2026 AGA Executive Conference

Energy industry executives, security analysts, portfolio managers, rating agencies, and bankers meet to evaluate the outlook for the energy industry and individual companies.

AGA’s Financial Forum provides a unique opportunity for energy industry executives, security analysts, portfolio managers, rating agencies and bankers to meet to evaluate the outlook for the energy industry and individual companies.

Public power utility leaders meet with experts in technology, energy, and policy. Attendance is limited to facilitate productive dialogue. Sessions address shifts in the global energy landscape, including the energy transition, energy security, geopolitical and economic competition, and investment in energy infrastructure, renewable technologies, nuclear power, and fossil fuels. Other discussions examine reliability and affordability amid growing demand, rising costs, regulatory pressures, and customer expectations; resource adequacy, infrastructure investment, workforce challenges, supply-chain constraints, and emerging technologies; and leadership through outages, cyber incidents, severe weather, safety emergencies, and public scrutiny. The program also explores AI and other emerging technologies, including their utility applications and questions around governance, cybersecurity, workforce impacts, and risk management. Additional topics include evaluating and integrating significant new loads, generation and infrastructure investments, contracts and rate protections, aligning economic development with the public power mission, and workforce development, succession planning, leadership training, and knowledge transfer.

The conference brings together operators of natural gas delivery systems and service and equipment providers. Technical sessions cover gas measurement, pipeline integrity, operations advocacy, workforce safety, environmental issues, storage, engineering, construction and maintenance, gas control, corrosion control, and damage prevention. The program supports technical knowledge-sharing and leadership strategies focused on safe, reliable natural gas delivery and workforce safety.

An invitation-only gathering for C-level utility leaders focused on strategy, customer experience, and organizational culture. Formats include tabletop discussions, interactive polling and surveys, keynotes, deep-dive presentations, industry breakouts, discussions, and panels. Topics include executive leadership and organizational strategy; workforce development and succession planning; artificial intelligence and emerging technologies; utility transformation and modernization; and customer experience innovation. A detailed agenda is not yet posted.

A gathering for operators of natural gas delivery systems and service and equipment providers, with participation by operations leadership. Technical sessions cover gas measurement, pipeline integrity, operations advocacy, workforce safety, environment, storage, engineering, construction and maintenance, gas control, corrosion control, and damage prevention. The event supports technical knowledge-sharing and leadership strategies focused on safe, reliable natural gas delivery and workforce safety.

NARUC’s capstone meeting includes a year-end summary from NARUC President Ann Rendahl, topics across utility sectors, and installation of the organization’s new president and officers. The program covers utility affordability, customer assistance, ratemaking, large-load growth, data centers, demand response, and flexible load; transmission capacity, advanced transmission technologies, permitting reform, and infrastructure investment; coal-plant options, nuclear energy, natural gas, and pipeline safety; and grid resilience, distributed energy resources, virtual power plants, battery storage, and community microgrids. Other sessions address AI-enabled extreme-weather preparedness, cybersecurity in water and wastewater systems, operational technology for gas and water leak detection, telecommunications network transitions, utility data and customer service infrastructure, water infrastructure investment, federal-state energy regulation, and regulatory impacts of proposed permitting legislation. A workshop examines methods for evaluating advanced transmission technologies, including dynamic line ratings, advanced power flow controls, and advanced conductors. The agenda also includes committee business meetings and general sessions on utility infrastructure resilience and community-based resilience investments. Some meetings are closed to nonmembers or restricted to invitees.

Strategic, peer-led discussion for senior leaders across utilities, oil and gas, grids, technology, finance, think tanks, and regulation. Workshops, dinners, and roundtables are intended to produce action plans. The 2027 program is listed as coming soon; no 2027 session titles or speakers are published.

Sessions address policy, regulatory, and power-supply issues affecting joint action agencies and public power utilities. Topics include affordability, reliability, load growth, member expectations, and the role of joint action agencies in supporting members. The program covers AI and data centers’ effects on electricity-demand forecasts; utility costs, procurement timelines, supply chains, and rates; advanced nuclear deployment timelines, economics, and regulatory pathways; natural-gas production, pipeline development, and supply risks; and resource adequacy, capacity markets, and regional reliability. Additional sessions address battery storage, distributed and backup generation, virtual power plants, demand response, and emerging AI applications and member services. The event is designed for CEOs and senior management of joint action agencies and state associations, board members, commissioners, and public power utilities. Select sessions may be restricted to APPA member utilities, joint action agencies, and state associations.