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| THURSDAY 27 AUGUST | MORNING SESSION |
| 08:00–16:00 | Registration at the Symposium Venue |
| 09:00-09:15 | Josep M. Guerrero, Symposium Chair |
| Welcome | |
| 09:15-09:30 | Chris Marnay, Past Symposium Chair |
| Microgrid Symposium Tradition | |
| 09:30-11:00 | EUROPE SESSION I |
| Chairs: Nikos Hatziargyriou, Josep M. Guerrero | |
| 09:30-09:50 | Josep M. Guerrero, Aalborg University |
| Research Challenges in Microgrid Technologies | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:00-10:20 | Patrick Van Hove, EC-DG Research |
| Microgrids R&D activities in EU | |
| 10:20-10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:30-10:50 | Maher Chebbo, SAP |
| ICT for Microgrids | |
| 10:50-11:00 | Discussion |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | EUROPE SESSION II |
| Chairs: Mihaela Albu, Pierluigi Mancarella | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Goran Strbac, Imperial College |
| Network Security and Resilience and Role of Microgrids | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-12:20 | Federico Silvestro, University of Genova |
| The SmartGen Project: DMS Development for VPP and Microgrids | |
| 12:20-12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| Back-up 1 Carlos Moreira, INESC Porto | |
| A Test Bedin a Laboratory Environment to Validate Islanding and Black Start Solutions for Microgrids | |
| Back-up 2 Tomislav Dragicevic, Aalborg University | |
| DC Microgrids: Power Architectures, Protection, Control and Standards | |
| THURSDAY 27 AUGUST | AFTERNOON SESSION |
| 14:00-15:30 | ASIA SESSION I |
| Chairs: Meiqin Mao, Ryoichi Hara | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Kai Sun, Tsinghua University |
| Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Integration into AC/DC Microgrids | |
| 14:20-14:30 | Discussion |
| 14:30-14:50 | Fengyan Zhang, Xiamen University |
| Economic and Market Analysis of DC Microgrids | |
| 14:50-15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:00-15:20 | Hisashi Tamaki, Kobe University |
| Nushima Project – An Experimental Study on a Self-Sustainable Decentralized Energy System for an Isolated Island | |
| 15:20-15:30 | Discussion |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:30 | ASIA SESSION II |
| Chairs: Ryochi Hara, Jaeho Choi | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Takayuki Tanabe, Meidensha Corporation |
| Construction of Wide-Area Operation System for Intermittent Power Sources | |
| 16:20-16:30 | Discussion |
| 16:30-16:50 | Woo-kyu Chae, KEPCO Research Institute |
| Design and Field Test Results of High Penetration Remote Microgrid in Korean Island | |
| 16:50-17:00 | Discussion |
| 17:00-17:20 | Changhee Cho, KERI |
| Microgrid Demonstration Based on the IEC 61850 Communication Technology | |
| 17:20-17:30 | Discussion |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception at Nordkraft |
| FRIDAY 28 AUGUST | MORNING SESSION |
| 08:00–12:00 | Registration at the Symposium Venue |
| 09:30-11:00 | AMERICA SSESSION I |
| Chairs: Amir Yazdani, Chris Marnay | |
| 09:30-09:50 | Dan Ton, U.S. DOE, Alexandre Prieur, CanmetENERGY, Guillermo Jimenez, University of Chile |
Overview of Microgrids in The Americas | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:00-10:20 | Felipe Valencia Arroyave, University of Chile |
| Microgrid Protection and Resiliency | |
| 10:20-10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:30-10:50 | Rob Hovsapian, Idaho National Laboratory |
| DRTS – DRTS Link for Distributed Real Time Simulations | |
| 10:50-11:00 | Discussion |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | AMERICA SSESSION II |
| Chairs: Chris Marnay, Amir Yazdani | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Jim Cale, NREL |
| Using Virtual Oscillator Controls for Microgrids | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-12:20 | Art Villanueva and Jeff Trueblood, CleanSpark |
| Camp Pendleton Fractal Grid Demonstration | |
| 12:20-12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| Back-up Hashem Nehir, Montana State University | |
| Real-Time Power Management with Agents | |
| FRIDAY 28 AUGUST | AFTERNOON SESSION |
| 14:00-15:30 | REMOTE SESSION |
| Chairs: Johan Driesen, Xavier Vallvé | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Elad Orian, Comet-ME |
| Rural Electrification in Palestine – Some Non-Technical Lessons | |
| 14:15-14:20 | Discussion |
| 14:20-14:35 | Rita Paleta, KIC Innoenergy |
| Remote Autonomous Energy Systems Design for Developing Countries | |
| 14:35-14:40 | Discussion |
| 14:40-14:55 | Alexandre Prieur, CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada |
| Remote Northern Microgrid in Canada | |
| 14:55-15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:00-15:20 | Panos Kotsampopoulos, NTUA |
| Best Practices of Rural Electrification in Developing Countries | |
| 15:20-15:30 | Discussion |
| 15:30-15:45 | Coffee Break |
| Back-up Xavier Vallvé, Marilena Lazopoulou, TTA | |
| PV Hybrid Industrial Microgrids in Unreliable National Grids | |
| 15:45-17:00 | PANEL ON SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES |
| Guillermo Jimenez, University of Chile (chair) | |
| Roberto Gonzalez Sainz Maza, Iberdrola | |
| Gonçalo P Mendes, MIT-Portugal, Azores | |
| Kurt Kornbluth, West Village, University of California, Davis | |
| Shalom Flank, Pareto Energy | |
| Panos Kotsampopoulos, NTUA | |
| 17:00-17:30 | CLOSING SESSION |
| Chairs: Josep M. Guerrero, Amir Yazdani | |
| 2016 Symposium on Microgrids | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at Restaurant Flammen |
| MICROGRID TOURS | |
| SATURDAY 29 AUGUST | National Wind Turbine Test Center and Nordic Folkecenter |
| 8:30 | Bus departure from First Hotel to Nordic Folkecenter |
| Speech by Preben Maegaard | |
| 10:00 | Guided tour in Nordic Folkecenter |
| 12:00-12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Visit to windmill in Østerild |
| Guided tour to National Test Center | |
| 15:15 | Bus goes back to First Hotel |
| Dinner on your own | |
| SUNDAY 30 AUGUST | Visit to Aalborg University, Department of Energy Technology Laboratories |
| 8:30 | Bus departure from First Hotel to Department of Energy Technology |
| 9:00 | Visit to the Laboratory Facilities |
| 11:30 | Lunch |
| 12:15 | Bus departure from Department of Energy Technology back to First Hotel |
| Dinner on your own |