What is the Bisnow DICE Series?

DICE (Data Centers Investment Conference & Expo) is Bisnow's dedicated conference series for the data center industry. Each event convenes the developers, investors, operators and infrastructure providers actively shaping data center growth in that market, with programming built around the deals, challenges and opportunities specific to the region or topic. View all upcoming DICE events here!

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Speakers and Panels

Southern Data Center Playbook: How Texas and Its Neighbors Are Redefining the Map

Dave Ferdman

President & Managing Director, Primary Digital Infrastructure

Tom Spackman

Owner & CEO, Gigabit Fiber

Moderator

Shawn Ronda

Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Smart Site Bets: What It Actually Takes to Get a Site Built

Brian Chen

VP, Stewart Title

Robert Child

EVP, Data Center Development, KDC

Chuck McCallum

President, KWRE and Kier & Wright

Andre Patrick

VP, Data Center Practice, Introba

Underwriting the AI Wave: How Customer Mix Reshapes Returns

Gavin Flynn

Principal, Blue Owl

James Grice

Chair, Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure Practice, Akerman

Graeme Kavanagh

Graeme N. Kavanagh is a seasoned infrastructure real estate executive with over 25 years of experience leading business development, origination, and investment strategies across a broad range of asset classes. A recognized deal maker, Mr. Kavanagh has successfully originated, structured, and closed billions of dollars in transactions across telecom, renewable energy, data centers, billboards, EV charging infrastructure, and logistics.As Partner and Chief Revenue Officer at Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities, Mr. Kavanagh oversees the firm’s acquisition and capital deployment strategy, directing originations and the acquisition of income-producing real property interests under critical infrastructure. He has led the acquisition of thousands of real estate assets and built high-performing teams that consistently deliver value through strategic growth and disciplined execution. Under his leadership, Accelerate has emerged as a market leader in aggregating ground lease and fee simple interests into a diversified, scalable portfolio. His customer-first approach, combined with deep industry knowledge, fosters long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with landowners, tenants, and stakeholders. Prior to joining Accelerate, Mr. Kavanagh co-founded Landmark Dividend, serving as Executive Vice President and playing a pivotal role in launching the first IPO in the ground lease asset class. He also held leadership positions at Wireless Capital Partners, where he originated the industry’s first secondary market financing for wireless infrastructure ground leases, and at Falcon Financial, a specialty finance firm focused on real estate-backed investments. Earlier in his career, he was Vice President at Enterprise Mortgage, part of the Financial Services Division of Koch Industries. Throughout his career, Mr. Kavanagh has been defined by his unwavering commitment to execution, his deep understanding of complex real estate transactions, and his ability to unlock value in niche and emerging infrastructure sectors. His tenacity, vision, and leadership continue to shape the evolving landscape of infrastructure real estate investment.

Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities

Partner & CRO

Graeme Kavanagh

Partner & CRO, Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities

Bobby Little

Chief Investment Officer, NTT DC REIT

Stuart Miller

Executive Director, JLL

Moderator

Christian Deputy

President, Utah, Lockton Companies

Beyond the Grid: Onsite Generation and Bridging the Power Gap

Jeff Brown

VP, GHG Reduction Solutions, MIRATECH Corporation

Andy Kirby

Andy Kirby is the AMER East & LATAM Build Partner at Microsoft, where he plays a pivotal role in overseeing various business operations and strategic initiatives within the Americas and LATAM region. With a focus on enhancing efficiency and consistency across the organization, Andy is dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment where team members are motivated to excel every day. In his current role, Andy is responsible for managing the development and execution of data center projects, ensuring that they meet the highest standards of safety, compliance, and operational excellence. His expertise in project management and risk mitigation has been instrumental in driving the successful completion of numerous high-profile projects. Before joining Microsoft, Andy spent 26 years working for general contractors, where he was involved in building highly sophisticated buildings to include the last 7 years focused on data centers. This extensive experience has provided him with a deep understanding of construction processes, project management, and the importance of collaboration and innovation in delivering complex projects. Andy is known for his visible leadership and commitment to building strong relationships with general contractors and trade partners. He has a keen eye for identifying potential challenges and implementing innovative solutions to keep projects on track and within budget. Throughout his career, Andy has demonstrated a passion for continuous improvement and learning. He has been actively involved in various training and workshop initiatives, including safety and compliance reviews, incident reviews, and corrective actions. Andy's dedication to professional development extends to his team, where he emphasizes the importance of building a culture of safety and excellence. In addition to his professional achievements, Andy is a strong advocate for community engagement and global citizenship. He has supported initiatives such as partnering with local high schools for engineering programs and participating in regional safety initiatives.

