*April 6, 2026 —* SEO Agency USA, the AI-first search and revenue infrastructure firm serving the energy, engineering, and industrial sectors, today announced that it has been named an Official Sponsor of all six 2026 LDC Gas Forums produced by Access Intelligence, LLC, the natural gas industry's longest-running forum series. The agency's Founder and Chairman, Jason Langella, will also serve as a featured panelist at the flagship event of the series — the 26th Annual LDC Gas Forum Southeast, held April 8–10, 2026, at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
The sponsorship spans the entire 2026 regional forum calendar, placing SEO Agency USA in front of more than 1,000 natural gas executives, LDC leaders, pipeline operators, LNG developers, and infrastructure decision-makers over the course of the year. The commitment reflects the agency's expanding practice in the energy sector, where procurement teams at LDCs, pipelines, LNG developers, and utilities are increasingly using AI search tools as their first step in vendor research — a shift that has broad implications for how natural gas technology providers get discovered, evaluated, and selected.
A Panel Built for the AI Search Era
Langella's panel is scheduled for Thursday, April 9, 2026, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and is titled "Where There's A Will, There's A Solution — Providing Innovative Technology Solutions To Overcome Infrastructure Management Challenges." The session is moderated by Melissa Griffith, Director of Operations at Enspire Energy, and features Langella alongside Dhruv Venkatraman of Trellis Energy Software, Andy Snyder of Emerson, and Scott Vogan of nGenue. Together, the panel convenes technology providers from across the natural gas value chain to address how operators, marketers, producers, distributors, LDCs, utilities, and pipelines can meet surging demand while modernizing the commercial, operational, and discovery layers of their businesses.
Notably, the panel is scheduled immediately following the Thursday keynote lunch delivered by Siemens Energy — a session titled *"From Demand Surge to Delivered Megawatts: The Gas-to-Power Opportunity Ahead"* — which frames the most urgent story in North American natural gas: that AI data centers and hyperscaler workloads are translating directly into new gas-to-power project orders, new capacity additions, and a buildout schedule that the industry must execute faster than it ever has before. Langella's panel picks up the conversation at the technology layer that determines which vendors get selected to execute that buildout.
The panel's agenda explicitly identifies priorities that map directly to SEO Agency USA's core practice areas:
- Managing commercial natural gas transactions, including pricing, billing, scheduling, ETRM, customer management, LDC EDI, and transaction automation
- End-to-end wholesale and retail operations solutions for natural gas marketers, producers, distributors, LDCs, utilities, and pipelines
- Ensuring visibility and contextual presence of solutions to potential markets
- Energy trade and transaction management that is digital, scalable, efficient, and secure
- Technology innovations spanning machine learning, digital twins, artificial intelligence, digital transformation of business operations, and business intelligence built on integrated data
Langella is expected to focus his remarks on the fastest-shifting discovery layer in the industry: how AI-driven search engines and large language models now determine which energy technology providers, LDCs, and infrastructure firms appear in the research, procurement, and decision workflows of the natural gas market — and what the companies already winning that layer are doing differently.
For the panel, Langella will present original primary research conducted specifically for the 2026 LDC Gas Forums. The work combines two studies: one measuring how more than 80 natural gas industry vendors appear across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok when real procurement queries are run, and a second measuring the factual accuracy of those same five platforms on 50 verifiable technical, regulatory, commercial, and safety-critical questions about the natural gas industry. Ground-truth answers for the second study are sourced from FERC orders, PHMSA regulations, NAESB standards, American Gas Association technical references, and NTSB incident reports. The full dataset, methodology, and scoring will be published publicly following the Ponte Vedra panel.
Quote from Jason Langella
"The procurement team at an LDC looking for a new ETRM vendor or a pipeline integrity consultant doesn't start at Google anymore," said Jason Langella, Founder and Chairman of SEO Agency USA. "They start at ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude. I'm on this panel because the industry hasn't fully processed what that shift means yet, and I've spent the last year measuring it. The companies that are going to win the next five years of natural gas procurement are the ones that figured out how to exist inside those discovery tools before their competitors did."
The 2026 LDC Gas Forums Calendar
SEO Agency USA's Official Sponsor commitment covers every forum on the 2026 LDC Gas Forums calendar. The series, described by its producers as "Where the Natural Gas Industry Gathers," convenes the operators, marketers, financiers, and technology providers that keep North American gas infrastructure running. The 2026 events are:
| Forum | Dates | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 26th Annual LDC Gas Forum Southeast | April 8–10, 2026 | Ponte Vedra Beach, FL |
| LDC Gas Forum Northeast | June 8–10, 2026 | Boston, MA |
| LDC Gas Forum Rockies & West | August 10–12, 2026 | San Diego, CA |
| LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent | September 14–16, 2026 | Chicago, IL |
| Gulf Coast Energy Forum | October 14–16, 2026 | New Orleans, LA |
| LDC Gas Forum Nat Gas to Power | November 11–13, 2026 | Austin, TX |
The LDC Gas Forum Southeast — now in its 26th consecutive year — draws 400+ natural gas executives annually and has historically convened alongside sponsors including Shell, Trafigura, and leading North American LDCs. The broader LDC Gas Forums series is produced by Access Intelligence, LLC, the publisher behind multiple energy, infrastructure, and industrial media brands.
A Cross-Industry Speaker Lineup
The 2026 LDC Gas Forum Southeast convenes executives, regulators, and advisors from across the natural gas value chain. Confirmed speakers and panelists include representatives from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the American Gas Association, the American Public Gas Association, bp, Kinder Morgan, Williams, TC Energy, Southern Company Gas, ConocoPhillips, Duke Energy, Siemens Energy, Emerson, Boston Consulting Group, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Argus Media, Natural Gas Intelligence, Gas South, Greenville Utilities Commission, and the City of Tallahassee, alongside technology and advisory firms including East Daley Analytics, NeuVentus, CB&I, CPC, Trellis Energy Software, Black Belt Energy, Cleveland Advisory, Enspire Energy, the Torridon Group, CMC Gas, and nGenue.
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