2025 Conference Program

Get an early look at the preliminary conference agenda to start planning your experience. This year’s program features a new modular format, with 30-minute sessions designed to give you more flexibility and control over your schedule. Full session details and speakers will be announced soon—check back soon for updates!

Tuesday, October 28

8:00 am – 6:00 pm | Data Center POWER eXchange (separate regi stration required)

8:00 am – 6:00 pm | Plant Management Institute (PMI) Meeting (limited to electricity-generating companies/utilities)

Wednesday, October 29

8:00 am – 11:30 am | Mountain Peak Power Plant Tour, Sponsored by GE Vernova

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Opening Keynote

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Panel Sessions

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking Break

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Fireside Chat

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Panel Session: Supply Chain Issues in New Generation

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm | POWER Awards Ceremony

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | POWER Awards Reception & After Party

Thursday, October 30

8:00 am – 8:30 am | Opening Keynote

8:30 am – 9:00 am | Panel Session: Implications of Planned EPA Regulatory Changes

9:15 am – 10:00 am | Networking Break

10:00 am – 10:30 am | Breakout Sessions

Achieving 100% Success in Digital Twin Deployment – Lessons from the Field
Fail-Safe Batteries: Enabling Safe, Resilient Energy for Critical Infrastructure
Maximizing Project Value through Wind and Solar Repowering

10:30 am – 11:00 am | Breakout Sessions

Enhancing Energy Systems: Using AI for Power Plant Energy Management
No Metals: How Emerging Battery Technologies Will Make Energy Projects Safer
Future-Proofing Solar: Smarter System Design for Long-Term Performance

11:00 am – 11:30 am | Breakout Sessions

Optimizing Power Plant Cooling Tower Performance with Analytics: A Case Study
Diversifying Energy Storage Technology for the Energy Transition
End of Life Management of Solar PV Panels

11:30 am – 12:00 pm | Breakout Sessions

Bridging the Gaps: Co-Optimizing Energy Systems for a Resilient Future
Identifying Future Leaders in Energy

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Breakout Sessions

Harnessing AI for Wind Energy: Enhancing Efficiency, Predictability, and Profit
Non-lithium LDES is ready for a future of unstable grids and extreme weather
Panel Discussion: Strategies to (re)Build the Talent Pipeline

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Panel Discussions

The Growth of Data Centers
Hydrogen Behind the Hype: Real World Applications
Women in Power: Leading Change from the Inside

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Networking Break

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Breakout Sessions

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Panel Discussions

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Fleet Modernization, Advanced Reactors, and Fusion
AI Enabled Plant Performance
Goldilocks and the Three DERS

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm | Networking Reception

Friday, October 31

8:00 am – 8:30 am | Fireside Chat: Project Finance Best Practices

8:30 am – 9:00 am | Breakout Sessions

Flexing for the Future: Enhancing Combined Cycle Plant Flexibility
OT Cyber – Protection vs Compliance, EPC/OEM cyber perspectives

9:00 am – 9:30 am | Breakout Sessions

O&M Best Practices for Thriving in the Thermal Power Generation
Space-Based Solar Power

9:30 am – 10:00 am | Breakout Sessions

Geo Solar Engineering
Powering Tomorrow: Exploring New Generation Construction & Technologies

10:00 am – 11:00 am | Networking Break

11:00 am – 11:30 am | Breakout Sessions

Agrivoltaics—Enhancing Grid Resilience Through Dual-Use Energy and Agriculture

11:30 am – 12:00 pm | Breakout Sessions

Land in the American West (Best Practices & Lessons Learned)

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm | Breakout Sessions

Community Solar as a Strategic Form of Distributed Power Generation

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Closing Keynote

Schedule subject to change.