2nd Annual
Digitalization and AI in Energy
Appalachia Conference
November 18-19, 2026 | Pittsburgh, PA
Move From Pilots to Standard Practice in Appalachia.
Digitalization and AI in Energy Appalachia is the implementation-focused conference for upstream, midstream, and plant teams who need scalable digital systems, reliable adoption, and measurable operational results across the gas value chain.
In 2026, the question is not whether AI and digital tools can create value. The question is whether you can deploy them repeatedly across assets, keep them running, and earn adoption from operations and plant teams without adding risk or burden.
This conference is built for that reality. It brings together leaders responsible for turning digital efforts into repeatable programs, including operating model, governance, data readiness, cybersecurity alignment, and the deployment patterns that keep solutions working after the initial launch.
Across the program, you will learn what is being standardized, what is being retired, and what is being scaled across pads, gathering systems, compression, processing, and pipelines. Expect honest implementation lessons on where teams get stuck, what unblocks delivery, and how value is tracked without turning digital into a reporting exercise.
Who Should Attend
- Operations and asset leadership across upstream, gathering, compression, and pipelines
- Plant leadership, reliability, maintenance, and turnaround teams
- Control room leaders and SCADA practitioners
- Digital, data, and AI leaders responsible for delivery and scale
- OT cybersecurity, network engineering, and remote access owners
- Engineering, integrity, measurement, and allocation teams
- Technology partners, integrators, and EPCs supporting deployment and handover
Why This Matters Now
Appalachian operators and midstream teams are balancing growth, reliability expectations, and workforce constraints while managing increasing complexity across plants, networks, and control rooms. The teams that win will be the ones that can scale delivery and sustain results, not just prove concepts.
What You Will Learn and Apply
- Scaling playbooks: how to take a use case from pilot to repeatable rollout across multiple assets
- Data readiness that travels: standardizing context, signals, and models so solutions move from pad to plant
- Reliability and throughput systems: analytics and workflows that prevent slowdowns and stabilize performance
- Control room decision support: what improves situational awareness, alarms, displays, and shift execution in practice
- Secure remote operations: enabling remote support without friction or unacceptable risk
- Integrity, measurement, and allocation: improving quality, reducing disputes, and strengthening auditability
- GenAI for operations support: where it saves time, where it introduces risk, and how to deploy responsibly
- Value tracking and ownership: governance that is light enough to run, but strong enough to sustain
What You Will Leave With
- A shortlist of use cases that are scaling in the region, and why they scale
- Practical rollout patterns you can use to deploy faster across assets
- A clear view of the data foundations needed to make solutions portable
- Realistic approaches to adoption, governance, and sustaining value
- Stronger peer connections with people solving the same operational constraints
New in 2026
Scale or Stop Sessions: Peer-led discussions on what to standardize, what to retire, and why
Rollout Patterns Workshops: Step-by-step deployment approaches, including adoption, training, and handover
Reliability and Throughput Clinics: Deep dives on preventing slowdowns across compression and processing
Control Room Excellence: Practical improvements to alarms, displays, and shift handovers
Secure-by-Design Roundtables: Aligning IT, OT, and operations on access and monitoring that works in the field
Metrics That Matter: How teams measure value and model health without creating reporting overhead
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