Dice East: A Premium Two Day Data Center Event 2022 | Bisnow | 25 May 2022 | Hyatt Regency Reston, 1800 Presidents Street Reston, VA 20190 USA

What You'll Learn:
• How are the dynamics of the North American data center market changing given the acceleration of data across all sectors? What are the growth drivers?
• How can data center owners and operators do business with the US government? Which certifications are needed?
• How are data center developers and operators actively addressing the sustainability challenges and minimizing their environmental footprint? Is there a sense of urgency?
• How is the data center and cloud digital infrastructure industry planning for power grid reliability and resiliency? What is the future of on-site clean energy and battery storage?
• What can we learn from power-hungry, high performance computing technologies such as blockchain, crypto and NFT mining operations? What will future-forward technologies
mean to data centers?
• What are the market demand drivers for higher power densities in the rack? What are the implications for the ecosystem of mechanical and electrical infrastructure?
• What is the perspective of investors and fund managers of this energy-intensive asset class? What trends and market dynamics are they anticipating?

How You'll Do More Business: Learn how density and market competition continues to be a limited challenge for expansion in the region, which deals are coming to the market and how industry titans are driving new trends to shape expansion intentions in the era of Industry 4.0.

Who You’ll Meet: Providers, investors, contractors, lawyers, consultants, brokers, end users, CEOs, vice president of construction, engineers, head of facilities, director of operations, city officials

Why You Should Attend: Learn how the key data center market is leading expansion solutions that the rest of the sector will follow at the largest data center conference of the year.

2022 Speakers

MODERATOR:

Ross Miles
Manager, Mission Critical - Eastern Region, Turner Construction

Miles Loo, Jr.
Executive VP & Global Lead, Valuation & Advisory, Newmark Knight Frank

Chuck Wynings
VP & GM, Tindall Corporation

Kemal Hawa
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Emily Naughton
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

SPEAKERS:

Dean Nelson
CEO, Virtual Power Systems

Peter Gross
Managing Partner, PMG Associates

David Hamner
Senior Advisor & Chief Executive, DataSpace

Lee Kirby
Co-Founder & Chairman, Salute Mission Critical

Dr. Julie Albright
Digital Sociologist, University of Southern California & Infrastructure Masons

Rob Rockwood
President, Sabey Data Centers

Eddie Schutter
CTO, Switch

Michael Zyda
Founding Director, USC Computer Science Games Program

​Andrew Schaap
CEO, Aligned

Chris Sharp
CTO, Digital Realty Trust

Arman Khalili
CEO, VPLS

Daniel English
President & Co-Founder, Legacy Investing

Dave Crowley
Managing Partner, Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Christof Hammerli
Managing Director, Cloud Capital, an affiliate of CloudHQ

Kanan Joshi
Head of Digital Infrastructure, DIF Capital Partners

Matt Stansberry
VP, North America, Uptime Institute

Nabeel Mahmood
Member, Board of Directors, United Security Bank

Shannon Hulbert
CEO, Opus Interactive

Nathan Hazelwood
Chief Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Officer, Cologix

Michael Whitlock
General Manager, Sabey Data Centers

Anthony Rizzo
VP, Public Sector, CyrusOne

Karen Petersburg
Design Manager, US East Region, Digital Realty Trust

Travis Wright
Vice President - Energy and Sustainability, QTS

Nancy Novak
Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Datacenters

Stan Blackwell
Director, Customer Solutions & Strategic Partnerships, Dominion Energy

Jeffrey Moerdler
Member, Mintz

Dave Meadows
Director, Technology, STULZ

Cary Frame
CEO, Polargy

Jon Pettitt
CCO, Excool

Marshall Sorenson
Vice President, Shockey Precast, A Metromont Company

Sean Farney
Director, Kohler Power

Julie Forsht
Manager, Eastern Region, Powersmiths International Corp.

Mukul Anand
Global Director, Applied HVAC, Johnson Controls

Anita Simmons
Chief Human Resources Officer, CPG

2022 Sponsors

• 7X24 (Washington, D.C. Chapter)
• BCS Data Center Operations Solutions
• Excool
• Fireline Corporation
• Foster Fuels, Inc.
• Jaymie Scotto & Associates
• Johnson Controls
• Kohler Power Group
• BOLAND
• Capitol Power
• Greenberg Traurig- DC and National
• Mintz
•DC ConnX
• TAS
• Powersmiths
• Nomad Futurist
• Opus Interactive
• Polargy
• Salute Mission Critical
• Schneider Electric
• Shockey Precast, a Metromont Company
• Stafford County Department of Economic Development and Tourism
• Stulz Mission Critical
• Tate Access Floors
• Tindall Corporation
• Turner Construction Company
• Vertiv Co.