4–7 May 2026  •  Chicago, IL

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2026 Panel Submissions

Conference Panel Submission Requirements

A panel of approximately 90-minutes in length may be submitted by the Technical Committee Program Chairs (TCPCs) for PES’ technical committees via the MIRA paper submission site. If you would like to propose a panel to the TCPC, you should visit the committee web page and email the TCPC.  This should be done no later than August 1, 2025.  The committees will decide what panels they would like to sponsor at the T&D conference and submit them via the MIRA site for considerations by the T&D Program Committee.  The panel submission needs to include a session title, overall summary, all the speakers and the moderator. 

The email to the TCPCs must be completed for consideration. Panels MUST meet the IEEE requirement for non-commercial content. The IEEE PES T&D Technical Committee will review the submissions and select the panels to be included in the conference. The panel should expect to provide a dry run before final acceptance with one or more members of the IEEE PES T&D Technical Committee.

All Speakers and Moderators Shall:
  • Be present to speak; there will be no option for remote participation or virtual presentations in the panels.
  • Refrain from any commercial discussion.
  • Use the IEEE PES slide template for any slide presentations.
  • Refrain from discussing details of their organization, such as their location, size, etc. This includes speakers from governmental entities and utilities.
  • Provide all slides to their IEEE PES T&D Technical Committee contact by 1 April 2026. You may be asked to revise your material prior to the conference.
  • Sign an IEEE Consent and Release form allowing IEEE to post the presentation in the PES Resource Center post conference.
  • Provide a two (2) sentence introduction to be used in the panel. For panels made up of individual presentations, the moderator will be assigned by the IEEE PES T&D Technical Committee.
  • Participate in at least one pre-conference virtual meeting to discuss the panel details, sequence of speakers, flow of discussion, etc. Date and time of pre-conference virtual meeting is to be determined by the Panel Session Chair.
Presentation and Panel Selection:

Submissions must be completed by 14 August 2025.

Submitters will be advised via email of acceptance or rejection of the submission by 4 November 2025.

Accepted panels will be entered into the conference paper submission site, and panel chairs will be required to complete all panelists’ information in that site by 14 November 2025.

Conference Registration:

All presenters and session chairs must register for the meeting and pay the appropriate fee. Registration deadline for presenters may be earlier than the general registration deadline. Additional information about the meeting will be posted as it becomes available on the conference website at ieeet-d.org.

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