Keynotes

Artificial intelligence is no longer a software story. It is an infrastructure story.

As AI scales, electricity demand is becoming volatile, concentrated, and algorithmically driven. Hyperscale data centers are emerging as a new form of baseload. Power systems are shifting from passive delivery networks to cognitively optimized, high-risk infrastructure. Policy, regulation, and institutional governance are struggling to keep pace.

Most leaders feel this pressure—but lack a coherent system-level map.

AIxEnergy keynotes provide that map.

These talks are not futurist speculation or motivational storytelling. They are strategic infrastructure briefings, designed for executives, boards, utilities, policymakers, and technology leaders making decisions under real constraints of power, capital, reliability, and public trust.

What Makes These Keynotes Different

Most speakers explain trends. AIxEnergy reframes the system.

Each keynote integrates:

• Deep energy-system and grid expertise
• Hands-on understanding of AI architectures and compute demand
• Market, regulatory, and capital dynamics
• Governance and institutional risk analysis

The result is clarity—without simplification—and urgency without hype.

Audiences leave with frameworks they can use immediately in boardrooms, regulatory discussions, capital planning, and enterprise strategy.

About the Speaker

Brandon N. Owens is an energy innovation executive and founder of AIxEnergy, operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence, electricity systems, and institutional governance.

He currently serves as Vice President of Innovation at NYSERDA, where he leads a $1.2 billion, multi-year clean energy R&D and commercialization portfolio spanning power generation, energy storage, hydrogen, grid modernization, and advanced buildings. His work focuses on preparing critical infrastructure for AI-driven load growth, electrification, and systemic risk.

His career includes foundational research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, senior strategy and market leadership roles at General Electric and S&P Global, and advisory work across utilities, governments, investors, and Fortune-scale enterprises.

Brandon is the author of The Wind Power Story and a forthcoming book on the convergence of AI, energy, and governance. He is known for making complex systems legible—and decision-relevant—at moments of structural change.

Signature Keynote Topics

Keynotes can be delivered as plenary addresses, executive briefings, board sessions, or conference openers/closers. All talks are tailored to the audience and context.

When Intelligence Becomes Load
How AI is reshaping electricity demand, planning assumptions, and grid risk faster than institutions are adapting.

Data Centers Are the New Baseload
Why hyperscale compute is transforming generation, transmission, permitting, and regional power politics.

The Cognitive Grid
How power systems are evolving into algorithmically optimized infrastructure—and what this means for reliability, resilience, and control.

AI’s Infrastructure Blind Spot
Why energy—not algorithms—will constrain the next phase of AI growth, and who wins when it does.

Governing the AI–Energy Nexus
Why traditional regulatory and corporate governance models are failing under AI-scale load—and what replaces them.

(Custom keynotes are developed for utilities, policymakers, investors, technology firms, and enterprise leadership teams.)

What Audiences Walk Away With

• A clear systems-level mental model of AI and electricity as a coupled architecture
• Understanding of near-term risks, bottlenecks, and decision points
• Language and frameworks usable with boards, regulators, and investors
• Strategic clarity in a space dominated by hype, fragmentation, and uncertainty

This is insight designed to travel beyond the room—and shape decisions after the applause fades.

Audiences & Venues

AIxEnergy keynotes are delivered to:

• Utility executive teams and boards
• Energy, infrastructure, and climate conferences
• AI, cloud, and data-center leadership forums
• Government, regulatory, and policy summits
• Investment and corporate strategy offsites

Formats include:

• Conference keynote (opening or closing)
• Executive fireside briefing
• Board-level strategy session
• Private leadership retreat

Book a Keynote

If your organization is grappling with AI-driven electricity demand, infrastructure constraints, or governance risk, this keynote will change how your leadership team sees the system.