Experience POWER & Data Center POWER eXchange 2026

Experience POWER and the Data Center POWER eXchange (DPX) run back-to-back at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C., September 28 through October 1, 2026. POWER magazine organizes both and sells a combined POWER Pass+ covering all four days. Experience POWER runs September 28-30 for power generation professionals. DPX runs September 30 to October 1 and is the data center half, built around one question: where does the power come from? POWER's editorial staff, not its sales team, curates the agenda. A half-day Space Solar Power Symposium runs concurrently with the Experience POWER morning sessions.

DPX organizes its program around three pillars. Grid covers interconnection reform, transmission capacity, and queue management. Generation covers on-site and behind-the-meter power, energy mix, and reliability planning. Growth covers hyperscale campus development, colocation strategy, and capital deployment at speed. The venue sits a short distance from FERC and DOE, and the program leans on that with policy roundtables featuring regulators, RTOs, and federal energy officials.

Programming Focus

• Interconnection reform, transmission capacity, and queue management
• Behind-the-meter and on-site generation for facilities that cannot tolerate downtime
• Energy mix strategy and large-load reliability planning
• Hyperscale campus development, colocation strategy, and capital deployment
• Policy roundtables with state regulators, RTOs, and federal energy officials
• Nuclear: SMRs, plant life extension, and the "Straight Talk on Nuclear" session
• Natural gas-fired generation, renewables, storage, and hydrogen
• AI and digital technology applied to utility operations
• Workforce development and the generation labor shortage
• Optional off-site data center facility tour

Featured Speakers

Federal and regulators:

• Dario Gil, Ph.D., Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
• David A. Wright, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Judge Jehmal T. Hudson, incoming NARUC President, Virginia State Corporation Commission
• Peter Lake, CEO, Cardinal Rose LLC, and former Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
• Mark W. Menezes, President and CEO, United States Energy Association

Utilities:

• R. Matthew Gardner, Ph.D., VP Power Generation System Operations, Dominion Energy
• Cedric Green, Ph.D., SVP Power Generation, Dominion Energy
• Phillip May, President and CEO, Entergy Louisiana

Data center and technology:

• Heather McGeory, VP Energy and Sustainability, CoreWeave
• Nelli Babayan, Ph.D., Sr. Director, AI for US Federal, Microsoft

Generation and nuclear technology:

• Ashley Dozier, VP Strategy - Power, GE Vernova
• Lou Martinez Sancho, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company
• Jess Gehin, Ph.D., Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear Science and Technology, Idaho National Laboratory
• Grace Vanderhei, Nuclear Engineer, Constellation

Advisors:

• Erin Ragsdale, EVP and Partner, Allyn

Sponsors

Dominion Energy is the host utility sponsor. The organizer publishes no formal tiers. Sponsors and exhibitors include GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, Mitsubishi Power Americas, Honeywell, Emerson, Fluor Corporation, BWX Technologies, TerraPower, Ormat, INNIO Jenbacher, Wartsila North America, Solar Turbines, Halliburton, Yokogawa Corporation of America, Accelleron, Fagen, Atwell, Middough, Durr Universal, OmegaFlex, AFL Industries, Industrial Info Resources, Orion Strategies, PDM-Power and Data Management, Pelican Energy Consultants, Phoenix Grid Enterprise, Pike Enterprises, SimGenics Simulation Systems, ST Power Services Consultants, SYMX Energy, TEES Turbomachinery Laboratory, and Umicore Catalyst USA.

Who Should Attend

• Data center operators and developers sourcing power for new capacity
• Utility and IPP executives planning for large-load interconnection
• Transmission planners and interconnection engineers
• State utility regulators and energy policymakers
• Investors and lenders underwriting digital infrastructure
• Power generation engineers and plant managers

Logistics

• Venue: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, D.C.
• Group room rate: $299/night, booking cutoff September 4, 2026
• DPX Pass, September 30 to October 1: $1,395
• Experience POWER Pass, September 28-30: $1,395
• POWER Pass+, both events, September 28 to October 1: $2,275
• Group discount of 20% or more for three or more attendees
• Co-located: Space Solar Power Symposium and the Plant Management Institute