Capre’s Greater Boston & New England Data Center Summit 2017 | CapRate Events | 12 December 2017 | Harvard University Law School, Ames Courtroom 1515 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138, US

Save the Date for Premier CAPRE New England Data Center & Connectivity Summit!

Cloud vs Colo: 2018 and Beyond, Who Wins? How will IoT impact the data center industry? If you are active in the data center industry in Greater Boston, Rhode Island or New Hampshire or emerging regional markets, or looking to become more active, you will not want to miss CAPRE’s Eastern New England Data Center Summit.

This full-day summit will be held on December 7 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro and feature 40+ speakers who will offer comprehensive market analysis of the opportunities and challenges.
The summit will feature 13 hours of combined informational panels and networking. Participating end-users will represent regional banks and the area’s most active public-and-private sector end-user firms.

40+ expert speakers will discuss the most important trends in Eastern New England, including: Analysis of supply-demand; Analysis of new tenant growth: What types of tenants are taking down space?; What is an “edge” data center and how should it fit into a company’s overall data center strategy?; How are operators effectively using DCIM?; How does the cloud impact data centers? What do you need to do to prepare for IoT?; How “real” are Software Defined Data Centers?; How are you reconfiguring your network to support your evolving needs?; How fast does your internal network need to be (10 GB, 25GB, 40 GB, 100GB, Faster?; Analysis of construction costs and Analysis of monetization deals in the data center arena.

Expert speakers will discuss trends, patterns, opportunities and challenges, including:
- What are the implications of new consolidators emerging in the data center arena?
- What types of industry changes might we expect in 2017?
- How will political changes around the globe impact the data center industry in 2017?
- What are the new innovations relative to connectivity and data center design?
- What is the global outlook in 2017 for data center investment and development?
- Why is there such a huge valuation differential between the “haves” and “have nots” – i.e., scale, cash flow, strategic relevance?

2017 Speakers:

Sami Badri
Senior Analyst, Credit Suisse

Daniel Bodenski
Managing Director, DAB Solutions

Michael Boyle
Strategic Planning Director, Westin Building Exchange

Robert Bunger
Director of Data Center Industry Alliances, Schneider Electric

Gabe Cole
Managing Director, JLL

Chris Coleman
Vice President - Enterprise Sector, Digital Realty

Bruce Edwards
President, CCG Facilities

Michael Eichmann
Director of Data Center Operations, Carbonite

Matt Gleason
General Manager, New York, CoreSite

Roger Karam
Chief Executive Officer, Northern Investment Partners Inc.

Mark Kidd
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Iron Mountain Data Centers

Peter Knauf
Northeast Regional Manager, Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corporation

Miles Loo, Jr.
Global Lead, Valuation & Advisory, Data Center Consulting Group, Newmark Knight Frank

Christopher McLean
Associate - Mission Critical Project Director, R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, LLP

Daniel Meltzer
Vice President of Sales and Leasing, Sabey Data Centers

Donald Mitchell
Data Center Division Manager, Victaulic

Ted Mocarski
Senior Partner, Novacap

Rich M. Modliszewski
First Vice President, CBRE New England

Kelly Morgan-Szydlo
Vice President - Services, The 451 Group

Michael Murphy
Founder/President, NEF

Mark Norton,
Vice President, CoreSite

Larry Pelletier
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Experis Data Centers LLC

Kelly J. Quinn
Research Manager, Datacenter Trends, IDC

Jose Ruiz
Vice President of Operations, Compass Datacenters

Eli Scher
Chairman and CEO, New Continuum

Vali Sorell
President, Sorell Engineering, Inc.

Mark Sullivan
Management Team Member, Markley Group at One Summer St

Christopher Trapp
Founder & CEO, UPSTACK, Inc.

Adam Waitkunas
President and Founder, Milldam Public Relations

Gary Wong
Director of Applications Engineering, Instor Solutions

Matthew Wolfe
Principal, Madera Energy, Inc.

Brian Klebash
Founder & President, CAPRE

2017 Sponsors:

• Boston Data Center Community
• Data Center Frontier
• iMiller Public Relations
• JLL
• Milldam Public Relations
• Rittal Corporation
• Victaulic