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The premier event for those who design, build & operate next-generation data centers

  • 3 Co-located events, covering the full digital infrastructure ecosystem
  • Industry-leading content, from over 250+ expert speakers
  • Best-in-class technology discovery, from over 120+ technology providers
  • Unparalleled networking opportunities with over 3,500+ industry leaders

Content aligned to your core challenges

Across a series of expert-led major panel discussions, chatham-house rule debates, interactive workshops, and closed-door lunch briefings you can tailor your agenda to the challenges most pertinent to you, uncovering innovative solutions and strategies that can enable you to drive your business forward.

In every session, you'll uncover the latest best-practice to fine-tune your operations, with plenty of opportunity for Q&A and peer-to-peer collaboration!

Understand how you can measure, manage & mitigate the environmental impact of your facilities, identify new technology solutions for decarbonizing digital infrastructure and explore how leading Hyperscale & Enterprise operators and incorporating sustainability into their strategies to ensure they're efficiently managing next-gen workloads.

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Key Speakers

  • 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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  • 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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Explore the evolving cooling mix for 2025 and beyond, exploring different solutions to identify the right balance between resilience, cost effectiveness and sustainability, while also meeting the growing demands of modern, high density workloads.

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Understand how your peers are tackling the evolution of grid interactivity and securing power supply, with technology deep-dives into microgrids, onsite generation and energy storage. You can elose expect in-depth insights into the ways power design is evolving for higher densities.

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Key Speakers

  • 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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Explore the rapidly evolving ecosystem of advanced compute - including the ongoing growth in demand for cloud and it's role in the AI/HPC landscape - identifying strategies and best-practice that can be deployed to close the IT/OT divide whilst maintaining a robust, adaptable base infrastructure.

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Tech Discovery opportunites in-depth...

Welcome to the DCD 5x5 pitch sessions; where innovation meets precision. You'll enjoy rapid-fire pitches from technology providers across the industry, where each partner has 5 minutes and 5 slides to deliver their boldest ideas and game-changing solutions.

Fast-paced and impactful, these on-stage presentations are where the future of digital infrastructure takes shape. Post-presentation, you can follow up with speakers on the show floor, getting your key questions on their pitches answered 1-2-1.

On Day One, you'll have the chance to get hands-on with some of the latest solutions during the dedicated Explore the Floor Hour. Product experts will be on-hand throughout the event to answer your questions and help problem-solve some of your procurement challenges.

The Show Floor is also open throughout the day on Day Two, to enable you to have in-depth conversations with suppliers and their product development teams.

When the Show Floor opens on Day Two, you'll have the opportunity to take in technical presentations on the dedicated DCD>Showcase Stage, where we'll host back-to-back sessions led by product experts with plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

Tailor your networking to your interests...

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  • End-User/Specifier (formerly VIP Pass)

    March 24-25 Free

    Includes access to

    Connect | New York

    Compute | New York

    Investment Forum | New York

    For end-users within the digital infrastructure industry

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ End-users within the data center industry from Enterprise and Hyperscale

    ✅ End-users specializing in IT, Compute, Storage or Networking

    ✅ Technical roles from Colocation Operators

    ✅ Specifiers of data center technology & services (technical roles) from AECs (Architects, Consulting Engineers, Contractors), Systems Integrators and Energy Utilities

    ✅ Procurement teams

    Who does not qualify?

    ❌Sales & Marketing Professionals

    ❌Technology or Service Vendors

    ❌Resellers

    ❌Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    End-User/Specifier passes include access to all three co-located events on March 24-25. You will also be invited to private activations included hosted lunches, cocktail hours and tech exchange sessions (subject to availability) and have the ability to book meetings via the event app. Complimentary food & beverages are provided throughout the event.

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  • General Admission

    March 24-25 $595

    Includes access to

    Connect | New York

    Compute | New York

    Investment Forum | New York

    For digital infrastructure investors, analysts and sales & marketing professionals

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ Sales & Marketing Professionals from: Colocation & Cloud Providers, AECs (Architects, Consulting Engineers, Contractors), Systems Integrators and Energy Utilities

    ✅ Digital Infrastructure Investors/Analysts

    ✅ Law Firms & Professional Advisory Services

    Who does not qualify?

    ❌Technology or Service Vendors 

    ❌Resellers

    ❌Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    General Admission passes include access to all three co-located events on March 24-25, with the ability to book meetings via the event app. Complimentary food & beverages are provided throughout the event.

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  • Vendor Pass

    March 24-25 $2,995

    Includes access to

    Connect | New York

    Compute | New York

    Investment Forum | New York

    For technology vendors, service vendors, resellers and recruiters

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ Technology or Service Vendors

    ✅ Resellers

    ✅ Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    This pass provides complete access to all of the open sessions and networking that takes place at all three events across March 24-25, including the Icebreaker Party, open content sessions, and the show floor.

    Purchasing multiple Vendor passes

    If you wish to purchase multiple passes for your team, event sponsorship could provide you more value, as all of our packages include passes for your team members and enhanced access to the event app. Please contact: [email protected] for the best rates.

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