Here is where to spend what's left of your travel budget for 2026, month by month.
What's actually worth a badge between now and New Years…
Let's get into it.
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BATTERY STOCKS: WEEK OF JUL 14 TO JUL 21, 2026
Data: Yahoo Finance as of Tuesday close
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September: The best climate week we have heard of…
Climate Week NYC (September 20-27, New York City). Less a conference than a citywide festival: 1,000+ events, 100,000+ people. Batteries used to be the opening act here. Grid storage and data-center power now get main-stage time. Wear comfortable shoes because the whole city is the venue.
October: The Battery Show North America (October 12-15, Detroit)
The stadium show. Yes, it's enormous and vendor-heavy. It's also where the entire North American industry stands in one convention center for four days, and being where everyone is happens to be the point of a conference. You can find me at the Cambria hotel bar drinking an old fashioned…
November: The inaugural one (this is the sleeper pick)
NAATBatt + NY-BEST Affordable Power Conference & Expo (November 3-5, Syracuse, NY). First-of-its-kind program from NAATBatt and NY-BEST, aimed squarely at the data-center power crunch: AI load growth, BESS (battery energy storage systems), UPS (uninterruptible power supply), rack-level power. First-year conferences are the small club gig before the band gets big: senior people, small rooms, no lines. The AI-and-storage collision is the story of 2026, and this is the first event built entirely around it. We ❤ NY.
(RE+ is November 16-19 in Las Vegas. 100,000 people. If you sell things, go. If you build things, your inbox will be quieter that week. Enjoy it.)
December: AABC US (December 7-10, San Diego)
The Advanced Automotive Battery Conference: a technical, pack-and-OEM-level crowd, in San Diego, in December. Twist my arm.
Pick the rooms where your next problem is being discussed, and remember that the badge just gets you in the door.
The hallway is the whole show. See you on tour.
P.S. We will be at Volta's Women in Batteries in the Bay Area July 28-30. If you want to say hello, respond to this email!