October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
Utilities
Three days built for utility leaders, Unleashed brings together customers, experts, and innovators to share practical strategies, proven outcomes, and new ideas. Through keynotes, focussed break outs and interactive expo experiences discover how leading utilities are using Industrial AI to deliver resilient assets, modernize operations and manage extreme weather risks and volatile loads.
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Where industry leaders set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
David Pacetti
TECO
Paul Womelsdorf
Eversource
Ole Schjødt-Osmo
Statnett
Sheldon Smith
SaskEnergy
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Join your Peers
Three days. One stage. Every industry the world relies on. Here’s what the room looks like when you arrive in Orlando.
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What's on for Utilities
CHARGED. The Grid Is Changing. So Is Everything That Powers It. Unleashed brings together utility leaders to explore The Era of Limitless Industry through sessions on Industrial AI, asset lifecycle management, and grid modernization.
What the Energy & Utilities Industry Needs Next and How IFS Is Answering.
From AI-driven capital prioritization and autonomous execution agents in the market today, to fully autonomous asset lifecycle operations and self-adjusting investment portfolios.
What the Energy & Utilities Industry Needs Next and How IFS Is Answering.
From AI-driven capital prioritization and autonomous execution agents in the market today, to fully autonomous asset lifecycle operations and self-adjusting investment portfolios. See the full IFS Energy & Utilities roadmap and shape where your investment goes next.
Speakers:
- Martin Harris, IFS
- Aaron Sleight, IFS
The Real Cost of the Aging Grid & The Decision Gap
This session exposes the hidden decision gap between capital planning, asset performance, and field execution and what the data says it is really costing you.
The Real Cost of the Aging Grid & The Decision Gap
This session exposes the hidden decision gap between capital planning, asset performance, and field execution and what the data says it is really costing you. Learn how AI can connect physical assets with real-time intelligence, enabling smarter capital investment decisions and greater operational agility. Through practical examples and industry insights, explore how leading organizations are balancing increased autonomy with the governance, accountability, and oversight needed to drive performance at scale.
Speakers:
- Reza Jenab, PwC
- Carol Johnston, IFS
- Tim Swanson, IFS
From Vision to Execution: How Utilities Turn Integrated ALM into Real Operational Impact
Hear from operators adopting Industrial AI: where value emerged fastest, what challenges they faced, and how leadership evolved as programs scaled.
From Vision to Execution: How Utilities Turn Integrated ALM into Real Operational Impact
Hear from operators who are living it: what the first use cases looked like, where value showed up faster than expected, where it didn't, and how governance and leadership had to change as the program scaled.
Speakers:
- David Pacetti, TECO (Tampa Electric)
- Mike Wright, TECO (Tampa Electric)
- Carol Johnston, IFS
Scaling with Industrial AI: Different Starting Points, One Blueprint
Utilities are adopting AI-driven ALM from very different starting points; yet the most successful converge on the same outcome.
Scaling with Industrial AI: Different Starting Points, One Blueprint
Utilities are adopting AI-driven ALM from very different starting points; yet the most successful converge on the same outcome. Multiple utility perspectives explore how ALM is expanded over time, where value is realized first, and how leaders balance pace, risk, and governance as autonomy scales.
Speakers:
- Paul Womelsdorf, Eversource
- Bilal Khursheed, Microsoft
- Brian Mathias, Accenture
- Carol Johnston, IFS
Behind Closed Doors: How Utility Leaders Are Navigating the Hard Decisions on AI and Operations
A peer-led executive roundtable exploring the real barriers to scaling AI-enabled ALM: governance, trust, data readiness, and workforce adoption.
Behind Closed Doors: How Utility Leaders Are Navigating the Hard Decisions on AI and Operations
A peer-led executive roundtable exploring the real barriers to scaling AI-enabled ALM: governance, trust, data readiness, and workforce adoption. Focused on the leadership decisions that remove them and the first production use cases that justify broader investment.
Speakers:
- Ole Schjødt-Osmo, Statnett
- Brian Mathias, Accenture
- Carol Johnston, IFS
- Mark Browning, IFS
- John DiStacio, IFS
One Scenario. Full Cycle. This Is Industrial AI in Utilities.
One utility scenario played out in full — capital prioritized, work sequenced, a disruption hits, decisions adapt.
One Scenario. Full Cycle. This Is Industrial AI in Utilities.
One utility scenario played out in full — capital prioritized, work sequenced, a disruption hits, decisions adapt. See Industrial AI act across every decision point in the cycle, from investment intent to frontline execution, adapting in real time as constraints change. No theory. No slides. Just the system running.
Speakers:
- Steve Ridley, IFS
- Lacey Lurges, IFS
- Juan Gonzalez, IFS
- John DiStacio, IFS
Chris Stille
Organizational & Operations Readiness Manager, Southern California Gas
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
The resilient utilities pulling ahead aren’t waiting for the transition to stabilize. They’re building the connected operating model to lead it. This is where the grid gets charged.
Insight Charged With Infrastructure Intelligence
Understand what benchmark data reveals about how leading utilities align capital, assets, and execution to deliver resilience at scale, without compounding cost, delivery risk, or regulatory exposure.
AI in Action Across the Grid
Live demonstrations covering asset lifecycle management, field workforce optimization, work order management, and how utilities turn fragmented planning systems into coordinated operations.
Keynotes That Shape What's Next
Hear from utility leaders redefining infrastructure performance as grid modernization, energy transition pressure, and aging assets under rising regulatory expectations converge.
AI Startup Hall
Discover Industrial AI companies solving utility challenges, from predictive grid maintenance to intelligent field workforce scheduling and capital project delivery.
Utilities Industry Breakouts
Build your agenda around the infrastructure priorities shaping your investment cycle. Sessions cover asset lifecycle, work order performance, capital delivery, regulatory compliance and grid reliability at scale.
Hands-On Learning and Training
Expert-led workshops and live demos built around IFS capabilities for utilities. Leave with practical tools, a clearer implementation path and the confidence to lead your investment cycle rather than react to it. Training registration is open.
Insight Charged with Infrastructure Intelligence
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What you'll leave with
Benchmark insight on how leading utilities are managing the grid transformation
Independent data and real utility examples showing how the best performers align capital allocation, asset health, and field execution. The kind of evidence that changes what your next investment decision looks like.
A sequenced path for scaling Industrial AI from grid modernization to autonomous utility operations
Industrial AI running across a live utility scenario
Watch capital get prioritized, work get sequenced, a disruption land, and decisions adapt in real time. No slides, no theory. Just the system running across the full asset lifecycle.
A peer network built on shared operational reality
Be Part of the Era of Limitless Industry
From first-time attendees to returning champions, Unleashed 2026 brings your transformation into focus and turns vision into action.