Join this unique opportunity to practice cyber response in a safe yet highly realistic setting, gaining practical insight into how attacks develop, how defenses are tested, and how teams can respond effectively under pressure. This immersive, hands on exercise from the University of Texas at San Antonio brings you into a simulated, corporate grade digital environment where cyber incidents unfold in real time. Attendees will work individually or in group to detect, identify, and mitigate cyberattacks across tailored scenarios using industry standard security tools. The Cyber Range is a nationally recognized exercise designed to mirror the complexity, pressure, and decision making challenges utilities face during actual incidents — strengthening both your technical skills and readiness for cyber defense. A truly experiential learning opportunity, this session lets you practice responding to a cyberattack before it happens on the job.

Join this unique opportunity to practice cyber response in a safe yet highly realistic setting, gaining practical insight into how attacks develop, how defenses are tested, and how teams can respond effectively under pressure. This immersive, hands on exercise from the University of Texas at San Antonio brings you into a simulated, corporate grade digital environment where cyber incidents unfold in real time. Attendees will work individually or in group to detect, identify, and mitigate cyberattacks across tailored scenarios using industry standard security tools. The Cyber Range is a nationally recognized exercise designed to mirror the complexity, pressure, and decision making challenges utilities face during actual incidents — strengthening both your technical skills and readiness for cyber defense. A truly experiential learning opportunity, this session lets you practice responding to a cyberattack before it happens on the job.

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