GridFWD 2026 Innovation Pavilion

Reprioritizing Affordability
for modernizing the grid

September 29-30, 2026 in Utah

Submit your application by April 24

Demonstrate how your solution supports affordability at GridFWD 2026

All GridFWD events bring together real-world insights and solutions for the grid’s biggest opportunities and challenges. This year’s Innovation Pavilion invites energy system participants to showcase the affordability business case of their “in the field” technical, process and business solutions. Pavilion participants will include their business cases in the GridFWD event app, present on the Pavilion stage, run demos in the Pavilion room, and receive three business case coaching sessions before the event. Demos are short, casual, and designed for interaction and discussion with event attendees.

If your organization would like to showcase your solution to affordability in the GridFWD 2026 Innovation Pavilion, please download the form below and submit it as a live PDF to events@gridforward.org by April 24, 2026.

Innovation Pavilion

Download, complete and return the form by April 24

Submitting your solution for the GridFWD 2026 Innovation Pavilion is straightforward:

  1. Download the application form
  2. Open and complete it using an appropriate PDF client such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  3. Save the application as an “active file” so your input is fully visible.
  4. Attach up to three more PDF pages with the application if you want to share more detail and/or images.
  5. Send your completed application to events@gridforward.org by April 24, 2026.

Our program team will contact you by May 29, 2026 to let you know if you have been selected.

Be an active part in the GridFWD 2026 experience to “Reprioritize Affordability”

Our first Innovation Pavilion at GridFWD 2025 turned into one of the most popular aspects of the event experience. Attendees loved the ability to engage with peers who were able to share their solutions and explain how they work, all in a low-pressure “no sales talk” environment. If you have a technology, process or business solution that is helping to make the most of grid investments and keep energy affordable, bring it to GridFWD 2026.