Call for Papers

Are you, or do you know, an industry expert, vendor, thought leader or professional in Nuclear IT willing to share your knowledge and insight with NITSL ?

Speaking opportunities are available for NITSL's 2024 conference. Email your topic, with a brief description, to Cathy Przyjemski at cathy.przyjemski@nitsl.org by November 30, 2023. We are accepting papers for our General Session and Standing Committees.

Presentations that are reflective of our primary theme, Developing Workforce Resiliency Through Tech Enablement or the Standing Committee Initiatives below, will be given priority consideration. The NITSL Executive Committee/Standing Committee will review all submissions.

Vendors, who wish to submit an abstract, must include a utility contact with their paper. Presentations are to be given by the utility company representative in collaboration with the vendor company. Utility representative must attend the conference.

2024 Standing Committee Initiatives

Cyber Security Initiatives

Accounts and Passwords Best Practices
Cyber Security Specialized Training
Compensatory Measures for Monitoring Systems
Supply Chain/Whs Cyber Requirements-including E11.6 Testing Guideline

Infrastructure & Applications (I&A) Initiatives

Robotics
Emerging Technology
AI/ML
Digital Transformation
Cloud firs apps (PaS vs. SaS)
End to End Data Controls (Digital Worker)
Remote Worker

Software Quality Assurance Initiatives

SQA and M&TE
Definition of SQA programs (benchmarking)
NITSL Guidance document updates
Seek collaboration opportunities with Digital Controls and Cyber Security Committees

Digital Instrument and Control (I&C) Equipment and Systems Initiatives

Virtualization Strategies Pros/Cons vs Traditional Implementations
IT Lifecycle management best practices to implement into DC engineering processes
Gather Lessons Learned Over Challenges involving DEG/NISP throughout Design Organizations
Joint Presentation: Cyber-Lessons Learned; DRP; Assessments