The full agenda — with receipts

Sets the frame for the day's agenda — expect CharIN's read on where standards, interoperability, and megawatt/V2G rollouts stand globally. Worth attending for the political and roadmap signals, not technical depth.

High-speed data (Gigabit Ethernet) inside the connector is the enabler for ISO 15118-20, Plug & Charge, and future V2G telemetry — but retrofitting it without touching existing pins is a hard mechanical and EMI problem. Anyone running large CCS/NACS fleets should ask whether this is backward-compatible with deployed hardware or requires new connector tooling.

ISO 15118 is becoming the de facto base layer for Plug & Charge, V2G, and battery data exchange, but EU, North America, Korea, and Australia are each legislating conformance differently — meaning a single global certification path doesn't yet exist. CPOs and OEMs selling across regions should care about which regulatory instrument (mandate, incentive, or voluntary scheme) actually drives compliance.

The shift from one-directional smart charging (V1G) to bidirectional V2G is where EVs stop being a grid liability and start being a dispatchable asset — the question is always who captures that flexibility value: driver, aggregator, or utility. Relevant to anyone building revenue models around demand response or ancillary services.

ANZ is a bellwether market for V2G and MCS adoption outside the EU/US/Korea axis, with its own grid codes and right-hand-drive vehicle constraints shaping what's deployable. Useful for benchmarking regulatory pace against other regions covered earlier in the day.

Grid codes, not charger hardware, are usually the real bottleneck for V2G at scale — Australia's distributed energy resource rules are among the more actively evolving globally. Relevant for anyone trying to understand how local grid compliance requirements will gate V2G commercialization timelines.

An OEM's charging strategy signals how much control automakers want over the customer experience versus relying on third-party CPO networks — a live tension since Tesla NACS adoption reshuffled the competitive map. Worth watching for how Hyundai positions itself between building proprietary infrastructure and plugging into existing networks.

MCS pushes thermal and contact design to their limits — losses that are negligible at 150kW become serious engineering and safety constraints at megawatt levels. Relevant to anyone speccing heavy-duty charging hardware, since connector and cooling choices here directly affect uptime and total cost of ownership.

Beyond the connector, megawatt charging forces hard choices on power distribution architecture and grid interconnection that most depot and corridor planners haven't had to solve yet. Useful as a practical counterpoint to the more component-level Stäubli session preceding it.

Southeast Asia's EV trajectory depends heavily on battery supply chain localization and government incentive design, and Thailand has positioned itself as the region's manufacturing hub. CPOs and investors eyeing SEA expansion should listen for concrete policy and infrastructure targets rather than general market sentiment.

Interoperability failures between EVCC and SECC are a persistent, hard-to-diagnose cause of charging session failures, and most field tools lack physical-layer visibility into PLC/GreenPHY communication. Relevant to test engineers and certification bodies looking for a repeatable way to isolate PWM, SLAC, and spectrum-level faults instead of treating them as black-box failures.

As charging infrastructure becomes more networked and software-defined, cybersecurity liability gets murky across OEM, CPO, and backend operator boundaries — especially once V2G opens bidirectional control pathways. The session should clarify where secure-by-design obligations end and runtime/fleet-level monitoring responsibility begins.

ISO 15118-20 is the standard meant to unlock bidirectional charging and plug-and-charge at scale, but interoperability gaps between OEMs, EVSE vendors, and backend providers remain the main blocker to commercial V2G deployment. Anyone building V2G hardware or software needs a clear read on certification timelines, backward compatibility with -2, and which vehicle and charger makers have committed implementations. The session should clarify what's actually conformance-tested today versus still theoretical.

Live AC and DC V2G demos are where protocol claims meet hardware reality — latency, grid-code compliance, and fault handling often diverge from spec once real power electronics are involved. For integrators and utilities evaluating V2G pilots, this is a chance to see which use cases (backup power, demand response, energy arbitrage) are genuinely production-ready versus lab-only. Worth watching for how AC and DC implementations differ in cost, complexity, and response time.