PTAG at CIGRE Energy Forum 2026: Advancing Grid Modernization Through Capital Delivery
Grid modernization is a capital delivery challenge before it is a technology challenge.
PTAG will be at the CIGRE Energy Forum 2026 in Calgary, September 21 to 24 at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre, hosted by AltaLink.
This year’s theme, “Grid Modernization: Enabling Large Loads, Advanced Storage, and Smart Technologies for a Secure and Resilient Energy Future,” reflects the scale of transformation underway across the power and utilities sector.
For owners, the challenge is not only selecting the right technologies. It is also delivering increasingly complex transmission, storage, and grid infrastructure programs with the planning, controls, governance, and coordination needed to keep execution aligned.
PTAG works owner-side in Power & Utilities, helping organizations strengthen capital program delivery across project controls, construction management, engineering management, supply chain, PMIS, and performance management.
Representing PTAG at the forum will be Philip Whelan, Ugo Santone, Trevor Posyluzny, Andrew Dubreuil, Garry Makar, and Sonia Brar.
If you are carrying a transmission, storage, or broader grid modernization program, connect with the PTAG team in Calgary.
PTAG at the OCNI/CNL Banquet Dinner and Industry Day 2026
PTAG is pleased to support the OCNI/CNL Banquet Dinner and Industry Day as the Lunch Sponsor, September 23 and 24 in Chalk River and Pembroke, Ontario.
The Banquet Dinner takes place Wednesday, September 23, followed by Industry Day on Thursday, September 24, featuring the trade show and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ update on upcoming scope.
Andrew Grant, Lorena Perry, and Jim Welsh will be representing PTAG throughout the event.
For nuclear owners, successful capital project delivery depends on more than individual contracts or isolated project functions. It requires coordination across planning, controls, engineering, construction, quality, supply chain, and turnover.
PTAG works inside owner teams to help connect those functions across the full project lifecycle, from front-end planning through execution and turnover.
If you are attending, connect with Andrew, Lorena, or Jim at the banquet on Wednesday or at the trade show on Thursday to learn more about how PTAG supports nuclear capital programs.
PTAG at the Texas Nuclear Summit: Integrating Nuclear Project Delivery From the Owner’s Side
Execution risk in nuclear is business risk. Contracts can allocate that risk, but they do not integrate execution.
On a nuclear new-build program, the OEM owns the technology. The EPC owns its contracted scope. The owner remains accountable for the overall outcome, including the risks that sit between contracts, organizations, interfaces, and critical owner decisions.
That is where project integration becomes essential.
PTAG works on the owner’s side as Project Integrator, helping connect contracting strategy and governance, integrated project controls, nuclear quality and regulatory commitments, change management, construction readiness, and the OEM and EPC interfaces that ultimately influence field performance.
For eighteen years, PTAG has worked alongside owners across nuclear and major capital programs in the U.S. and Canada. From early contracting strategy through commissioning and first megawatt, the objective is consistent: make the owner’s delivery system work as one.
PTAG has joined the Texas Nuclear Alliance, and Nick Revelas, Michael McBean, and Chris Deidun will be in Houston for the Texas Nuclear Summit from September 21 to 23.
If you are standing up a new-build nuclear program and have not yet resolved who will integrate across the OEM, EPC, and owner organization, connect with the PTAG team in Houston.
That is the conversation we want to have.
Advanced Project Delivery Webinar Series: Solving the Matching Problem
Most project delivery gaps are not caused by a lack of methodologies. They occur when the right practice is applied to the wrong problem, or introduced at the wrong point in the program.
That is the focus of Webinar 2 in PTAG’s Advanced Project Delivery series: “Solving the Matching Problem Between Project Delivery Approach and Desired Outcomes.”
Fernando Espana, John Strickland, and Jay Moser will explore how owners and project teams can align delivery methods with the outcomes established in the business case, then sequence those methods around four factors that remain constant across every program: people, process, technology, and culture.
Session 1 established what Advanced Project Delivery is. Session 2 moves from definition to application.
The discussion is designed for owner and operator leaders building enterprise delivery capability, PMs and PMC leads determining what to adopt and when, and capital project directors evaluating how APD can be applied beyond the conceptual stage.
Join us Wednesday, September 16 , 2026 at 1:00 p.m. ET for a 60-minute session focused on making project delivery choices that fit the outcome, the organization, and the stage of the program.
PTAG at OCNI Nuclear Industry Day
PTAG will be at OCNI Nuclear Industry Day, taking place September 15 to 16 at Bruce Power in Tiverton, Ontario. As the Trade Show Bag Sponsor, we are pleased to support an event that brings together utilities, suppliers, and project delivery professionals from across Canada’s nuclear sector.
Andrew Grant, Chris Deidun, Lorena Perry, and Shafaq Riaz will be on site for both days at Booth 20.
The event begins with the trade show in B10, followed by a reception at the Nuclear Innovation Institute Advanced Facility. Day two will focus on utility-led discussions around supply chain priorities and structured B2B meetings with Bruce Power and Ontario Power Generation procurement teams.
For PTAG, the conversations are closely aligned with the work we support across nuclear refurbishment and new build programs. Large nuclear projects require disciplined project controls, clear contractor interfaces, reliable scheduling, and strong coordination across engineering, procurement, construction, and operations.
Our team will be there to discuss practical project delivery challenges, especially where schedule complexity, contractor coordination, and execution risk are creating pressure on major scopes.
If you are attending OCNI Nuclear Industry Day, stop by Booth 20 and bring us a schedule problem you have not solved yet.
PTAG at Autodesk University 2026: Connecting Execution Architecture and Project Data
PTAG’s Datum implementation team will be at Autodesk University, The Design & Make Conference, in Las Vegas from September 15 to 17.
Our participation follows PTAG joining the Autodesk Service Provider Program and reflects a broader focus on helping capital project organizations connect digital platforms with the execution models they are intended to support.
PTAG’s North American Datum team brings experience from inside complex capital project data environments, including CFIHOS handover requirements, Advanced Work Packaging, project controls, and the data quality practices needed to maintain trustworthy asset information from engineering through turnover.
Our approach starts with execution architecture.
Before configuring a system, project teams need alignment on how work will be structured, governed, controlled, and handed over. Datum can then carry that architecture through the project lifecycle. Configuring the technology first can create the opposite outcome: a capable system reinforcing processes and data structures that were never fully aligned.
Kevin Murphy, Tedd Weitzman, Hal Brothers, Aaron Wartman, and Jeremy Rasmussen will be at Autodesk University throughout the event.
For owners evaluating Autodesk Datum for a major capital program, or already deploying it and encountering challenges around data standards, work packaging, or project information governance, the PTAG team will have meeting availability September 15 to 17.
Contact Kevin Murphy to arrange a conversation in Las Vegas.
