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Pre-Conference Workshop – Wednesday February 11, 2026

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• Presentations:
  • Dairyland’s Artificial Intelligence Journey: VoltWrite’s Impact on the Utility – Nate Melby, Kyle Overby, Ellie Rundahl, Vlad Tsoy, Dairyland Power Cooperative
  • We are All Managers Now: Effective Collaboration with AI – Paul Ortmann, Idaho Power

Conference Presentations

Thursday February 12, 2026

Main Session

• New Frontiers in the World of Stray Voltage: “Discovering” Lightning 100 Years Too Late – John Loud and Ben Cotts, Exponent
• Powering Progress: Balancing Load Growth and Generation – Jeremy Woeste, Basin Electric Power Cooperative
• Nuclear Energy in a Shifting Energy Landscape– Paul Wilson, UW-Madison

Breakouts

Track 1: Wiring

• Transients: How to Measure, Trace the Source(s), and Evaluate their Effects – John Loud and Ben Cotts, Exponent
• Stray voltage real life testing findings Alex Geiser & Jason Zilisch, WPS
• Stray voltage Investigation, Anthony Cook, AC Electrical Testing
• Power Quality, Chris Mullins, PMI

Track 2: Renewable Energy

• Utility-Scale Solar: Challenges and Opportunities – Beth Esser, Stanley Minnick, OneEnergy
• From Simplicity to Sophistication: A Look at Residential Rate Design –Jason Strong, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation 
• Virtual Power Plant Function and Economics – Richard Polich, GDS Associates
• Solar and Battery Backup systems – Jesse Michalski, Eland Electric

Friday February 13, 2026

• ATC transmission projects: from planning to implementation, Greg Levesque, ATC
• Re-imagining Dairy Sustainability with RuFaS & AI, Victor Cabrera, UW-Madison
• Applied Ethics, Thom Thibodeau, Viterbo University