Welcome to the AU Energy 2025 Conference & Power Quality Workshop! Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions, engaging presentations, tours, and networking. The theme for this year's conference is "Emerging Technology for a Resilient Grid."
About this event
This year's event features high-powered speakers including:
- Patricia Nilsen '88, CEO, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation & New York State Electric & Gas/Avangrid
- John Edmond '83, Founder and Research Fellow, Wolfspeed
- John Simmins ’84, PhD ’90, Director, GE Vernova Advanced Power Grid Lab, Alfred University
- Brian Seal, Senior Program Manager, EPRI (formerly Electric Power Research Institute)
- Dan Arczynski, president & CEO, Index AR Solutions
- Abdelrahim Brown, Director, Center for Grid Innovation Development and Deployment (GrIDD) and Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) Stony Brook University
- Santosh Kurinec, Professor of Electrical & Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Behrouz Azimian, MS '19, Senior Electricity Market Software Engineer, GE Vernova
- Chandan Kumar, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Alfred University
- Anthony Fiore, chief program officer at New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
- Emily Marino, Deputy Director, New Energy New York (NENY) Battery Institute
- Gabrielle Gaustad '04, Dean, Inamori School of Engineering
- A Panel of Emerging Technology Companies
Additional invited speakers include Doreen Harris, President & CEO of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
This years' event will also feature a ribbon cutting on the brand new Edibon Advanced Power Grid Simulation Lab including tours of labs across the McMahon Engineering Building; students from our Renewable Energy Engineering and Electrical Engineering Departments will present posters on current research; and a networking reception.
