FAQS

Our focus as tradeshow and enthusiast event organizer is to build strong, long-lasting partnerships with industry stakeholders with the understanding that together we create a successful, productive marketplace.  Now more than ever, our focus turns to our customers as we have an obligation to lead the way for our industry to get back to business and provide you with a safe and productive environment to do business. 

Additionally, the events business has a direct impact on economies and job creation. The events business brings revenue to local economies as Attendees spend money traveling to the location, filling hotel rooms, utilizing local transportation options (taxis, ride sharing, car services, public transportation), and filling local establishments like restaurants and bars.

While we believe in the power of face-to-face events and what they deliver; our focus is on what our customers need now and in the future and how we can deliver the experience to best meet those needs. Our teams are talking with our customers and working on a variety of opportunities to meet the needs of each market we serve including – virtual experiences, webinars, matchmaking of buyers and seller and industry roundtables, virtual product demonstrations, hosted buyer niche events and more. 

Our team is following the government guidelines issued by the CDC and state and local officials with regards to the ongoing situation of the coronavirus/COVID-19.  Ensuring the safety of all exhibitors, attendees and staff at our events is our top priority.

We understand that ensuring exhibitors and attendees feel safe returning to events will be a critical first step in delivering an exceptional experience for you. We are working with  SISO and AEO, two leading event organizer associations to further create new high standards in safety in events.

We are working as a collective industry to enable events and trade shows to open safely by following essential safety guidelines that adhere to the best medically backed scientific practices for the safety and well-being of attendees, once stay at home orders are lifted. Additionally we are working with our travel partners, venues, hotels and the Convention & Visitors Bureaus in the cities our events operate in to protect your health and provide you with a safe and productive environment for you to conduct business. 

Our precautionary measures begin in our event planning stage and continue through your arrival at the event and a post-event review to protect all of our customers with the support of our partners and contractors including:

I. Ensure personnel and personal safety

II. Enablement of physical distancing

III. Increase health and safety measures

IV. Implement crowd control

V. Communication of policies and changes 

We want to help you get back to business through the support of live events while still ensuring you can fully enjoy the face-to-face experience that allows you to feel safe and have a peace of mind.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our team at info@powergen.com

Because of COVID19 and the need to minimize potential health risks to those connected to the event, POWERGEN International has been postponed and will be co-located with DISTRIBUTECH, March 30-April 1, 2021. In light of both governmental direction and general public health advisories delivering POWERGEN in its traditional form will not be possible at this time with the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government issued guidelines for large gatherings. Moving to Spring 2021 allows us to have more space in order to properly social distance both on the trade show floor and our conference rooms. 

The postponed event will open further opportunity for helping energy professionals navigate through the complex energy transition by conveniently co-locating POWERGEN International, the leading annual power generation event, with DISTRIBUTECH International, the leading annual transmission and distribution event. The co-location will result in bringing the energy industry together for these two powerhouse events happening next to each other, under one roof. While these events will remain separate it will allow for attendees to conveniently access both exhibits, educational offerings and provide further opportunities to connect these two audiences for networking, bringing them together to shape the future of energy. 

We will be in the North-South Hall of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. 

DISTRIBUTECH will be NB and SB  

POWERGEN will be NA and SA 

Both with main entrances at the South Concourse 
https://view.publitas.com/orange-county-convention-center/convention-center-district-map/page/1 

We are currently working on this. We plan to have the same hotels as POWERGEN’s 2020 current block and looking at adding additional hotels. View our travel page here for more updates.

We are currently working with our housing partner on a solution for this. More information will be shared soon with those who have already booked for December 2020. Contact Connections Housing for more information.  

We are still working through this as it changes weekly. We will follow CDC and Local guidelines. We will communicate our plans as we firm them up. We are looking at one way aisles, cleaning surfaces more often, temperature checks, highly recommending masks, sneeze guards at registration, limiting contact at registration etc. 

While POWERGEN and DISTRIBUTECH events and registration will remain separate it will allow for attendees to conveniently access both exhibits, educational offerings and provide further opportunities to connect these two audiences for networking, bringing them together to shape the future of energy. 

POWERGEN and DISTRIBUTECH will again be co-located. We are still working on the venue and dates and will share that information once we are contracted.

We are moving forward with March 30-April 1, 2021 in Orlando to make sure we are doing everything in our power to keep everyone safe, to ensure enough room for social distancing precautions, and also increase value and ROI with the colocation of both POWERGEN and DISTRIBUTECH. If you have feedback to share, please contact info@powergen.com as we would love to take into account as we plan for future iterations of these industry leading events.  

This is the biggest reason why we have decided to postpone the shows. We are in constant communication with all our customers and the feedback we received was that corporate travel bans were through the end of 2020.  Having it in spring 2021 was far enough for all, we surveyed our past attendees as well and 60% of them were in favor of postponing the events to spring 2021. While it is uncertain about what corporate travel bans will be going forward, it appears as though spring 2021 will be in a much better position than winter 2020-2021.

If we are in jeopardy of still dealing with a pandemic and the environment is not safe we will work with all exhibitor and attendees to find a date that is safe. We are a reputable global event organizer and will always do what it ethically right. 

Between now and March, POWERGEN International, in partnership with its media partner POWER ENGINEERING, will launch a new platform to provide timely and informative content year-round, the POWERGEN+ Series. This Series will bring together the energy community through virtual experiences for those looking for perspective and discussion on current and future issues affecting the generation market.   

While we believe in the power of face-to-face events and what they deliver; our focus is on what our customers need now and, in the future, and how we can deliver the experience to best meet those needs. Our team is talking with our customers and working on a variety of opportunities to meet the needs of the power industry professionals in addition to each of the energy markets we serve including – virtual experiences, webinars, matchmaking assistance of buyers and sellers, virtual product demonstrations and more. The schedules will be released within the next few months. Additional information can be found at powergen.com/plus

DISTRIBUTECH International is the leading annual transmission and distribution event that addresses technologies used to move electricity from the power plant through the transmission and distribution systems to the meter and inside the home. The conference and exhibition offer information, products and services related to electricity delivery automation and control systems, energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy integration, advanced metering, T&D system operation and reliability, communications technologies, cyber security, water utility technology and more. 

The two-and-a-half-day executive level summit will address the challenges facing the power generation and transmission & distribution sectors. Speakers and panellists will represent utilities, EPCs, OEMs, regulators, investors and more. They will discuss the industry’s ambitious journey to 2050, in which historically central station-based generation represents a smaller percentage of capacity, as it’s joined by renewable energy and other forms of distributed generation, including energy storage. Experts across the ecosystem, seeking solutions to prominent challenges in pursuit of a balanced and sustainable energy mix, will have the opportunity to contribute their thoughts in high-level debates with domestic and international peers. Learn more here.