Re-Engineering America’s Energy & Mobility Future
Join the leaders connecting Energy, Mobility, AI, HVDC, and critical infrastructure to shape a
Resilient, Secure, Survivable, and Sustainable future.
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Energy & Mobility 2027 in collaboration with HVDC America bring together top experts from industry and the public sector to share ideas, align on solutions, and shape the technologies powering a secure, resilient, and electrified future.
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Three days with the people actually redesigning America’s energy and mobility future. Meet leaders from NASA, utilities, and government. Explore breakthrough technology before it reaches the market. Build partnerships that outlast the conference. Leave with insights you can put to work immediately. This is where the next era gets built.
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E&M Welcomes Honorary Chair, Roscoe Bartlett
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| Roscoe Bartlett Honorary Chair, Visionary Keynote Speaker, Distinguished Centenarian |
From a spark of independence, America set itself in motion.
Across prairies and mountains, on rivers, rails, roads, and runways, MOBILITY became the nation’s heartbeat—carrying dreamers westward, workers homeward, and generations forward.
And with every step, every mile, every leap, ENERGY fueled the journey: from the horse-drawn wagons of the early republic to the nuclear electric dawn of today – where that magnificent journey to the “Golden Age” is now AT RISK.
We have arrived at a pivotal moment in our history.
We are now confronted with a major challenge, a “strategic inflection point” to enable a secure future for generations to come. The insatiable demands for more power capacity and resilience to support mobility, industry, and vital infrastructure to sustain our modern civilized existence are formidable.
The time has come with urgency to reflect on our past, reassess new requirements, and re-think and re-architect systems to meet the modern needs of our society.
Energy & Mobility 2026 starts the movement for the FUTURE…
.. by presenting, discussing, and planning the concepts, technologies, and systems needed for a secure, robust, and resilient future. Drawing on advances from lunar and space programs, emerging quantum capabilities, and AI‑driven systems engineering, the conference focuses on accelerating the electrification, security and protection of transportation, industry, and critical infrastructure across four core themes.
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| Roscoe Bartlett Honorary Chair, Visionary Keynote Speaker, Distinguished Centenarian |
We invite leading thinkers—engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers—
to shape the path along the four themes toward a “golden”
RESILIENT, SUSTAINABLE, AND SURVIVABLE CIVILIZATION.
Theme One:
Transforming the Energy System: Essential Capacity, Security and Leadership with HVDC & GRID 2.0
Theme Two:
Powering Mobility and Mobile Power: Achieving New Frontiers with Technology advancements
Theme Three:
Microgrids: Decentralization, Island Mode, and Energy Democracy for Security and Resilience
Theme Four:
Policy, Regulation, and AI Optimized Market Transformation for Economic Advantage
Featured Speakers – Confirmed (and Invited)
Terry Boston
former CEO - PJM
Vivek Ramaswamy
Candidate - Ohio Governor
Dr. Jud Virden
Director - NLR Labs
Dr. William Joyce
CEO - Advanced Fusion
Major Gen (ret). Luke Reiner
Adjutant General - WY
Dr. Mike Watson
President - INCOSE
Chris Ciuca
Sr. VP SAE International
Tim Gallagher
CEO - ReliabilityFirst
Dr. Jimmy Kenyon
Director - NASA GRC
(Dr. Amy Acton)
Candidate - Ohio Governor
(Hon. Josh Shapiro)
Governor- Pennsylvania
(Hon. Gretchen Whitmer)
Governor - Michigan
(Hon. Mike Braun)
Governor - Indiana
(Hon. Andy Beshear)
Governor - Kentucky
(Robert Pearce)
NASA Assoc. Admin ARMD
Meet Our Speakers – Confirmed (and Invited)
Defining Tomorrow Through Four Themes of Innovation
THEME ONE
Transforming the Energy System: Essential Capacity and Leadership with GRID 2.0
This theme opens the conversation on grid modernization by underscoring the importance of energy independence, resilience, and a renewed examination of the DC value proposition. It highlights how the nation can reclaim leadership by advancing high-capacity transmission, next-generation infrastructure, and a unified strategy for meeting unprecedented electrification and AI-driven demand.
THEME TWO
Powering Mobility and Mobile Power: Achieving New Frontiers with Technology Advancements
Powering Mobility spotlights the rise of next-generation propulsion; electric, hydrogen, hybrid, and biofuel systems; transforming how we move across land, sea, air, and space. These technologies reduce emissions, increase efficiency, and enable smarter, lighter, and more autonomous platforms. But propulsion alone isn’t enough. Scalable energy systems; from battery storage and charging networks to microgrids; are critical to support this shift. From urban fleets to lunar rovers, the future of mobility depends on reliable power generation, storage, and delivery.
THEME THREE
Microgrids: Powering Energy Independence, Security, and Resilience
This theme explores the advantage of Microgrids for transforming the grid into a decentralized, dynamic, adaptive system that powers progress while countering threat scenarios and vulnerabilities. It highlights innovative strategies that combine capacity growth, adaptive resilience, and decentralized empowerment to ensure a secure and luminous energy future.
THEME FOUR
Policy, Regulation, and AI-Optimized Market Transformation for Economic Advantage
This theme brings together lawmakers, regulators, and industry leaders to define the frameworks needed to accelerate grid modernization. It explores incentives, interconnection standards, and market reforms that enable innovation, investment, and the widespread deployment of advanced technologies like HVDC corridors, microgrids, and distributed energy resources.
What People Are Saying
The heart of the conference is a bold narrative which signals the beginning of a movement: the United States is entering the initial phase of nationally coordinated redesign of the electric grid, shifting from legacy AC corridors to a high‑capacity HVDC backbone, based on a substantially de-centralized architecture
The U.S. transmission grid was not built for the level of demand it is now being asked to serve to ensure we win the AI race. Loads are arriving in gigawatt sizes, not megawatts like in the past. The industry has spent 140 years building the grid we have today, but all signs and DOE studies argue we need to double it in the next 10 years.
