Previous Edition Agenda
Note: The below agenda is from the most recent edition of the Forum, October 26-29 in Detroit. The agenda for Sprin 2027 in Sacramento is in development. If interested in speaking, please contact us.
Monday, October 26, 2026
9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Final demos testing and preparation
2.00 - 5.00 pm | 2nd Floor Conference Room
Pre-Conference Basics Class: Introduction to V2G
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
8:00 – 9:00 am
Welcome Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 am
Welcome Remarks and Opening Session: Challenges of Achieving End-to-End V2G at Scale
9:30 – 10:00 am
Keynote Address
10:00 – 10:30 am
Networking Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 am
Introducing a Standards-Conformant, V2G End-to-End Demonstration
11:00 – 1:00 pm
V2G Testbed Demos / Exhibits and Additional Demos / Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Progress on International V2G Standards and Interoperability
1:45 – 2:15 pm
Coffee Break
2:15 – 3:30 pm | Room 1
TRACK A: From Plug & Charge to Grid Control: End-to-End Cybersecurity for V2G
A clear trust-boundary map: how risk and consequence change from the EV–EVSE session to fleet-scale cloud and grid control.
What standards and PKI do—and do not—prove: strong identity and encrypted links are necessary, but they do not make a valid command safe or create end-to-end authorization.
How to turn specifications into evidence: multi-root CTLs, negative testing, reference validation logic, revocation drills, and repeatable cloud/hardware interoperability testing.
A minimum V2G security baseline: local safety enforcement, least-privilege dispatch, segmented systems, secure updates and keys, monitoring, incident authority, and crypto-agile lifecycle operations.
2:15 – 3:30 pm | Room 2
TRACK B: Customer Compensation Panel: Participation, Incentives & Behavioral Opportunities
Revenue streams with strongest potential
Customer economics and incentives
Incentive structures that work
Enrollment and onboarding friction
Utility system and capacity value
Fleet versus residential economics
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Networking Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:15 pm | Room 1
TRACK A: What Do We Need to Scale V2G, and What Does that Look Like Commercially?
4:00 – 5:15 pm | Room 2
TRACK B: Avoiding Stall in Pilots: What Readiness Actually Requires
Why V1G pilots stall when the conversation turns to expansion, and what readiness takes beyond hardware and interconnection.
The steps from V1G to V2G, and the capability a utility builds at each one.
How to handle the two issues that most often block adoption: battery warranty exposure and customer bill shock.
What credible M&V and a good customer experience look like when V2G moves from pilot to program.
5:15 – 6:45 pm
Reception
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
8:00 – 9:00 am
Welcome Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 am
Opening Address: Design and Testing of the Low-cost, Interoperable V2G Ecosystem
9:45 – 10:45 am
Scaling V2G as an Affordability Strategy: Policy, Regulation and Market Design
Valuing V2G system benefits and translating them into ratepayer savings
How can the benefits for non-participating parties be extracted / realized?
What automakers need to enable V2G at scale across millions of vehicles
Moving from pilots to scalable utility programs using existing regulatory frameworks
Policy and regulatory changes that are needed to support widespread deployment
10:45 – 11:15 am
Networking Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 pm | Room 1
TRACK A: V2G + NEM: From Roadblocks to Roadmap
What does it take for a solar homeowner to send power from their EV to the grid while preserving their net metering benefits? This panel brings together utilities at different stages of answering that question from defining interconnection pathways to approving their first residential V2G + NEM sites.
Go behind the scenes of the technical requirements, metering decisions, and program development that make these projects possible. Panelists will share barriers encountered, solutions developed, and questions still to resolve. Attendees will leave with practical lessons to help build a roadmap for unlocking V2G + NEM in their own territories and turning first approvals into a repeatable process.
12:15 – 12:45 pm | Room 1
TRACK A: Urban Resilience With Curbside Bi-Directional EV Charging
As these vehicles convert to electric, their batteries have enormous potential to help offset peak demand in critically overstrained electric utility service areas. It’s Electric is working on the first bi-directional curbside charger, a prerequisite for harnessing urban electric vehicle power capacity. This approach to distributed energy storage will improve opportunities for resilience and sustainability in densely populated disadvantaged communities.
11:15 – 12:45 pm | Room 2
TRACK B: Standards, Interoperability & Harmonization
ISO 15118, OCPP, SAE, IEEE and OpenADR evolution
Multi-vendor interoperability realities
Vehicle-to-charger communication challenges
Backend software integration issues
Certification and testing requirements
12:45 – 2:15 pm
Lunch and Demos
2:15 – 3:30 pm | Room 1
TRACK A: Scaling V2G in Practice: Utility, Program, and Market Lessons from Massachusetts
Lessons from real-world residential and school bus V2G pilot deployments in Massachusetts
What utilities need to operationalize and scale V2G programs successfully
How to assess and communicate V2G value to customers
Key barriers and opportunities related to installation feasibility, standards, and interoperability
2:15 – 3:00 pm | Room 2
TRACK B: Leveraging Nissan Vehicle Telematics to Unlock Grid Value: Lessons from a Real-World Living Lab
Machine-learning prediction of vehicle departure times for managed charging and V2G
Optimizing charge and discharge windows around driver mobility needs
Using dynamic electricity rates to reduce charging costs and improve V2G value
Comparing automated optimization with immediate charging, customer inputs and perfect foresight
3:30 – 3:45 pm
Networking Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 pm | Room 1
TRACK A: Scaling End-to-End Interoperability: Connecting Lessons Learned to Commercial Deployments
3:45 – 5:00 pm | Room 2
TRACK B: AC-V2G Certification Pathways and Market Outlook
Understand the two different AC-V2G certification pathways of UL 1741-SB CRD and UL 1741-SC
Insight to the current market outlook for AC-V2G commercialization
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Reception
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Concurrent Workshops
8:00 – 9:00 am
Morning Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 12:00 pm | Room 1
Workshop 1: Deeper Dive into VGI Policy & Regulatory Issues
9:00 – 12:00 pm | Room 2
Workshop 2: End-to-End Demonstration Testbed Debrief and Report / Workshop on Takeaways
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Forum concludes
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