​Energy & AI Talkoot Breakfast

​Power for Growth: Expanding the Grid and Securing Critical Industry

​How to connect new industry and data centers faster while keeping power reliable and affordable?

​Grid capacity and connection timelines are becoming critical to investment decisions. This working roundtable brings utility leaders, industrial and data center operators, energy innovators, investors and project partners together to examine what it takes to get projects powered.

​We’ll compare practical approaches - from grid expansion and flexible connections to on-site generation, storage and demand flexibility - and discuss how these resources can support both critical operations and the wider grid.

​Questions for discussion

• ​What power capacity, connection timing and reliability do major new facilities need?

• ​Where can on-site power, storage or flexible demand bridge grid constraints?

• ​How should utilities, operators and developers share the cost and risk of new infrastructure

• ​Which projects and partnerships are ready to move from plans to deployment?

​Who should attend

​CEOs of energy systems, infrastructure and cyber tech; Utility and grid executives; industrial and data center leaders; project developers; investors and financiers; and economic development partners working on major energy projects.

Who's being invited

• ​Industrial Operators

• ​Hyperscalers & Data Center Operators

• ​Energy Technology & AI Innovators

• ​Utilities, Developers & Research

• ​Vendors

• ​Local and Regional Public Sector