - Speaker Principal Consultant
EnerNex Charles (Chuck) Speicher - Speaker Managing Principal, Secure System Center Practice
McAfee
Mike Ahmadi - Session leader COO
GraniteKey LLC | |
Today’s modern Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) used in the power sector are frequently deployed using many of the same technologies used in corporate IT systems. At a minimum, these systems require the same IT management rigor as the corporate IT systems. However, IACS has different IT priorities with respect to the classic CIA Triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability). In most cases an IT system will place a higher priority on confidentiality where a control system will place a higher priority on availability or integrity. In order to address the challenges associated with IACS, an international standards committee is developing a series of standards for IACS which are designated as IEC-62443. In addition to this series of standards, there are sets of compliance testing specifications that are being written to assess the conformance to the requirements in the standard series.
This session will give an overview of the IEC-62443 series of standards, including the intended content of each document in the series, and the intended audience for each of the standards. Following the overview of the standards, this session will introduce the audience to the ISASecure certification program for industrial automation and control system devices and a system level certification, and the APC vendor security practices certification program (both in existence and practiced today). Mike Ahmadi - Moderator COO
GraniteKey LLC Kevin Staggs - Speaker Engineering Fellow
Honeywell ACS Advanced Technology Lab  James Gilsinn - Speaker Electronics Engineer
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