Kootanla is a data-driven technology and consulting startup and our mission is to drive meaningful, positive change by solving real world problems in the energy and utilities sector. Kootanla’s flagship product, GRIIDS (or Grid and Rate Infrastructure Investment Data Service), is currently in the minimum viable product (MVP) beta phase and was created to be one of the most comprehensive data sources for grid investment and rate case activity across all U.S. investor-owned utilities (IOUs). Kootanla takes its name from the Yoruba phrase, “Okuta Nla,” meaning “Big Solid Rock.” This symbolizes dependability, resilience, and transformation, and are the same qualities reflected in GRIIDS and other innovative solutions/services we deliver to customers.
Kevala, Inc.
The Kevala platform combines the largest, most valuable, and comprehensive energy data repository with differentiated analytics capabilities to solve the world’s most complex energy challenges, accelerating the transition to a clean energy future. Our cutting-edge solutions support utilities, regulators, developers, and investors in making data-driven decisions that optimize grid reliability, resilience, and long-term costs. Our Core Solutions Electrification Impact Studies – Analyze how widespread electrification affect the distribution and transmission grid. We provide essential insights to utilities, regulators, and stakeholders, enabling them to proactively plan for infrastructure upgrades, maintain reliability, and accurately forecast cost impacts, thereby ensuring a smooth, sustainable transition to widespread electrification. Our models quantify the spatial and temporal impacts of projected adoption scenarios, giving a clear roadmap for necessary investments. Integrated Grid Planning (IGP) – Built specifically for the new paradigm of distribution grid planning, Kevala’s IGP suite addresses the complex and intertwined challenges of the evolving energy landscape. This includes managing the increasing penetration of DERs like rooftop solar and battery storage, supporting the electrification of transportation and building loads, and meeting the non-negotiable need for enhanced grid reliability and resilience against extreme weather events and other disruptions. Our platform facilitates least-cost planning by evaluating traditional infrastructure investments alongside non-wires alternatives (NWAs). Production Cost Modeling (PCM) – Utilities require robust, data-driven decision-making tools to plan effectively for future demand fluctuations, major infrastructure investments, and evolving energy policy changes. Our PCM offering empowers utilities to conduct highly accurate simulations and analyses, leading to informed planning decisions that optimize long-term operational costs, ensure grid stability, and meet regulatory requirements. This capability is crucial for resource adequacy and long-term financial health. Predictive Interconnection Siting Metrics (PrISM) – Slow and complex interconnection processes are a significant barrier to the rapid deployment of clean energy and electrification projects. Our PrISM offering dramatically improves this process by providing developers and utilities with high-resolution, predictive metrics on potential grid impacts and likely costs and timelines. This allows both parties to make informed siting choices upfront, significantly reducing soft costs, accelerating project development, and streamlining the overall interconnection queue process, unlocking clean energy capacity. Project Siting – Streamline and optimize the development and financing of new solar, storage, and large load projects. By providing comprehensive, location-specific insights into transmission, sub-transmission, and distribution network capacity, constraints, and upgrade costs, our Project Siting offering enables developers and investors to efficiently evaluate potential sites. This reduces financial risk, accelerates project timelines from months to weeks, and ensures that capital is deployed where it can have the greatest impact on decarbonization and grid needs. Kevala empowers organizations to navigate the complexities of the modern energy transition, make informed decisions, optimize investments, and accelerate the essential shift to a clean energy future. For more information on how we transform data into actionable intelligence, visit us online at www.kevala.com and meet our experts in person at Booth 6209.
