
2-Day Virtual Event
. Welcome to IEC 61850 Global 2020. As the pace of IEC 61850 deployment across the wider smart grid gains momentum, new implementation challenges around design, engineering, testing, operating, and maintaining multi-vendor multi-edition IEC 61850 systems are fast emerging.
Welcome to IEC 61850 Global 2020 Virtual Conference
As the pace of IEC 61850 deployment across the wider smart grid gains momentum, new implementation challenges around design, engineering, testing, operating, and maintaining multi-vendor multi-edition IEC 61850 systems are fast emerging. The 7th annual IEC 61850 Global 2020 draws together IEC 61850 implementation leaders and specialists from across the world for a thorough review of the most sophisticated large-scale deployments of the standard within the substation, inter-substation, to the control room, across DER infrastructure, and beyond.
This 2-day virtual event presents an intensive case study programme showcasing global utility implementations of the standard in the most complex and dynamic grid environments. As the only truly end-user driven meeting for the IEC 61850 community globally, this is the place to be if you want to get up to speed with the latest standardisation developments, deep-dive into lessons learnt from leading edge practical deployment on a large-scale, influence the direction of future product development, and power network with the cream of the global IEC 61850 technical community.
This programme consists of 24 x case-studies, 8 x technology innovation presentations, 8 x live Q&A panel sessions, a 90-minute roundtable discussion session, and more. There is no better place to gather the latest IEC 61850 end-user implementation insights.






Virtual Event Platform Benefits:
High Quality Presentation Streaming
Split-screen presentations enable both the speaker and their presentation slides to be visible throughout the event
Live Q&A Sessions
Facilitated via the online Q&A panel, enabling you to pose your most urgent questions and have these addressed live by several speakers at once
Breakout Roundtable Discussions
Opportunity to participate in a choice of 3 facilitated deep-diving roundtable discussions
State of the Industry Polling
3x polls displayed to test the temperature of the industry on key topics of interest with results made available to all participants
High Precision Networking
The ability to profile participants, request and schedule meetings on the platform, with ease of follow up post event
Speaker Presentation Slides
Instant access to speaker presentation slides immediately following the event
Please note that just like our in-person conferences, this is a live virtual event and there will be no recording made available post event.
Watch the highlights from 2019:
22+ utility IEC 61850 case studies including:

Christoph Brunner


Alex Apostolov


David MacDonald


Birkir Heimisson


Glenn Wilson


Rajil Srivastava

What last year's IEC 61850 Global participants had to say
“Well represented conference from utility stakeholders and decision makers, as well as major vendors, working together to align their visions of the smart grid, and solve upcoming challenges.”
Mital Kanabar, Chief Applications Architect, GE Grid Solutions
“The event is extremely well organised and the quality of presenters, presentations, and topics is the best that I have ever been involved in. Very well done and thank you.”
Tuan Vu, Senior Digital & Asset Strategies Engineer, Powerlink Queensland
“Excellent opportunity to exchange ideas relating to the latest developments concerning substation automation and DER modelling.”
Jan Voltman, Consultant, Alliander
"IEC 61850 Global 2019 was an interesting opportunity to exchange experiences, and see how other companies are implementing the IEC 61850 standard, as well as what their challenges are in the future."
Marco Salgado, Service Engineer, ESIA
"An excellent opportunity to look beyond your own experiences and see how other people are presenting solutions to shared problems."
Julio E. Dominguez, SAS Designer, UFD