Grid Forward invites market makers, participants and solution providers to a unique event tailored specifically to explore innovations in market models for states, regulators, TSOs and DSOs to build and operate the modern grid.
October 1-2, 2024 in Banff, Canada
Our call for topic submissions is now closed.
Market operators and participants alike are feeling it: current markets are not architected to meet the conflicting demands of progressive public policies, advancing energy technologies and unprecedented extremes in threats to the grid. The diverse community that is modernizing the grid across the western US and Canada needs to rally around new market models that can lower risk and uncertainty while improving resource adequacy, resiliency and equity.
At GridFWD 2024, we’ll paint the whole picture: from increasing market integration to community engagement, from technological drivers of resiliency and reliability to new ways to harness data for forecasting and planning.
GridFWD 2024
Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
October 1-2
Call for topic submissions is now closed.
Registration is open. Act now for best prices >
Sponsor GridFWD 2024! Download the prospectus >
At GridFWD 2024, we will come together to share new and expanding opportunities to refine market structures and supporting technology and techniques to foster modernization.
We invite all stakeholders to join us next fall:
“GridFWD 2024 is the premium utility event that brings together utilities, technology innovators, legislators and regulators in an intensive two- day discussion of the many issues facing the utility sector. GridFWD has been a must-attend event for me and anyone interested in exploring leading-edge thinking about the electricity sector.”
MARK KOLESAR, FORMER CHAIR, ALBERTA UTILITIES COMMISSION
A broad range of organizations have come together to guide and support this unique event – see their logos below. Each also has the opportunity to sponsor our unique “Conference Connector” activities during the event that will inform, revitalize and connect our participants in ways unique to the region.
These events are offered first-committed, first-served, by sponsorship category. So don’t wait to join up. Download the GridFWD 2024 prospectus >
Lock in your best price today. Grid Forward members, look to our March member update for your discount code.
Registration is now open. Claim your early-bird discount.
GridFWD 2024 will come to the Kinnear Centre, Banff Centre’s newest meeting facility. This Gold LEED Certified building has been designed to create an environment that encourages interaction and engagement among attendees, with an abundance of natural light and fresh mountain air in the meeting spaces along with breathtaking vistas. Steps away, Grid Forward will have a block of rooms at the Banff Centre Hotel. Both are nestled in the Banff National Park, Canada’s first National Park established in 1885. The town of Banff is at 4,537 feet of elevation, ringed by mountains shooting up to 11,850 feet.
The airport at Calgary is 143 km or 90 minutes away. Hourly shuttles are available from the airport to Banff.
GridFWD 2023 survey respondents overwhelmingly appreciated having the event in at the Skamania Lodge in the Columbia Gorge, a destination location outside of an urban setting, with 76% saying “It was great!”
Grid Forward has closed the time period for topic submissions for GridFWD 2024, and the program team is now evaluating the proposed topics. If your submission is selected, you will be notified sometime in April. If you have been invited to submit a topic after April 2, please use the form below.
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