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Speakers

Joel Dykstra

Reliability and Risk Global Technology Leader, Black & Veatch

Emma Strutton

Head of Channels, DatacenterDynamics

As data centers evolve to support AI, cloud computing, and digital transformation, achieving availability targets—often expressed as "five 9's" (99.999%) or "three 9's (99.9%)—has become a critical design benchmark. Join Joel Dykstra to explore how modern infrastructure design is shifting from traditional heuristics to advanced simulation-based reliability modeling.