Capre’s Second Annual Greater Montréal & Québec Data Centre Summit 2018 | CapRate Events | 17 January 2018 | Centre Mont‑Royal, 730 3rd Ave 2200 Mansfield Street Montréal, Quebec H3A 3R8 Canada

Capre Media/ Caprate Events(CAPRE) is pleased to announce upcoming National Data Center Summits in the largest United States metropolitan markets, including New York, Chicago, Portland, Washington, D.C., Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle and Phoenix. CAPRE is the organizer of the nation’s largest regional data center conference series. The first program, The Greater New York Data Center Summit was produced in November of 2011. Over the last six years, the popular conference has been produced on more than 50 occasions in the United States. In 2016, CAPRE launched The International Data Center Series, with programs in Toronto, Montreal and Western Europe.

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, CAPRE’s Second Annual Greater Montréal & Québec Data Centre Summit will bring new topics 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 in the Americas vs. Europe;
• Analysis of network reconfiguration to support evolving needs;
• Analysis of competitive Canadian markets;
• Best practices for site selection;
• A capital markets perspective on the data center industry, including analysis of the most active private equity and venture capital firms.

Who should attend and participate?

• Data center colocation, wholesale and cloud customers
• Data center developers
• Data center investors
• Data center debt and/or equity sources
• Engineers
• Architects
• Power/UPS firms
• Telecom/fiber companies
• Consultants/researchers
• Public sector executives
• Commercial real estate brokers

2018 Speakers:

Mike Armstrong
Director, GI Partners

Todd Coleman
President and CEO, Estruxture Data Centers

Roger Desgroseilliers
Head of Global ICT Center Building Operations Facilities Infrastructure & Installation Engineering, Ericsson

René Breyel
President, Claridion Inc

Roger Brulotte
Sales Director, Zayo Canada

Michael Bucheit
CEO, I.C.E. Data Centres

AJ Byers
President and CEO, ROOT | Data Center

Grace Chiang
Data Centre Solutions, Siemens Canada

Michel Chartier
President, Kelvin Emtech

Cédric Combey
Vice President, Linkbynet Managed Services

Marc Creel
Director, COLO-D

Remi Duquette
Global Head - Datacenter Clarity LC & Machine Learning, MAYA HTT Ltd

Bruce Edwards
President, CCG Facilities

Laurent Féral-Pierssens
Executive Director - Emerging Tech, KPMG Canada

Sebastien Ferreira
Director - Federal and Eastern Canada, Splunk

Jeff Ferry
Director, Goldman Sachs

Frank Gimondo
Director - Data Centre Operations, Cyxtera Technologies Canada

Michel Guernon
Sales Engineer, BELDEN

Melvin Greer
Chief Data Scientist - Public Sector, Intel Corporation

Roger Karam
Chief Executive Officer, Northern Investment Partners Inc.

Ed Kimm
VP - Cloud Solutions & Strategic Alliances, StrataCore

Roman Kowalczyszyn
Vice President - Client Operations, COLO-D

Angelo Lamanna
Advisor – Data Centre Solutions, Duffy Group Real Estate

Martin LeBlanc
Founder & CEO, Nuvoo

Conan Lee
Managing Director, JLL

Cathy Logue
Managing Director - Toronto, Stanton Chase

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

Scott Metcalfe
President, Globetech Realty

Randy Milthorpe
Cloud Platform - Canada & Caribbean, IBM

Roberto Montesi
Vice President , INAP

David Murray
Président, Hydro-Québec Distribution chez Hydro Québec

Louis Roy
Associé, Certification, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton

Aaron Sawchuk
Co-Founder, ColoSpace, Inc.

Mike Segal
International Business Development, ROOT Data Center

Philbert Shih
Managing Director - Canada, Structure Research

Vali Sorell
President, Sorell Engineering, Inc

Dave Sterlace
Global Head of Data Center Technology, ABB

Emily Sullivan
Business Development - Data Centers, Ameristar Perimeter Security USA Inc.

Fadi Tarcha
National Solution Manager, Vertiv Co

Jason van Gaal
COO, ROOT Data Center

Mathieu Vidal
Professionnel des communications, Investissement Québec

2018 Sponsors:

• Corning
• Hydro Quebec
• Montreal International