On December 2, 2016, Sasakawa USA in partnership with the James E. Auer U.S.-Japan Center brought together private and public sector experts from both the United States and Japan for an off-the record discussion of common challenges in cybersecurity and energy. The group addressed issues including cybersecurity threats, modernizing electric grids to integrate conventional and renewable sources of electricity, expanding use of energy storage and distributed generation, and responding seamlessly to disruptions. They explored potential U.S.-Japan cooperation in these areas and other opportunities to jointly address these common challenges through increased grid reliability, resiliency, sustainability, security, and flexibility.

Sasakawa USA plans to release a report based on the conference in 2017.

Topics

• Panel I – Grid Futures in the United States and Japan
• Panel II – Cybersecurity Challenges for Smart Grids
• Panel III – Securing the Smart Grid by Building Smart and Secure Tools
• Panel IV – Government and Public-Private Partnerships in Securing the Grid: Funding, Regulation, Information Sharing

Participants

• Scott Aaronson, Executive Director of Security and Business Continuity, Edison Electric
• Katsuyuki Abe, Information Systems and Telecommunications Department, Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan
• James Auer, Auer US-Japan Center
• Dennis Blair, Chairman and CEO, Sasakawa USA
• Melissa Hathaway, President, Hathaway Global Strategies
• Carol Hawk, Program Manager of Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems, Department of Energy
• Fred Hintermister, Manager of Cross Sector Coordination, North American Energy Reliability Corporation
• Hiroshi Ito, Deputy Director-General for Cybersecurity and Information Technology, Minister’s Secretariat, METI
• Philip Jones, Commissioner, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
• Hirobumi Kayama, METI, JETRO New York
• Stuart McCafferty, Vice President of Solutions Development, Energy Solutions Division, Hitachi America, Ltd.
• Bill Miao, Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Antigens
• Noboru Nakatani, Executive Director, INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation
• William “Bud” Roth, Non-Resident Fellow for Cyber, Sasakawa USA
• Umit Sami, CEO, Gridoog
• Michael Shinn, Chairman and CEO, Prometheus Global
• Bryant Slater, Director of Corporate IT at Information Systems, Information Systems Laboratories
• Branko Terzic, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group
• Juan Torres, Deputy to the Vice President for Energy and Climate Programs, Sandia National Laboratories
• Mark Weatherford, Senior Vice President and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, vArmour
• Phyllis Yoshida, Fellow for Energy and Technology, Sasakawa USA

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