InnovateEnergy Week 2026
InnovateEnergy Week 2026
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EXPO HOURS:

Monday, June 22 - 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Tuesday, June 23 - 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

Wednesday, June 24 - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

CONFERENCE HOURS:

Monday, June 22

* Drone & Robotics Operators Forum: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

*Building Your Industrial Intelligence/Data Roadmap Workshop:  9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Keynotes/Sessions: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, June 23

Keynotes/Sessions: 8:25 am - 5:30 pm

Wednesday, June 24

Keynotes/Sessions: 8:30 am - 1:30 pm

 

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Sunday June 21, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | VIP - Welcome Reception

  • Monday, June 22, 2026
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2026
  • Wednesday, June 24, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast, Check in & Welcome
 
Waterway 1&2
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Operators Panel: Projects & Programs
Mike Kelly, Evergy
Waterway 1&2
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Operators Forum
 
Waterway 1&2
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Building Your Industrial Intelligence/Data Roadmap Workshop
Dr. Matthew Alberts, Southern Company
Waterway 3
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Tech Talks
 
Waterway 1&2
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Recent Industry Case Studies
 
Waterway 1&2
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Refreshment Break
 
Waterway 1&2
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Peer Topic Roundtables
 
Waterway 1&2
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Lunch & Learn with Peers
 
Waterway 1&2
1:00 PM - 1:05 PM
Welcome - Energy Drone & Robotics Summit
Sean Guerre, Innovate Energy Network
Waterway 4
1:05 PM - 1:30 PM
Industrial AI Deep Dive: Energy Company Journey with AI Projects
 
Waterway 4
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Oil & Gas Asset Owner/Operator Panel
Suzanne Lemieux, API
Jared Markes, Devon Energy
Waterway 4
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM
Transforming Transmission Inspections: Using AI to Improve Reliability and Asset Management
 
Waterway 4
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Refreshment Break
 
Expo Hall
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Deep Dive Part 1: Energy Drone/Robotics Program Updates
 
Waterway 6&7
One Operator, Next-Level Scale: Inside the Path to Multi-Aircraft Operations
 
Waterway 4
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
AI / Industrial Intelligence: Strategy, Leadership & Cross‑Industry Perspectives
Brent Railey, Chevron Phillips
Waterway 1&2
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Deep Dive Part 2: Energy Drone/Robotics Program Updates
Mike Kelly, Evergy
Waterway 6&7
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Robotics/Drone Ecosystems That Scale: OEMs, Service Providers & Asset Owners
Marty Robinson, MARS Applied Technologies
Raj Bose, BP
Waterway 4
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM
How to Make Your Energy Enterprise Data AI Agent-Ready
 
Waterway 1&2
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Expo Open: Demo Zone | Innovation Zone- Use Cases & Tech Updates
 
Expo Hall
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Deep Dive Part 3: Energy Drone/Robotics Program Updates
Jared Markes, Devon Energy
Waterway 6&7
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Howdy Reception in Expo Hall
 
Expo Hall
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
From Pilot Purgatory to the AI Highway: Why the Roman Roads & Google Maps Foreshadow the Future of Industrial Intelligence
Jonathan Alexander, Albemarle
Waterway 4
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Remote Operations: Refinery of the Future- Automating Inspections & Monitoring
Dor Abuhasira, Percepto
Iddo Salton, Delek US
Waterway 4
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Utility Asset Owner/Operator Roundtable
 
Waterway 4
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Expo Open: Demo Zone | Innovation Zone- Use Cases & Tech Updates
 
Expo Hall
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Networking Refreshment Break in Expo Hall
 
Expo Hall
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
DRE: Digital Reality Ecosystems for Energy Assets & Data: Now and Next
 
Waterway 1&2
Scaling Drone & Robotics Inspections for Tanks/Terminals
 
Waterway 4
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM
From Digital Twins to Industrial Intelligence: Convergence is Here
Dan Isaacs, DTC- Digital Twin Consortium
Waterway 1&2
11:25 AM - 12:30 PM
BVLOS in Energy Roundtable: What’s Now & Next
Thomas Jimenez, uAvionix
Dawn Zoldi, P3 Tech Consulting
Jared Markes, Devon Energy
Waterway 4
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
AI Guardrails: Data, Architecture & Digital Trust as the Foundation
 
Waterway 1&2
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Conference Delegate Lunch in Expo Hall
 
Expo Hall
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Managing Complex Operations at Scale and Across Multiple Jurisdictions
 
Waterway 4
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
From Flight to Insight: Building Scalable Drone DataOps & MLOps Pipelines for Energy Asset Intelligence
 
Waterway 6&7
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Agentic AI/Immersive & Frontline Enablement & Change at Scale
Dr. Matthew Alberts, Southern Company
Christopher Donaleski, AI Advisory Group
Adam Berg, TechnipFMC
Waterway 1&2
2:25 PM - 2:50 PM
Robotics Tech: Vetting, Adopting, Deploying & Scaling in the Gulf
 
Waterway 4
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Convergence: End to End Asset Digitalization
 
Waterway 6&7
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Industrial Digital Twin & Reality Capture Workflows: Building From Data Capture to Model at Scale
 
Waterway 1&2
2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
From Surface to Seabed: Remote Inspection Across the Full Offshore Asset
 
Waterway 4
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
STOs with Digital Twins: Enhancing Plant Operations - Real-World Case Study
Richard E. Jackson, Kuraray America Inc.
Waterway 6&7
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Refreshment Break
 
Expo Hall
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Case Study: Challenges of Offshore Robotics & How to Solve Them
 
Waterway 4
Case Study: Hardhats and Headsets: Bringing the Field to the Office
 
Waterway 1&2
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Digital Twins, Drone Docks, Bots and AI for Major Facilities- Bringing it All Together
 
Waterway 6&7
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Case Study: How to Actually Leverage AI tools to Help with Plant Operations
Scott Duncan, Solstice Advanced Materials
Waterway 1&2
Case Study: Robotics That Pay Off: Fabric Maintenance & Industrial Applications Delivering ROI
 
Waterway 4
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Case Study: Remote Operations: How to Successfully Scale Your Program
 
Waterway 4
Case Study: How AI-Enabled Visual Intelligence Drives Asset Resilience
 
Waterway 1&2
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Bots & Brews Reception in Expo Hall
 
Expo Hall
8:25 AM - 8:30 AM
Welcome
Sean Guerre, Innovate Energy Network
Waterway 6&7
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
The Sky Is the New Front Line: Airspace Threat Intelligence & Energy Security in 2026
Linda Ziemba, AeroDefense
Waterway 6&7
What AI Agents Can (and Can’t) Do in Energy.. Yet
 
Waterway 4
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Navigating the C-UAS Technology Spectrum: From RF Cyber Takeover to Precision Mitigation
 
Waterway 6&7
Automation & AI: Reality Capture, Data Workflows for Energy & Construction
 
Waterway 4
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
The AI & Industrial Intelligence Execution Gap: A Practical Roadmap for Energy and Industrial Leaders
Jonathan Alexander, Albemarle
Waterway 1&2
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Expo Open: Demo Zone | Innovation Zone- Use Cases & Tech Updates
 
Expo Hall
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Energy Security/C-UAS Tech Talks
 
Waterway 6&7
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
From Data to Decisions: Turning Drone Data into Actionable Inspection Insights
 
Waterway 4
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Failure to Launch: Where Industrial AI Breaks Down (and What Teams Would Do Differently)
 
Waterway 1&2
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
From Fence Line to Skyline: What Utilities and Energy Operators Are Actually Doing Right Now
 
Waterway 6&7
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Industry of the Future—Built to Run: Connecting AI, Digital Twins, XR & Remote Collaboration
 
Waterway 1&2
Automation That Pays: AI in Real‑World Inspection Programs
 
Waterway 4
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Networking Refreshment Break in Expo Hall
 
Expo Hall
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Robots on the Ground: How Autonomous Security Platforms Are Patrolling the Perimeter & Physical Security Integration
 
Waterway 6&7
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Refreshment Break & Technology Exhibition Access- Tech Tour
 
Expo Hall
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Reality Capture to Operations: Digital Redlines, GIS Integration & Field-to-Office Workflows
Mike Kelly, Evergy
Waterway 4
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
NERC CIP-014, SAFERSKIES, FY 2026 NDAA Framework and Public-Private Partnerships: The Regulatory Compliance Landscape for Airspace Security
 
Waterway 6&7
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Building Layered Airspace Defense: Detection, Identification, and Mitigation in Practice
 
Waterway 6&7

The Energy Drone & Robotics Summit | Industrial Digital Reality Summit | Industrial AI Nexus Summit are brought to you by InnovateEnergy Week.  

June 22-24, 2026 | Woodlands Waterway Marriott, Houston, Texas