CAPRE’s Fourth Annual Greater Seattle & Pacific Northwest Data Center Summit 2018 | CapRate Events, LLC | 15 November 2018 | Embassy Suites Seattle Downtown-Pioneer Square, 255 South King Street Seattle, WA 98104 USA

As global data center markets continue to see new demand due to migration of end-user data to cloud service, traditional colocation and wholesale facilities, as well as prepare for a tsunami of data from AI, IoT, smart cities and mobile decides, CapRE 2018 International Data Center Summit Series will provide first-class venues for synergy, insider analysis and collaboration.

These conferences will shine light on issues both evergreen and under the radar, including:

• Best practices for hiring data center employees and contractors
• How to reduce costs while reducing risk
• Analysis of data center opportunities and markets in the Americas vs. Europe
• Analysis of network reconfiguration to support evolving needs
• Best practices for site selection
• Analysis of the most active private equity and venture capital firms
• Implications of M&A as well as consolidation in the data center arena
• Trends, patterns, challenges and changes from 2017 and into 2018
• Innovations in connectivity, power generation and data center design

2018 Speakers:

Chad Arnold
Senior Account Executive, Equinix

Larry Baker
Director, BTECH

Sami Badri
Senior Analyst, Credit Suisse

Chris Balocco
Sr. Business Development Executive for Cloud and Content, Equinix

Neil Bergquist
Co-Founder and CEO, Coinme & UpToken.org

Josh Buis
Principal, Data Center Advisory Group

Patrick Boss
Business Development Director, Port of Quincy

Austin Coover
Key Customer Manager, Seattle City Light

Greg Couch
Manager - Data Center Strategy, Operations & Engineering, University of Washington

Orlando Dolojan
Director - Client Engagement, Uptime Institute

Timothy Doherty
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Fortress

Jeff Ferry
Director, Goldman Sachs

John Ford
Vice President & General Manager, Intergate.Seattle, Sabey Data Centers

Patrick C. Gagnon
Managing Partner, The Parliamentary Group

Mattias Ganslandt
CEO and President, Multigrid Data Centers

Svein Atle Hagaseth
Senior Vice President North America, Green Mountain Data Center, Ltd.

Patrick Hakim, Owner
Hakim Consulting

Anthony Haupt
Data Center Market Development, CommScope

Mike Higgins
Senior Vice President, Business Development, INAP

Eric Hulbert
President, Opus Interactive, Inc

Kevin Imboden
Director of Research - Data Center Group, Cushman & Wakefield

Greg Johnston
President, Carl Solutions

Nikesh Kalra
Director, Equinix

Daniel Kennedy
Director of Sales Engineering, Tate

Brian Klebash
President & Founder, CAPRE's International Data Center Series

Moh Kilani
Researcher at Analytic Exchange Program, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Ed Kimm
Vice President - Cloud & Security Solutions & Strategic Alliances, StrataCore

Conan Lee
Managing Director, JLL

Annette Leslie
Senior Director, Aronson Security Group

Jim Marsh
Vice President, CPG

Mark McCants
Senior Consutant, The Anatara Group

Michael McGowan
CEO, DCM Limited

Ryan Monsurate
DLTA

Chris Moon
Managing Director - Technology & Telecom Banking, ING

Bruce Myatt
Founder, Critical Facilities Roundtable & Data Center Leader, Arup

Chrissy Olsen
Vice President of National Accounts, INNO4 LLC

Bharat Ranjan
Sr. Director- Cloud Data Center & Networking Services, ServiceNow

Mercy Ringelmann Manning
Vice President, Aligned Energy

John Sabey
President, Sabey Datacenter Properties

John Sheputis
Manager, DataCenters Unlimited Management Partners

Erik Stockglausner
Vice President - Wholesale Data Center Solutions, Aligned Energy

Mark Stratman
Channel Sales Manager, CyrusOne

Anthony Wanger
Data Center Developer

Arland Whitfield
CEO, Frontier Mining

Gene Williams
Senior Director & Data Center Valuation Practice Group Leader, Cushman & Wakefield

2018 Sponsors:

• 910Telecom
• Abb
• BTech
• Capitol Power Group
• Colocation NorthWest
• Commscope
• Compu Dynamics
• coreTek
• Gordon, Inc.
• Green Mountain
• INAP
• JLL
• Mortenson
• Opus Interactive
• Port of Quincy
• Sabey
• STARLINE
• Tate
• Winthrop Resource
• Xtralis
• Zayo