Energy Infrastructure & Community Engagement Conference 2026
October 13–14 | Vancouver, BC | 4th Year Attending
This is our fourth year at the conference and this year we are happy to be the official Technology Sponsor. Visit us to see how our software helps energy companies and infrastructure developers strengthen social license, streamline land access, and build lasting trust with the communities they work alongside.
Why Meet Us at the Conference?
Energy infrastructure professionals attend this conference to find smarter ways to advance community engagement and keep major projects on track. Irth brings together the capabilities needed to centralize stakeholder engagement, manage land access, and reduce the risks that delay critical infrastructure.
Strengthen Social License, Accelerate Projects, Build Community Trust
In energy infrastructure, early and consistent engagement isn't optional — it's what keeps projects moving. Borealis helps your teams
- Centralize land access, permitting, and community engagement in one system
- Connect every stakeholder, parcel, and permit through integrated GIS mapping
- Capture early community sentiment to guide site selection and reduce project risk
- Quickly build and maintain accurate stakeholder and landowner lists to accelerate land access and emergency communication
- Streamline consultation processes required for permitting and regulatory approvals
- Improve land-access negotiations with clear communication logs and histories
- Respond quickly to concerns and build long-term trust with host communities
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Why Meet Us at IAP2 NAC?
Public participation practitioners, consultants, and government decisionmakers attend IAP2 NAC to find better ways to build trust with communities and demonstrate accountability throughout the engagement process. Borealis software brings together the capabilities needed to make that process structured, transparent, and defensible.
Strengthen Trust, Simplify Consultation, Protect Your Record
Whether you're managing public consultation for a major project, running ongoing community engagement programs, or preparing for regulatory review, Borealis can help your teams:
- Centralize stakeholder and public input into a single, searchable engagement history
- Digitize consultation workflows, from notifications and comment tracking to issue resolution
- Coordinate outreach across teams with shared visibility into who's been contacted and when
- Quickly build and maintain accurate stakeholder lists to support notification and awareness campaigns
- Streamline reporting required for regulatory and permitting approvals
- Demonstrate, with clear records, how public input actually shaped project decisions
- Reduce risk by keeping a traceable, audit-ready log of every engagement touchpoint
Monitoring
Automatically trigger a monitoring activity to ensure each excavation is performed accurately and safely.
Locate Audit
Capture and score locates, identify technician training gaps, optimize field resources, and improve the accuracy of locate services and mapping.
Pre-Excavation Checklist
Ensure technicians are following regulations and processes with the Pre-Excavation Checklist form.
Damage Investigation
Collect data on critical damage, near misses, and more to help improve safety and overall processes.
Drew Collier
Solutions Engineer
Megan Scudder
Product Manager, Corrosion Management
Sheri Baucom
Product Marketing Manager
Joshua Fuller
Director, Marketing
CJ Kowalke
VP, Irth Training
Bill Wagg
Account Executive
Mike Radich
Account Executive
Will McMillan
Account Executive
Adam Hooper
Account Executive
Shane Mattix
Solutions Engineer
811 Ticket Management
Comprehensive one call ticket management
Predictive and prescriptive analytics with AI
Automated ticket screening, routing, and dynamic dispatching
Automated positive response to one call and excavators
Accurate geo-location mapping and map layers viewable whether online or offline
Document and image attachments
Native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows
Fully configurable workflows for field operations (locate audits, damage investigations, claims processing, etc.)
Automated, customizable workflows
Work portal for tasks, alerts, and notifications
Reporting and analytics featuring Microsoft Power BI
Seamless integrations with internal and external systems
Locate accuracy and training
When It Comes to Damage Prevention, Nobody Has Irth’s Experience with 811 Ticket Management
Our customers in the energy, gas utility, telecommunications, and electric utility industries have millions of miles of pipelines, cables, and critical network infrastructure that need constant, vigilant protection. We understand that one misguided excavation can result in serious injury to workers or a massive outage that could be crippling to business and communities.
By using Irth’s cloud-based platform, companies can electronically receive, respond to, and resolve excavation requests. Our solution is connected to every one call center in North America, so you can manage 811 tickets no matter where your critical network infrastructure is. Our technology is also constantly updated to adhere to regulations across all states, provinces, and territories. We’re committed to ensuring your critical assets are functioning and protected from potential damage.
Protect your critical infrastructure, improve public safety, and meet time-sensitive regulations — all from one platform.
When it comes to damage prevention, nobody has Irth’s experience with 811 ticket management.
Our customers in the energy, gas utility, telecommunications, and electric utility industries have millions of miles of pipelines, cables, and critical network infrastructure that need constant, vigilant protection. We understand that one misguided excavation can result in serious injury to workers or a massive outage that could be crippling to business and communities.
By using Irth’s cloud-based platform, companies can electronically receive, respond to, and resolve excavation requests. Our solution is connected to every one call center in North America, so you can manage 811 tickets no matter where your critical network infrastructure is. Our technology is also constantly updated to adhere to regulations across all states, provinces, and territories. We’re committed to ensuring your critical assets are functioning and protected from potential damage.
Protect your critical infrastructure, improve public safety, and meet time-sensitive regulations — all from one platform.
Not Attending?
You are missing out, but we can still organize a deeper dive into how Borealis can support your operations now.
Irth’s market-leading SaaS platform improves resilience and reduces risk in the sustainable delivery of essential services that millions of people and businesses rely on every day. Energy, utility, and telecom companies across the U.S. and Canada trust Irth for damage prevention, asset integrity, land management, and training solutions. Powered by business intelligence, analytics, and geospatial data, our platform helps deliver the 360-degree situational awareness needed to proactively mitigate and manage risk of critical network infrastructure in a changing environment. Irth has been the top provider for 811 (one call) ticket management and utility locating software since 1995.
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