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The 38th Annual LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent takes place in Chicago, IL, September 14 – 16, 2026

Houston, TexasMore than 400 natural gas industry executives and thought leaders gather to examine insights into U.S. mid-continent natural gas markets, and to structure transactions to buy, sell and transport natural gas and LNG.

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More than 400 natural gas industry executives and thought leaders gather to examine insights into U.S. mid-continent natural gas markets, and to structure transactions to buy, sell and transport natural gas and LNG.

Over four-hundred energy industry professionals gather in September to gain insight and examine up-to-the-minute issues facing the U.S. mid-continent natural gas market region. The 38th annual LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent takes place September 14 – 16, 2026 in Chicago, IL. This is the industry’s premier gathering for natural gas and LNG industry professionals, which is much more than simply a conference, with participants routinely negotiating commercial transactions during the event.

This year’s Program is structured to address critical issues faced by natural gas and LNG market stakeholders across the value chain. Key themes for the Agenda include worldwide geopolitical events impacting U.S. and global natural gas and LNG markets, as well as industry response to the phenomenal increase in natural gas demand, primarily from natural gas power generation to feed AI data centers, but also to supply LNG exports. Beyond these overarching themes the Agenda also addresses issues unique to U.S. mid-continent natural gas markets, including:

  • Demand for reliable/non-intermittent electricity in the form of natural gas-fired power generation
  • Gas/electric coordination challenges
  • Accelerating development of natural gas midstream infrastructure (pipeline, storage, distribution) to overcome constraints to support demand growth (permitting reform)
  • Evolving gas supply flow patterns in and around the U.S. mid-continent market region
  • Impact of natural gas exports (LNG and Mexico) competing for supply from production regions traditionally serving U.S. mid-continent markets
  • State and local energy policy implications, including zero carbon energy mandates

 

Recurring LDC Gas Forum topics include market fundamentals (supply/demand/price), natural gas supply sufficiency, midstream infrastructure project updates, end-use natural gas buyer perspectives, policy/regulatory/legal analysis, and technology innovations. These topics are discussed in the context of the commercial operations value chain involving producing, transporting, and buying natural gas and LNG.

The Program for the LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent consists of 2 ½ days of Presentations and moderated Panels providing topical content, insight, analysis, and takeaways from industry leaders and subject matter experts.

Keynote addresses include: James Pearson, Senior Analyst Gas Fundamentals, ConocoPhillips, David Doyle, Head of Economics, Macquarie Group, Wendall Dallas, President & CEO, Nicor Gas.

The Program also includes five moderated Panel discussions addressing a variety of timely topics, discussed by knowledgeable industry leaders representing the following leading organizations: East Daley Analytics, Bloomberg,Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) , Southern Company Gas, PJM, EQT, Southern Company, nGenue, Trellis Energy Software, NatGasHub.com, SEO Agency USA, Enbridge Gas Ontario, Mansfield Power & Gas, Enbridge Gas,SoCal Gas, Nicor Gas (Southern Company) , Advanced Power (an ArcLight company), Bunge North America,Oklahoma Natural Gas, Nicor Gas (Southern Company), and Cleveland Advisory. Panel discussions offer an excellent opportunity to gain actionable insight into topical issues, with drill-down focus, from a variety of unique perspectives.

A special all-women Panel is also been included in this year’s Agenda, entitled “Beyond the Seat at the Table: Influence, Impact & Opportunity”. This Panel of women across the energy industry, examines how female leaders are influencing critical decisions, driving meaningful impact, and creating opportunities for future leaders. Panelists will draw on their own experiences, sharing perspectives on leadership, professional growth, and the ways mentorship and sponsorship can help unlock potential in others.

The Program also incorporates multiple sessions of dedicated time for networking, to facilitate discussion, including with Speakers, and to meet and connect with existing and prospective customers, as well as key product/service providers from across the value chain.

