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Facilities & Campus Energy Summit

  • May 12-13, 2026
  • National Housing Center, Washington, DC

Event Overview

The 6th Annual Facilities & Campus Energy Summit provides an interchange of in-depth knowledge and serves as a catalyst for collaboration across large built environments that are working to improve their overarching energy efficiencies, resiliency, and reliability in a financially sustainable manner.

Each year the summit welcomes a new speaker faculty that brings together leaders within:

Higher Education, Hospitals and Healthcare Systems, Federal Facilities, Life Sciences, Financing Organizations, Utilities, and Industry

The highly curated two-day agenda offers over 5 senior level panels, 8 plenary sessions (no tracks!), and 5 hours of dedicated networking and live technology and solution demonstrations onsite.

By the Numbers

  • 8 +

    Hours Dedicated Networking

  • 25 +

    Sponsors & Exhibitors

  • 50 %

    End Users

  • 300 +

    Participants

Early 2026 Confirmed Speakers:

Over 40+ speakers, 6 panels and 10 plenary sessions

  • Dominique Casimir-German

    Senior Vice President, Enterprise Asset Management, Jefferson Health & Jefferson University

  • Nancy J. Balkus, SES

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Infrastructure, Energy and Environment

  • Dr. Dwayne Pinkney

    Executive Senior Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, University of Pittsburgh

  • Charles Shelburne

    System Vice President Real Estate and Campus Planning, Baylor Scott & White Health

  • Colin Barrett

    Vice President, Infrastructure and Special Projects, Mount Sinai Health System

  • Michael Cline

    Senior Vice President, Administrative Operations, Purdue University and Chief Operating Officer Purdue University in Indianapolis

  • Brandon Cockrell, SES

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability

  • Christopher Elmore

    Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

  • Dozie Ibeh

    Vice President Major Capital Projects, National Facilities Design and Construction, Kaiser Permanente

  • Nichol Luoma

    Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration and Chief Administration Officer, Washington University in St. Louis

  • John Ellis

    Assistant Vice President, Facilities and Energy Management, Intermountain Health

  • Dr. Guangdong Zhu

    Group Manager and Senior Researcher, Thermal Energy Systems Group, National Laboratory of the Rockies ( formerly known as NREL)

  • Eric Corey Freed

    Principal, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign

  • Stanley Nolan

    Associate Vice President, Facilities Operations, University of Connecticut

  • Michael Roberts

    Enterprise Director of Energy Services, Advocate Health

  • Rebecca Vazquez- Skillings

    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Howard University

About the Facilities & Campus Energy Summit

Topics to be covered

  • C-suite insights on evolving financing models and long-term capital planning to support energy and infrastructure goals
  • Planning, design, and construction strategies and how to account for increased energy resiliency, efficiencies and indoor health
  • Contracting structures and financing for energy efficiency projects: who’s funding what and how, including updates on federal tax incentives, loans, and best practices and what you should be including in your next contracts
  • Advice from the C-suite: how facility teams, stakeholders and sustainability officers can present their recommendations and projects to us to help us understand the long-term implications of investing (or not) in projects
  • Innovative thermal energy management solutions including practical applications of waste heat recovery systems
  • Advances in onsite microgrid configurations, energy storage and nuclear
  • Digital and AI-enabled solutions and operational strategies that make buildings smarter, improve efficiency, and support daily O&M
  • Powering AI: accounting for increasing use of onsite compute-intensive research in higher education, and finding the balance between efficiencies gained vs. energy consumed in healthcare settings

Gain Education & Insight: For facility and campus energy stakeholders, you will walk away with knowledge gained from our senior-level speakers and attendees to help you improve the efficiency and resiliency of your built environment. For industry innovators, you will walk away with a deep understanding of the current challenges, needs, and initiatives across a variety of stakeholders from federal, state, and private sectors, and learn about where you solution or service may be best applied.

Build Partnerships: The Facilities & Campus Energy North America Summit is designed to bring together a variety of stakeholders from across multiple sectors in order to allow to network with and forge partnerships with persons you may not have necessarily had to the opportunity to engage with yet. You will also have the ability discover the latest technologies and trends driving the energy market for facilities and campuses across the Nation during our ample networking time throughout both days.

Influence: Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. Designed as an interactive ‘Town Hall’ forum, all  attendees are encouraged to engage in dialogue and discussion with each other and the speakers during each session.

This was truly one of the best conferences I've attended! A fantastic event! I met many new smart building professionals in the Healthcare, Higher Education, and Federal space. This was a collaborative event where we took the opportunity to learn from each other to drive our industry forward.

Vice President of Business Development KTERIO

The most professional, interesting, educational event that I have attended!

Principal, Energy, Engineering & Infrastructure, Corporate Facilities Services Northwell Health

A superb program. I have been attending utility/energy sessions, of widely varying sizes, for over 35 years. Your work ranks with the best I have experienced.

District of Columbia, Department of Energy and Environment

Exceptional professionalism. I very much enjoyed the level of engagement by your attendees...Thank you for the opportunity to conduct what we call “Knowledge Transfer:.

Director UCSD

Best group of speakers and industry representation in years of attending similar events.

Senior Manager, Engineering NORESCO

Sponsors & Exhibitors

The 6th Annual Facilities & Campus Energy Summit provides opportunities including exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, and networking receptions. Download the Sponsorship and Exhibiting Prospectus Here.

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