CEO & Utility Managers Roundtable

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.

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.

The summit brings together public power professionals, safety experts, and utility leaders for focused discussions and peer exchanges on utility safety. Themes include current safety resources, effective leadership and training, real-world safety challenges, proven strategies, emerging trends, and building a resilient work culture through collaboration. The intended audience includes safety and training professionals, directors, managers, vice presidents, superintendents, systems and network engineers, city managers, and emerging leaders.

The conference brings together public power leaders, policymakers, vendors, and partners to exchange strategies and discover solutions for long-term utility success. Its program addresses how changing policy, technology, and lifestyles are reshaping the energy industry and communities, with multiple tracks and sessions. The Industry Innovations Expo focuses on solutions and tools for utility decision-makers, and the conference also includes a public-power community service component.

The conference is for public power professionals who design, develop, and maintain the electric system. Program themes include Environmental, Generation & Fuels; Grid Modernization; Transmission & Distribution; Reliability & Resilience; and Safety. The audience includes vice presidents, superintendents, directors, managers, engineers, safety and training specialists, electric utility directors, city managers, and emerging leaders.

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.

Industry leaders and commissioners discuss issues facing the electric, natural gas, water, and telecommunications industries. The program includes a CEO and Industry Leaders Panel on “The Future of the Industry” and a Commissioner Grill where conference participants submit questions to moderators.

Annual conference and thought leadership forum with keynote discussions and breakouts focused on forces shaping the electric power industry. The intended audience includes electric company executives, government leaders, technology partners and innovators, policymakers, regulators, and industry stakeholders.

The conference covers public power accounting and finance, human resources, rates and pricing, and risk management. Attendees may also attend concurrent summit sessions focused on public power cybersecurity and technology, including current practices, AI tools, utility resources, trends, and threats. The 2027 agenda is expected in early 2027.