October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend
Utilities
Enter the Era of Limitless Utilities
See how leading utilities are turning the pressure of this investment cycle into a platform for growth. Real organisations, real outcomes and a clear path to limitless performance.
Charged
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Where the world's most essential industries set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
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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
Unleashed brings together utility operators, partners, and industry leaders to explore The Era of Limitless Industry. Browse sessions spanning Industrial AI, asset lifecycle management, and grid modernization, then see the full agenda to plan your time in Orlando and shape the future of utility operations.
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From Integrated to Autonomous: Redefining Utility Operations with Industrial and Physical AI
Speakers:
Deloitte and Carol Johnston, IFS
Integration alone is no longer enough. As operational volatility rises and capital decisions carry greater consequence, human-coordinated operations hit a ceiling. This keynote shows what it takes to make the shift: planning, investment, maintenance, and execution continuously sensing, deciding, and adapting across the asset lifecycle without losing governance, control, or trust.
Keynote
The Real Cost of the Aging Grid & Decision Gap
Speakers:
Reza Jenab, PwC
Industry Analysts and Utility Experts draw on independent benchmarks and real utility examples, 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.
Keynote
From Vision to Execution: How Utilities Turn Integrated ALM into Real Operational Impact
Speakers:
David Pacetti, TECO (Tampa Electric)
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.
Keynote
Scaling with Industrial AI: Different Starting Points, One Blueprint
Speakers:
Paul Womelsdorf, Eversource
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.
Keynote
What the Energy & Utilities Industry Needs Next and How IFS Is Answering.
Speakers:
Martin Harris and Aaron Sleight, IFS
From AI-driven capital prioritization and autonomous execution agents in 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.
Keynote
One Scenario. Full Cycle. This Is Industrial AI in Utilities.
Speakers:
Steve Ridley and Lacey Lurges, IFS
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.
Benchmark
Behind Closed Doors: How Utility Leaders Are Navigating the Hard Decisions on AI and Operations
Speakers:
Ole Schjødt-Osmo, Statnett
Sheldon Smith, Sask Energy
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.
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
The utilities leading this investment cycle aren’t managing risk. They’re building the performance model for the next decade. Unleashed is where utility leaders come to build it.
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 with no scalable answer until now, 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 coming soon.
Chris Stille
Organizational & Operations Readiness Manager, Southern California Gas
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.
