Participants include Russian and international scientists and leading experts on Relay protection and automation from universities, industry and research and development companies.Interest areas include: -Conceptual issues of construction and development of relay protection systems, emergency and regime automatics (RPA) and automation systems of electric power facilities with considering of innovative development prospects of the electric power industry and the creation of intelligent networks; -Development methods for modeling electric power processes considering global experience; -Increase the accuracy of modeling processes and network elements characteristics; -Application and development issues of technologies for phasor measurement of energy management parameters for management, control and protection (WAMPACS);-Conceptual issues of the development and application of the “digital substation”, including the evaluation of reliability indicators;