For years, UAI Communities have connected utility analytics professionals around shared interests, common challenges, and practical learning. At UA Week 2026, we're taking that collaboration to the next level.

Join us for the official kickoff of the UA Week Innovation Lab—a new collaborative experience designed to bring utility professionals together to tackle the industry's most important analytics, AI, data, technology, operations, and business challenges.

During this opening session, you'll discover how the Innovation Lab works, meet the Innovation Challenge Zone Leadership Teams, and learn how your ideas and experience can help shape practical recommendations for the utility industry.

You'll also receive an overview of the ten Innovation Challenge Zones, giving you the opportunity to identify the discussion that best aligns with your interests before the Innovation Lab begins. While you'll have the flexibility to change your selection onsite, we encourage attendees to pre-select a Challenge Zone in advance so we can create the best possible collaborative experience for every participant.

The Innovation Lab is more than an interactive session—it is the beginning of a year-long conversation. The ideas developed during UA Week will help shape future UAI Community Conversations, educational programs, industry resources, and the UA Week Innovation Priorities Report.

Because the best ideas don't come from one utility.

They emerge when the utility analytics community collaborates.