The Utility Industry's most Consequential AI Forum
by Invitation Only.
Affordability pressure. Accelerating electrification. Rising regulatory expectations. And AI moving from experimentation to operational expectation fast. The question is no longer whether to adopt AI. It's whether your strategy is built on something real.
EmPOWER AI brings together invited utility and industry leaders to answer that question together through real deployments, candid peer conversation, and direct access to the teams building the next generation of utility intelligence.
An elite forum for the leaders shaping the future of UtilityAI.
A working forum featuring real results, practical insights, and what’s ahead.
Venue
The Program
Program Costs
Companion Program
Arrive
Arrive & Connect
Travel Day & Welcome
Plan your travel to arrive in New York on Tuesday. Hotel check-in at the Martinique begins this afternoon.
At 6:00 PM, join us for a Welcome Reception at the Bronze Owl, located on the lobby level of the Martinique Hotel. Enjoy an evening designed to spark the conversations that carry through the program.
Evening: Welcome Reception at the Bronze Owl (Martinique Hotel)
Sessions
Strategy & Insight
The Main Stage
No hypotheticals. Every session built around what a utility actually deployed what worked, what tradeoffs were made, and what it genuinely takes to scale AI inside a regulated utility.
Roadmap and Reveal: The Case for Vertical AI
Why purpose-built AI platforms are becoming essential for utilities navigating affordability, electrification, and grid modernization.
Protecting Affordability at the System Level
This executive panel explore utilities are addressing affordability through operational efficiency, smarter capital investment, and targeted programs.
Every Customer, Known. Every Interaction, Smarter.
How AI-driven insights are transforming customer engagement and demand-side management programs.
Turning High-Bill Calls Into Trust-Building Moments
How AI-equipped CSRs are resolving high-bill calls faster, cutting cost-to-serve, and reinforcing customer trust.
Under the Hood: The Science of Knowing Every Home
A technical deep dive into appliance intelligence, electrification detection, and machine learning models.
From Rate Design to Load Shape: Analytics, AI, and Coaching as the Missing Middle
How AI targeting improves demand response programs and peak load management outcomes.
Smarter Electrification Planning: Reduce Costs, Defer Capital
Using AI-driven insights to detect grid stress, identify DER adoption, and plan infrastructure investments.
Intelligence as a Core Competency: Scaling UtilityAI Pro for the Enterprise
Transforming existing investments into enterprise-scale value by deploying secure, vertical AI that transforms meter data into trusted, actionable intelligence.
Distributed Intelligence on AMI 2.0
Exploring the future of edge intelligence and real-time grid insights.
Evening: Offsite Dinner at Monarch Rooftop - Concrete Jungle theme, overlooking the Manhattan skyline at dusk.
Sessions
Go Deep.
Breakfast on Broadway. Then Go Deeper.
The day opens with a hosted breakfast offsite at the iconic Broadway Lounge, overlooking Times Square. Then return to the Martinique, where the group breaks into focused tracks smaller rooms, more candid conversations.
Morning: Breakfast (offsite) at the Broadway Lounge - a panoramic view of Times Square to open the final day
Track A
Customer Experience & Program Operations
Engagement strategy, program performance, and reducing high-bill calls at scale
Track B
Electrification, heat pumps, DER load management and distribution grid-level visibility and AI decisions
Track C
Roadmap alignment, organizational strategy, and scaling AI across the enterprise
Open Time with Bidgely Experts - bring your roadmap, your stalled programs, your toughest questions. Direct access to the product and data science teams that build this.
Depart
Leave EmPOWERed.
Depart at Your Leisure
Leave New York with confidence and a clear path forward.
01
No more black boxes.
AI often feels like a tool you can't fully explain to your board or your regulators. This forum goes under the hood so you leave with the clarity to act on it confidently.
02
Learn from utilities doing it.
Every session anchored in real deployments outcomes, tradeoffs, and what leaders would do differently. No sanitized success stories only honest outcomes, tradeoffs included.
03
Get unblocked.
Whether building an AI roadmap or moving a stalled program, three days alongside the right practitioners moves the needle faster than months of internal research.
04
A deliberately curated room of utility and industry leaders. Relationships built here outlast the event because everyone present has earned their seat.
05
Preview what's coming. Shape what gets built.
Get early access to Bidgely's latest AI capabilities before they go to market and put them to the test. Your direct feedback shapes the future of Utility AI. This is a working conversation with the people building it.
One forum.
One clear path forward.
May 12–14, 2026 · New York City
Host Utility
And more..
EmPOWER AI is built for leaders across the utility enterprise. Many utilities attend with cross-functional teams because the challenges of AI don't respect org charts.
Improving satisfaction, digital engagement, and program participation
Reducing high-bill calls, improving service efficiency, supporting care teams
Managing EV adoption, electrification programs, and emerging grid technologies
Planning infrastructure investments and managing distribution performance
Demand-Side Management & Load Flexibility
Delivering energy efficiency, demand response, and behavioral programs
Deploying AI platforms, advanced analytics, and enterprise technology
Tuesday Evening · Welcome Reception
49 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001
Bronze Owl
Inside the Martinique Hotel. The welcome reception that sets the tone for everything that follows. Intimate, warm, and just steps from your room the best forums start with the right people finding each other.
Wednesday Evening · Dinner on the Town
71 W 35th St, New York, NY 10001
Monarch Rooftop
Sweeping views of Midtown. Executive dinner against the Manhattan skyline at dusk. The event's most memorable evening and often its most meaningful conversations.
Thursday Morning · Breakfast on Broadway
1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Broadway Lounge
Floor-to-ceiling windows frame an expansive view of Times Square as the final day begins. A hosted breakfast before the group breaks into focused tracks and a reminder of exactly why this forum is worth the trip.
Companion Experience · Wednesday, May 13 - while you're in sessions, your companion enjoys a hosted experience in New York City. Two curated options to choose from, each thoughtfully planned and entirely taken care of.
Limited availability · First-come, first-served · Add upon completing your logistics form
Option One
Première
Broadway Matinee
Wicked tickets have been purchased. Lunch and roundtrip transportation from the Martinique to the Theater District entirely taken care of. An unhurried afternoon on Broadway.
Option Two
Skyline
Classic Harbor Cruise
Cruise aboard a 1920s-inspired vessel past iconic NYC landmarks. Includes a private indoor table, complimentary beverage, lunch at Chelsea Piers’ Market 57, and roundtrip transportation from the Martinique.
For Utility Attendees
Full program access all sessions, breakouts, and expert workshops
Three nights at the Martinique New York (May 12–14)
Hosted meals during program
Welcome reception at Bronze Owl inside the Martinique
(Tuesday evening)
Executive dinner at Monarch Rooftop
(Wednesday evening)
Breakfast on Broadway at the Broadway Lounge
(Thursday morning)
For Companions
Welcome to all social events: Bronze Owl, Monarch Rooftop & Broadway Lounge breakfast
Curated NYC day experience Wednesday, May 13
Companion shares accommodation with utility attendee
Companion passes are limited and first-come, first-served. Secure your companion's pass when completing your logistics form after your invitation is confirmed.
Bidgely builds Vertical AI for the energy sector purpose-built, not bolt on. Our platform transforms meter and operational data into intelligence that lives inside the workflows where utility decisions actually get made. EmPOWER AI is our annual gathering of utility and industry innovators. This year, it's in New York. We'll see you there.
Utilities Globally
Meters Analyzed
AMI Data Processed
Your Seat is Waiting.
This year's forum is tracking ahead of prior years seats fill quickly.
EmPOWER AI 2026 is limited. We intentionally keep this a highly curated and small event. Seats are confirmed by invitation only.
Complete a short interest form and the Bidgely team will be in touch within a few business days to confirm your invitation and arrange next steps.
Reserve your seat in 3 easy steps:
1
Submit Interest
Short form — 2 minutes
2
Confirmation
Bidgely team follows up within a few business days
3
Logistics Form
Hotel, travel preferences & companion pass secured here
We'll handle the details. Just say yes.