Better Connected, Better Decisions: Defending Resilience Investments Workshop

To attend this event, you must register separately. This event is free to attend and can be added to your registration when registering, or by visiting the registration resource center to review your existing registration: https://forms.reg.buzz/dtech-ne-2026

12:30 PM – 12:50 PM | Opening Address (20 mins)
Shifting from Spend to Impact: Integrated Planning for Grid Resilience

Themes:

• The Northeast reality: Across the Northeast, utilities face more severe storms, rising community scrutiny, and rapid load growth, all while keeping power affordable. Every program must now definitively demonstrate its impact: where it reduces risk, at what cost, and with what results.
• Building a unified picture of risk: Utilities often have plenty of data, but disconnected systems make it difficult to measure impact, set priorities and defend those decisions. Utilities that can see across teams and systems can not only understand risk, but build clear plans to act on it and a verified record of work completed.
• Driving action: Connecting these systems makes predictions smarter and work more quantifiable—shifting utility metrics from “How much are we spending?” to “How much risk are we reducing for every dollar spent?”

12:50 PM – 1:30 PM | Panel: Lessons from utility leaders (40 mins)
Driving Efficiency Across Programs

Utility leaders explore how they’re driving efficiency across programs, implementing more data-driven planning, and building evidence that supports every conversation with regulators and stakeholders.

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Operational Roundtables (2 Hours / 2 One-hour discussions)
Attendees participate in two sequential 1-hour interactive rotation blocks. Each table is facilitated by tech partners and utility leads.

Option 1A: Vegetation Management: Better budgets & contractor auditing
Option 1B: Asset Planning: The next generation of proactive maintenance
Option 2A: Storm Preparation: Maximizing Moments Before a Storm
Option 2B: Wildfire: Mapping the most cost-effective mitigation strategies

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Closing (30 mins)
Workshop Readout: Themes, Takeaways, and the Path Forward

• Roundtable Readout: Facilitators summarize the core best practices, debate points, and key takeaways generated from each of the four operational table rotations.
• Actionable Steps: Attendees are left with a clear list of best practices on how utilities can align teams, integrate tech stacks, and start measuring risk reduced for every dollar spent.

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