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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The premier event for those who design, build & operate next-generation data centers
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3 Co-located events, covering the full digital infrastructure ecosystem
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Industry-leading content, from over 250+ expert speakers
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Best-in-class technology discovery, from over 120+ technology providers
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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!
Key Speakers
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Director of Energy & Sustainability, Oracle
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Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord
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Global Engineering Risk and Controls Lead, UBS
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SVP of Energy and Sustainability, Switch
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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Chief Technology Officer, Sabey Data Centers
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Director, Development, CloudHQ
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Program Director, ARPA-E, US Department of Energy
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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Founder, CEO, Active Infrastructure
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AVP of Technical Space Operations, AT&T
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Electrical Field Engineer, AWS
Learn how you can leverage AI, automation, and hybrid IT to enhance your data center operations, gain insights from peers on overcoming the challenges of DCIM and predictive analytics, and explore strategies for balancing scalability, security, and sustainability. Expect an in-depth discussion on optimizing efficiency across on-prem, colocation, and cloud environments.
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Srinivas Garimella
Senior Manager, Data Center Systems, Google
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Co-Founder, CEO, Compass Facilities
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James Sedoruk
Director of Operations – East, Sabey Data Centers
Get to grips with how the AI boom is driving changes in site-selection, pre-construction and the design and build of facilities, with insights into the latest construction technologies and techniques being leveraged in order to meet the industry’s changing requirements for high density.
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Global Cloud Data Center Real Estate Lead, IBM
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Julie Ditchfield
Construction Project Manager, Equinix
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CEO, iM Data Centers
Understand how you can leverage edge computing to meet the demand for low-latency, high-speed data processing, learn from peers on overcoming scaling, security, and hardware challenges, and explore how leading operators are integrating edge into their infrastructure. Expect an in-depth discussion on the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of edge computing in data centers.
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Travis Hauser
Director, Technical Operations, T5 Data Centers
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Sr. Manager, Innovation, Planning and Strategy, T-Mobile
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President and Founder, Duos Edge AI
Get to grips with how global rapid adoption of cloud and hybrid IT models is continuing to reshape the data center and digital infrastructure landscapes in 2025, with exclusive insights into security protocols in place to cope with surging demands and the impact of strict regulations on scalability and AI-driven operations
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Executive Director, Wells Fargo
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Rafael Garrido
CEO, 247 Twenty Four Seven Data Centers
Addressing the convergence of the IT and telco sectors, you can expect insights into managing data networks in an increasingly capacity constrained world, the importance of upgrading networking infrastructure to support higher capacities and the latest network innovations driving next-gen computing capabilities.
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CEO, DC BLOX
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Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, New York Internet (NYI)
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Chief Technology Officer, Hudson Interxchange
Understand how shifting market dynamics, capital strategies, and investment trends are shaping data center finance. Explore which regions are attracting investment, how funding models are evolving, and the key economic forces driving digital infrastructure growth.
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EVP Real Estate Development, Applied Digital
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CEO, CMH Power & Energy Consulting
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Executive Vice President, JSA
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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Head of Compliance and US Gov Network Engineering, Oracle
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Zaid Kahn
Independent Thought Leader, Hardware and Data Center Engineering
Compare innovative solutions from the industry's leading vendors, all in one place
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.