For utility managers, emergency management is a leadership responsibility that begins well before a crisis and shapes how communities experience recovery. This session examines the executive role in setting expectations for preparedness, strengthening mutual aid partnerships, and ensuring the organization can respond decisively during major events.

Continue the conversation and connect with your fellow public power leaders over lunch hosted by APPA.

Dive into the factors creating challenges for public power leaders in ensuring resource adequacy and system reliability. Hear different perspectives from across the sector with a panel of executives on how they are navigating the uncertainty surrounding large loads, conflicting federal and state policies, and long-term investments. Discuss practical options for securing new resources — from locally owned projects and microgrids to SMRs and emerging technologies. Weigh your options and share strategies to adapt, innovate, and maintain reliability in today’s evolving energy landscape.

Understanding the impact of world events that are unfolding is critical to assessing future risks and opportunities. Each industry is affected in different ways by world events—from energy, infrastructure and finance to manufacturing, supply chains and technology. And turmoil in hot spots such as China, Iran, Russia and Ukraine demands that leaders gain better insights into emerging threats, opportunities and risks.

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and drinks while you reconnect with old friends, meet new people, and network with public power leaders from across the nation. Guests are welcome.

Join us for the third annual CEO & Utility Managers Scramble Golf Tournament. More than a chance to enjoy the weather and the company of public power leaders, the tournament will also feature raffle prizes and a putting contest at a scenic course near the hotel (course details to be provided in January).

How will it work?
Registration and breakfast will begin at 8 am. The tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 9 am. Additional information will be available in early 2026.