Critical power infrastructure has to operate against extreme events, suck as long-term climate change, natural hazards and disasters and cyber intrusion. Fast recovery and successfully adapting to extreme events are critical to build a resilient power grid. Recent advances on smart grid technologies, especially in the distribution system, bring both opportunities and challenges for system operators to enhance system reliability and resiliency. This panel will present recent developments in advanced computational models and analytical methods in distribution system restoration, as well as industry practice and training procedure. It will also discuss challenges from extreme events (hurricanes, geomagnetic disturbance, cyber attacks) and opportunities from new technologies (renewable energy, PMU, microgrids, DER, electric vehicles). Our diversified panelists are from both academia and industry, including universities, national labs, ISO and utilities, and will provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art and discuss future directions to power grid resilience.