08:15–17:00Registration
the theme · fourteenth Energy Thought Summit
Free Your Mind. The future doesn't belong to those who move the fastest. It belongs to those who create the space to think differently. Four days in Austin for the people who run, regulate, build and rethink the grid.
FREE
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MIND
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Monday, May 3, 202713 sessions · 08:15 → 21:00every slot on both pass tierssample data · ETS26 program
Opening remarks, policy and data-center load panels, customer experience and grid security, opening reception.
ETS Opening & Special Video Remarks w/ Rudy Garza
Rudy Garza CPS Energy
How to Hack Your Experience at ETS27
Hugh Forrest SXSW
Premier: MLK Community Center Microgrid Story
The Policy Singularity: When Innovation Outpaces Regulation
Jason Ryan CenterPoint Energy · Rebecca Klein Klein Energy LLC · Chris Guttman-McCabe Anterix · Jason Rodriguez Zpryme and Froliq
Megawatt Reckoning: Hacking the Data Center Load Curve
Jonathan Tijerina CPS Energy · Tim Pianta Base Power Company · Gerardo Delgado Nicor Gas · moderated by Denise Owusu Motive Power, NPUC
The Engagement Hack: Making Grid Optimization a Customer Game
Chimaobi Chijioke Georgia Power
The CXth Sense: JodyBot, the Digital Twin for Customer Operations
Bashir Bseirani Avertra · Jody Allison Xcel Energy · Vanessa Edmonds Utility 2030
Beyond the Firewall: Securing a Million New Grid Edge Entry Points
Todd Wiedman Landis+Gyr · Mitch Rappard Palo Alto Networks · John Miri Bedrock Strategy Group · Janie Gonzalez Webhead, CPS Energy · Greg Brown New Braunfels Utilities
The New Energy Trilemma: Customer Affordability, Wildfires, and the AI Power Surge
Gerardo Delgado Nicor Gas · Zach Pollock Xcel Energy · Cody ONeil Holy Cross Energy · Brad Smith Gridsight · moderated by Kimberly Britton Britton Strategies
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Tuesday, May 4, 202715 sessions · 08:15 → 20:00every slot on both pass tierssample data · ETS26 program
AI and data talks, parallel breakouts, grid-edge and metering panels, evening reception.
Leadership Perspective: Service, Innovation, and Customer Affordability in the New Energy Era
Nancy Bui-Thompson SMUD · moderated by Jason Rodriguez Zpryme and Froliq
The Efficient Frontier: Where AI Meets Customer-Centric Affordability
Talvis Love National Grid
The Edge is the New Core: Why the Grid's Future is Distributed
DeeAnne Norris Renville-Sibley Cooperative Power Association · Jen Szaro AESP · Deepak Garg SEW · Paul Lau SMUD · Marc Spieler NVIDIA
AI Won’t Fix Your Data Problem — But Your Data Problem Will Kill Your AI Strategy
Carlos Thomas Oracle · Anand Vedapuri CPS Energy
Breakout A: From Firewalls to Frequency: Operationalizing Security at the Grid Edge
Greg Brown New Braunfels Utilities · Richard A Ramirez National Grid · moderated by Erin Autin EA Collective
Breakout B: Rate Design Reimagined: Hacking Economics for Grid Investment
Sam Chang CenterPoint Energy · Bashir Bseirani Avertra · Damali Harding Amendment Nine Strategic Consulting · moderated by Joyce Deuley Team b. Strategy
Breakout F: Emotion Meets Electron: Designing Energy Experiences That Stick
Amy Atchley Austin Energy · Angie Ostaszewski SEEL, LLC · moderated by Ricky Murray Doer/Maker
How AI is Rewiring the Utility Mindset
Tolu Omotoso SECO Energy
Innovation, Workforce, and Quantum Grid Applications
Janet Rehberg EPB
AI, Meet AMI: The Real-Time Brain for the Modern Grid
Julia Zhu Alectra · Dan Schnitzer Honeywell · Kevin Monagle Bridgewater Consulting Group · Evan O'Mahoney CPS Energy · Joyce Deuley Team b. Strategy
Power Play: How Google and AES are Disrupting the Energy and Intelligence Status Quo
Raiford Smith Google · moderated by Jason Rodriguez Zpryme and Froliq · Chad Horton AES Clean Energy
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re-filled by the question · speaker slots solid · meals and receptions hollow
01 · asked under the 4scope: Tuesday, May 4
Who's speaking Tuesday
Tuesday has eleven speaker-led slots between 09:00 and 17:15, most of them on AI, data and the grid edge. Twenty-eight people take the stage, from National Grid, NVIDIA and Google to SMUD and a rural cooperative. Every slot is on both pass tiers.
Nancy Bui-Thompson SMUD · moderated by Jason Rodriguez Zpryme and Froliq
Talvis Love National Grid
DeeAnne Norris Renville-Sibley Cooperative Power Association · Jen Szaro AESP · Deepak Garg SEW · Paul Lau SMUD · Marc Spieler NVIDIA
Carlos Thomas Oracle · Anand Vedapuri CPS Energy
Greg Brown New Braunfels Utilities · Richard A Ramirez National Grid · moderated by Erin Autin EA Collective
Sam Chang CenterPoint Energy · Bashir Bseirani Avertra · Damali Harding Amendment Nine Strategic Consulting · moderated by Joyce Deuley Team b. Strategy
Amy Atchley Austin Energy · Angie Ostaszewski SEEL, LLC · moderated by Ricky Murray Doer/Maker
Tolu Omotoso SECO Energy
Janet Rehberg EPB
Julia Zhu Alectra · Dan Schnitzer Honeywell · Kevin Monagle Bridgewater Consulting Group · Evan O'Mahoney CPS Energy · Joyce Deuley Team b. Strategy
Raiford Smith Google · moderated by Jason Rodriguez Zpryme and Froliq · Chad Horton AES Clean Energy
source · snapshot 2026-10-13 · Whova ETS26 program relabelled to May 2027 · sample data, no ETS27 lineup is announced
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Wednesday, May 5, 202713 sessions · 08:15 → 20:00every slot on both pass tierssample data · ETS26 program
Outage intelligence, AI keynotes and panels, workshop, planning and reliability, closing reception.
Hack the Outage: Grid Down. Customer First. How the Energy Industry is Rewriting the Rules of Outage Intelligence
Jason Ryan CenterPoint Energy · Zac Canders DataCapable · Bill Potter DataCapable · Bob Flaherty DataCapable
Hacking the Bottleneck: How AI Returns Attention to the Experts Who Matter
Abhishek Balakrishnan ANB Systems, DNV
Power Hungry: A Day in the AI Powered world of 2040
Jeff Jerome BGE/Exelon
Trusted AI for Your Reality
Karthik Moorthy Bidgely · John Kupcinski PSEG Long Island
Hacking the Distribution Utility
John Padalino Bandera Electric Cooperative · Carlos Ayala Mentora LLC · Teresa Ringenbach Bloom Advisory Partners
Who Wins the Race: AI Speed or Grid Stability?
Jeffrey Banks CenterPoint Energy · Matt Rettagliata Google Cloud · Vanessa Edmonds Utility 2030
Breakout G: The Next Era of DSM: From Short-Term Savings to Long-Term Change
Quinn Parker Encolor
Conducting the Grand Symphony: Sustainability, Reliability, and Affordability
Lora Anguay SMUD · Mandip Samra Burbank Water & Power · Navin Kumar Prasannam SAP · moderated by Erin Autin EA Collective
Grid Games: How AI is Both the Defender and the Invader
John Kupcinski PSEG Long Island · Jeffrey Banks CenterPoint Energy · Josh Keeling UtilityAPI · John Miri Bedrock Strategy Group · moderated by Joyce Deuley Team b. Strategy
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Thursday, May 6, 20279 sessions · 08:30 → 12:30every slot on both pass tierssample data · ETS26 program
Half day: storage and trust keynotes, capacity and resilience conversations, closing session.
