National DICE Data Center Construction, Design And Development - EAST

Thu Feb 20, 2025

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National DICE Data Center Construction, Design And Development - EAST

Name: National DICE Data Center Construction, Design And Development - EAST
Start: 2025-02-20T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-20T15:30:00-05:00

Exploring Trends Around Building at Scale, Designing for Artificial Intelligence and Supporting Energy Infrastructure

To Be Held In Virginia

Thursday February 20 2025 @ 9:00 AM EST

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Speakers and Panels

Where to Build Next: Looking at Site Selection, Energy Infrastrastructure and Power Capacity Across Markets

Daniel Golding

CTO, Appleby Strategy Group

Dan Ephraim

VP, Sales & Leasing, PointOne Data Centers

Evan Pierce

VP, Site Development - Americas, EdgeConneX

Building at Speed and Scale: How Construction and Development is Keeping Up With Big Demand

Jon Gibbs

Sr. Program Manager, Development, Cologix

Marshall Sorenson

VP, Shockey Precast, A Metromont Company

Matt Souders

VP, Data Center Infrastructure, Oracle

Moderator

Kurt Lindorfer

Founding Principal, PARADIGM Structural Engineers

From Legacy to Leading Edge: Commissioning Data Centers for Traditional and AI Workloads

Karen DiMaggio

Senior Director, Growth Operations, QTS

Ramzi Namek

Senior Director, Design Management, NTT Global Data Centers Americas

John Peterson

Design Manager, Microsoft

Redefining the Status Quo: Best Tools, Approaches and Techniques to Build the Most Efficient and Innovative Data Centers

Nancy Novak

Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Datacenters

Moderator

Chris Adams

Managing Director / Data Center Sector Lead, Cumming Group

Building for AI and Advanced Tech Infrastructure: Understanding Key Differences and How to Design for Future Demand

Sanjay Agrawal

President & CEO, AG&E

Osvaldo (Oz) Morales

Oz Morales is currently the Chief Officer of Infrastructure at Denvr Dataworks, an AI centric cloud provider. Prior, he was SVP for Infrastructure and Innovation at Digital Realty Trust, the worlds largest colocation provider. He was responsible for Innovation, Infrastructure Development, Cost, New Technologies, and Operations Development. Oz spent 5 years as the CTO/VP for COI at Microsoft. He was responsible for Operations, Engineering, Software tools, Supply Chain, Colocation acquisition, and technical direction for the CO+I team at Microsoft, Oz spent most of his time developing methodology and focus on AI compute, structured cabling plants and Networking. He was the former Vice President for Data Center Global Services for Amazon Web Services, responsible for maintaining all the Amazon.com/AWS data centers around the world, he was with AWS/Amazon for 17 years. He worked at MSFT for 5 years and started his career in MSFT as a Partner Engineer in DCX. Oz has continued to apply new innovations and proven technology to deploy into the data center space and has developed many innovative project patents for efficiency and cost savings. His patent awards are in the hundreds and range from developing strategies for low-cost distribution of electrical power for data centers to methods of airflow control and he currently has several other patents pending. Prior to coming to MSFT, Oz worked as a manager at Enbridge Technology Inc., an oil and pipeline gas industry worldwide based in Canada. Oz led the SCADA team to automate control and loss prevention of all the company’s hydro-carbon pipeline system (domestic and International). Oz graduated from University of Alberta with a BSc Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Delaware. Besides building data centers, Oz has a passion for cars and motorcycles. In his spare time, Oz enjoys playing hockey, spending time with his daughter and reading books by his favorite authors Edgar Allan Poe and Pablo Neruda. He currently has a blog at www.ozmorales.com where he reviews many of the topics and challenges experienced by the industry.

Denvr Dataworks

Chief Officer, Infrastructure

Osvaldo (Oz) Morales

Chief Officer, Infrastructure, Denvr Dataworks

Khurram Shahid

Principal TPM, Data Center & Network Delivery, Oracle

Moderator

Bill Williams

Head of Sales, Introl

WHY YOU CAN'T MISS THIS DATA CENTER EVENT

What You'll Learn At This Data Center Event and Key Questions Asked:

How is power and energy infrastructure playing into data center development and site selection?
What other markets will we see emerge around Loudoun County? Louisa County? Culpeper County?
Mega-scale campuses are becoming a new normal — how do they differ from today's standard data center builds and how can lead times be reduced?
What new tools and approaches are being leveraged by developers and their partners to reduce their carbon footprints and innovate on standard practices?
What are the current design and construction trends across the tri-state area and eastern cities?
How are developers navigating the disconnect between mission critical infrastructure refresh rates and IT hardware refresh rates during the AI revolution?
Training vs. inference — how does the infrastructure differ?
Each stage of the development process has various stakeholders and steps in place — how can we reduce cost and lead times?
How can general contractors, designers, engineers and other stakeholders reduce friction and ensure the final product is developed within expectations?

How You'll Do More Business:

There is no slowdown in this industry. Learn about the trends, opportunities, and challenges ahead to position yourself to make the right business decisions and expand your network.

Who You’ll Network With In CRE:

Owners, providers, brokers, investors, engineers, lawyers, CEOs, vice presidents of design and construction, heads of acquisitions, directors of site selection, end users and more commercial real estate decision-makers.

Why You Should Attend:

To learn how the East Coast markets are evolving to meet today's end-user and colocation data center requirements.

For questions or interest in becoming a speaker or sponsor, please email our global director of data centers, Adam Knobloch at adam.knobloch@bisnow.com.

To request disability-related accommodations, please contact katy.frazier@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Agenda

Time	Activity
9:00 AM 10:00 AM	Registration and Networking
10:00 AM 10:45 AM	Where to Build Next: Looking at Site Selection, Energy Infrastructure and Power Capacity Across Markets With Virginia’s power demand set to double in the next 13 years and Dominion's historic challenges with transmission, how are operators and service thinking about where to build and how to bring power to their facilities as the need for capacity continues to reach all-time highs?
10:45 AM 10:55 AM	Coffee Break
10:55 AM 11:40 AM	Building at Speed and Scale: How Construction and Development is Keeping Up With Big Demand With gigawatt being the new megawatt, the size and scale of data centers are heading to another level. Alongside the prioritization of capacity is speed and how fast these buildings can be up and running to service their customers. How are companies adapting to meet growing demand, build at scale and at a rapid pace?
11:40 AM 12:20 PM	From Legacy to Leading Edge: Commissioning Data Centers for Traditional and AI Workloads Commissioning differs for AI-focused data centers due to the unique demands of AI workloads, which influence design, infrastructure and operational requirements. How are operators, designers and engineers bringing these facilities online that go beyond traditional methods and procedures?
12:20 PM 1:30 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM 1:05 PM	Ameristar Session: Building In Security
1:30 PM 2:15 PM	Redefining the Status Quo: Best Tools, Approaches and Techniques to Build the Most Efficient and Innovative Data Centers With AI and its power demands being top of mind for stakeholders, looking at how to push the boundaries of standard design and practices and reduce inefficiencies will be critical to the bottom line. How are developers and their partners working to reduce the carbon footprint and rethink standard practices as more data centers with bigger footprints come online?
2:15 PM 3:00 PM	Building for AI and Advanced Tech Infrastructure: Understanding Key Differences and How to Design for Future Demand With the evolution of today’s technologies and quantum leap of AI computing, how are data center developers, engineers and operators rethinking elements of the data center? What are the main differences between building for cloud versus AI inference? What will be the biggest shifts we will see in the near-term future?
3:00 PM 4:00 PM	DICE CD&D - EAST Post-Event Cocktail Reception!!

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