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1 2018 Digital Grid Customer Summit April 30 - May 3, 2018 Opening Session *Speakers subject to change Monday, April 30, 2018 Day 1 Event Schedule Time Topic Staff Location 12:30pm Registration De Leon Foyer 1:15pm Welcome Sonita Lontoh, VP of Marketing, Siemens Digital Grid De Leon -V 1:25pm Agility in Energy: The Siemens Partnership Model Opening Remarks Mike Carlson, President, Siemens Digital Grid De Leon -V 2:00pm Agility in Energy: Leveraging Technology & Analytics to Enable Industry Transformation Keynote Speaker Raiford Smith, VP of Energy Technology & Analytics, Entergy De Leon -V 2:45pm Break De Leon Foyer 3:00pm Agility in Energy: Grid Modernization & Resiliency Valentine Emesih, VP of Grid & Market Operations, CNP De Leon -V

2 Time Topic Staff Location Utility Case Study 3:45pm Break De Leon -V 4:00pm Agility in Energy: Turning Grid Challenges into Opportunities Customer Panel Scott Bordenkircher, Director of Technology Innovation, APS; Karen Khamou, Director of Electric Grid Interconnection, PG&E; Industry Thought Leader, TBD; Moderator: TBD De Leon -V 4:45-5:00pm Closing & Announcements: DG Customer Summit 2019 & Evening Outing Logistics Sonita Lontoh De Leon -V 6:30pm Transportation to Evening Outing All Convention Center Entrance, Lower Lobby 7:00-10:00pm Evening Outing: Topgolf Food, Games, Music, Fun All Topgolf, Orlando

3 EnergyIP UAB Agenda Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Time Topic Staff Location 8:30am Breakfast 9:00am Welcome Jim Fisher, VP of Sales, Siemens I 9:15am The Future of AMI & MDM Learn more about the AMI & MDM market development and how EnergyIP solutions are going to enable our customers to master future challenges. Lars Lee-Potreck, VP of Product Management, Siemens I 9:45am Product Strategy, Roadmap & Product Update EnergyIP is influenced by regulations, customer requirements and market trends. Get a deep insight into our product strategy and discover innovative upcoming product features. Lars Lee-Potreck, VP of Product Management, Siemens I 10:15am Break All 10:30am Project Highlights Customer presentation I EnergyIP Analytics Update 11:30am Want to unlock the value of your grid`s data? In this session we are diving into the energy data world and explore new possibilities to benefit from intelligent data analytics application. Patricia Seifert, Product Manager, Siemens I 12:00pm Lunch All 1:00pm Project Highlights Customer presentation I 2:00pm EnergyIP MDM Workshop Discussing EnergyIP Platform and MDM highlights as well as the future focus areas. What are major application updates and visions? The workshop closes with a comprehensive Q&A session. Gautham Jayanna, Product Manager, Siemens I 3:00pm Break All

4 Time Topic Staff Location 3:15pm Closed Door Session Internal customer discussion without Siemens participation I 4:45pm Adjourn Depart for evening event Convention Center Entrance, Lower Lobby EnergyIP UAB Agenda Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Time Topic Staff Location 8:30am Breakfast 9:00am Day 1 Recap Lars Lee-Potreck, VP of Product Management & Product Marketing, Siemens I 9:30am Feedback from Closed Door Session / Future of UAB UAB Committee I 10:15am Break All 10:30am Upgrade/Migration from EnergyIP v7 to v8 Presentation of EnergyIP Data Migration Roadmap and Release Milestones. What is the right planning and approach to upgrade/migrate from EnergyIP v7 to v8. Gautham Jayanna, Product Manager, Siemens I 11:30am Customer presentation How to make EIP 8 to support different needs. Retail and DSO Poul Berthelsen, KONSTANT Net ( former NRGi) I 12:00pm Lunch All

