austin, texas · may 3–6, 2027free
ets 27
free
your
mind.
ets 27leave a little room
for something unexpected.
01 / agenda
Make room for a thought.
A sample programme from ETS26. The ETS27 agenda is still taking shape. Times shown in Austin time.
feel free to circle what you’re interested in ↴
monday · may 3
ETS Opening & Special Video Remarks w/ Rudy Garza
Rudy Garza
How to Hack Your Experience at ETS27
Hugh Forrest
Premier: MLK Community Center Microgrid Story
The Policy Singularity: When Innovation Outpaces Regulation
Jason Ryan · Rebecca Klein · Chris Guttman-McCabe · Jason Rodriguez
Megawatt Reckoning: Hacking the Data Center Load Curve
Jonathan Tijerina · Tim Pianta · Gerardo Delgado
Networking Lunch
The Engagement Hack: Making Grid Optimization a Customer Game
Chimaobi Chijioke
The CXth Sense: JodyBot, the Digital Twin for Customer Operations
Bashir Bseirani · Jody Allison · Vanessa Edmonds
Beyond the Firewall: Securing a Million New Grid Edge Entry Points
Todd Wiedman · Mitch Rappard · John Miri · Janie Gonzalez · Greg Brown
Networking Break
The New Energy Trilemma: Customer Affordability, Wildfires, and the AI Power Surge
Gerardo Delgado · Zach Pollock · Cody ONeil · Brad Smith
ETS27 Opening Networking Reception
tuesday · may 4
Networking Breakfast
Leadership Perspective: Service, Innovation, and Customer Affordability in the New Energy Era
Nancy Bui-Thompson
The Efficient Frontier: Where AI Meets Customer-Centric Affordability
Talvis Love
The Edge is the New Core: Why the Grid's Future is Distributed
DeeAnne Norris · Jen Szaro · Deepak Garg · Paul Lau · Marc Spieler
AI Won’t Fix Your Data Problem — But Your Data Problem Will Kill Your AI Strategy
Carlos Thomas · Anand Vedapuri
Networking Lunch
Breakout A: From Firewalls to Frequency: Operationalizing Security at the Grid Edge
Greg Brown · Richard A Ramirez
Breakout B: Rate Design Reimagined: Hacking Economics for Grid Investment
Sam Chang · Bashir Bseirani · Damali Harding
Breakout F: Emotion Meets Electron: Designing Energy Experiences That Stick
Amy Atchley · Angie Ostaszewski
Networking Break
How AI is Rewiring the Utility Mindset
Tolu Omotoso
Innovation, Workforce, and Quantum Grid Applications
Janet Rehberg
AI, Meet AMI: The Real-Time Brain for the Modern Grid
Julia Zhu · Dan Schnitzer · Kevin Monagle · Evan O'Mahoney · Joyce Deuley
Power Play: How Google and AES are Disrupting the Energy and Intelligence Status Quo
Raiford Smith
Day 2 Networking Reception
wednesday · may 5
Networking Breakfast
Hack the Outage: Grid Down. Customer First. How the Energy Industry is Rewriting the Rules of Outage Intelligence
Jason Ryan · Zac Canders · Bill Potter · Bob Flaherty
Hacking the Bottleneck: How AI Returns Attention to the Experts Who Matter
Abhishek Balakrishnan
Power Hungry: A Day in the AI Powered world of 2040
Jeff Jerome
Trusted AI for Your Reality
Karthik Moorthy · John Kupcinski
Hacking the Distribution Utility
John Padalino · Carlos Ayala · Teresa Ringenbach
Who Wins the Race: AI Speed or Grid Stability?
Jeffrey Banks · Matt Rettagliata · Vanessa Edmonds
Networking Lunch
Breakout G: The Next Era of DSM: From Short-Term Savings to Long-Term Change
Quinn Parker
Networking Break
Conducting the Grand Symphony: Sustainability, Reliability, and Affordability
Lora Anguay · Mandip Samra · Navin Kumar Prasannam
Grid Games: How AI is Both the Defender and the Invader
John Kupcinski · Jeffrey Banks · Josh Keeling · John Miri
Closing Day 3 Networking Reception
thursday · may 6
Breakfast & Networking
Supergrid Rising: Can Energy Storage Save the Planet?
Joon Lee
The Trust Hack: You Can Pilot Without It, But You Can’t Scale Without It
Evan O'Mahoney · Janie Gonzalez
The Software-Defined Power Grid
Andres Carvallo
Unlocking Capacity in an Age of Extremes
Elaina Ball · Christina Oliver · Venkat Tirupati · Sabah Bayatli
Future Forward: Re-Examining Sustainable Resilience in the Era of AI
Danny Petrecca · Tasha McCarter · Jeremy Adelman
Hack the Customer: Real Stories and Real Impact from Utilities at the Forefront of Addressing the Affordability Challenge
Carlos Ayala · KJ Feder
Closing Session: ETS27 Ultimate Hacks
Event Close
02 / speakers
Meet a different mind.
03 / through the years
A few years.
A lot of thoughts.
The conversations change. The curiosity stays.
04 / venue
See you in Austin.
Four days in a city that makes space for a different point of view. Join us in Austin, Texas, May 3 to 6, 2027.
The ETS27 venue and hotel details have not been announced. We’ll put the address here when it’s ready. For now, keep Austin in mind.
05 / tickets
Leave
some room.
may 3–6
austin, texas
For a new perspective. A useful disagreement. A conversation that follows you home.
find your ticket ↗Registration, current prices and availability are on Eventbrite.
bring your team? let’s talk.
06 / about ETS
Four days.
No small thinking.
The Energy Thought Summit brings people together around the future of energy. The people who make it. The people who use it. And the ideas that might change it.
ETS27 is the fourteenth edition. May 3 to 6, 2027, in Austin, Texas. This year’s invitation is simple: free your mind.
A gathering by Zpryme · ets@zpryme.com
keep me in the loop ↗07 / the mind
What are you
looking for?
A person? An idea? A place to begin?