BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T071508Z UID:5CF72E96-F9CB-4964-A0C4-5195E2139C20 DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260129T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260129T153000 DESCRIPTION:Focus\n\nAs Alberta advances toward a resilient and sustainable energy future\, the province faces increasing complexity across its power system. Building a robust power grid therefore has become a central objec tive\, driven by emerging technical challenges as well as new opportunitie s enabled by rapid technological development. In particular\, growing rene wable and clean fuel integration is accelerating the transition to cleaner energy while also increasing variability and the need for greater operati onal flexibility. AI further introduces both substantial electricity deman d from large data centers and powerful tools for improving forecasting\, s tability\, and system optimization. In addition\, advances in nuclear tech nologies such as Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)\, presents a potential path way to firm\, low-carbon baseload generation that can enhance long-term sy stem reliability. By bringing together diverse perspectives\, this worksho p aims to foster informed discussion on pathways toward a robust\, resilie nt\, and future-ready energy system for Alberta.\n\nPanelists\n\nThis work shop will bring together experts from the HATCH\, City of Edmonton\, Alber ta Innovates\, and the University of Texas.\n\nCo-sponsored by: RESILIENT & CLEAN ENERGY SYSTEMS (RCES)\n\nSpeaker(s): Jeanie Chin\, Patrick Baltaza rt \, Wei-Jen Lee\, Robert (Rob) Baker\n\nRoom: 8-207\, Bldg: Donadeo Inno vation Centre for Engineering (DICE)\, 9211 116 St NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta \, Canada\, T6G 1H9 LOCATION:Room: 8-207\, Bldg: Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering (DIC E)\, 9211 116 St NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, Canada\, T6G 1H9 ORGANIZER:bli4@ualberta.ca SEQUENCE:100 SUMMARY:Towards a Resilient Energy Future: Robust Grid\, Renewables\, AI\, and SMRs URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/523683 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-size: 12pt\; color: rgb( 0\, 0\, 0)\;"><strong>Focus</strong></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: jus tify\;"><span lang="EN-US">As Alberta advances toward a resilient and sust ainable energy future\, the province faces increasing complexity across it s power system. Building a robust power grid therefore has become a centra l objective\, driven by emerging technical challenges as well as new oppor tunities enabled by rapid technological development. In particular\, growi ng renewable and clean fuel integration is accelerating the transition to cleaner energy while also increasing variability and the need for greater operational flexibility.</span> <span lang="EN-US">AI further introduces b oth substantial electricity demand from large data centers and powerful to ols for improving forecasting\, stability\, and system optimization. In ad dition\, advances in nuclear technologies such as Small Modular Reactors ( SMRs)\, presents a potential pathway to firm\, low-carbon baseload generat ion that can enhance long-term system reliability. By bringing together di verse perspectives\,</span> <span lang="EN-US">this workshop aims to foste r informed discussion on pathways toward a robust\, resilient\, and future -ready energy system for Alberta.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 1 2pt\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;"><strong>Panelists</strong></span></p>\n<p s tyle="text-align: justify\;"><span lang="EN-US">This workshop will bring t ogether experts from the HATCH\, City of Edmonton\, Alberta Innovates\, an d the University of Texas.</span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR