BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250618T000345Z UID:8B5E040F-1AFC-49CB-8B95-C76E0924BC84 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250715T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250716T210000 DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Smart Grid Observer\, the 7th EV Charging Infr astructure Summit - North America\, July 15-16\, 2025 in Chicago convenes top industry experts and utility professionals to examine how growing EV a doption rates will impact the network\, and what investments are needed to ensure grid stability and benefit. Case studies of current utility progra ms and deployments will be discussed with an eye toward refining strategie s\, identifying technologies\, and implementing business models that will ensure widespread EV adoption is optimized for all parties involved.\n\nMo re information: https://smartgridobserver.com/EV-Summit-Chicago2025/index. htm\n\nTopics to be Addressed Include:\n\n- Capitalizing on the explosive growth of EV charging networks\n- Addressing concerns over charger perform ance\, reliability and security\n- Trends in EV adoption and market direct ion\n- Success strategies for starting and growing a charging network in t he U.S.\n- Innovations in charging infrastructure and enabling technologie s\n- Expanding EV charging with learnings from automotive\n- Collaborative solutions for equitable EV access\n- EV and battery advances\, and implic ations for charging infrastructure\n- Enhancing the customer experience\n\ n- Infrastructure planning/mapping at a national level\n- Utility case stu dies and programs to date\n- Designing programs and compensation mechanism s for managed charging\n- Expanding charging access in multi-family housin g\n- Regulatory requirements and standards developments\n- V2G in fleet ap plications\n- Dynamic pricing to drive EV charge point utilization and mar gin\n- How to design\, build\, operate\, train\, maintain and scale up EV bus and truck infrastructure\n- Municipal perspectives and initiatives\n- Mitigating risk & maximizing value for EV charging providers\n- And more\n \nChicago\, Illinois\, United States LOCATION:Chicago\, Illinois\, United States ORGANIZER:ugur.merdamert@ieee.org SEQUENCE:7 SUMMARY:7th Edition EV Charging Infrastructure Summit - North America URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/489481 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Organized by the Smart Grid Observer\, the 7th&nbsp\;<strong>EV Charging Infrastructure Summit - North America</stro ng>\, July 15-16\, 2025 in Chicago convenes top industry experts and utili ty professionals to examine how growing EV adoption rates will impact the network\, and what investments are needed to ensure grid stability and ben efit. Case studies of current utility programs and deployments will be dis cussed with an eye toward refining strategies\, identifying technologies\, and implementing business models that will ensure widespread EV adoption is optimized for all parties involved.</p>\n<p>More information: <a href=" https://smartgridobserver.com/EV-Summit-Chicago2025/index.htm">https://sma rtgridobserver.com/EV-Summit-Chicago2025/index.htm</a></p>\n<div class="td -left">\n<h1 class="title">Topics to be Addressed Include:</h1>\n</div>\n< div class="floatlist">\n<ul class="cascading-list visible">\n<li class="vi sible">Capitalizing on the explosive growth of EV charging networks</li>\n <li class="visible">Addressing concerns over charger performance\, reliabi lity and security</li>\n<li class="visible">Trends in EV adoption and mark et direction</li>\n<li class="visible">Success strategies for starting and growing a charging network in the U.S.</li>\n<li class="visible">Innovati ons in charging infrastructure and enabling technologies</li>\n<li class=" visible">Expanding EV charging with learnings from automotive</li>\n<li cl ass="visible">Collaborative solutions for equitable EV access</li>\n<li cl ass="visible">EV and battery advances\, and implications for charging infr astructure</li>\n<li class="visible">Enhancing the customer experience</li >\n</ul>\n</div>\n<div class="floatlist">\n<ul class="cascading-list visib le">\n<li class="visible">Infrastructure planning/mapping at a national le vel</li>\n<li class="visible">Utility case studies and programs to date</l i>\n<li class="visible">Designing programs and compensation mechanisms for managed charging</li>\n<li class="visible">Expanding charging access in m ulti-family housing</li>\n<li class="visible">Regulatory requirements and standards developments</li>\n<li class="visible">V2G in fleet applications </li>\n<li class="visible">Dynamic pricing to drive EV charge point utiliz ation and margin</li>\n<li class="visible">How to design\, build\, operate \, train\, maintain and scale up EV bus and truck infrastructure</li>\n<li class="visible">Municipal perspectives and initiatives</li>\n<li class="v isible">Mitigating risk &amp\; maximizing value for EV charging providers< /li>\n<li class="visible">And more<br><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n</ div> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR