Dice Southwest 2019 | Bisnow | 30 April 2019 | INAP, 2121 S Price Rd, Chandler, AZ 85286, USA

Join us for our second annual Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Southwest in Phoenix!

Once a viable alternative to the more expensive California market, Phoenix has become the pinnacle of the Southwest data center landscape. Currently at 1.61M SF, the Phoenix market is currently poised to enter the top five in the U.S. Nearby submarkets in Mesa and Chandler are already emerging as hotspots for lower real estate and power costs.

In the first half of 2018, Phoenix saw 136.5 MW under construction, driven by demand from cloud providers, hyperscalers, and a well-established retail industry. The metropolis is indeed gaining momentum as a favorable business hub for colos, with demand bringing new players into the field--Digital Realty, QTS, CyrusOne, and Iron Mountain, to name a few. Optimistic about data center demand, companies are already securing property for future developments in the coming years.

Overall, growth in the Phoenix Data Center Market can be attributed to a few factors:

-Low Power Costs
-Low Natural Disaster Risk
-Favorable Business Climate
-Newly-Implemented 10-Year Tax Breaks

Who Attends?
Bisnow's DICE Series events bring together the Data Center industry's leading executives with the following backgrounds:
- Developers
- Investors
- REITs
- Data Center Owners and Managers
- CRE Brokers
- Colocation Providers: Wholesale, Retail and Cloud Providers
- Enterprise End-Users of IT, Business Operations and Analytics
- Telecom/Fiber Companies
- Government and other Economic Development Associations
- Architects
- General Contractors
- Engineers

2019 Speakers

Demetrius Comes
VP, Engineering, GoDaddy

John Riotte
Manager, Data Center Security, Facebook

Jess Shoop
Chief Operating & Digital Transformation Officer, Arizona State University

Jeff Weil
Chief Information Officer, District Medical Group of Arizona

Jason Perez
Director, IT, Charter One

Donald Martinez
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Architecture, Best Western

Eric Liebe
Manager, Data Center Operations, Expedia

Phill Lawson-Shanks
Chief Development Officer, Aligned Energy

David Dunn
COO, H5 Data Centers

John Regan
Digital Infrastructure, Landmark Dividend

Andy Carlson
CFO, Colocation & Cloud Infrastructure - zColo, Zayo Group

Robert Covington
Partner, Redbird Capital

Arman Khalili
Founder & CEO, Evocative Data Centers

Chris Curtis
Senior VP, Acquisition & Development, Compass Datacenters

Robert McClary
VP, Operational Standards, Iron Mountain Data Centers

Therese Kerfoot
Senior VP, Customer Lifecycle & Operations, EdgeCore Internet Real Estate

Josh Williams
VP, Sales Engineering, INAP

Lane Anderson
VP, Development & Strategic Procurement, QTS

John Major
Principal, Science & Technology, Page

Brian Pate
Director, Client Relations, Constructiv

Kirk Busch
CEO, BigData Southwest

Kent Grove
Vice President , TCM Corp. / A Southland Industries Company

Mark Hurley
Solution Architect, Schneider Electric

Tom Maples
Project Executive, Advanced Technology & Mission Critical Leader, DPR Construction

Jack McCarthy
Principal & Studio Leader, HED

Kevin Sanders
Managing Principal, EYP Mission Critical Facilities

2019 Sponsors

• 7x24exchangeaz
• APS
• Arizona Stem
• Constructiv
• Data Center Frontier
• DPR Construction
• EnerSys
• Eyp mcf
• The Greer Institute
• HED
• IDCA
• INAP
• Nedas
• Page
• Schneider Electric
• Southland
• SRP
• Tate