Summary
September 23, 2025 | 8:45 AM – 7:15 PM ET
The primary focus of this inaugural symposium will be the role of Digital Twins (DTs) and parametric weather risk mitigation capacity in managing electricity grid transition risk under transient demand and intermittent supply uncertainty. DTs are evolving as transformative tools across various sectors, including energy, electricity, and supply chains and freight transportation, in order to support data-driven decision analytics and state estimation, with prospective industry applications projected to approach to $156 billion by 2030 due to increasing complexity and interdependence across engineered and natural systems.
In parallel, the demand for parametric weather risk immunization and mitigation has been expanding, primarily driven by corresponding industry, institutional and market responses to observed mesoscale weather volatility. Reported volumes for exchange-listed weather instruments have increased, e.g., over 260% during 2023. Current outstanding notional amounts for listed weather contracts are 48% higher than the previous year, indicating $25 billion notional outstanding. In response to operational risk exposures many jurisdictions have begun mandating disclosures of climate-related weather risk exposures, and mitigation strategies.
The forum features 75-minute thematic panels comprised of technical domain experts engaging in discourse with invited guests on the following topics:
- Weather Volatility Mitigation: Markets, Instruments and Hedging Strategies
- Carbon Sequestration: Term Structure and Instruments
- Digital Twins for Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Grid-Scale Electricity Generation, Storage and Transmission
- Weather Volatility Exposure: Freight Transportation and Supply Chain Finance
- Weather Risk Analytics: Applicability of Remote Sensing and Ancillary Data to Weather Risk Modeling and Analysis
- Severe Convective Storms (SCS): Mesoscale Weather and Event Risk Threats to Environmental Resources and Infrastructure
This proposed forum will attempt to highlight leading-edge research, innovation and use-case domain applications, to explore critical weather risk challenges being addressed and prospective opportunities for risk management and mitigation. The thematic composition, substantive content, format of the panel sessions is determined by the participating subject matter experts.
Registration
This event is invite only.