The two conferences were organized by Georgia Tech in five consecutive days.

The 12th Annual Georgia Tech Fault and Disturbance Analysis Conference was held 20-21 April 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the Georgia Tec Global Learning Center.

Twenty papers were presented in four sessions during the two days of the conference. The papers covered a wide range of subjects - analysis of different events requirements and tools for fault and disturbance analysis, communications and systems architectures.

The program also included a User Forum, as well as display and discussions of actual fault records brought by participants in the conference.

In the evening the attendees visited the hospitality suites of multiple vendors, where they could see demonstrations of the latest disturbance and fault analysis devices and software tools and discuss their applications.

Rich Hunt received the 2008 Best Paper award.