Program

Program at a glance: Wednesday, October 10

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7:30 am ET	Library Building Registration opens
8:00 am	Oakham House – Tecumseh Auditorium Breakfast
9:00 am	Library Building – Library Lecture Hall – LIB72 Welcome (Bala Venkatesh, Conference Chair, EPEC 2018) Opening remarks (Maike Luiken, President, IEEE Canada) Keynote (Parveen Verma, Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited)
10:00 am	Podium Building Coffee break				Podium Building – POD 372 Exhibits 10:00 am–3:20 pm
	Podium Building – POD 358 Paper sessions	Podium Building – POD 366 Paper sessions	Podium Building – POD 368 Paper sessions	Library Building – Library Lecture Hall – LIB72 Industry sessions and tutorials
10:20 am	Session 1: Photovoltaic energy systems I	Session 2: Smart grids & smart cities	Session 3: Electric machines	Industry session 1: IoT Solutions for the Digital World
12:00 pm	Pantages Hotel Lunch
1:20 pm	Session 4: Photovoltaic energy systems II	Session 5: Policies, regulation, and planning	Session 6: Power systems planning and operation I	Tutorial 1: Power Quality in Distribution Grids – Its Impact on Customer Supply Reliability
3:00 pm	Podium Building Coffee break
3:20 pm	Session 7: Electric vehicles	Session 8: Electricity market, conservation & demand management	Session 9: Power systems planning and operation II	Tutorial 2: Roadmap to Energy Storage Standards Development – Updates and Relevance
6:00 pm–8:00 pm	Pantages Hotel Banquet Welcome (Omid Alizadeh, Technical Chair, EPEC 2018) Keynote (Maike Luiken, President, IEEE Canada)

Program at a glance: Thursday, October 11

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8:00 am ET	Tecumseh Auditorium Breakfast Library Building Registration
	Podium Building – POD 358 Paper sessions	Podium Building – POD 366 Paper sessions	Podium Building – POD 368 Paper sessions	Library Building – Library Lecture Hall – LIB72 Industry sessions and tutorials	Podium Building – POD 372 Exhibits 10:00 am–3:20 pm
09:00 am	Session 10: Industry papers	Session 11: Wind energy systems	Session 12: Data analytics & computation methods	Tutorial 3: Planning Aspects of Asset Management for Electrical Utilities
10:00 am	Podium Building Coffee break
10:20 am	Session 13: Energy storage systems	Session 14: Distribution systems	Session 15: Modeling and design	Industry session 2: Building Blocks of a Smart City
12:00 pm	Pantages Hotel Lunch
1:20 pm	Session 16: Power electronics I	Session 17: Microgrids I	Session 18: Reliability, resiliency & cyber security	Tutorial 4: Standards Tutorial – Changes in the New Energy Market
3:00 pm	Podium Building Coffee break
3:20 pm	Session 19: Power electronics II	Session 20: Microgrids II	Session 21: Miscellaneous	Tutorial 4 continues
5:00 pm	Library Building – Library Lecture Hall – LIB72 Women in engineering panel: Creating a Diverse Smart Grid Sector: Challenges and Opportunities
6:00 pm–7:00 pm	Library Building – Library Lecture Hall – LIB72 Young professionals event