The technological breakthrough of extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing has revolutionized America's domestic energy outlook. Recent improvements in the production have benefited the environment and helped to hold the costs of extracting natural gas. One such improvement captures the methane gas from the production site and uses it to power production energy demands instead of the use of more pollutant fuel sources. This session will explore the innovative practices producers are using to ensure natural gas is the safe and abundant fuel of choice for the U.S. in the decades to come.

Chad Odegard - Vice President - Piceance Basin , WPX Energy

The technological breakthrough of extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing has revolutionized America's domestic energy outlook. Recent improvements in the production have benefited the environment and helped to hold the costs of extracting natural gas. One such improvement captures the methane gas from the production site and uses it to power production energy demands instead of the use of more pollutant fuel sources. This session will explore the innovative practices producers are using to ensure natural gas is the safe and abundant fuel of choice for the U.S. in the decades to come.

Representative, WPX Energy

Many organizations, including NARUC, advocate the use of risk management for prioritizing utility cybersecurity investments. But what do those risk management processes look like? And how do we know if we’re succeeding? Participants will articulate the challenges of defining cybersecurity metrics, sharing them across industry, the structures that assure that it is being taken seriously, and the possible ways forward for regulators and utilities. What is the right amount of cybersecurity, and how will we know? Attend this session to find out.

Moderator	Hon. Philip Jones - Commissioner, Washington UTC
Panelists	Hon. Arthur House - Commissioner, Connecticut Ben Fowke - Chairman, President & CEO, Xcel Energy, Inc.

The Federal Communications Commission rolled out the National Broadband Plan with much fanfare in March 2010. Three years later, broadband technologies are widely available and improving each day. Yet these advances have not been felt everywhere. Can wireless broadband provide the speeds and quality of service to meet the needs and applications for all that we are asking it too? At the same time, how can States push the ball forward and bring broadband to all corners of the country? In this session, federal, industry, and State officials will discuss best practices for broadband expansion. Attendees will learn whether broadband is expanding quickly enough to handle new demands, such as expanded e-government, telemedicine, distance learning, and much more.

Moderator	Hon. Geoffrey Why - Commissioner, Massachusetts Dept. of Telecommunications & Cable
Panelists	Hon. Jessica Rosenworcel - Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission Larry Strickling - Asst. Sec. for Communications and Information, NTIA, US Department of Commerce

Joint session with the Committee on Electricity
Technological advancement, new financing approaches, and falling prices are driving rapid changes in the adoption of distributed energy resources (efficiency, distributed generation, demand response, electric vehicles), with significant implications for the electricity sector. In depth analyses and early examples indicate that as these resources increase their penetration over the next decade, they will challenge existing regulatory models and spur alternative markets that will change the electricity system in potentially transformative ways. These trends have important implications for utilities, including risks to the conventional business model, changing requirements for customer engagement, and the need to coordinate a much larger number of resources and actors. In this environment, regulators must proactively assess future trends, consider potential significant regulatory changes, and engage with a wider array of stakeholders to develop win-win solutions.

Moderator	Phyllis Reha , Commissioner Emeritus, Minnesota
Panelists	Angie Beehler, Walmart Andrew Ott - Senior Vice President, Markets, PJM Robert Curry - Commissioner Emeritus, New York

Joint session with the Committees on Energy Resources and the Environment and Gas

Moderator	Hon. Philip Jones - NARUC President, Washington
Panelists	Yoram Bauman - Fellow, Sightline Institute Mary Nichols - Chairman, CA Air Resources Board Bruce Braine, AEP

Learn about the drivers for change. What does VoIP, wireless LTE, machine-2-machine communications and other technology changes mean to the future requirements for the availability and management of telephone numbers? Are there better alternatives to the North America Numbering Plan? What is the role of State regulators in managing the availability and conservation of telephone numbers or their substitute in the future?

Moderator	Hon. Betty Anne Kane - Commissioner, District of Columbia
Panelists	Henning Schulzrinne - Chief Technology Officer, Federal Communications Commission Tom McGarry - Vice President, Advanced Technology Group, Neustar Labs Daniel Berninger - Founder, Voice Communication Exchange Committee Brendan Kasper - Senior Regulatory Counsel, Vonage Dave Malfara - President, ETC Group

Small water and wastewater companies present many challenges, many driven by their lack of size and economies of scale. Recommendations for Best Practices for Small Systems will be presented and discussed.

Speakers to include energy and water system experts and will also address adaption and mitigation. This is a joint session with Electricity, Energy Resources and the Environment and Critical Infrastructure.