Program for April 2007 PLMA Conference April 17-18, 2007 Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario

Conference Chairs: Marion Fraser, Senior Policy Advisor to the Minister of Energy, Province of Ontario Dan Violette, Principal, Strategy Practice, Summit Blue Consulting Ross Malme, CEO, RETX

Program April 17, 2007

Keynote Session
Moderator, Joel Gilbert, CEO, Apogee Interactive and Chairman of PLMA
The Honourable Dwight Duncan, Energy Minister, Province of Ontario
Demand Response In Ontario: Context and Research, Professor Ian Rowlands, University of Waterloo

Policy Session
Moderator, Ross Malme
Demand Response, Smart Meter Networks and Time based Pricing in Ontario: Thought on the Future, Mike Messenger, California Energy Commission
Terry Jones, CSIRO Energy Centre of Australia
Results from KEPCO's Demand-Side Management Programs, She-Je Cho, Director, Korea Electric Power Corporation

ISO Session
Moderator, Ross Malme
Bringing the Smart Grid Idea Home, Mike Kormos, PJM
Demand Response in New England, Robert Burke, ISO NE
Demand Response From Programs to Markets, Bill Wilbur, IESO

Canadian Update – Customers Report
Moderator, Marion Fraser
Major grocery chain: Mark Schembri, Vice President Maintenance & Procurement, Loblaws
Major office complex: Energy @ Work's Case Studies, Scott Rouse, Managing Partner, Energy @ Work and energy partner to Cadillac Fairview's Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto's financial district
Hospitals: Scaling Up Demand Management through Performance-Based Programming and Verification, Ian Jarvis, CEO EnerLife and Chair, Canada Green Building Council
Colleges: Ontario Colleges- Market Sector Approach Complements Technology in Managing Energy and Demand, Laurie Trewartha, CEO, Power Applications Group, Chair of Energy Secretariat
IPC 11550 System, Robert Clements, S.A. Armstrong, Ltd.
Hydro One Demand Response Initiatives, Masoud Almassi. Hydro One

April 18, 2007, Civic Ballroom South

Program Design and New Technologies
Moderator, Dan Violette
Automating Commercial Demand Response, Sila Kiliccote, Demand Response Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mike Prendergast, PSE&G
Residential Real Time Pricing Program, Jim Eber, ComEd Implementation of Time of Use Pricing with Demand response

Commercial Programs
Moderators: Consumer Powerline, Mike Gordon, ConsumerPowerline; Marshall Chapin, EnerNOC
Glenn Poole, Verso Paper 
Demand Response in the Ontario Electricity Market, Paul Grod, President of Rodan Power
Benny Smith, Director of Engineering, Price Chopper

Luncheon Speaker, The Utility of the Future- Energy Serving Utility, Michael Angemeer, President and CEO of Veridian Energy, Past Chair of the EDA (Electrical Distributors Association) and Chair of the DSEA (Durham strategic energy alliance) as well as a founding member of the CLD (Coalition of Large Distributors)

Residential Programs
Moderator, Dave Hyland, Executive Sales Manager, Comverge, Inc.
Taki Eliadis, Manager of Demand Response, Mass Markets, Ontario Power Authority
Demand Response Infrastructure and BGE's Smart Energy Savers Program, David E. Greenberg, Principal Electric Supply Analyst, Baltimore Gas and Electric
Exploring the Value of AMI, Paul Ferguson, President NewMarket Hydro
Hunphrey Wong, ConsumersPowerline