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Bringing together more than 3,500 senior leaders working on North America's largest data center projects, DCD>Connect | New York will drive industry collaboration, help you forge new partnerships and identify innovative solutions to your core challenges.

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  • 3 Co-located events
  • 120+ Exhibitors showcasing the latest tech
  • 250+ Expert speakers
  • 3,500+ Senior Data Center Professionals
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    Tom Garvens

    Vice President - Advanced Technology Innovation, Google

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    Tom Garvens

    Vice President - Advanced Technology Innovation, Google

    Hands on technology executive with over 30 years of leadership in architectural definition, team building, engineering execution, and launch success. Results oriented with a strong track record of execution, incorporating many first to market IP elements. Track record of talent acquisition, development, and retention. Core Competencies: Cultivating innovation, execution planning/steering, tech partner relationships, and customer collaboration.

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    Welcome Panel: AI unleashed - Data, compute and the future of everything

    • Investment & Markets
    • Compute, Storage & Networking
    • Open Session
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    Zaid Kahn

    Zaid Kahn

    Independent Thought Leader, Hardware and Data Center Engineering

    John Hawkins

    Global Cloud Data Center Real Estate Lead, IBM

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    John Hawkins

    Global Cloud Data Center Real Estate Lead, IBM

    John Hawkins is the IBM Global Data Center Strategy and Planning Lead. John brings over 20 years and $3B of leasing experience in the data center and commercial real estate fields. John is best known for his work at Telx, where he was the Director of Global Real Estate & Data Center Expansions. During his years at Telx, John expanded the data center portfolio over seven hundred percent and negotiated over $1B+ in leases, leading to the acquisition of Telx by Digital Realty for $1.9 billion. Prior to Telx, John was Vice President of Real Estate and Data Center Logistics at Exenet Technologies, where he was responsible for the complete ownership of a multi-country facility build-out.  Earlier in his career, John was Vice President of International Operations & Real Estate at The Matlen Silver Group, where he opened operations in India and Trinidad.  

    John earned his Masters of Real Estate at New York University.

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    Major Panel: Fragmented, but functional? - Redefining capacity planning for the future

    • Management & Operations
    • Cloud & Hybrid
    • Open Session
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    Miranda Gardiner

    Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord

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    Miranda Gardiner

    Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord

    Miranda Gardiner is the Executive Director of the iMasons Climate Accord, a non-profit composed of 250+ member companies, representing more than $6T in market cap, and aligned on global carbon accounting of digital infrastructure. The organization is focused on influencing market-based decisions and driving the data center industry to ultimately achieve net zero carbon.

    With over 16 years of experience, Miranda is a driven, professional manager with extensive industry experience in green buildings, energy and water efficiency, and sustainable master plans and policies. She is passionate about the environment and improving sustainability practices through local and global engagement, with a proven record of working for international sustainability organizations like the US Green Building Council and in 2020, was recognized by USGBC as a LEED Fellow.

    Miranda is an enthusiastic author and public speaker who clearly communicates with peers, clients, and corporations to achieve individual and departmental goals. She thrives in implementing sustainable practices that result in significant cost savings, improved efficiency, and reduced environmental impact. Additionally, she is distance running coach and cycling instructor, who believes that caring for oneself resonates in caring for the planet; she has completed 8 marathons and 3 ultramarathons.

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    DCD>Debate: New York's digital footprint - Can the industry tread lighter on the planet?

    • Energy & Sustainability
    • Open Session
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    Robert Novo

    Head of Compliance and US Gov Network Engineering, Oracle

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    Robert Novo

    Head of Compliance and US Gov Network Engineering, Oracle

    Robert Novo has in-depth experience in service delivery, network operations, executive consulting, leading-edge technology and carrier-grade, resilient telecommunications. Robert is experienced with leading large team consulting projects, managing shifting priorities and delivering on-time with quality to CxOs of Fortune 500, multi-national customers.

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    Sean Varley

    Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

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    Sean Varley

    Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

    Sean Varley is the Chief Evangelist and leader of ecosystem development and partner programs at Ampere. His group is responsible for go to market, messaging, strategy and execution of developer and partner ecosystem growth programs. The team covers marketing strategy, strategic business relationships, business planning and developer recruitment for Cloud Native Computing in the rapidly evolving Cloud and Edge server markets. Our goal is to provide Products and Solutions that showcase the disruptive advantage our unique Cloud-Native server processors provide to the market.

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    Wellington Lordelo

    Global Director of AI & Innovation, Digital Realty

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    Wellington Lordelo

    Global Director of AI & Innovation, Digital Realty

    Welcome Panel: AI unleashed - Data, compute and the future of everything

    • Investment & Markets
    • Compute, Storage & Networking
    • Open Session
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    Gary Grider

    Gary Grider

    HPC Division Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

    John Lee

    Executive Director, Wells Fargo

    John Lee

    John Lee

    Executive Director, Wells Fargo

    John Lee is an innovative technology executive focused on operational excellence through driving change. Combining a proven track record for providing outstanding results and building teams with diverse skills to deliver the highest-level of customer service. Core abilities regarding analysis and optimization. Passionate about continuous learning.

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    DCD>Debate: Clouded judgment - Are enterprises asking too much of cloud providers?

    • Cloud & Hybrid
    • Open Session
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    Jennifer Ruch

    Director of Sustainability, Oracle

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    Jennifer Ruch

    Director of Sustainability, Oracle

    Jennifer is a sustainability leader within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Center Engineering team and is leading energy and sustainability for data center services. She is working towards Oracle's goals to be 100% renewable by 2025 and embed sustainability within one of the world's fastest growing public clouds.

    Prior to joining Oracle, Jennifer led Equinix's global Sustainability Program Office located within Investor Relations, helping them the EPA Green Power Partner of the year in 2020 as well as one of the largest corporate renewable energy buyers worldwide. In 2020, Jennifer also led the creation of Equinix's Green Finance Framework enabling the issuance of $3.7B in green bonds to finance their investments in green buildings, renewable energy, and energy and water efficiency. She also led their science-based targets and supported their leadership in the EU towards the formation of the EU Climate-Neutral Data Centre Operator Pact.

    She holds a master’s degree in Decision Analysis from Johns Hopkins University and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry.

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    DCD>Debate: Gridlocked - Can data centers ever escape their energy constraints?

    • Mission Critical Power
    • Open Session
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