This Forum focuses on U.S. mid-continent natural gas markets, while five other LDC Gas Forums throughout the year address other primary regions and key market segments across the continent. Registration is available at www.ldcgasforums.com/mc.

About the LDC Gas Forums

The LDC Gas Forums (4), Gulf Coast Energy Forum, NatGas to Power Forum, series consists of six annual events, each focused on a key natural gas market region across North America. This is where buyers and sellers meet to do business. Much more than simply conferences, the Forums are a purpose-built event that delivers insights into critical issues affecting natural gas, LNG, natural gas power generation, and emerging energy markets, but in addition, provides participants opportunities to meet with industry counterparts to complete commercial business transactions. Timely panel discussions featuring key industry experts focus on important questions facing buyers, sellers, transportation operators, service/product suppliers, and other market stakeholders in competitive energy markets. Topics addressed include: natural gas and LNG market fundamentals (supply/demand); price forecasting; LNG exports; natural gas power generation demand (incl. for AI Data Centers); gas/electric coordination; natural gas and LNG midstream infrastructure; energy policy; regulation; legal; geopolitics; Mexico gas exports; natural gas end user perspectives; virtual pipeline solutions; technology innovations for energy; energy evolution/additions providing supply security, affordability, and lower carbon alternatives (incl. certified gas, RNG, CCS).

Participants at the Forums include C-Suite market leaders, decision makers and subject matter experts, representing all segments of the commercial natural gas and LNG value chain including utilities, industrial gas consumers, producers, pipelines, marketers, key service/product providers, as well as policy makers, regulators and market analysts. Multiple dedicated networking sessions give you access to your clients, prospects, and peers to pursue opportunities in the market.

Even in today’s digital age, natural gas and LNG market participants appreciate events that facilitate face-to-face interaction. The LDC Gas Forums are uniquely structured to meet this expectation. The Forums have been the venue of choice for thousands of participants for several decades.

The LDC Gas Forums: Southeast, Northeast, Energy Innovations: Rockies & West, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast Energy Forum, and NatGas to Power Forum.

Where the Natural Gas Industry Gathers: Networking – Insights – Deal-Making

www.ldcgasforums.com

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Artefact and BigID Announce New Partnership into North America to Secure the Data Foundations Behind Enterprise AI

New York, USAThe combination of BigID’s data security and AI data intelligence platform and Artefact’s AI Risk & Data Trust practice gives North American enterprises a single path from data exposure to governed, defensible

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The combination of BigID's data security and AI data intelligence platform and Artefact's AI Risk & Data Trust practice gives North American enterprises a single path from data exposure to governed, defensible

Artefact, the global AI-first consultancy, and BigID, the data security, compliance, and AI data intelligence platform, today announced a new strategic partnership across North America.

The alliance adds BigID’s data discovery, classification, and security posture management layer to Artefact’s AI Risk & Data Trust practice, giving joint clients a path that starts with knowing where sensitive data actually lives and ends with an enforced, auditable AI governance program built on top of it.

This partnership responds to a risk many enterprises are only beginning to address: AI tools now reach more of the business’s data than security teams can see or control, from shared drives and SaaS systems to the files and prompts that power today’s AI agents. As sensitive data increasingly flows into AI systems without oversight, it runs into a fast-expanding wave of state data-security, breach-notification, and AI governance requirements. These exposures  land on a CISO’s or general counsel’s desk directly, not as a line item in an AI governance policy.

“Enterprises want to move faster with AI, but they need confidence that sensitive data won’t end up in the wrong hands or the wrong AI workflow,” said Ian Williamson, SVP of Alliances at BigID. “BigID brings visibility and control over the data people and AI agents can access. Artefact brings the expertise to put those controls to work across the business. Together, we help customers build security into their AI programs from the start and keep pace as those programs grow.”

Artefact’s North American entity, led by Ghadi Hobeika, pairs regulatory and governance-architecture expertise with hands-on technical build, including policy-as-code implementation and MCP governance work for agentic AI systems, alongside advanced deployment partnerships with Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

Artefact was also named Google AI Partner of the Year in EMEA for two consecutive years and is among a select group of firms worldwide holding deployment certifications across all three major frontier AI platforms.

“Governance frameworks only work if you know what you’re governing,” said Ghadi Hobeika, CEO North America, Artefact. “BigID gives our clients the visibility and control layer; what sensitive data exists, where it lives, and who or what can reach it, including the AI systems now querying it directly. We build the program on top: executing the access controls, the audit trails, the operating model that turns visibility into an enforceable standard. This partnership lets us start engagements a step earlier and hand clients something more defensible at the end.”

Co-delivering AI trust and security

The partnership combines BigID’s Data Security Platform, including Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), AI Security Posture Management, DSPM-Augmented DLP, Data Access Governance, and AI Governance, with Artefact’s implementation capabilities across the data security and AI-readiness lifecycle: data discovery and classification, access governance design, AI data-exposure assessment, DLP and DSPM policy tuning, and integration into broader AI governance and automated decision-making technology (ADMT) programs already underway at client organizations.

As part of the expanded relationship, Artefact has also been certified as a BigID reseller for North America, allowing Artefact-led engagements to include BigID licensing directly under a single commercial relationship, reducing procurement friction for clients who want one accountable partner for both the technology and the delivery.

The substance of the partnership is the delivery model: joint methodology, cross-trained technical teams, and Artefact staff operating the BigID platform as part of broader AI Risk & Data Trust engagements, not a standalone software resale motion.

“The conversation about AI governance has gotten ahead of the conversation about data,” said Paul Laurent, Head of AI Risk & Data Trust, Artefact. “You cannot write a credible AI policy for data you haven’t classified, or attest to controls over access paths you haven’t mapped. This partnership lets us close that gap for clients before it turns up as a finding in their next audit.”

The partnership includes joint go-to-market programs, coordinated client enablement, and delivery teams cross-trained across both platforms, extending Artefact’s AI Risk & Data Trust practice down into the data security layer it depends on.

About Artefact

Artefact is a leading AI-native consulting and engineering firm that bridges the gap between visionary strategy and production-grade delivery to reshape the future of work. Headquartered in Paris and leading the market across Europe, our global force of 2,500+ professionals across 27 countries helps the world’s top brands turn AI potential into massive, measurable value. Since 2014, our team has moved past the pilot phase to design, build, and scale high-impact AI programs and agentic workflows for over 1,000 global clients, including some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

In North America, our specialized AI Risk & Data Trust practice works with enterprise clients in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and technology to build the crucial governance infrastructure required to deploy AI responsibly at scale. Backed by Cinven, Artefact holds advanced deployment partnerships with industry giants Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and was proudly named Google AI Partner of the Year in EMEA for two consecutive years. This is where top-tier consulting meets engineering-grade execution to build a smarter, more responsible, and more productive tomorrow.

For more information, visit artefact.com

About BigID

BigID helps organizations connect the dots in data & AI: for security, governance, privacy, compliance, and AI data management. BigID enables customers to find, understand, manage, protect, and take action on high-risk & high-value data, wherever it lives. Customers use BigID to reduce their AI & data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data throughout their entire data landscape: from the cloud, on-prem, and everywhere in between. BigID has been recognized for innovation as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer; named to the Forbes Cloud 100; the Inc 5000 for 4 consecutive years; the Deloitte 500 for 4 consecutive years; Market Leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM); and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner.

For more information, visit bigid.com

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NovaChargeX Unveils XDriveMax™, a New Hybrid Energy Architecture Designed for the AI Infrastructure Era

SAN FRANCISCO, CAProtected standalone-capable technology developed to enhance existing energy systems and support growing power demand from AI data centers, industrial facilities and next-generation infrastructure

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Protected standalone-capable technology developed to enhance existing energy systems and support growing power demand from AI data centers, industrial facilities and next-generation infrastructure

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, data centers and electrified infrastructure is creating a growing challenge for the global energy sector: how to provide reliable, scalable electricity while existing grids, renewable resources and generation assets continue to face capacity, efficiency and reliability constraints.

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For NovaChargeX, this challenge represents more than a market opportunity. It reflects the growing need for new energy technologies and different approaches to how energy systems are designed, integrated and enhanced.

NovaChargeX has developed XDriveMax™, a protected hybrid regenerative energy architecture designed to operate as a standalone system or integrate with existing energy infrastructure. The technology is intended to expand energy-system capabilities in environments that may already include grid electricity, solar, wind, battery storage or other generation resources.

Unlike technologies designed around a single operating configuration, XDriveMax™ provides flexibility across multiple applications. It can function independently where a standalone energy architecture is required or be deployed within existing energy environments to support broader system performance without requiring the replacement of infrastructure already in operation.

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This flexibility reflects NovaChargeX’s focus on developing new energy architectures rather than simply introducing another source of electricity. The company has designed XDriveMax™ as a technological platform capable of operating independently while also complementing existing and emerging energy systems.

The significance of this approach is becoming increasingly clear as global electricity demand accelerates.

Modern AI data centers require substantial and continuous electrical power, often operating around the clock. Reliability, availability and resilience have therefore become central considerations for developers, utilities and infrastructure operators seeking to support expanding computational workloads.

Meeting future energy requirements will likely require multiple technologies working together, alongside architectures capable of operating independently when necessary. Existing generation assets and electric grids will continue to play a critical role, while additional technologies can contribute greater flexibility, integration and capacity to support the expansion of high-demand infrastructure.

Within this evolving environment, NovaChargeX is pursuing a clear objective: bringing XDriveMax™ into commercial applications supporting AI computing facilities, data centers, industrial operations, commercial developments and other energy-intensive infrastructure through either standalone deployment or integration with broader energy systems.

The company is actively exploring commercial deployments, strategic partnerships and integration opportunities across multiple international markets as it advances commercialization of the XDriveMax™ platform.

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Rather than positioning the technology solely as a replacement solution, NovaChargeX is focused on environments where its hybrid regenerative architecture can provide independent capability or work alongside existing infrastructure to expand the flexibility and resilience of broader energy systems.

NovaChargeX is also developing the NCX digital infrastructure layer alongside XDriveMax™ to support deployment authorization, operational data management, system coordination and future infrastructure administration across installations.

NovaChargeX’s technology is supported by intellectual-property filings and protections in the United States and other jurisdictions, forming part of the company’s strategy to establish and commercialize its proprietary energy architecture internationally.

As demand from AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing facilities and other energy-intensive industries continues to grow, generation capacity, reliability, system integration and intelligent energy management are becoming increasingly interconnected.

NovaChargeX intends to participate in this transition by bringing a new energy architecture to market—one designed to operate independently when required and to work alongside the energy infrastructure already being built and deployed around the world.

The company’s next chapter is therefore not simply about supplying more energy. It is about expanding the ways energy can be generated, integrated and managed for a new generation of power-intensive infrastructure.

About NovaChargeX

NovaChargeX is a U.S.-based energy technology company developing XDriveMax™, a protected hybrid regenerative energy architecture designed to operate as a standalone system or enhance existing and emerging energy systems, together with the NCX digital infrastructure layer. The company focuses on deploying and integrating its technology across industrial, commercial and next-generation infrastructure applications.

NCX Infrastructure Layer: www.novachargex-ncx.com

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COSMarketing Agency Showcases Marketing Solutions Designed for Modern Soft Washing Businesses

Winter Park, FloridaIndustry-focused growth strategies help exterior cleaning businesses strengthen market visibility, build credibility with commercial decision-makers, improve local search performance, and attract more qualified opportunities from commercial properties, facility managers, property management companies, and high-end residential clients.

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Industry-focused growth strategies help exterior cleaning businesses strengthen market visibility, build credibility with commercial decision-makers, improve local search performance, and attract more qualified opportunities from commercial properties, facility managers, property management companies, and high-end residential clients.

