Venue
MGM Grand
MGM Grand, 3799 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA

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Event Date Mon Oct 7 MDT - Wed Oct 9 MDT (8 months ago)
In your timezone (EDT): Mon Oct 7 2:00am - Wed Oct 9 2:00am
Location MGM Grand
3799 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA
Region Americas
Details

The event will focus on 7 key pillars that will define the future of digital infrastructure, led by C-level leaders from across the entire industry ecosystem. In addition, the event experience will offer 100+ sponsors in a jam-packed expo hall, 20+ Shark-tank style demos, thousands of 1:1 meetings, countless networking dinners and parties, and an epic closing party that the industry won't soon forget.

Senior leaders and solution providers will get together to learn and make connections that will hasten the digital infrastructure convergence that’s already underway. And they’ll leave with the “a-ha” insights and connections required to imagine, and then build, a world that meets tomorrow’s challenges.

Why you should attend:
• Deploying AI compute
• Scaling digital infrastructure sustainably
• The data center of the future
• At the intersection of data and energy
• The digital infrastructure economic forum
• Network, everywhere, all at once
• Deep dive — intelligent infrastructure

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Renee James
Founder & Ceo, Ampere

Alan Baratz
President & Ceo, D-wave

Chris Sharp
CTO, Digital Realty

Mats Hultin
Group CIO, Ericsson

Adam Smith
CTO, Fedex

Jen Huffstetler
Chief Product Sustainability Officer, Vp & Gm, Future Platform, Strategy, Intel

William Passo
Ceo, Rain Ai

Steve Smith
Ceo, Zayo Group

Jim Lockwood
Founder & CEO, Aero Wireless Group

Raiford Smith
Chief Utility Innovation Officer, AES Corporation

Anubhav Raj
CFO, Aligned

Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer, Ampere

Renee James
Founder & CEO, Ampere

Charles Hoop
Head of IT Sourcing, Aon

Michael Maniscalco
CTO, Applied Digital

Suresh Pichai
Principal Mechanical Engineer, Arcadis

Jeff DeCoux
Founder and Chairman, Autonomy Institute

Tim Hayden
CEO, Brain+Trust

Peder Naerbo
Founder & Executive Chair, Bulk Infrastructure

Hassan Moezzi
VP of Sales, Cadence Design Systems

Andrew Fanara
Sustainability Advisor, Casne Engineering

Christian Pflaum
CEO, Cerabyte

Andy Hock
SVP, Product & Strategy, Cerebras Systems

Erica Thomas
VP/Director, CO2EFFICIENT/Liquid Cooling Coalition

Rachel Stack
CFO, Cologix, Inc.

Moises Levy
Managing Director, Research and Market Intelligence, DatacenterDynamics

Sebastian Moss
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, DatacenterDynamics

David Liggett
CEO & Founder, datacenterHawk

Chris Orlando
Founder, DDC Cabinet Technology

Ivo Ivanov
CEO, DE-CIX

Christian Belady
Senior Advisor, Digital Bridge

Suzie Gleeson
VP, Global Accounts, Digital Realty

Chris Sharp
CTO, Digital Realty

Alan Baratz
President & CEO, D-Wave

Rhea Williams
Chief Commercial Officer, E3 Platforms

Chris Nielsen
CEO, eCab

Mark Sokol
Board Member, Edgecore

Mark Thiele
Co-Founder, CCO & Head of Infrastructure, Edgevana

Justin Dustzadeh
CTO, Equinix

Mats Hultin
Group CIO, Ericsson

Todd Coleman
CEO, eStruxture Data Centers

William Nolan
President, Federal Infrastructure Bank

Adam Smith
CTO, FedEx Corporation

Ron Kormos
Chief Strategy Officer, FiberLight

Chris Downie
CEO, Flexential

Rebecca Weekly
VP, Infrastructure, GEICO

William Bubenicek
Developer in Residence | Head of Corporate Development, Generate Capital | Ubiquity

Gary Demasi
Global Director, Data Center Energy and Location Strategy, Google

Kemal Hawa
Global Co-Chair, Digital Infrastructure Group, Greenberg Traurig

Vinay Nagpal
Executive Director, IEIC

Miranda Gardiner
Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord

Dean Nelson
Founder & Chairman, Infrastructure Masons

Jennifer Huffstetler
Chief Product Sustainability Officer, VP & GM, Future Platform Strategy, Intel

Mark Kidd
EVP & Global GM, Data Centers & Asset Lifecycle Management, Iron Mountain

Srinivas (Sri) Mukkamala
Chief Product Officer, Ivanti

Dr. Arman Shehabi
Staff Scientist Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts, LBNL

Chris Stott
Chairman & CEO, Lonestar Data Holdings

Jill Wyant
President & CEO, Madison Air

Mark Mills
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Shirin O'Connor
Corporate VP, Cloud Ops & Innovation, Microsoft

Sean James
Director of Energy Research, Microsoft

Audrey Lee
Senior Director of Energy Strategy, Microsoft

Nidhi Chappell
Partner/GM, Azure AI and HPC Platform, Microsoft

Kenneth Freeman
Secure Airspace Project Engineer, NASA (National Airspace Exploratory Technologies)

Stanley Young
Urban Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Shweta Saraf
Director of Platform Networking, Netflix

Marc Hayes
Director of Business Development, Nortek Data Center Cooling

Philip Le Poudre
Chief Technology Officer, Nortek Data Center Cooling

Caroline Cochran
Co-Founder & COO, Oklo, Inc.

Brian Gitt
Head of Business Development, Oklo

Eric Brock
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Ondas Holdings

George Tchaparian
CEO, Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation

Karan Batta
SVP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle

Kristin Slanina
CIO, ParkMyFleet

William Passo
COO, Rain AI

Zach Nimboorkar
SVP, Global Technology Services, Schneider Electric

Sayles Braga
Senior Partner, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP)

Tobias Hooton
CEO, Stelia

Michael Shear
CEO/Advisor, Strategic Office Networks/Autonomy Institute

Rich Lappenbusch
Senior Principal, Supermicro

Max Schulze
Founder, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)

Nadine Alameh
Executive Director, Taylor Geospatial Institute

Dan Goldberg
President & CEO, Telesat

Darrick Horton
Founder & CEO, TensorWave

Starr Long
Executive Producer, The Acceleration Agency

Dave Stehlin
CEO, TIA

John Coster
Sr. Manager, Innovation, Planning and Strategy, T-Mobile

Peter De Bock
Program Director, ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Energy

Sarah Keller
Director, Technology, Sourcing and Supply Chain, Uber

Hugh Carspecken
Managing Director, Ubiquity Edge

Bin Ran
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

John Corbin
Transportation Automation Program Manager, US Federal Government

Cole Crawford
CEO & Founder, Vapor IO

Nelson Abramson
CEO, Verrus

Brad Wilson
VP, Technology, Vertiv

JJ Kardwell
CEO, Vultr

George Rockett
Founder, Yotta Events & DatacenterDynamics

Gavin Whitechurch
Strategic Advisor, Intelligent Infrastructure, Yotta Events

Steve Smith
CEO, Zayo

James Grice
Partner and Chair of the Energy and Infrastructure and the Data Center Groups, Akerman

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Partners

FOUNDATION PARTNERS:
• AMPERE
• Cadence
• Greenberg Traurig
• Schneider Electric

PLATINUM PARTNER:
• VERTIV

LAUNCH PARTNERS:
• Bulk
• Corning
• DDO Cabinet Technology
• ICEOTOPE Cooling Redefined
• KIO Data Centers
• OKLO
• Ubiquity

GOLD PARTNER:
• Shell Energy

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Digital Realty
• Madison Air

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• AQ Compute
• Lantana LED
• PRIME Data Centers

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• Accelsius
• Conapto
• DCD
• Autonomy
• Infrastructure Masons
• Climate Accord
• iMiller Public Relations
• InterGlobix
• Digital Climate Alliance
• TIA
• Open Compute Project
• Nomad Futurist Foundation
• Uptime Institute
• WTA
• Ward
• GSOA
• Data Centre Clube
• PlugandPlay
• Alliance of Channel Women
• Internet Infrastructure Coalition
• IDC
• JSA