In this session, Dwayne Bradley will cover:

• Role of the Emerging Technology Office (ETO) at Duke Energy
• Background/history of how the electric grid is currently managed and how we've built up to our current position
• The role of distributed energy resources (DER) and how that affects our thinking about grid management in the future, including the need to more quickly change and how DevOps practices can lead to better management of the grid in the future
• Overview of our current POC called zero-trust applications for the grid (ZTAG)
• Future exploration of this topic within our group