ERCOT said April 2 that PJM CEO Manu Asthana will join its own CEO, Pablo Vegas, in opening the grid operator’s second annual Innovation Summit on May 6 in Round Rock, Texas.

The two chief executives will discuss how their organizations and others are adapting to and managing the complexities of “rapidly changing grids” in an opening “Energy Insights” conversation during the summit.

ERCOT said the summit will bring together leaders to share ideas and technology advancements and to collaborate on innovative solutions facing grid transformation in Texas and across the country.

The agenda includes ERCOT’s grid-transformation initiatives and panels on data center interconnection, demand response, probabilistic planning methods and industry innovation in other ISOs and RTOs.

“I am excited to join colleagues at the Innovation Summit to explore how we can collectively maintain reliability during rapidly evolving industry dynamics,” Asthana said in a press release.

Ballooning load from data centers has been at the heart of stakeholder discussions and capacity market redesigns at PJM in recent years. The RTO has made changes to its process for transmission owners to submit large load additions and is working with stakeholders to revise its effective load-carrying capability probabilistic modeling of the intersection between system risks and generation accreditation. (See PJM Stakeholders Endorse Proposals to Rework ELCC Accreditation.)

Registration closes April 18.