The grid is facing converging pressures that no single playbook was designed to address: more frequent and severe extreme weather, exponential growth in data center load, and increasingly sophisticated cyber-physical threats. This panel brings together utility and AEC leaders to explore how risk-informed planning and advanced analytics are being deployed to harden infrastructure against these simultaneous challenges. The conversation moves beyond traditional reliability metrics to examine adaptive frameworks that accelerate recovery, prioritize capital more effectively, and protect mission-critical loads in an era where the stakes—and the complexity—keep rising.

Session Takeaways:
- How to map the intersection of climate volatility, massive load growth, and evolving security threats to identify your highest-risk exposure points
- How risk-informed methods can be used to justify and prioritize investments in hardened, high-capacity infrastructure
- How predictive analytics and asset health monitoring improve storm preparedness and threat readiness
- How aligning planning, construction, and security teams drives faster restoration and stronger regulatory defensibility