Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE): Southwest 2024 | Bisnow | 3 April 2024 | Marriott Phoenix Chandler, 1600 S Price Rd, Chandler, AZ 85286, USA

What You'll Learn From Data Center Owners, Operators, or Developers:
• Phoenix was one of the most active hyperscale markets in 2022 and 2023, with a record absorption year after year. Will the trend continue in 2024?
• What are the main drivers of growth for Phoenix and the Southwest? What ecosystem developments are taking place and where is the opportunity?
• How will the development of semiconductor facilities impact the industry's future development plans and timelines?
• What are innovations and best practices in data center management to facilitate maximum efficiency? How are operators using less water and energy to cool increasing rack density?
• What cooling strategies will we be seeing more of in the next 3-5 years? What are vendors and operators seeing from their customers?
• Security on the data center site is critical to operations and can be extremely costly if an incident occurs - how are data center security manager working with various team to ensure seamless security?
• Which regions across the Southwest are driving the most development? Mesa, Goodyear now have several data center campuses - which areas are next?
• What are some of the big innovations or frameworks that we as an industry need to apply to tackle current challenges?

How You'll Do More Business From Attending:
Get up to speed on one of the fastest growing tier II data center markets, learn what customers are looking for and make better business decisions based on the right insights.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Russ Dailey
Global Business Development Manager of Data Centers, Distech Controls

Jim Mcdonald
Co-Founder & Director, Environmental Impact, Miratech Corporation

SPEAKERS:

John Regan
Carter Funds, ACCI Fund CIO

Ian McClarty
President, phoenixNAP

Anthony Wanger
Developer, Investor & Advisor, Digital Infrastructure

Jeffrey Moerdler
Member, Mintz

Ryan Gruver
Director, IT - Data Center Technology & Engineering, Banner Health

Nabeel Mahmood
Member, Board of Directors, United Security Bank

Melissa Olson
Manager, Belimo Americas

Chris Curry
CEO, Peak+ Energy

Amy Dunton
Business Development for Tier II, III and Edge, Ameristar Perimeter Security USA Inc.

Abhishek Bardhan
Vice President, Business Acquisition, Exyte

Dan Fleming
Director, Mission Critical, XYZ Reality

Saurabh Ladha
Founder & CEO, Doxel

Tony Qorri
VP, Construction, DataBank

JD Beatty
Senior Manager, Site Selection - Americas, Iron Mountain Data Centers

Gaurav Chopra
Managing Director, fivD

Allan Gazza
Manager, IT Infrastructure - Data Center, State of Arizona (Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology)

Ken Kremer
Chief Technical Officer, Data Center Strategy, Involta

2024 Sponsors

• Advanced Exhaust Solutions
• AFCOM
• Ambient.Ai
• Ameristar Assa Abloy
• Arizona STEM
• Belimo
• Big Data Southwest
• Clark Pacific
• Distech Controls
• Doxel
• Exyte
• FivD
• HED
• iMiller Public Relations
• Involta
• Mintz
• Miratech
• Nalco Water
• Nomad Futurist Foundation
• Peak+
• STULZ
• Verco Decking Inc.
• XYZ