Connect With Relion at 2026 EV Charging Summit & Expo, March 17-19, Las Vegas

The EV Charging Summit & Expo (EVCS), taking place March 17 to 19, 2026 in Las Vegas, is North America’s largest and most influential event dedicated to EV charging infrastructure. With over 200 speakers, 65 sessions, 300 exhibitors, and more than 5,000 attendees expected, EVCS draws together the full spectrum of the industry: charging network operators, fleet managers, utilities, municipalities, real estate developers, electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) manufacturers, and the investors and policymakers shaping the road ahead. It is where substantive conversations happen about the operational and technical challenges that determine whether EV infrastructure actually works at scale.

Relion will be represented at EVCS 2026 by four members of its team at Relion’s booth, #1220:

• Arthur de Vaublanc, Head of Sales
• Benoit Lacroix, Co-Founder and CEO
• Jesse White, Co-Founder and CTO
• Nader Nasr, Sales Development Representative

Benoit Lacroix will also be taking the stage as a panel moderator on Wednesday, March 18:

• Time: 11:00 am to 11:45 am
• Format: Panel
• Topic: Charger Uptime Starts With Maintenance: Building a Scalable O&M Program

The panel sits at the heart of what Relion was built to address. Charger uptime is not simply a hardware or software problem in isolation. It is an operations challenge, and solving it at scale requires the right processes, tools, and accountability structures across every stakeholder in a charging network. Benoit Lacroix will moderate a discussion with industry leaders on what it takes to build an operations and maintenance program that holds up as networks grow. Those attending EVCS who wish to connect with the Relion team are encouraged to reach out in advance to schedule time.

Charging Reliability Problems are Significant for CPOs

EV charging reliability problems are undermining confidence in electric vehicles across North America.

Broken chargers are not a minor inconvenience. For CPOs, a non-functional unit is a genuine problem. For a fleet operator whose vehicles need to be fully charged by morning, a depot charger that went offline overnight is a costly disruption. For service providers overseeing EV charging, an unresolved maintenance ticket means frustrated users.

These are the problems Relion was created to solve. Visit Relion’s booth, #1220 at EVCS.

What Relion Does

Founded in 2023 by Benoit Lacroix, an e-mobility entrepreneur, and Jesse White, a tech leader and network monitoring expert, Relion is an end-to-end operation and maintenance (O&M) solution for EV charging infrastructure. The company does not consider a problem resolved until it is actually resolved, not just logged, not just escalated, not just assigned to a technician.

The platform covers the full lifecycle of a charging infrastructure issue: detection, diagnosis, workflow management, field dispatch, and resolution. It is hardware agnostic, meaning it works with equipment from different vendors by leveraging standard communication protocols including OCPP, which matters enormously in a market where operators often manage a patchwork of chargers from multiple manufacturers.

Relion serves a wide range of customers: public charging network operators, EV fleet managers, service providers, and EVSE manufacturers. Some customers include Greenlane, Labatt, Revel and Malco.

Each segment has different operational needs, but the underlying challenge is the same. Charging infrastructure that goes down and stays down is a significant problem. Until now, most operators were cobbling together separate tools for monitoring, ticketing, dispatching, and reporting. Relion replaces that fragmented stack with a single integrated platform.

Why This Matters for the EV Charging Infrastructure Industry

Unreliable charging infrastructure creates skepticism that spreads well beyond the individual incidents, causing problems for the CPO.

Fleet operators face a more immediate version of this problem. A fleet that cannot reliably charge overnight does not run efficiently. The economics of electrification depend on the charging working. When it does not, the business case for going electric weakens, and the transition slows.

Relion’s approach, combining proactive monitoring with automated issue detection and clear accountability across charger owners, operators, and technicians, addresses the operational layer that the rest of the industry has largely ignored.

A Company Built for Results

Relion’s positioning, its insistence on end-to-end accountability, and its focus on the operational complexity that others leave to chance, puts it in a part of the market that is underserved and increasingly critical.

As EV adoption accelerates and charging networks scale, the operational demands on infrastructure will only grow. The companies that figure out reliable operations now will be the ones the industry depends on later. Relion is building that foundation.

Experience the Chaos, Strategy, and High-Stakes Decisions of Kilowatt Tycoon at Relion’s EVCS Booth, #1220

Kilowatt Tycoon is a browser-based management simulation game built by Relion that puts players in charge of running an EV charging network. The game is designed around the operational reality of charging infrastructure: chargers fail, the grid pushes back, cable thieves show up, and margins stay thin.

Players deploy and manage chargers across multiple sites, handle remote resets, balance three-phase power, manage demand charges, and decide when a truck roll is worth the cost. The simulation includes real-world complexity such as OCPP 1.6J and OpenADR 3.0 protocol exports, built-in double-entry accounting, transformer overload risks, and RF environment modeling, making it as much an educational tool as a game.

Relion created Kilowatt Tycoon as a direct expression of its core thesis: that the hardest part of EV infrastructure is not building it, but keeping it running. The game is open source and available to play directly in a browser, with contributions welcome on GitHub. For anyone curious about what it actually takes to operate a charging network at scale, from grid constraints to vandalism events to squeezing ancillary revenue out of a lemonade stand, Kilowatt Tycoon offers a surprisingly honest window into the world Relion operates in every day.

Contact Relion’s friendly and knowledgeable team today for more information, and visit Relion’s booth #1220 at EVCS. Reach out in advance to schedule time with the Relion team at EVCS.