Utility host sponsor

CenterPoint Energy is the only investor-owned electric and natural gas utility headquartered in Texas, proudly serving millions of customers across four states. Since 1866, they've been committed to delivering safe, reliable energy — today reaching approximately 3.9 million natural gas customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas, and nearly 2.8 million electric customers in the Houston area and southwestern Indiana. With a team of more than 8,300 employees, they are driving progress by modernizing systems and building a smarter, more resilient energy future for the communities they serve.

Gold sponsors

Treeswift empowers utilities with AI-augmented vegetation management that reduces risk and improves reliability across transmission and distribution systems, all while helping maintain affordability. Treeswift’s backpack and vehicle-mounted sensors seamlessly integrate into existing patrols to gather imagery and LiDAR data. Treeswift’s AI translates this data into actionable analytics and 360° field context for encroachment, strike potential, and wildfire risk via its software platform for vegetation management experts, arborists, and tree crews.

Resilient Structures is committed to building a robust and reliable electric grid worldwide, supporting communities and utility customers with infrastructure that endures. Through proprietary materials science, they design, engineer, and manufacture high performance composite utility poles for electric distribution and transmission systems. These innovative structures mitigate costly outages due to line failure and resist damage from wildfires, hurricanes, ice storms, and other extreme conditions. This technology is currently deployed by 500+ utilities in 30+ countries across 5 continents.

TRC stands for adaptability. With direction-setting perspectives and partnerships, TRC's 8,000+ tested practitioners in advisory, consulting, construction, engineering, and management services deliver unique resolutions that answer any built or natural imperative. By creating new pathways for the world to thrive, TRC helps its clients adapt to change and achieve long-lasting results while solving the challenges of making the Earth a better place to live — community by community and project by project. TRC is ranked #16 on ENR’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms, #5 for Power and #3 for Transmission & Distribution.

Filsinger Energy Partners is a premier energy advisory firm delivering sustainable solutions for today’s energy challenges. We leverage our extensive industry experience to provide expert consulting services to utilities, energy companies, financial institutions, and state and federal governments. Our work spans generation, transmission and distribution operations, wildfire mitigation program assessment, design and implementation, risk management services, vegetation management, power market modeling, and financial and economic analysis.