Microsoft

General Manager, AMERS EPC

Andy Kirby

General Manager, AMERS EPC, Microsoft

Swadeep Rachoor

Director of Project Controls - U.S. Operations, Decima International

Scott Worley

Sr. Director, Stabilis Solutions

Moderator

Michael Collins

Manager, North America, INNIO Jenbacher

AI, Energy and Real Estate: What This Fourth Industrial Revolution Means for Markets

Puja Athale

Global Director GSI - Azure Cloud & AI Platforms, Microsoft

Jeffrey Moerdler

Jeff Moerdler is chair of the Haynes Boone Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Practice and a real estate partner in the New York office. He has more than 40 years’ experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. Jeff also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications, technology and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecom real estate matters, particularly in data center development, acquisitions, sales, leases, colocation agreements and service level agreements. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients, and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases; counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, joint venture, development, and renovation of property as well as sale-leaseback transactions; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans; and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. He is actively involved in settling real estate, partnership, and inter-family disputes. He also represents many not-for-profit entities and is active in health care, senior living, and educational real estate. During the past 35 years, Jeff has developed considerable experience in the intersection of real estate with communications, technology, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, developers, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributed and in-building wireless systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of data center leases, master services agreements, colocation agreements and service level agreements, rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower leases throughout the country – covering over 500 million square feet. He has also devoted a considerable portion of his practice to power and energy issues related to real estate and other technology matters, including large solar and wind installations, battery storage facilities, and bulk power purchases. Jeff is a frequent speaker on real estate, data center, and telecom topics around the country. He is Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the faculty of the Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute. He regularly speaks as a panelist at data center, digital infrastructure and real estate conference around the United States. In addition, he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bisnow, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. He co-authored the first treatise chapter on telecom real law for Powell on Real Property in 1999. Jeff has previously served in numerous governmental positions, including as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a member of the New York State Banking Board, a member of the New York State Financial Control Board, a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, and assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough of Manhattan. From 1981 to 1982, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant, US District Judge, and later Chief Judge, for the Southern District of New York. Jeff is also an emergency medical technician on his local volunteer ambulance and President of his local chapter, as well as having served for 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the umbrella organization which is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.

Haynes and Boone

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure, Haynes and Boone

Doug Recker

Doug Recker is a seasoned digital infrastructure executive and telecommunications industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience building, scaling, and operating data center, fiber, and edge computing platforms across the United States. He currently serves as CEO of Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOT) and Duos Edge AI, where he leads the company’s strategy and execution for deploying patented, modular Edge Data Centers that deliver secure, low-latency compute to underserved and high-growth markets. At Duos Edge AI, Mr. Recker is responsible for driving the design, deployment, and expansion of multi-access Edge Data Center infrastructure supporting education, healthcare, carriers, municipalities, and enterprise customers. Under his leadership, Duos Edge AI has rapidly expanded its footprint across Texas and into new markets, while introducing differentiated technology protected by U.S. patents, including the company’s patented modular data center entryway designed for secure, clean-room-level equipment protection. Mr. Recker is a repeat entrepreneur with a strong track record of value creation. He founded Edge Presence in 2017, which was acquired by Ubiquity in 2023, and previously founded Colo5 Data Centers, which was acquired by Cologix, Inc. in 2014. Earlier in his career, he played a key role in the early development of the fiber and telecom industry, leading and supporting high- performing sales and operational teams during periods of rapid infrastructure growth. His leadership and entrepreneurial success have been widely recognized. Mr. Recker has received multiple industry honors, including the Jacksonville Business Journal’s Ultimate CEO Award, BizTech Innovations’ Best CEO Award, and inclusion in Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest- growing companies. He was also named to the Jacksonville Business Journal’s "Top 40 Under 40." A respected industry thought leader, Mr. Recker is a frequent speaker at major telecommunications, data center, and digital infrastructure conferences, where he shares insights on edge computing, AI infrastructure, and scalable deployment models. He began his professional career serving in the United States Marine Corps, an experience that shaped his leadership philosophy and enduring focus on teamwork, discipline, and execution.

