Dice Midwest 2022 | Bisnow | 22 September 2022 | Kimpton Gray Hotel, 122 W Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603

What You'll Learn?
• Chicago is America's 3rd largest city and is home to over 40 Fortune 500 Companies. What do cloud end users want as new technologies continue to push for the need of cloud services?
• With large lease signings taking up more absorption, what will the supply look like given speed to market challenges?
• What is the cost of entry in the midwest market? What new investment potential is there?
• What demand and requirements are we seeing from the enterprise end users?
• What governmental changes are ahead for Chicago as colocation continues to build in the dense city?

Who You’ll Meet:
Owners, providers, brokers, contractors, director of operations, director of operations, CIOs, investors, engineers, lawyers, CEOs, vice president of design and construction

2022 Speakers

OPENING KEYNOTE:

Roder Fahnestock
CIO, Kane County, IL

Adel HaddadK
CIO, Chicago State University

Michael Pegues
Chief Information Officer, City of Aurora, IL

STATE OF THE MIDWEST MARKET:

Daniel English
President & Co-Founder, Legacy Investing

Phill Lawson-Shanks
Chief Innovation Officer, Aligned Data Centers

Phillip Koblence
Co-Founder & COO, NYI

Avner Papouchado
CEO, ServerFarm

MODERATOR:

Kemal Hawa
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION:

Joshua Fluecke
Principal, Syska Hennessy Group

Jonathan Gibbs
Senior VP, Design & Construction, Prime Data Centers

Judy Berglund
Senior Systems Engineer, Dell EMC

John Diamond
VP, Engineering, Evoque Data Center Solutions

Kurt Lindorfer
Founding Principal, PARADIGM Structural Engineers

MODERATOR:

Alan Lurie
Project Executive, Clayco

EDGE-TO-CLOUD OPERATIONS AND DCIM:

Bill Kleyman
Executive VP, Digital Solutions, Switch

Mitchell Fonseca
Senior VP & GM, Data Center Services, Cyxtera Technologies

​Raymond Parpart​
​Director, Data Center Strategy & Operations, University of Chicago

Rod Elder
Global Principal, Equinix

Dave Meadows
Director, Technology, STULZ

MODERATOR:

Joe Reele
VP, Solution Architects, Schneider Electric

SITE SELECTION & TAX INCENTIVES:

Josh Grodzin
Director, Business Development & Marketing, Elk Grove Village

David Horowitz
Senior Vice President, T5 Data Centers

Angela Imming
Director, Technology & Innovation, City of Highland

Judy Ring
Business Recruitment Executive, Xcel Energy

MODERATOR:

Ed Sitar
Manager, Economic & Business Development, ComEd

FUTURE DRIVERS OF DEMAND:

Erin Braddock Guthrie
Senior Director, Cloud & AI Strategy, Microsoft

Mark Houpt
CISO, DataBank

Nabeel Mahmood
Member, Board of Directors, United Security Bank

2022 Sponsors

• CLAYCO
• comed
• Beyond Business Friendly
• consoleconnect
• JSA
• everywhere Wireless
• HOFFMAN ESTATES
• NOMAD FUTURIST FOUNDATION
• NYI
• PARADIGM
• Schneider Electric
• STULZ
• SYSKA HENNESSY
• T5DATACenters
• Tate
• UptimeInstitute
• XcelEnergy