KASCO AI
KASCO A.I is a Brazilian deep-tech company founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Headquartered in Campinas, São Paulo, Kasco specializes in end-to-end solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and embedded systems. The company operates primarily in the Utilities, Agribusiness, and Industrial sectors, delivering high-impact technologies that improve efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Kasco’s core strength lies in its ability to design, industrialize, and scale AI systems from data acquisition to deployment in real-world environments. This includes proprietary software frameworks, edge and cloud computing architectures, and custom hardware integration. A key asset is Kasco A.I. (KAI), the company’s proprietary AI framework that integrates dataset management, custom deep-learning algorithms, continuous model improvement pipelines, and APIs for enterprise integration. This platform enables faster development cycles, reduced human effort, and consistent performance gains across products. The company’s flagship products are mature, market-validated solutions (TRL 9): MVI (Multi Vision Inspection): an autonomous system for inspecting power distribution and transmission assets using ground vehicles and drones with RGB and thermographic cameras, reducing inspection costs by up to 85% and significantly increasing coverage and speed. CCV (Cargill Cattle View): an AI-based livestock monitoring platform using drone imagery to analyze herd behavior, feeding patterns, and productivity, improving protein gain and operational decision-making in confined cattle operations. KSIM (Kasco Smart Inspection for Manufacturing): an industrial quality-inspection system capable of analyzing up to 500 SKUs per minute using unsupervised learning and golden-sample matching. ZERO (Zero Accident): a real-time work-safety solution using 3D vision and edge AI to detect unsafe behaviors, missing PPE, and risk situations, issuing immediate alerts to prevent accidents. Kasco has a strong track record in R&D, with projects funded by programs such as ANEEL P&D, FINEP, FAPESP, and RNP, and maintains active partnerships with large enterprises including energy utilities, global agribusiness players, and consumer-goods manufacturers. The company is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program and has been recognized multiple times in national innovation rankings. Driven by its mission to create innovative technologies that solve global challenges, Kasco continues to expand internationally while delivering scalable, reliable, and sustainable AI solutions that transform critical operations across industries.
Kadmos Technologies GmbH
Kadmos powers an end-to-end salary payment platform that enables secure payments to international employees across the globe. Our mission is to bring fintech, low margins, and transparent FX to industries riddled with opaque mark-ups, kickbacks, and physical cash transactions. Founded by MIT alumni and a world-class fintech product team, we are changing the way that international employees spend and manage their salaries.
Industrial Talk Media
Industrial Talk Media (ITM) is a dynamic media platform founded and hosted by Scott MacKenzie, dedicated to educating, collaborating, and innovating within the industrial sector. ITM amplifies the voices of leaders shaping manufacturing, energy, utilities, and supply chains through its top 2% globally ranked podcast network, YouTube interviews, event coverage, and Industrial Academy courses focused on Industry 4.0, IoT, AI, and digital transformation.
IND Technology
IND Technology is a leader in innovative power grid monitoring solutions, specialising in advanced early fault detection for utility infrastructure. With offices in Australia, the USA and Asia, its flagship product, Early Fault Detection EFD, revolutionises grid reliability by providing real-time detection and pinpointing of faults to an accuracy of 10m in transmission lines, distribution networks, and underground cables before they occur. The EFD system enhances safety, reliability, prevents outages, and mitigates wildfire risks by identifying issues before failures occur. Trusted by some of the largest utilities in the US, Canada, Australia and Asia, IND Technology combines patented sensor technology with an advanced data analytic platform to deliver proactive and cost-effective grid management. Committed to modernising energy systems, IND Technology empowers utilities to build a safer, more resilient future. | IND Technology delivers innovative power grid monitoring with its Early Fault Detection (EFD™) system, providing real-time detection and identifying faults up to 10m accuracy before failure occur. Operating worldwide, IND enhances safety, reliability, and wildfire prevention. The technology is applicable for overheads, underground, distribution, transmission grid, railway, and other networks.
ikeGPS
We’re ikeGPS, the PoleOS™ Company. We help electric utilities, communications companies, and their engineering providers gain actionable insights on overhead infrastructure. Our data acquisition and analysis solutions transform how to design, construct, and inspect overhead assets and help achieve critical industry objectives, such as grid resiliency and fiber broadband expansions. With two decades of industry expertise, IKE has become the standard for eight of the 10 largest investor-owned electric utilities in North America and five of the 10 largest communications companies in the United States. Traditional methods of collecting and analyzing pole data are time and labor intensive and error prone. Unruly workflows, frequent reworks, and lengthy engineering and permitting processes wreak havoc on productivity. IKE is your partner in solving these pain points. We created a suite of solutions that enables dramatic productivity gains, reduces risk, and optimizes investments, while upholding safety standards. Designed and delivered with industry expertise, IKE solutions have wide-ranging use cases including pole inspections, field data collection, pole loading analysis, make-ready engineering, network-level assessments, and permitting. The result: Overhead asset management that is efficient, reliable and, above all, safe.
IDeaS
IDeaS, a SAS company, is the world’s leading revenue management software and services provider. Combining travel industry knowledge with innovative data analytics technology, IDeaS creates sophisticated yet simple ways to empower revenue leaders with precise, automated decisions they can trust. With 35 years of expertise, IDeaS delivers revenue science to more than 30,000 sites in 158 countries. Results delivered. Revenue transformed. Discover greater profitability at ideas.com.
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE
HPE is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions, with HPE. Discover more at HPE.com | About Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE (NYSE: HPE) is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at www.hpe.com. | HPE is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE.