Conference Chair: Don Von Dollen, Electric Power Research Institute (dvondoll@epri.com)

Conference Co‐Chair: Erich Gunther, EnerNex Corporation (erich@enernex.com)

Technical Program Chair: Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology (m.shahidehpour@ieee.org)

Conference Treasurer: Steve Pullins, Horizon Energy Group (Spullins@horizonenergygroup.com)

Conference Arrangements: Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory (jianhui.wang@anl.gov)

Conference Technical Committee:

Wanda Reder, S&C Electric

Paul McCoy, TransElect

Patrick Ryan, IEEE

Jay Giri, Areva T&D

Anastasio Bakirtzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

John McDonald, GE

Maria Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University

Antonio Conejo, University of Castilla - La Mancha (Spain) 

Khosrow Moslehi, ABB

Deepak Divan, Georgia Tech

Robin Podmore, Incremental Systems

Farrokh Rahimi, Open Access Technology International

James Crane, Exelon

John Birge, University of Chicago

Tariq Samad, Honeywell

Newton Bretas, University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Yonghua Song, Tsinghua University (China) 

Melissa Gordon, Operation Green Jobs

Mircea Eremia, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania)

Frank Bristol, Acciona Energy (Spain)

John Langdon, Viryd Technologies

Carlo Alberto Nucci, Università di Bologna (Italy)

Michael Polsky, Invenergy

Edgar Pereira, Pampa Energia Eolica (Brazil)

Eugene Litvinov, ISO New England

Mahmoud Fotuhi-Firuzabad, Sharif University (Iran)

James Gagnard, Smart Signal

Lina Bertling, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

Richard Gowen, Dakota Power

Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University (Korea)

Thomas Overbye, University of Illinois

Ebrahim Vaahedi, British Columbia Transmission Company (Canada)

Douglas Hopkins, University at Buffalo

Stefano Galli, Panasonic

Joseph Yan, Southern California Edison

Giuseppe Caire, University of Southern California

Mischa Schwartz, Columbia University

Russell Lefevre, President IEEE-USA 2008

Mark Petri, Argonne National Laboratory (DOE)

Guenter Conzelmann, Argonne National Laboratory (DOE)

Zuyi Li, Illinois Institute of Technology

Steve Widergren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)

Ganesh Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Paul Myrda, Electric Power Research Institute

David Kung, IBM