Join us
SECC + PLMA
Location
The conference will be held with DTECH at the San Diego Convention Center. Rooms 6C, 6D and 1AB.
New for 2026! Customer-sited distributed energy resources (DERs) and load flexibility programs are increasingly essential to delivering reliable and affordable electricity.
Join the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) and PLMA, The Flexible Load Management Community, as we explore two angles of the distributed, flexible energy transition: customer engagement and grid management.
With one registration, we invite you to attend a combined keynote with utility leaders and an evening networking reception, plus, the option to pick-and-choose the sessions most relevant to you from two unique programs.
Details
Registration
All registrations for the Symposia on DERs and Customer Engagement will need to be completed through DTECH. A $299 registration fee will get you access to all SECC and PLMA sessions and the afternoon reception.
Speakers
Keynote
Mark Martinez
Senior Portfolio Manager of Emerging Markets and Technology
Southern California Edison
Cole Ashman
Founder and CEO
Pila Energy
Steve Dawson
Founder and CEO
POWERCONNECT.AI
Kimberly DiCello
Senior Director
CLEAResult
Jordan Folks
Director, Demand Flexibility
Opinion Dynamics
Georges Gonzalez
Enterprise Solutions Division Director
Water Resources Hillsborough County Florida
Sam Hartnett
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Uplight
Jesse Hitchcock
Lead Research Analyst, Sustainable Transportation and Utility Regulation
E Source
Daniel Holcomb
Senior Analyst, Smart Home Research
Parks Associates
Heather Mulligan
Manager, Customer Clean Energy Solutions
Puget Sound Energy
Manish Murudkar
Director, Distributed Energy Resources Strategy
Cobb EMC
Stacy Noblet
Vice President of Transportation Electrification
ICF
Brad Langley
Chief Marketing Officer
GridX
Seth Little
Director, Market Development
CLEAResult
Richard Phillip
Executive Director
PLMA
Vincent Potter
Energy Policy Analyst
NC Clean Energy Technology Center
Gomathi Sadhasivan
Vice President – Energy Systems
DNV Energy North America
John Smith
Director of Product Management and Partnerships, Energy Transition Solutions
Vistra Corp
Anna Strehlau
Sr. Director of Business Development & Sales
Carrier Energy
Nathan Shannon
President & CEO
Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative
Scott Rosenberg
Co-Founder & CEO
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Leigh Winterbottom
Director of Rate Marketing
ICF
Awards
We will announce the winners of the 2026 Best Practices Awards at the 2026 Consumer Symposium. The Best Practices Awards highlight leadership from electricity providers in developing customer-centric programs, services and strategies.
Sponsors
SECC offers a number of opportunities to build your brand among our diverse membership of industry leaders.
To discuss sponsorship of the Symposia on DERs and Customer Engagement, contact SECC’s President & CEO Nathan Shannon.
Platinum Sponsor
Uplight is a clean energy technology company that unlocks grid capacity by activating customers and their connected devices to generate, shift, and save energy. Uplight enables sustainable load growth by combining personalized customer experiences with an open, flexible load management platform through the Uplight Demand Stack: integrating energy efficiency, electrification, rates, and flexibility programs to improve grid resilience, reduce costs, and accelerate decarbonization for both energy providers and their customers. To learn more about Uplight, visit www.uplight.com.
Gold Sponsors
GridX partners with utilities and energy suppliers to accelerate the clean energy transition. Their Enterprise Rate Platform streamlines product development, supports modern billing and settlement, and strengthens customer engagement for greater program adoption. Serving over 40 million homes and businesses, GridX empowers organizations to transform their business models.
EnergyHub provides clean energy software and services that help 120+ utilities manage 1.8M+ distributed energy resources (DERs) and 2.5 GW of flexible capacity. With its Edge DERMS platform, utilities create virtual power plants using devices like EVs, batteries, and thermostats to improve grid reliability through customer-centric, cross-DER programs.
Renew Home brings households and energy providers together to help households save energy and earn rewards while offering energy providers cost-effective, reliable grid capacity at scale. With its home energy management platform, Renew Home empowers millions of households to save and shift their energy use to times when it’s cleaner and less expensive. Renew Home VPP offers the country’s largest virtual power plant solution for energy providers, with more than 5 million connected households.
Cocktail Reception Sponsors
Lunch and Break Sponsor
Supporters
Event Partners
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