Conference Program

09.00 – 12.00	*Workshops:** Track A: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Market Analysis and Demand Side Management Modeling. Track B: Creating and Optimizing Energy Islands. Track C: Doctoral workshop (for the selected participants only)
12.00 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 16.30	*Workshops:** Track A: Market-based SGAM updates or solito negotium. Track B: Piloting the Digicities Platform for Strategic Planning and Decision-Making. Track C: Doctoral workshop (for the selected participants only)
18.30 –	Evening in Lugano city and PhD dinner

*All workshops will take place at SUPSI – Campus Mendrisio located at Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, 6850.

**The parallel workshop tracks are updated on 2024.09.09 to allow maximum number of delegates to join their preferred workshop.

08.30 – 09.15	Welcome and speaker introduction
09.15 – 10.00	Key note: Digitalization of the Swiss Energy Sector – an outlook (Dr. Matthias Galus)
10.00 – 11.00	Session 1: Operation Data-Driven Identification and Operational Optimization of Energy-Flexible Thermal Supply Systems A Distributed Game Theoretic Approach for Optimal Battery Use in an Energy Community (Short paper) Probabilistic energy forecasting through quantile regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30	Session 2: Resilience Modeling protection systems in smart active distribution grids for a performance analysis Analyzing and Predicting Extreme Frequency Deviations: A Case Study in the Balearic Power Grid (Short paper) Utilizing autonomous airport parking facilities as virtual power plants to provide frequency containment reserve
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30	Session 3: Markets An Algorithm for Modelling Rolling Intrinsic Battery Trading on the Continuous Intraday Market Power-dependent price profiles – defining grid- and market-oriented incentives for building energy management systems How Satisfactory Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Methods Simulate Electricity Market Dynamics? Benchmarking via Bi-level Optimization
14.30 – 15.15	2 minute poster presentations
15.15 – 16.15	Poster session & coffee break Best poster voting to take place during the session
16.15 – 17.15	Session 4: Cyber-physical systems Field Survey of Wireless M-Bus Encryption for Energy Metering Applications in Residential Buildings Towards a State Explanation Framework in Cyber-Physical Systems Decentralized Privacy-preserving Power Flow Forecast on Smart Meters
18.00 – 20.00	Official dinner

*All main conference events will take place at the Aula Magna USI West Campus located in Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano.

09.00 – 09.45	Key note: Spatiotemporal forecasting with graph neural networks (Prof. Dr. Cesare Alippi)
09.45 – 10.30	Session 5: Planning The impact of redispatch on grid and storage expansion planning in the German energy system The plan4.energy Approach for Planning Support for Positive Energy Districts
10.30 – 11.15	Session 6: Energy Data Monitoring Germany’s Core Energy System Dataset: A Data Quality Analysis of the Marktstammdatenregister Choosing the right Ontology to describe Research Data in the Energy Domain
11.15 – 11.45	Coffee break
11.45 – 12.30	Session 7: Tools A Platform Ecosystem Providing New Data For The Energy Transition Empowering Energy Communities and P2P Energy Sharing: A Novel End-to-End Ecosystem for Planning, Deployment, and Operation Don’t Touch The Power Line – A Proof-of-Concept for Aligned LLM-based Assistance Systems to Support the Maintenance in the Electricity Distribution System (Short paper)
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch break
13.30 – 14.15	Session 8: User-centric methods Practical Application of Energy-related Use Case Methodology and SGAM Framework: A Study of User Perspectives and Challenges Enabling Moral Agency in Distributed Energy Management An Ethics Score for Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems
14.15 – 14.30	Closing

*All main conference events will take place at the Aula Magna USI West Campus located in Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano.