At the 5th Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference in Washington DC Florian Skopik, ICT Security expert at AIT Safety & Security Department, was chair of the panel "Smart Grid Security: Current and Future Issues". The panel hosted participants from EU projects, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The conference brought together about 500 academic, applied research and industry experts with different viewpoints on the area of securing future smart grids, including those with deep knowledge of cyber-security, resilience and future energy systems. They reflected on existing efforts to secure smart grids and discussed about areas where they sense future research and standardization of paramount importance. Additionally, the panelists discussed a number of open contentious issues, including: who amongst the many smart grid stakeholders should pick-up the bill for security – governments, equipment vendors, grid operators, or end customers; building on the existing effort on smart grid security, what is the next highest priority that should be addressed and why; and whether, despite the efforts of the community, the full realization of a smart grid, with advanced energy services, is realizable in a privacy-preserving, secure and, most importantly, safe manner.
The panel was a great success and resulted in an invitation to organize another panel at next year's conference.
The ISGT conference
The Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), is a forum for participants to discuss state-of-the-art innovations in smart grid technologies and features plenary sessions, multi-track-panel discussions, technical paper and poster presentations as well as tutorials by international experts on smart grid applications.
Further information:
- AIT panel at ISGT Conference
- Conference website
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