Join the CyManII Cyber Range at UT San Antonio (UTSA) for a unique opportunity to practice cyber response in a safe, highly realistic environment. This immersive, hands-on exercise places participants in a simulated, corporate-grade network environment where cyber incidents unfold in real time. Participants will detect, investigate, and mitigate cyberattacks using industry-standard cybersecurity tools. The exercise is designed to mirror the complexity, pressure, and decision-making challenges organizations face during real-world cyber incidents—providing practical experience that strengthens both technical skills and organizational readiness.

Brought to you by the CyManII Cyber Range at UT San Antonio this experiential learning opportunity allows participants to test their response capabilities, work through realistic attack scenarios, and build confidence in responding to a cyberattack before facing one on the job.

About CyManII: CyManII (Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute) is a U.S. Department of Energy-funded Manufacturing USA Institute focused on advancing cybersecurity and innovation across American manufacturing. Through research, workforce development, collaboration, and hands-on training, CyManII works to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the nation’s manufacturing sector.
 

Join the CyManII Cyber Range at UT San Antonio (UTSA) for a unique opportunity to practice cyber response in a safe, highly realistic environment. This immersive, hands-on exercise places participants in a simulated, corporate-grade network environment where cyber incidents unfold in real time. Participants will detect, investigate, and mitigate cyberattacks using industry-standard cybersecurity tools. The exercise is designed to mirror the complexity, pressure, and decision-making challenges organizations face during real-world cyber incidents—providing practical experience that strengthens both technical skills and organizational readiness.

Brought to you by the CyManII Cyber Range at UT San Antonio this experiential learning opportunity allows participants to test their response capabilities, work through realistic attack scenarios, and build confidence in responding to a cyberattack before facing one on the job.

About CyManII: CyManII (Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute) is a U.S. Department of Energy-funded Manufacturing USA Institute focused on advancing cybersecurity and innovation across American manufacturing. Through research, workforce development, collaboration, and hands-on training, CyManII works to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the nation’s manufacturing sector.

Imagine planning a trip without choosing a destination, mapping an itinerary, or knowing who you’ll travel with. Many of us approach our careers this way — hoping things will work out without ever taking the wheel. This is your invitation to stop wandering and start steering — not just for yourself, but for the teams you lead and influence. Learn how to begin to take ownership of your career and professional development, while also learning how to cultivate accountability, foster a growth mindset, and empower others on your team. First, reflect on your values, uncover your strengths, and learn tools to help you create a personalized roadmap for growth. Then explore how to effectively encourage your team to adopt a growth mindset, take accountability, and create a team development action plan. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reignite your path, stop waiting for someone else to lead and start practicing how to guide your own journey toward a fulfilling career and culture of results.

Topics: 

• Leading yourself: build clarity, confidence, and direction in your leadership brand
• Identifying stealth development opportunities and accelerating career momentum
• How to foster a culture of accountability and results within your team
• Developing a growth mindset and empowering others through coaching, feedback, and recognition
• How to create a team development action plan aligned with your leadership values and organizational goals

Imagine planning a trip without choosing a destination, mapping an itinerary, or knowing who you’ll travel with. Many of us approach our careers this way — hoping things will work out without ever taking the wheel. This is your invitation to stop wandering and start steering — not just for yourself, but for the teams you lead and influence. Learn how to begin to take ownership of your career and professional development, while also learning how to cultivate accountability, foster a growth mindset, and empower others on your team. First, reflect on your values, uncover your strengths, and learn tools to help you create a personalized roadmap for growth. Then explore how to effectively encourage your team to adopt a growth mindset, take accountability, and create a team development action plan. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reignite your path, stop waiting for someone else to lead and start practicing how to guide your own journey toward a fulfilling career and culture of results.

Topics: 

• Leading yourself: build clarity, confidence, and direction in your leadership brand
• Identifying stealth development opportunities and accelerating career momentum
• How to foster a culture of accountability and results within your team
• Developing a growth mindset and empowering others through coaching, feedback, and recognition
• How to create a team development action plan aligned with your leadership values and organizational goals

Rapid, concentrated demand growth from data centers, advanced manufacturing, and other super sized electric loads have the potential to bring major economic development opportunities, but come paired with complex challenges around service needs, infrastructure investment, procurement, and more. How public power providers structure rates and policies determines both whether your community attracts this growth and to what extent existing customers see effects. Explore what high load factor customers need from the grid and how utilities can translate those needs into thoughtful, defensible rate structures, line extension policies, and contracts. Discuss strategies for balancing opportunity and risk, and considerations for contracts such as firm vs. non firm service, cost recovery mechanisms, and market structures. Examine what other utilities are doing to design competitive offerings that support modern load growth and sustain affordability.

