2026 Gas Forecasters Forum

PowerGEM's Gas Forecasters Forum returns to Milwaukee in October 2026! Join your natural gas utility peers for discussion and insights.
About this Event

The Gas Forecasters Forum (GFF) is the Natural Gas Industry’s annual gathering of natural gas forecasters, supply managers, planners, and analysts from utilities across North America. The GFF brings together the people doing the day-to-day work of forecasting gas, alongside the researchers, economists, and meteorologists shaping where the practice is headed.

Over three days, attendees join working sessions on the issues facing the industry right now. Last year, we covered Design Day in a changing climate, data centers and the rising interdependence of gas and electric systems, pipeline restrictions and resource adequacy, RNG and curtailment, rate setting under regulatory pressure, and long-range winter weather. Sessions are led by utility practitioners, academic researchers, and the PowerGEM team behind the MCast forecasting suite.

GFF is intentionally smaller than the typical industry conference. The agenda is built around structured sessions, but just as much of the value comes from what happens between them — the cold-snap stories, the comparing-notes-with-peers conversations, the questions you can only ask the person sitting next to you. Attendees leave with new approaches to take back to their teams and a network of people they can call when they need a second set of eyes.

What to expect

• Working sessions on the topics actively shaping gas forecasting

• A keynote from a leading utility gas supply executive

• A deep-dive Users Group Meeting covering the latest MCast updates and forecasting methods

• Peer-led discussions where attendees bring their challenges and walk away with solutions

• A research update on advances in forecasting modeling

• Evening events are designed to build the kind of connections that outlast the conference

Event details

When: October 19–21, 2026 Fly-in day: October 18, 2026

Where: Milwaukee, WI

Host: PowerGEM

Questions? Contact Alex Hunter at [email protected].
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The Gas Forecasters Forum is a curated event for the natural gas forecasting community. PowerGEM reserves the right to accept or deny any registration at its discretion. Denied registrations will be refunded in full.