The bond financing experts at KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) understand the unique challenges of tax incentive finance programs and can deliver solutions for developers to fill a funding gap in their capital stack. By leveraging future tax incentive cash flows for up-front proceeds on a non-recourse basis, KBCM identifies and executes the most cost-effective bond financing solutions for development projects. Our public finance team has deep experience with bond financing for all project types, including mixed-use developments, retail centers, lifestyle centers, multifamily developments, industrial developments, and commercial office parks. Bonds can be used to finance general project costs, demolition, land acquisition, parking structures, sidewalks and streetscape, public amenities, roadwork, and water/sewer infrastructure. We structure long-term, fixed-rate bonds which are non-recourse to the Developer, pre- or post-construction. We have extensive experience across the country executing on Tax Increment Financing (TIF) bonds, Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) bonds, and Special Assessment bonds, among many other forms of incentives. Common names for these incentives include tax allocation districts, business districts, community improvement districts, public infrastructure districts, special districts, new community authority charges, payments in lieu of taxes, tourism surcharges, economic activity taxes, and many others from state-to-state. KBCM experts take an analytical approach to identifying and evaluating TIF solutions that can steer your development to fruition. We offer counsel and lead the process throughout, from providing structuring expertise to identifying and educating investors during underwriting to pricing execution for the bond issuance. To hear more, head to key.com/tif/ and reach out to any member of our team.
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.
Kennedy Funding
Kennedy Funding is a direct private lender specializing in loans from $1 million – $50 million+. Commitments in 24 hrs. Close in as little as 5 days. Loans for Workouts, Land, Development, Acquisitions, Bankruptcies, Discount Payoffs, Note Purchases.
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.
Kapitus Equipment Finance
Kapitus Equipment Finance (KEF) is a subsidiary of Kapitus dedicated to delivering fast and flexible equipment financing solutions. Backed by decades of combined industry expertise, the KEF team is comprised of seasoned professionals committed to providing exceptional service and tailored financing options that help businesses acquire the equipment they need to stay competitive.
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.
Johnson Consulting Group
Founded in 1997 by Tom Johnson offering consulting services out of his home in Naples, FL. JCG moved their headquarters to Scottsdale, AZ, and Jake Johnson joined the team in 2004. In 2006, they added Accounting Services, Business Consulting, Family Surveys and Valuations to their list of services. In 2013, Johnson Consulting Group acquired Thomas – Pierce & Company. Since then, the company has added many new learning and training courses for the funeral and cemetery industry no matter their stage in their business lifecycle. JCG has a team of highly experienced professionals who can help clients grow their business, maximize its value, and guide them in precisely determining the right time to sell. Today JCG is creating cutting edge technology to assist their clients in every aspect of their business.
JINUSHI USA INC.
JINUSHI USA INC. is a U.S.-based real estate investment firm specializing in single-tenant ABSOLUTE NNN properties. Backed by the experience, track record, and capital strength of Japan’s JINUSHI Co., Ltd., the company is committed to building a high-quality portfolio of real estate assets designed to generate stable income and long-term value. Headquartered in El Segundo, California, JINUSHI USA INC. focuses on acquiring and developing premium ABSOLUTE NNN investments across the United States, with a disciplined approach rooted in careful market selection, tenant quality, and asset performance. Our investment philosophy centers on the creation and acquisition of high-quality, single-tenant triple-net assets supported by long-term lease structures. These investments are intended to provide predictable cash flow, reduced management burden, and durable value over time. By emphasizing ABSOLUTE NNN properties, where tenants are responsible for taxes, insurance, and maintenance, we are able to pursue efficient, resilient investments that align with the needs of long-term investors seeking both stability and growth potential. JINUSHI USA INC. primarily targets properties located within the top 15 major metropolitan statistical areas in the United States. Within these markets, we focus on submarkets that demonstrate strong demographic trends, economic growth, and long-term demand drivers. Our strategy is selective and research-driven, with an emphasis on identifying opportunities in high-growth locations where real estate fundamentals support both current income and future appreciation. This targeted geographic approach allows us to build a portfolio positioned to benefit from market depth, liquidity, and sustained tenant demand. We invest across a range of property types in order to capture opportunities in sectors supported by essential uses and evolving market needs. Our target asset classes include retail, industrial, and early childhood education facilities, among others. By maintaining flexibility across property uses while remaining disciplined in underwriting, we are able to identify assets that combine location quality, tenant strength, and lease durability. This diversified yet focused strategy helps us manage risk while pursuing attractive returns. Our acquisition and asset management approach is designed to maximize value throughout the investment lifecycle. We seek not only stabilized acquisitions, but also opportunities where disciplined development, redevelopment, or structured execution can enhance the quality and value of an asset. Through active value enhancement initiatives and thoughtful strategic dispositions, we aim to optimize performance while maintaining a strong emphasis on long-term stability. Every investment decision is guided by a commitment to prudent risk management, operational discipline, and sustainable value creation. As a company with roots in Japan and an investment platform in the United States, JINUSHI USA INC. brings together international perspective and local market execution. Our mission is to deliver dependable investment performance through carefully selected ABSOLUTE NNN real estate assets in leading U.S. markets. By combining financial strength, market insight, and a long-term investment horizon, we continue to pursue opportunities that support stable income, portfolio resilience, and enduring value for our stakeholders.
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.