5 Time Topic Staff Location 1:00pm Product Demos Our expers will demonstrate the Meter Data Management and Analytics Application as well as new Prototypes. DEMS Workshop In this session we will discuss the rise in energy decentralization and what are the resulting requirements for energy providers. Siemens Technical Experts I 2:30pm Break All 2:45pm The Learning Cloud Our experts will guide you through our training concept and explain the different training types. Furthermore we will discuss new training needs. Elina Pronin, Program Manager, Siemens I 3:15pm New Services and Support Group Update Get an overview regarding new service offerings and important support group updates. We will explain the service and support process and metrics as well as are happy to receive your feedback and to discuss improvements. Shveta Katjal I 3:45pm Analytics in the Cloud Customer presentation I 4:15pm Future of the EnergyIP Platform Our experts will explain a detailed overview about the development of the EnergyIP Platform and what our customers can expect from us and our EnergyIP Platform to answer upcoming challenges of energy providers. Lars Lee-Potreck, VP of Product Management, Siemens I 4:45pm Feedback / Discussion / Adjourn All I

6 Breakout Session: Energy Automation Products and Systems Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Day 2 Time Topic Staff Location 8:30am Breakfast 9:00am PRO SYS Key note speakers-digitalization of Power Pat Wilkinson, VP of Energy Automation (EA) Product and Systems, Siemens De V 9:15am Project Highlights #1: Microgrid Case Study Port of LA Clark Wiedetz, Director of Microgrid, Siemens De V 9:45am Elective: Power Secure discussing MicroGrid in data centers and federal bases Clark Wiedetz, Director of Microgrid, Siemens De V 10:15am Break All Foyer f De Leon 10:30am Project Highlights #2: Arc Flash Mitigation in Utility substations Stefan Nohe, Business Development Manager, Energy Automation Systems, Siemens De V 11:30am Siemens Product Update SIPROTEC and SICAM Gaston Ortega and Farel Becker, EA Product Managers, Siemens De V 12:00pm Lunch All 1:00pm Project Highlights #3: Integration of renewables using Direct Transfer Trip over Cellular (DTT) Andre Smit, Manager of Engineering, Energy Automation Systems, Siemens De V 2:00pm Elective: Storm Hardening through Digitalization Mobile Substation Automation & Protection Stefan Nohe, Business Development Manager, Energy Automation Systems, Siemens De V 3:00pm Break All De Leon 3:15pm Individual Project Highlights #4: Fast Load Shed and Secondary Generator Control at Shell Franklin OPP facility Rick Preston, Business Development Manager, Energy Automation Systems, Siemens De V 4:45pm Wrap up and Adjourn: Depart for evening event Pat Wilkinson, VP of EA Product and Systems, Siemens De V

7 Breakout Session: PSS User Technical Conference Platform Updates** Free registration for users with valid PSS software licenses, and who are current for 2018 Maintenance and Support (M&S). All others will be charged a fee to attend the conference, please contact Danelle Desormeaux at danelle.desormeaux@siemens.com for details. **Agenda is subject to change Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Day 2 Time Topic Staff Location 8:30am Registration / Coffee & Pastries 9:00am Welcome & Introduction Joe Canterino (U.S. Software Business Lead, 9:15am PSS Portfolio as a Holistic Solution The team will provide an introduction to the PSS Portfolio and the direction of its products, including a high-level overview of the new features. It will also include a demonstration of the PSS Ideas Portal an online community for submitting, voting, and commenting on PSS product ideas. Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer), Joe Canterino (U.S. Software Business Lead, Siemens PTI) 10:00am New dispatch methods for PSS MUST including SCED and SCBD Learn about the two new built-in functions to PSS MUST, Security Constrained Economic Dispatch and a Siemens-pioneered method Security Constrained Block Dispatch. Each function utilizes an innovative revised dual simplex linear programming technique which removes overloads by re-dispatching generators that have highest sensibility to overloads with the lowest costs. Our experts will show presentations and live demonstrations of the new features. Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer, 10:30am Break 11:00am Deploying PSS ODMS as a single operations and planning model Our experts will share their experience on Network Model Management (NMM) and Automated Case Creation in PSS ODMS. The keystone of NMM requires time based model driven conversion from EMS breaker/node to PSS E bus/branch raw format. Chuck DuBose (Senior Software Engineer, 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm User Presentation TBD 1:30pm What s New & Upcoming in the PSS E Learn about the latest features implemented into PSS E (v33.11, v34.3, v34.4) and view live demonstrations. Amar Patel (Product Manager for PSS E and PSS MUST, Siemens PTI), Jay Senthil and Joe Hood (Senior Software

8 Time Topic Staff Location Engineer, 2:30pm Break 3:00pm What s New & Upcoming in the PSS E Learn about the latest features implemented into PSS E (v33.11, v34.3, v34.4) and view live demonstrations. Amar Patel (Product Manager for PSS E and PSS MUST, Siemens PTI), Jay Senthil, Greg Mahlum and Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer,, 4:00pm What s New & Upcoming in PSS MOD Learn about the latest features implemented into PSS MOD and view live demonstrations. Highlighted new features include: PSS MOD v10.1: Project File Enhancements, Download Project to IDEV or Python Format, Search through all projects by bus number, Project Report Enhancements, Enhanced Project Validation for Project Dependency Checking, Optionally include Base Case with Download (on Case Build) PSS MOD v10.2: Add working page / percentage complete to any pages with long processes, Configurable Number of Records in Grid, Filter Projects in Case Definition by any attribute, Batch Case Creation via Excel Workbook, Robust Solution Capability via PSS E RoboSolve Chuck DuBose (Senior Software Engineer, 4:30pm User Presentation TBD 5:00pm PSS MOD User Forum Lead by our PSS MOD customers; share your knowledge, experience, and feedback with fellow users and product experts. Joe Canterino (U.S. Software Business Lead) and Chuck DuBose (Senior Software Engineer, 5:30pm Digital Grid Reception PSS Product Suite demonstrations and networking Have a specific question about the PSS products? The Digital Grid reception is the perfect setting to experience one-on-one time with product engineers. Various informal PSS product stations around the room will allow you to ask questions and receive an answer via live demonstration, lead by Siemens PTI engineers. Mingle amongst fellow product users and enjoy beverages / hors d ouerves. All

9 Breakout Session: PSS User Technical Conference Platform Updates (continued)** **Agenda is subject to change Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Day 3 Time Topic Staff Location 8:30am Coffee & Pastries 9:00am PSS MUST Improvements and Integration into PSS E Our experts are making several improvements to PSS MUST to make it more powerful and easy to use - several key features have been added, including full integration with PSS E. Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer, 9:30am Extending PSS E with PSS SINCAL PSS SINCAL compliments PSS E s strong transmission planning capability broadening into an extensive integrated transmission and distribution (T&D) world where users can study the combined impacts on the low-medium-high voltage as a single network. Siemens PTI s integrated planning solution provides a guide through today and tomorrow s planning challenges. Wayne Dias (U.S. Product Line Manager for PSS SINCAL, Siemens PTI) 10:30am Break ponce 11:00am What s New & Upcoming in PSS SINCAL Our experts will provide you with an overview and demonstration of PSS SINCAL and its features (new and upcoming). The following highlighted features will be discussed: automated integrated hosting capacity calculation module, import and export capabilities, automatic graphic layout enhancements, harmonics modules enhancements and breaker modeling. Wayne Dias (U.S. Product Line Manager for PSS SINCAL, Siemens PTI) 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Demonstration of the New UI Enhancements Implemented into PSS E The PSS E team will present and demo the new UI enhancement implemented into PSS E v34.1 and higher. Joe Hood and Greg Mahlum (Senior Software Engineer, 1:30pm Introduction to the PSS Future User Interface and Workflow Concept: Prototype and Demonstration The PSS team has been working on a ground-up redesign of the PSS user interface, providing a user experience that includes a modern look-and-feel and innovative ways to manage studies, case data, and project alternatives. View a live demonstration of the prototype. The team is looking forward to discussing the changes with you and hearing your feedback. Joe Hood and Greg Mahlum (Senior Software Engineer, 2:00pm User Presentation TBD

10 Time Topic Staff Location 2:30pm Break 3:00pm What s New & Upcoming in PSS ODMS Learn about the latest features implemented into PSS MOD and view live demonstrations. Highlighted new features include: New items in PSS ODMS v11.3: Model Management Window, Project/Scenario Life Cycle Attributes, Project/Scenario Import and Export, Case Browser, Configurable Analysis Engine Dimensioning, N-1 Contingency RAS/Protection Schemes, PSS E v34 Support, Enhanced Transformer Modeling. Chuck DuBose (Senior Software Engineer, 3:30pm User Presentation TBD 4:00pm User Forum Lead by our customers, the user forum gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you have about the products or presented topics and provide your feedback. This will also include a live review of the ideas implemented into the PSS Ideas Portal throughout the UGM. This informal discussion will close out the 2018 U.S. User Technical Conference! All

11 Breakout Session: PSS User Technical Conference Complimentary Workshops The Siemens PTI team is pleased to provide customers with an opportunity to attend any of the six complimentary workshop offerings! Each workshop will last two hours and attendees have the ability to pick their own schedule. Thursday, May 3, 2018 Day 4 Time Workshops Room 1 Meet us in the X room Workshops Room 2 Meet us in the X room 7:30am Coffee & Pastries Coffee & Pastries 8:00am Modeling Renewables in PSS E Led by Jay Senthil (Senior Software Engineer Attend a hands-on training to learn about the best practices for modeling renewable resources in PSS E powerflow and dynamics studies. Creating Custom PSS E Reports in Excel using Python Led by Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer Siemens PTI) Learn the key steps involved in building custom reports using Python PSS E and Excel APIs. 10:00am Break Break 10:30 am Extending PSS E with PSS SINCAL Led by Wayne Dias (U.S. Product Line Manager for PSS SINCAL, Learn about PSS SINCAL and the various value-adding capabilities it offers PSS E users. This workshop will also include information and demonstrations on: Importing a PSS E model (*.raw,*.drw,*.seq,*.dyr) into PSS SINCAL Various analysis that can be completed with a PSS E model in PSS SINCAL Extending PSS E s strong transmission planning capability into the distribution planning space and into the integrated T&D world Using PSS E Node-Breaker Modeling for NERC TPL Assessment Led by Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer Siemens PTI) Leverage the PSS E Node-breaker modeling tool to improve the accuracy and automation of steady-state contingency analysis for NERC TPL compliance studies. PSS ODMS demonstration and model management discussion Led by Chuck DuBose (Senior Software Engineer Learn about PSS ODMS and the CIM and how it controls the PSS E v34 node breaker model export. Observe a demonstration of PSS ODMS model management features such as time base models, imports/exports and automation. 12:30pm Lunch Lunch 1:30pm Building Custom PSS E Dynamics Models using Graphical Model Builder Led by Joe Hood (Senior Software Engineer Learn how to use the Graphical Model Builder Module to create drag-and-drop block diagram models that can be integrated into PSS E dynamics studies. Dynamics Model Validation in PSS E Led by Jay Senthil (Senior Software Engineer Siemens PTI) Learn how to use the built-in data / model validation tools in PSS E to identify a problem with the input data and compare dynamics response to real-world metered results.

2018 Digital Grid Customer Summit

2018 Digital Grid Customer Summit April 30 - May 3, 2018 Opening Session *Speakers subject to change Monday, April 30, 2018 Day 1 Event Schedule Time Topic Staff Location 11:30am Lunch Tesoro Cove 11:30am