Supergrid Rising: Can Energy Storage Save the Planet?
Joon Lee Navion Energy
The Trust Hack: You Can Pilot Without It, But You Can’t Scale Without It
Evan O'Mahoney CPS Energy · Janie Gonzalez Webhead, CPS Energy
The Software-Defined Power Grid
Andres Carvallo CMG Consulting
Unlocking Capacity in an Age of Extremes
Elaina Ball CPS Energy · Christina Oliver LCRA · Venkat Tirupati ERCOT · Sabah Bayatli OCI Energy · moderated by Seyi Fabode Asha Labs
Future Forward: Re-Examining Sustainable Resilience in the Era of AI
Danny Petrecca Itron · Tasha McCarter RWE · Jeremy Adelman Tucson Electric Power · moderated by Jason Rodriguez Zpryme and Froliq
Hack the Customer: Real Stories and Real Impact from Utilities at the Forefront of Addressing the Affordability Challenge
Carlos Ayala Mentora LLC · KJ Feder CPS Energy · moderated by Christine Miles Paymentus
Closing Session: ETS27 Ultimate Hacks
Event Close
people · 77 speakers across the four days
ETS26 speakers shown as sample data · the ETS27 lineup is not announced
Monday · 23 people
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Rudy Garza President & CEO, CPS Energy · Hugh Forrest Former President, SXSW · Jason Ryan Executive Vice President, Regulatory Services & Government Affairs, CenterPoint Energy · Rebecca Klein Principal, Klein Energy LLC · Chris Guttman-McCabe Chief Regulatory and Communications Officer, Anterix · Jason Rodriguez CEO and Co-Founder, Zpryme and Froliq · Jonathan Tijerina VP of Corporate Development, CPS Energy · Tim Pianta Head of Utility Partnerships, Base Power Company · Gerardo Delgado Director of Government Affairs, Nicor Gas · Denise Owusu Decarbonization Manager & Lead of NPUC, Motive Power, NPUC · Chimaobi Chijioke Vice President, Customer Services, Georgia Power · Bashir Bseirani CEO, Avertra · Jody Allison VP of Customer Transformation, Xcel Energy · Vanessa Edmonds Executive Director, Utility 2030 · Todd Wiedman Chief Information Security Officer, Landis+Gyr · Mitch Rappard Global Solutions Director, Palo Alto Networks · John Miri Bedrock Strategy Group · Janie Gonzalez CEO, Board Director, Webhead, CPS Energy · Greg Brown Chief Technology and Security Officer, New Braunfels Utilities · Zach Pollock Director of Grid Strategy & Emerging Technology, Xcel Energy · Cody ONeil Vice President of Operations, Holy Cross Energy · Brad Smith Principal Power Engineer, Gridsight · Kimberly Britton CEO & Founder, Britton Strategies
Tuesday · 28 people
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Nancy Bui-Thompson Board Director, SMUD · Jason Rodriguez CEO and Co-Founder, Zpryme and Froliq · Talvis Love Group Chief Information and Digital Officer, National Grid · DeeAnne Norris CEO, Renville-Sibley Cooperative Power Association · Jen Szaro President & CEO, AESP · Deepak Garg Founder and Co-CEO, SEW · Paul Lau CEO & GM, SMUD · Marc Spieler Senior Managing Director for the Global Energy Industry, NVIDIA · Carlos Thomas VP, Global Strategic Accounts, Oracle · Anand Vedapuri VP, Infrastructure & Operations and Enterprise Architecture, CPS Energy · Greg Brown Chief Technology and Security Officer, New Braunfels Utilities · Richard A Ramirez Head of US Critical National Infrastructure & Network, National Grid · Erin Autin Principal, EA Collective · Sam Chang Director and Associate General Counsel, CenterPoint Energy · Bashir Bseirani CEO, Avertra · Damali Harding Managing Director, Amendment Nine Strategic Consulting · Joyce Deuley Strategic Operations & Development Manager, Team b. Strategy · Amy Atchley EV Equity Development Manager, Austin Energy · Angie Ostaszewski Director, Strategy & Innovation, SEEL, LLC · Ricky Murray Senior Director of Social Strategy, Doer/Maker · Tolu Omotoso VP, Corporate Strategy, Innovation & Technology, SECO Energy · Janet Rehberg President & CEO-elect, EPB · Julia Zhu EVP and Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, Alectra · Dan Schnitzer Sr. Director, Utility Software Business, Honeywell · Kevin Monagle Chief Enterprise Architect, Bridgewater Consulting Group · Evan O'Mahoney Chief Information Officer, CPS Energy · Raiford Smith Global Director, Power and Energy, Google · Chad Horton Vice President, Development, Central, AES Clean Energy
Wednesday · 22 people
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Jason Ryan Executive Vice President, Regulatory Services & Government Affairs, CenterPoint Energy · Zac Canders Co-Founder, DataCapable · Bill Potter CEO, DataCapable · Bob Flaherty COO, DataCapable · Abhishek Balakrishnan CTO, ANB Systems, DNV · Jeff Jerome Principal Business Program Manager, BGE/Exelon · Karthik Moorthy Chief Growth Officer, Bidgely · John Kupcinski Chief Information Security Officer, PSEG Long Island · John Padalino General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer, Bandera Electric Cooperative · Carlos Ayala Founder and Managing Partner, Mentora LLC · Teresa Ringenbach Co-Founder, Bloom Advisory Partners · Jeffrey Banks VP, Chief Data and AI Officer, CenterPoint Energy · Matt Rettagliata Head of Solutions for Power and Energy, Google Cloud · Vanessa Edmonds Executive Director, Utility 2030 · Quinn Parker Founder and CEO, Encolor · Lora Anguay Chief Energy Resources Officer, SMUD · Mandip Samra CEO/General Manager, Burbank Water & Power · Navin Kumar Prasannam Global Industry Business Unit - Utilities, SAP · Erin Autin Principal, EA Collective · Josh Keeling Chief Commercial Officer, UtilityAPI · John Miri Bedrock Strategy Group · Joyce Deuley Strategic Operations & Development Manager, Team b. Strategy
Thursday · 16 people
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Joon Lee CEO, Navion Energy · Evan O'Mahoney Chief Information Officer, CPS Energy · Janie Gonzalez CEO, Board Director, Webhead, CPS Energy · Andres Carvallo Founder and CEO, CMG Consulting · Elaina Ball Chief Strategy Officer, CPS Energy · Christina Oliver SVP of Project Management, LCRA · Venkat Tirupati Vice President, Dev Ops and Grid Transformation, ERCOT · Sabah Bayatli President, OCI Energy · Seyi Fabode Strategy and Technology Consultant, Asha Labs · Danny Petrecca VP of Business Development, Itron · Tasha McCarter Vice President of Technology & Innovation, RWE · Jeremy Adelman Emerging Technology & Innovation Manager, Tucson Electric Power · Jason Rodriguez CEO and Co-Founder, Zpryme and Froliq · Carlos Ayala Founder and Managing Partner, Mentora LLC · KJ Feder VP of Community Engagement, CPS Energy · Christine Miles Senior Director of National Sales, Paymentus
tickets · on sale · Eventbrite
two tiers, two phases · prices include fees
2027
One pass covers all four days, May 3 to 6, 2027. What a pass includes beyond the program (meals, receptions, workshops) has not been published; group, student, speaker and press rates are not published either. Ask the mind when they are.
$907.78 then $1,227.91 from Nov 20
Eventbrite fees included · no refunds · sales end May 7, 2027
$320.89 then $374.25 from Nov 20
Eventbrite fees included · no refunds · sales end May 7, 2027
place
Austin, Texas. Venue announced soon.
ETS returns to its home city for the fourteenth edition. The hall, the hotel block and the shuttle will be announced together; until then the city is the venue.