KSEA Seattle Energy & Data Forum 2026

The Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association Seattle chapter holds its Energy & Data Forum on Saturday, November 14, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Westin Bellevue Hotel, Fort Peck Lake Room, 600 Bellevue Way Northeast. The theme is Food for Thought: Energy for AI and the Future of Power. The host page frames sessions on AI and energy infrastructure for data centers, smart-grid and green-energy scale, and industry-academia collaboration. Organizers listed are KSEA Seattle and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle. Host copy points to collaboration with organizations such as Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, the University of Washington, and regional research institutes; treat that as the room's target density, not a confirmed speaker list.

KSEA is the national Korean-American STEM professional association; Seattle is the local chapter that also runs competition and career programming. This Saturday forum is a technical and policy room, not the South Asian Bar Association gala at Meydenbauer earlier in the month and not PSPINC's bilingual coffee at its Bellevue HQ. The public page does not print a ticket price or a full speaker grid. Email admin@seattle.ksea.org for registration, fee, and any member versus non-member line before you assume a walk-up seat.

Go if you work energy, grid, data-center, or AI infrastructure on the Eastside and want Korean-American STEM density with a consulate-backed host line. Skip it if you needed Changbal Mentoring Day the same afternoon at UW, or a bar-association dinner. Those pull different titles on the same Saturday. A half-day at the Westin and an afternoon at UW only works with a hard travel plan across the bridge.

Bellevue Way Northeast is Downtown Bellevue; budget garage time for a 10:00 start and a late lunch if the forum runs continuous. Screenshot whatever confirmation the chapter sends. Re-check the speaker list the morning you go. If you are choosing between this Westin day and Changbal's UW mentoring block later the same day, stay here for energy and grid; go to UW for career mentoring circles.