conference · Upcoming
SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (ATCE) 2026
SPE ATCE 2026 — the petroleum engineering community's flagship event. Three days, ~5,500+ delegates expected, 150+ exhibitors. EarthScan returns with a permanent booth presence after 2025.
Date
Location
George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, USA
EarthScan
Quamer Nasim, Tarry Singh
SPE ATCE 2026 runs 21-23 October at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Three days. After 2025's 25%-YoY-growth showing (5,300+ delegates from 62 countries), 2026 is expected materially larger.
EarthScan's 2026 plan
This is the year EarthScan moves from "presented a paper" to "part of the operator-side conversation":
- Permanent booth — first time exhibiting at ATCE
- At least one technical paper under review — extending the VeerNet operator-side fine-tuning results from 2025 with multi-operator deployment data
- Customer dinner the night before the technical programme starts — closed event for the operator-side relationships we've built through Sprint 6 + Sprint 7
What we'd expect on the programme
The 2026 ATCE technical programme will likely feature:
- AI-driven reservoir simulation as a maturing track
- MLOps for petroleum engineering — production deployment patterns
- Foundation models for subsurface — research-academia community pushing cross-basin pretraining
- Energy transition geoscience — CCS site characterisation, geothermal reservoir engineering
Why ATCE matters for our customer pipeline
ATCE is where multi-quarter operator engagements get scoped over booth-side conversations. The booth investment for 2026 is a strategic one — not lead-generation-by-volume but relationship-deepening with the operators who already know EarthScan from 2025 (and possibly extending into new ones).
