During this session, watch a drone will take off at an energy facility thousands of miles from Scottsdale. It will fly a live inspection mission. The presenters will control it from the stage.

No pre-recorded footage. No simulation.

The drone is a permanently stationed, autonomous aerial system that launches on demand and transmits thermal and visual data in real time. Utilities and infrastructure operators are deploying these systems to inspect substations, transmission corridors, distribution equipment, and large-load facilities without rolling a truck or putting a crew in the field. The same system secures facility perimeters and responds to alarms autonomously. More than 450 energy companies trust Skydio to help them inspect and protect critical infrastructure today.

As AI-driven load growth pushes infrastructure buildout faster than traditional inspection programs can follow, this session covers what automated aerial operations look like in practice: how missions are triggered, what the data looks like, and where operators are finding real reductions in truck rolls and time-to-find on equipment anomalies.

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This session, Applying Agentic AI to the Utility Rate Case Process, will explore how PPL Corporation is using specialized AI agents to transform the utility discovery response process, reducing a traditionally labor-intensive effort involving more than 100 employees into a faster, more accurate workflow completed in minutes. By coordinating SME, legal, and orchestration agents, PPL has improved response consistency, reduced duplicate effort, and minimized the risk of conflicting answers, while creating a repeatable framework that can be expanded across the broader rate case process to help utilities improve efficiency, governance, and regulatory outcomes.