The Connect Experience

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North America's flagship event connecting the data center ecosystem to design, build & operate sustainable digital infrastructure for the AI age

Join 4,500+ of your peers in the heart of New York city and build lasting connections through unique and memorable networking activities!

5K run, 2.5K walk and talk

Start your morning with a run or relaxed walk through Central Park while connecting with fellow operators, investors, and infrastructure leaders before the main conference program begins.
Icebreaker Networking Party

Kick off DCD>Connect with live music, drinks, and great food while meeting thousands of industry peers in a relaxed setting designed to spark new conversations and connections.
The Energy Summit

New for 2026: connecting the digital infrastructure industry with the power ecosystem shaping the AI era
Hosted Networking Lunches

Join curated tables with peers across hyperscale, enterprise, and infrastructure leadership for a three-course lunch designed to spark meaningful conversations around the industry’s biggest challenges.
Enjoy 5* service at a private VIP Dinner

Join a small group of like minded peers at a VIP Dinner designed to showcase the best in DCD hospitality and dining.

Compare innovative solutions from the industry's leading vendors, all in one place

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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!

Energy & Sustainability

Understand how you can measure, manage & mitigate the environmental impact of our 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.

Data Center Cooling

Explore the evolving cooling mix for 2026 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.

Mission Critical Power

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.

Management & Operations

Learn how you can leverage AI, automation, and software defined technologies 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.

Data Center Construction

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.

Edge Computing

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.

Cloud & Hybrid

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.

Telecoms & Connectivity

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.

Investment & Markets

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.

Compute, Storage & Networking

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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5x5 Lightning Pitch Sessions

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.

Hands-on Tech Demos

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.

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