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  • 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

    Tom Garvens

    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

    VP/GM, Cloud AI and Advanced Systems Engineering, Microsoft

    Eyal Itskovich

    Director - Strategic Acquisition Hyperscale, AI Infrastructure, Microsoft

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    Eyal Itskovich

    Director - Strategic Acquisition Hyperscale, AI Infrastructure, Microsoft

    Eyal Itskovich is a seasoned strategy and business operations professional, expert in combining strategy, analytics, and execution. Eyal loves solving complex business problems, transforming data into business insights, leading large teams, and driving change.

    Eyal is currently the lead global data center strategy at Microsoft Azure, operating at the largest scale on the planet. This includes scoping, design, and implementation of new Azure regions and data centers globally, optimizing product-market fit, and strategic client pursuit.

    Eyal joined Azure from LinkedIn, where he partnered with engineering leadership to develop strategy and drive results through setting clear objectives, making data driven decisions, and operational excellence. His track record includes developing business strategy that enabled LinkedIn’s infrastructure growth at scale by 5x, and helped determine next generation data center architecture, compute, storage, and network infrastructure that has been implemented in all LinkedIn data centers.

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    Kaitlin Savage

    PJM Lead, Energy Markets & Innovation, Google

    Kaitlin Savage

    Kaitlin Savage

    PJM Lead, Energy Markets & Innovation, Google

    Kaitlin Savage supports market development for 24/7 carbon-free energy with Google’s energy and location strategy team.

    Formerly Senior Vice President of Project Development at Hodson Energy, Kaitlin has overseen 3 GW of renewable energy project development in Virginia, Ohio, and other major US markets across PJM and MISO. Hodson Energy is a proud partner of Great Bay Renewables, backed by Altius Renewables with funds managed by affiliates of Apollo.

    Kaitlin entered the solar industry as the first employee at one of Virginia’s leading utility-scale project developers, and has since built a depth of experience across private industry and public advocacy. As Director of Public Engagement with the Solar Research Institute, Kaitlin formed partnerships with key stakeholders to develop continuing education programming for elected officials and planning staff across the Commonwealth.

    In 2017, Kaitlin served as a member of Governor-Elect Ralph Northam’s Transition Policy Council on Natural Resources. She also contributed to the landmark passage of the Virginia Grid Transformation and Security Act in March 2018, as a member of MDV-SEIA’s state policy leadership team.

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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

    Sean Varley

    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

    Wellington Lordelo

    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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