7:00 AM – Breakfast

• Hot Breakfast Served

8:00 – 8:50 AM – General Session – Ballroom C/D

• Legal and Government Relations

9:00 – 9:50 AM – Breakout Sessions

• Before You Commit: A Data-Driven DER Evaluation Framework for Electric Cooperatives – Ballroom E
• From Exposure to Response: Unified Cyber Security – Ballroom B

10:00 – 10:50 AM – Breakout Sessions

• Illinois Roundtable – Ballroom B
• Indiana Roundtable – Ballroom E

11:00 – 11:50 AM – Closing Keynote – Ballroom C/D

• Mike Oster, retired Air Force brigadier general

12:00 PM – Lunch – Ballroom C/D

Grand Prize Drawings

7:00 AM – Breakfast

• Hot Breakfast Served

8:00 AM – Welcome – Ballroom C/D

• Dan Gerard-AIEC

8:05 AM – Opening Remarks – Ballroom C/D

• Craig Sondgeroth-AIEC

8:10 – 8:50 AM – Opening Panel – Ballroom C/D

• The CEO’s Seat: Executive Perspectives on Technology, Risk & Innovation

9:00 – 9:50 AM – Breakout Sessions

• Running Enterprise IT as a One-Person Shop – Ballroom B
• Load-Modifying Resources – Ballroom E

10:00 – 10:50 AM – Breakout Sessions

• Networks Are Like Soda; No One Likes Them Flat – Ballroom B
• DERs and Battery Storage – Ballroom E

11:00 – 11:50 AM – Breakout Sessions

• Critical Decisions – Ballroom B
• BI – Data Analytics – Ballroom E

12:00 PM – Lunch – Ballroom C/D

• Sponsor Spotlight

1:00 – 1:50 PM – General Session: NISC Updates and Roadmap

2:00 – 2:50 PM – Breakout Sessions

• Beyond VMware: Ballroom B
• A Remote Sensing Playbook for Co-op Vegetation Management – Ballroom E

3:00 – 3:50 PM – Breakout Sessions

• When Technology Meets the Law: Breaches, AI & the IT Professional – Ballroom B
• AMI Roundtable – Ballroom E

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Vendor Reception – Ballroom A/F

• Exhibitor Show and Prizes

8:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Pre-Conference Training 

• IT Training – Ballroom B
  Microsoft 365 Optimization Workshop: Security, Governance, and AI for Cooperative IT Leaders – Matrix
• Engineering Training – Ballroom E
  Power Quality (PMI) & Motors, Including VFD’s and Phase Conversion – Toth