This Panel examines Northeast U.S. natural gas market fundamentals. The Panel is comprised of industry subject matter experts, providing up-to-the-minute insightful analysis and actionable takeaways. Topics addressed include:

•Supply / Demand: current balances and forecasts
•Forecasts: Pricing; operations; volatility assessment
•Influences: Data Center Demand; LNG Exports; infrastructure buildout; energy mix; etc.
•Weather: forecasting; hurricane activity; seasonal temperatures; impacts on markets

The information presented and analyzed provides an excellent foundation and factual reference resource for the overall agenda and ensuing discussions.

Notwithstanding the new Administration’s push to build nat gas infrastructure, NGO/environmental and legal challenges remain as headwinds to continued development of natural gas markets. This panel examines several innovative solutions being employed by leading stakeholders to overcome these headwinds. Examples include traditional pipeline and utility distribution project development and construction, pipeline transportation innovations, virtual pipeline, and mobile energy solutions.

Unprecedented growth in Electric demand has surfaced as one of the biggest challenges for energy markets (AI Data Centers; electrification). There is a realization that renewables (solar, wind) cannot satisfy all the demand with the required 99.999% reliability. Natural Gas has emerged the most viable solution to fuel generation to meet this demand in the near term. Due to the large and growing share of power generation fueling, Natural Gas and Electricity markets are inextricably tied. With significant operational and regulatory differences, coordination between these two markets is of critical importance. The industries have recognized this criticality and are already making good progress towards good coordination. But more needs to be done to ensure reliability and streamline going forward. This Panel will highlight recent operational and regulatory achievements and will identify opportunities and challenges that the industry has prioritized for resolution in the near future. The Panel has been structured to provide a variety of perspectives from key stakeholders spanning the value chain.

As data centers continue to expand to meet the exponential growth in digital services, the need for reliable, scalable, and sustainable energy sources becomes paramount. This panel will explore the increasing role of natural gas in power generation for data centers, emphasizing its reliability and rapid-response capabilities. Experts will discuss how robust gas pipeline infrastructure is essential to support this shift, ensuring consistent power delivery, grid stability, and operational resilience. The conversation will also delve into infrastructure challenges, regulatory considerations, and innovations that can help meet the evolving energy demands of hyperscale and edge data facilities.

Join Toby Rice, President and CEO of EQT Corporation, as he explores the transformative intersection of energy and technology. In this keynote, Rice will unpack how the surging demand for AI-driven data centers is reshaping the natural gas landscape. From powering the digital frontier to ensuring sustainable growth, discover how EQT is positioning natural gas as the cornerstone of a high-performance, low-carbon energy future.

This Panel incorporates industry experts from a variety of technology and energy providers spanning the energy value chain who provide a variety of innovative solutions to efficiently facilitate energy from production sources to markets. With the recent resurgence in demand for natural gas as a vital energy source, attention turns to ensuring optimal infrastructure to efficiently and securely move energy from production sources to demand centers. The Panel will identify and explore specific innovation case studies including digital marketplaces for managing commercial natural gas transactions, software for integrating operations and business intelligence along the energy value chain, sustainable waste management and clean energy solutions, and conversion of natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon.

Please join our hosts, the Corporate Sponsors, at a cocktail reception in your honor. Don’t make your dinner plans too early as hors d’oeuvres and an open bar will be the highlight of this extremely well attended session!

End users of natural gas include Gas Distribution Utilities (LDCs); Power Generation (Utility & IPP); and Industrials (process & heat). Entities include publicly owned and municipal utilities, who are subject to regulation, as well as private non-regulated businesses. Gas Buyers for these entities have a unique perspective on the market, given their existence at the end of the value chain and their dependence on gas supply. Creative negotiation of commercial terms for gas supply is crucial to their business to ensure security of supply, operational flexibility and competitive pricing. In addition, the regulated entities must do all this while managing the complexities of regulatory oversight and pass through of gas supply costs in published rates. This Panel, representing stakeholders spanning the value chain who are Gas Buyers, will provide insights and discuss perspectives on the following categories:

-Market Fundamentals (supply; demand; pricing
-Gas Supply Agreement Structuring & Preferences
-Midstream Infrastructure Implications
-Competing Demands For Gas Supply
-Gas Electric Coordination
-Regulatory & Policy
-Technology

The population is growing, demand for electricity is soaring and we are in a race to net-zero emissions. How can natural gas help?