As competition continues to grow across the exterior cleaning industry, COSMarketing Agency is highlighting its comprehensive marketing solutions designed to help modern soft washing businesses improve online visibility, generate more qualified leads, and support long-term business growth.

Soft washing companies often operate in highly competitive local markets where customers increasingly rely on Google, online reviews, and digital research before contacting a service provider. Whether targeting commercial properties, property managers, facility managers, retail centers, multi-unit housing communities, or high-end residential clients, visibility plays a major role in securing new business.

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Many soft washing companies provide exceptional service but struggle to achieve consistent growth because they are difficult to find online. Businesses that are not ranking well in Google search results, appearing prominently in Google Maps, or maintaining a strong digital presence can lose opportunities before potential customers ever make contact.

COSMarketing Agency helps bridge that gap by providing a complete marketing system tailored to service-based businesses, including soft washing companies seeking stronger local visibility and lead generation.

“Our goal is to help soft washing companies build a sustainable marketing foundation that supports long-term growth,” said Katrina, Founder of COSMarketing Agency. “Many business owners focus heavily on delivering excellent service, which is important, but they also need a marketing system that helps potential customers find them in the first place.”

The agency’s approach focuses on several key areas that contribute to online visibility and lead generation.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps soft washing companies improve their rankings in Google search results and appear when potential customers search for exterior cleaning services. Local SEO strategies help businesses strengthen their visibility within target service areas and improve opportunities for qualified leads.

Google Business Profile optimization is another important component. Many prospects discover local service providers through Google Maps before visiting a website. Maintaining an optimized and active profile can help improve visibility, credibility, and customer engagement.

Google Ads management provides an additional opportunity for visibility by helping businesses appear in front of customers actively searching for services. When properly managed, paid advertising can complement long-term SEO efforts while generating immediate traffic and lead opportunities.

Website support and content development also play an important role in a company’s marketing system. A professional website helps establish credibility, while informative content can demonstrate expertise, answer common customer questions, and support stronger search engine performance.

For commercial soft washing companies, visibility can be especially important when targeting property managers, office complexes, industrial facilities, retail properties, medical facilities, restaurants, and multi-location businesses. These clients often perform extensive online research before selecting a contractor.

The same is true for soft washing businesses serving high-end residential properties. Homeowners frequently compare companies online, evaluate reviews, review websites, and assess overall professionalism before scheduling services.

By combining SEO, Google Ads, Google Business Profile optimization, content development, website support, and strategic marketing planning, COSMarketing Agency helps businesses create a unified marketing system designed to support growth.

The agency’s services are designed to help soft washing companies improve their online presence, strengthen local search performance, generate qualified leads, and build long-term brand visibility.

“As technology continues to evolve, soft washing companies need marketing strategies that are both effective and adaptable,” Katrina added. “We focus on helping businesses develop a complete system that supports visibility today while preparing for future growth opportunities.”

Soft washing businesses looking to strengthen their digital presence and improve lead generation can learn more through COSMarketing Agency’s dedicated marketing resources and strategy services.

Book a FREE Marketing Strategy Meeting

Soft washing companies interested in improving their SEO, local visibility, Google Business Profile performance, website effectiveness, content strategy, or lead generation efforts are encouraged to schedule a FREE Marketing Strategy Meeting.

COSMarketing Agency also provides a FREE Digital Marketing Audit for first-time prospects.

Name: Katrina Tecxidor

Phone: 407‑334‑9378

Email: [email protected] 

Website: COSMarketingAgency.com

About COSMarketing Agency

COSMarketing Agency is a Winter Park, Florida-based digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, content development, social media management, website maintenance, Google Business Profile optimization, Google Ads support, press releases, and long-term marketing strategy. 

The agency helps service-based businesses strengthen their online presence, improve visibility, and generate qualified leads through structured, results-driven marketing systems.

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