Energy abundance is the bedrock of economic growth and affordability for Ohio and the nation.
We know that some of the biggest challenges to our industry are on the horizon as the grid rapidly transforms through decarbonization, decentralization and digitization.
It’s all of our collective responsibility to push boundaries, ask questions, and challenge the status quo. Technology will always be central to these efforts, and effective collaboration is crucial to students’ success.
The promise of fusion is not simply clean energy; it is energy independence. When we master controlled fusion, we unlock a future where global development is no longer constrained by fuel scarcity.
Powering Mobility and Mobile Power: Achieving new frontiers with Technology Advancements
But propulsion alone isn’t enough. Scalable energy systems—battery storage, charging networks, microgrids—are essential to fuel this shift. Whether it’s urban fleets or lunar rovers, mobility depends on reliable power generation, storage, and delivery. The future moves on energy.
Key Pillars
- Showcase the rise of advanced propulsion technologies and capabilities
- Highlight strategies for developing advances in transportation systems and methods
- Examine how new ideas in energy may impact mobility
Special Activities
- Keynote sessions on the intersection and interdependence on energy for mobility
- Workshops on autonomous operations with AI
- Looking to Air Mobility for Urban transport evolution
Microgrids: Decentralization, Island mode, and Energy Democracy for Security and Resilience
Key Pillars
- BYOP (Bring Your Own Power) – the new imperative for Data Centers and Critical Infrastructure
- Capacity Expansion: Scaling infrastructure for electrification, AI-driven industries, and clean energy transitions
- Resilience Fortification: Protecting against climate, cyber, and EMP threats with hardened systems and microgrid backups for secure island mode operation
- Decentralization Empowerment: Enabling communities to use local resources, reducing central dependence, and promoting equity
Special Activities
- Keynotes and panel discussion on geopolitical energy risks
- Workshops on integrating prosumers into the grid
- Networking events for public-private partnerships and regulatory reform
Policy, Regulation, and AI optimized Market Transformation
Key Pillars
- Regulatory Alignment: Streamlining policies to support modernization and innovation
- Market Reform: Designing incentives and structures to unlock investment and scale technologies
- Infrastructure Enablement: Supporting HVDC corridors, microgrids, and DER integration
Special Activities
- Keynote sessions on policy and regulatory strategy
- Workshops on market reforms and interconnection standards
- Networking events for public-private collaboration and strategic partnerships
With HVDC America accelerating the next era of electrification, we are stepping into a transformation so massive that missing this conference isn’t an option, it’s a setback!
Powering the Next Great American Grid Revolution
The First Nationally Coordinated Redesign of the U.S. Power Grid — From AC to HVDC
At the 2026 Energy & Mobility Conference, we are featuring HVDC America, a grassroots movement transforming how our nation transmits power. Their mission is nothing less than historic: converting nearly 100,000 miles of aging AC transmission corridors into high-voltage direct current (HVDC) superhighways. This isn’t just an infrastructure upgrade; it’s the backbone of America’s future. HVDC America brings together regulators, utilities, national labs, AI/data-center operators, and engineering leaders to build a resilient, high-capacity grid that can support exploding demand, safeguard national security, and anchor the U.S. in the global energy race.
Energizing the nation.
Securing a survivable civilization
THE CIVILIZATION VALUE CHAIN
The Great Infrastructure Leaps in a Century --
setting the stage for:
AMERICA'S NEXT MONUMENTAL TRANSFORMATION
Manhattan Project
(1942 - 1946)
In a race against time and global threat, the nation’s brightest minds came together with unmatched focus and collaboration, delivering groundbreaking science that reshaped the course of history and demonstrated the power of decisive, coordinated action on a national scale.
Interstate Highway
(1956 - 1992)
Facing the challenge of uniting a sprawling, car-driven nation, America built a seamless network of highways. This monumental feat didn’t just move vehicles — it connected communities, transformed commerce, strengthened national cohesion, and became the backbone of modern mobility.
Apollo Program
(1961 - 1972)
Tasked with reaching the Moon before the decade’s end, America fused ingenuity, determination, and audacious vision. This historic endeavor proved that no frontier — terrestrial or celestial — was beyond human grasp and set the stage for technological leaps for generations to come.
ARPANET
(1969 - 1980)
Confronting the limits of communication and computation, visionary minds designed the first digital networks. ARPANET ignited the information revolution, fundamentally transforming how the world connects, collaborates, and innovates in the modern era. It laid the foundation for the connected, digital world we rely on today, proving that pioneering technology can redefine society itself.
AMERICA GRID 2.0
HVDC and Microgrids
(2025 - 2035)
Today, facing an unprecedented surge in AI-driven energy demand, electrification of transportation, and the reshoring of critical manufacturing, America is uniting its full energy ecosystem to convert the grid from AC to HVDC. This historic movement secures national capacity, resilience, and leadership — powering the next century of innovation and establishing GRID 2.0 as the foundation for a sustainable, modern civilization.
The Event Powering the Next Great Leap in Infrastructure
Energy & Mobility Conference Supporters
Energy & Mobility: Technology, Systems, and Value Chain builds on more than a decade of legacy from Cleveland’s respected EnergyTech conference, where engineers, innovators, and systems thinkers have tackled the world’s toughest infrastructure challenges. Backed by leading institutions across engineering, aerospace, and government, the event brings together leaders in energy, transportation, aerospace, and advanced systems to build what’s next: a resilient, decentralized grid ready to power a fully electrified economy. This is where that work happens — and where you belong.
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Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland
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