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Symposium on Grid Security: When Critical Energy Infrastructure and Big Data Converge

George Mason University
The Schar School
     

Event by the Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP) at the Schar School of Policy and Government

Arlington, Va. (10 Oct. 2017). The Center for Energy Science, and Policy (CESP) a joint-initiative of the Schar School of Policy and Government and the College of Science at George Mason University presents, “Symposium on Grid Security: When Critical Energy Infrastructure and Big Data Converge” on Wednesday 25 Oct. 2017 (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) at George Mason University’s Arlington campus.

The event is hosted by Co-Director Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP), Ambassador Richard D. Kauzlarich

The event advances understanding of the opportunities and challenges connected with multiple technologies that are transforming the electrical grid systems such as how to frame grid security for scholarship and research and the nuanced nexus of cyber and grid security.

The full-day event will explore grid security challenges and how to address them. Furthermore, the panels will discuss the policy impact of decentralized and digitized grid structures and the security concerns it raises in the age of big data.

The panelists at the event represent the National Defense University, government laboratories and agencies, Mason faculty engaged in cyber and grid security, and the private sector.

Some of the highlights of the event include discussion on:

• Framing Grid Security for Research and Scholarship
• Cyber and Grid Security: Digitalization and Decentralization of the Grid
• Grid Security: Between Hype and Heads-in-the-Sand

The event is free, but please register in advance here.

DATE: Wednesday, 25 October 2017

TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Founders Hall Auditorium, 3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201 (Virginia Square Metro Stop)

For more information, please contact Joel Hicks: jhicks19@masonlive.gmu.edu or Samantha Cooke: scooke4@gmu.edu, or visit our website at cesp.gmu.edu.

Contact:
Joel Hicks
jhicks19@gmu.edu

Samantha Cooke
scooke4@gmu.edu

About the Schar School

Located in the Schar School, CESP is a university-wide center focused on delivering scientific innovations and policy recommendations for energy security, sustainability and resilience. CESP addresses resiliency and security issues with thoughtful analysis and integration of science and policy to meet local, state, federal and international needs – whether in minimizing water demands, enhancing efficiency, exploring technological and energy policy alternatives.

George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government prepares undergraduate and graduate students to be leaders and managers who solve problems and advance the public good in all sectors and levels of government—in the United States and throughout the world. The mission of the Schar School of Policy and Government is to advance the public good. We provide our students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to become leaders and managers in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Our students’ commitment to public service exceeds far beyond their profession spheres — to the regional, national, and global communities.

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