Topics: 

• Industries driving load growth and their energy requirements
• Considerations for economic development
• Rate design strategies for large loads – and the effect on other customers
• Trends in utility policies and rate structures
• Developing contracts that support the community and the large customer

Rapid, concentrated demand growth from data centers, advanced manufacturing, and other super sized electric loads have the potential to bring major economic development opportunities, but come paired with complex challenges around service needs, infrastructure investment, procurement, and more. How public power providers structure rates and policies determines both whether your community attracts this growth and to what extent existing customers see effects. Explore what high load factor customers need from the grid and how utilities can translate those needs into thoughtful, defensible rate structures, line extension policies, and contracts. Discuss strategies for balancing opportunity and risk, and considerations for contracts such as firm vs. non firm service, cost recovery mechanisms, and market structures. Examine what other utilities are doing to design competitive offerings that support modern load growth and sustain affordability.

Topics: 

• Industries driving load growth and their energy requirements
• Considerations for economic development
• Rate design strategies for large loads – and the effect on other customers
• Trends in utility policies and rate structures
• Developing contracts that support the community and the large customer

Build core literacy in the concepts surrounding risk and critical infrastructure and learn about the frameworks and assessment tools that can help your utility prioritize and manage risks surrounding your assets. Begin with an introduction to the fundamental components of risk — threats, vulnerabilities, consequences, and likelihood — and then explore how structured frameworks can support clearer decision-making across your organization’s leadership. Designed for professionals who need a grounded, shared understanding of strategic risk and the emerging challenges utilities face in managing it. Walk through how to conduct qualitative and quantitative approaches to risk analysis, including developing risk registers and interpreting risk analyses with confidence.

Topics:

• Elements of risk and risk management 
• Developing effective, structured risk scenarios
• Using frameworks to understand and prioritize risk
• Approaches for assessing and analyzing risk
• Challenges for utilities in risk management

Build core literacy in the concepts surrounding risk and critical infrastructure and learn about the frameworks and assessment tools that can help your utility prioritize and manage risks surrounding your assets. Begin with an introduction to the fundamental components of risk — threats, vulnerabilities, consequences, and likelihood — and then explore how structured frameworks can support clearer decision-making across your organization’s leadership. Designed for professionals who need a grounded, shared understanding of strategic risk and the emerging challenges utilities face in managing it. Walk through how to conduct qualitative and quantitative approaches to risk analysis, including developing risk registers and interpreting risk analyses with confidence.

Topics:

• Elements of risk and risk management 
• Developing effective, structured risk scenarios
• Using frameworks to understand and prioritize risk
• Approaches for assessing and analyzing risk
• Challenges for utilities in risk management

Investigate the practical steps utility leaders and finance professionals can take to stay ahead of the evolving financial and regulatory landscape for public utilities. Delve into the upcoming changes to governmental accounting standards, including walking through practical examples of how these changes could affect financial reporting and decision making. Then explore common attributes of fraud and how organizations are preventing and addressing it, including why strong internal controls and proper segregation of duties remain essential. Discuss single audit and regulatory considerations and how control weaknesses can create broader compliance risks. Conclude with a forward looking discussion on funding capital projects, including the role of financial forecasts, key budget to actual controls, and how capital decisions affect rates and your long term financial planning.

Topics: 

• GASB changes on the horizon and what they mean for your financial reports
• Fraud prevention and internal controls for resource-constrained organizations
• What utility finance pros should know about regulatory changes and compliance
• Financial planning and sustainable options for funding capital projects

Investigate the practical steps utility leaders and finance professionals can take to stay ahead of the evolving financial and regulatory landscape for public utilities. Delve into the upcoming changes to governmental accounting standards, including walking through practical examples of how these changes could affect financial reporting and decision making. Then explore common attributes of fraud and how organizations are preventing and addressing it, including why strong internal controls and proper segregation of duties remain essential. Discuss single audit and regulatory considerations and how control weaknesses can create broader compliance risks. Conclude with a forward looking discussion on funding capital projects, including the role of financial forecasts, key budget to actual controls, and how capital decisions affect rates and your long term financial planning.

Topics: 

• GASB changes on the horizon and what they mean for your financial reports
• Fraud prevention and internal controls for resource-constrained organizations
• What utility finance pros should know about regulatory changes and compliance
• Financial planning and sustainable options for funding capital projects