Global Energy Show Canada returns to Calgary from June 9 to 11, 2026, bringing more than 30,000 attendees, over 500 exhibitors, and delegates from more than 100 countries to the BMO Centre.
As Canada’s largest energy marketplace and one of North America’s most influential industry gatherings, the event will again put a spotlight on the technologies helping reshape the future of energy.
One of the award categories to watch this year is the Disruptive Digital Innovator Award, a category which recognizes digital technologies with the potential to change how the energy industry operates.
For Calgary’s energy tech sector, the category carries extra weight.
The past three winners have all come from Calgary: Galatea, PrePad, and RevSolz. That track record has helped reinforce Calgary’s position as a hub for practical digital energy innovation — the kind of technology built close to the operators, assets, and industry problems it is designed to solve.
Here’s a look at the Calgary companies looking to keep the Disruptive Digital Innovator Award close to home this year.
Arcobi
Arcobi, formerly Arcus Power, offers a digital control platform for energy operations. Its tools combine clean power market data, AI forecasting, dispatch support, and asset-level automation. The platform is designed to help operators turn volatile grid and market conditions into actionable signals that can improve decisions, reduce manual handoffs, and capture value.
Scovan
Scovan’s PadX Engineering Digitalization platform automates drawing and document generation for modular well pad facilities. By converting standard engineering drawings into reusable digital templates, the system can generate manufacturing packages in hours rather than days, improving consistency, traceability, quality control, and turnaround for energy-sector fabrication projects.
VL Energy
VL Energy is bringing AI into emissions monitoring, compliance, and industrial energy efficiency. Its software ecosystem replaces traditional emissions hardware with regulatory-grade AI, while its optimization platform uses predictive analytics to reduce energy use. Together, the platforms are designed to lower compliance costs, improve data availability, and reduce fuel and electricity consumption.
These Calgary nominees show how digital innovation is becoming central to the energy sector’s next phase. The technologies may be different — from power market intelligence and engineering automation to AI-based emissions monitoring — but the broader trend is clear. Energy companies are looking for tools that help them operate more efficiently, make better decisions, and reduce environmental impact.
For this year’s nominees, winning the Disruptive Digital Innovator Award would provide more than industry recognition. It could also help open doors to new customers, partners, investors, and commercial opportunities.
The winner will be announced at the Global Energy Show Canada awards luncheon on June 11.
You can visit globalenergyshow.com for more information or to register for the event. Stay tuned to Calgary.tech and CleanEnergy.ca for more coverage of Global Energy Show Canada 2026.
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