October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
Energy
Energy leaders are navigating one of the most complex transitions in a generation, balancing aging assets, evolving generation portfolios, and rising performance expectations. Spend three days at Unleashed exploring expert perspectives, new approaches and hands-on demo experiences that reveal how leading energy companies are embracing Industrial AI to navigate the transition with confidence.
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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 Energy
CHARGED. The Grid Is Changing. So Is Everything That Powers It. Unleashed brings together energy operators, partners, and industry leaders to explore The Era of Limitless Industry through sessions on Industrial AI, capital project performance, and energy transition strategy.
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
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
The energy companies pulling ahead aren’t waiting for the transition to stabilize. They’re building the operating model to lead it. This is where the grid gets charged.
Insight Charged With Operational Intelligence
Understand what separates operators who reallocate assets in hours from those who take weeks, and how the right operational intelligence safeguards margins, availability, and capital efficiency.
AI in Action Across Your Assets
Live demonstrations covering renewable and conventional asset management, field workforce optimization, and how energy operators use Industrial AI to maximize availability and protect cost targets.
Keynotes That Shape What's Next
Hear from energy leaders who have stopped waiting for volatility to ease and started making the decisions that protect performance across conventional and renewable generation.
AI Startup Hall
Discover Industrial AI companies solving energy challenges with no scalable answer until now, from predictive asset performance management to intelligent crew deployment and cost control.
Energy Industry Breakouts
Build your agenda around the priorities shaping energy performance today. Sessions cover asset lifecycle, field service, production operations, renewable asset management and profitability in a volatile market.
Hands-On Learning and Training
Expert-led workshops and live demos built around IFS capabilities for energy operators. Leave with practical tools, a clearer implementation path and the confidence to lead the transition rather than follow it.
Training registration coming soon.
Insight Charged with Operational Intelligence
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What you'll leave with
What the data says about protecting asset performance through the energy transition
Independent benchmarks and real energy company examples showing how operators protect capital efficiency when the generation mix is shifting and volatility is high. Evidence you can act on.
A practical path for advancing asset lifecycle management as the generation portfolio grows more complex
See where IFS is investing next across the energy value chain, then shape those priorities based on your operational reality. Leave with a clear view of what comes next and what to do first.
Industrial AI applied to real energy operations, live
Customer stories and live demonstrations showing how energy companies connect capital planning, asset health, and field execution. See what a working operational intelligence model looks like from the inside.
A peer network built on the realities of transition
Energy operators, capital planning leaders, and asset management executives managing the same transition pressures in the same uncertain market. The kind of peer relationships that inform decisions for years.
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.