2025 EV Symposium:
Call for Presentations

PLMA seeks exceptional proposals from across the energy and automotive industries that explore lessons learned and experiences to date with EV  managed charging and EV grid impacts, as well as knowledgeable and well-founded discussions of the unresolved challenges that must be solved to ensure the widespread adoption of EVs.

PLMA highly values proposals that include participation by utilities, customers, and other market actors. Please, no sales pitches.

Presentations of any length or style will be considered, with preference for 30 to 45-minute interactive sessions, or 90-minute workshops, in which up to one third of the time is reserved for audience discussion. All topics and presenters will be considered, however PLMA especially values sessions having specific, actionable ties to flexible load management, demand response, and/or distributed energy resources.

Topics of interest include:   

• Passive vs. Active Managed Charging
• V2G Applications (Today’s demonstrations and planned pilots)
• Shared Charging Infrastructure (Workplace and Multifamily Settings)
• Locations of the Charging Management Intelligence — Telematics vs. Charger
• Impacts to Distribution Utility Assets — Planning/Sizing/Management
• Impact Analysis: Actuals vs. Counterfactuals
• End of Life Plans: Reuse, Recycle, Utilize as Energy Storage Applications
• Delivering a Driver-Centric Managed Charging Experience
• Orchestration Between Automakers, EVSEs, Utilities, Solution Providers
• Customer Acquisition Challenges and Opportunities
• Programs/Applications involving fleets of Electric Vehicles 
• Extending Lessons Learned in Residential Programs to the Commercial Applications
• Medium and Heavy-Duty Electric Trucks/Buses

PLMA’s submission form requests information about your presenters, your topic, its relevance to PLMA’s Symposium audience, and your
learning objectives. 

Proposal acceptance decisions will be made by PLMA’s Symposium Committee on May 21, 2025.

If your proposal is selected, each of your identified presenters will receive an invitation to present at the PLMA EV Symposium, together
with a discounted registration code. All presenters MUST register for and plan to attend the Symposium as confirmation of their acceptance to speak at the event.

Presenters are responsible for their own conference registration cost, travel, and if applicable, hotel expenses.

All presenters must agree to comply with the PLMA Presenter Policy and Code of Conduct.

PLMA deeply appreciates everyone’s best efforts to adhere to all Symposium deadlines as these deadlines make it possible to complete the event planning process on time, with accuracy, and without over-taxing our volunteer leaders and staff.  

As such, ensuring your presention is presented at the Symposium is conditional upon meeting the speaker deadlines listed below. 
Missing these deadlines, or being unresponsive to PLMA staff requests, will unfortunately result in the removal of your session from the agenda.

• June 20: All speakers and co-presenters must be registered to attend the Symposium. 
• June 27: A current speaker bio and headshot portrait for each presenter must have been sent to Monica Hammond.
• July 25: All draft slides must have been submitted for review to the Symposium Co-Chairs and PLMA Staff. 
• August 8: All rehearsals and presentations must have been practiced, reviewed, and finalized.

PLMA member practitioners are invited to serve as volunteer scorers of the presentation proposals for this event. The scoring task requires reviewing and scoring submissions based on a list of criteria that includes industry relevance and the interest level for each presentation’s approach. If you would like to score, but have also submitted your own presentation proposal, you will have the opportunity to recuse yourself from scoring your own or your organization’s proposed presentation

Please email Monica Hammond if you’d like to volunteer to score the EV Symposium presentation proposals.