This Panel examines natural gas market fundamentals in the northeast U.S. The Panel is comprised of leading industry analysts who present up-to-the-minute market data and contextual interpretation. Topics addressed include:

•Supply / Demand: current balances and forecasts
•Price: forecasts; volatility assessment
•Market Influences: LNG Exports; midstream infrastructure; powergen; data centers; etc.
•Renewables: impacts on markets
•Weather: forecasting; hurricane activity; seasonal; temperatures; impacts on markets

The information presented and discussed provides an excellent foundation and factual reference resource for the overall agenda and ensuing discussions.

Policy, regulatory and NGO resistance to continued development of natural gas markets is building. This panel examines several innovative solutions being employed by leading stakeholders to overcome these headwinds. Examples include virtual pipeline, mobile energy solutions, RNG, project development and construction, as well as traditional pipeline transportation innovations.

America’s appetite for electricity is growing rapidly and natural gas is a well-positioned solution to reliably meet this demand. In this Keynote presentation, hear from Paul Ruppert as he shares his insight into the industry alongside the challenges and opportunities facing natural gas growth.

US natural gas market update.

Build out of renewable energy power generation and electrification continues in many parts of the country in response to decarbonization and tax policies and subsidies at the state and federal levels. The intermittent nature of renewable energy power generation demands that a consistently reliable and alternative source of power be available when renewables are not. Concurrently, policies that push electrification, as well as new data center demand to support Artificial Intelligence (AI), is translating into a significant forecasted increase in demand for power over the coming decade, with peak day demand stretching existing system capabilities. With gas and electricity markets inextricably tied today, understanding this interdependency and system dynamics is critical to ensuring reliability now and into the future. This is a timely Panel offering valuable perspectives on the topic from experts representing a variety of stakeholder interests and perspectives across industry, markets and government.

Natural gas suppliers continue to make great strides in innovating low-carbon energy alternatives. Differentiated gas, including certified gas, are gaining significant market interest with actual transactions being inked between suppliers and various market constituents. A proliferation of independent third-party certifiers of low-carbon product attributes across the natural gas value chain have arrived on the scene. This Panel, comprised of experts representing suppliers, end use markets and independent certification entities, will provide a state of the market assessment of product innovations. In addition, the Panel will share practical examples of transactions currently being employed.

Please join our hosts, the Corporate Sponsors, at a cocktail reception in your honor. Don’t make your dinner plans too early as hors d’oeuvres and an open bar will be the highlight of this extremely well attended session!

Massachusetts announced a first-in-the nation Office of Energy Transformation earlier this year charged with the hands-on execution of the clean energy transition, including ensuring the availability and readiness of electrical infrastructure, gas to electric transition coordination, and a just transition for impacted workers and businesses. Like many states across the country, the Commonwealth is at an inflection point where its bold policy vision needs to be translated into practical solutions. During this session, the Office’s newly appointed Executive Director – utility industry veteran Melissa Lavinson -- will share her priorities, focus, and intentions to bringing together a diverse array of stakeholders to develop practical and immediate steps to equitably, affordably, and responsibly shift to a more electrified future and successfully implement the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities’ landmark order on the Future of Gas – DPU Order 20-80-2.

The apocalyptic view of climate change is hyperbole and misleading, the effects of climate change are not certain disaster, and the resulting energy policy is an attack on prosperity. We draw from a growing body of work of scientists, economists and stakeholders that have seen through the thin veil of climate crisis propaganda. We need to restore hope and order to our energy policy
• Yes – the climate is changing (it always has)
• No – climate change is not a crisis
• Yes – we should be concerned with maintaining a sustainable living planet.