Dous Edge AI

Founder

Doug Recker

Founder, Dous Edge AI

Matt Tyndall

Head of Site Development, Core Scientific

Moderator

Jordan Castaneda

Sales Manager, Maddox Industrial Transformer

Power Strategy: Securing Capacity in Constrained Markets

Holly Adams

SVP, Energy, Beale Infrastructure

Charlie Beecherl

CEO, WTG Energy

David Bell

VP, Utility & Micro Grid Development, VoltaGrid

Alex Marshall

Director, Rehlko

Chrissy Olsen

Chrissy Olsen is a veteran sales and technology leader with over 30 years of experience shaping the global data center and critical power landscape. As Vice President of Critical Power Solutions at MPI Energy, she leads global marketing strategy and new business development for advanced LFP lithium, VRLA, and energy storage systems supporting hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and AI/HPC environments. In her role, Chrissy positions MPI Energy’s solutions within rapidly evolving power architectures, drives industry education on safe and scalable lithium deployment, builds strategic OEM and channel partnerships, and aligns product innovation with real-world operator requirements. Her work bridges engineering and economics—translating technical performance, UL/NFPA compliance, and lifecycle modeling into clear executive-level value propositions that elevate the total cost of ownership, resiliency strategy, and long-term infrastructure planning. Before joining MPI Energy, Chrissy built a distinguished career leading global sales and mission-critical infrastructure initiatives. She has delivered multimillion-dollar data center construction projects, launched global business units, and expanded technical expertise across organizations including Wesco International. Her earlier entrepreneurial success includes founding and scaling a technology design firm through merger. A dynamic speaker known for her Italian wit and handson storytelling, Chrissy is a recognized advocate for advancing women in the industry, and serves on multiple boards supporting that mission. Her honors include the Infrastructure Masons IM100 Award (2022), the Belden Outstanding Growth Award (2021), and multiple Anixter achievements—reflecting her ongoing impact across the mission-critical ecosystem. With a passion for customer engagement, a love for the microphone, and a commitment to building high-performance teams, Chrissy continues to influence the future of data center power infrastructure—ensuring MPI Energy is not just a battery manufacturer, but a strategic partner in the evolution of modern energy systems.

MPI Energy

VP, Critical Power Solutions

Moderator

Chrissy Olsen

VP, Critical Power Solutions, MPI Energy

From Plan to Delivery: What Actually Works in AI-Era Data Center Construction

Dale Allison

Ms. Allison has approximately 30+ years of professional experience in applied business development and marketing, contracts and power, environmental and construction program management for TRC a member of WSP. TRC is a leading Engineering and Design firm with approximately 8,500 +/- personnel with 160 offices globally. Following the acquisition of TRC Companies (TRC), announced on February 24, 2026, WSP has added approximately 8,500 professional staff. This integration increases WSP Global's U.S. workforce to roughly 27,000 employees and total global headcount to approximately 83,000 and 680 offices globally, solidifying its position as a leading engineering and design firm. This experience has included environmental, engineering and construction consulting services, contract administration/project coordination and construction oversight for construction and land development for multi-family residential, commercial, retail, industrial, Solar Fields, Data Center(s), and Battery Storage. She has previously held positions in Human Resources/Program Engineering Support for a Big3 & an international automobile manufacturer(s), contract administration for Major computer chip manufacturers, and account administration for marketing and food brokerage. She has previously built a multi-million-dollar market base and has a working knowledge of numerous state petroleum-funded reimbursement programs for environmental remediation projects. Additionally, Ms. Allison has extensive knowledge with various Microsoft related programs. She has provided employee computer related training, System Administration, and programmed and developed/designed websites. Her computer languages/platforms experience has included COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG II-IV, SPF/PC, JCL, DOC, Assembler for System 370, Microsoft, Novell LAN and both IBM mainframe and PC/Multi-User systems. She has utilized the company’s engineering resources to design and direct programs that support client issues and needs and has participated in short – and – long range strategic planning for marketing and operational programs, researched and evaluated the market and competitive changes, and identified opportunities to build added value into company services.

TRC, Member of WSP

National Market Director

Dale Allison

National Market Director, TRC, Member of WSP

Steve Altizer

President & CEO, Compu Dynamics

Adam Henderson

Enterprise Account Manager, Nucor Rebar Fabrication

Tyler Stevenson

SVP, Clune Construction

Moderator

Kurt Lindorfer

Founding Principal, PARADIGM Structural Engineers

Designing for AI Density: Power, Cooling and System Integration in Next-Gen Data Centers

Bruce Baxter

Director, Design & Engineering, Element Critical

Parker Brunelle

VP, Tidal Time Solutions

Malcolm Ferguson

Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Dave Meadows

Director, Technology, STULZ Air Technology Systems

Lindsey Mickelson

Regional Business Development Manager, Belimo

Moderator

Bill Evanger

Director, Solutions Architecture, ByteBridge

From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development

Jesse Fenner

National Sales Executive, i2G Systems

Matthew O'Brien

Manager, Security Design, ADRM

Liz Lasko

Business Development Specialist, Ameristar Perimeter Security

Operating the AI Data Center: How Teams, Tools and Playbooks Are Evolving

Marc Bhuyan

Product Manager, Google

Mike May

Director, Schneider Electric

James RePass

SVP, Global Operations, Fleet Data Centers

Alex Larence

Alex serves as Manager, Fuel & Fuel System Products for the Southeastern United States at ESI Total Fuel Management, providing dedicated regional leadership in one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the country. As major investments accelerate across Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama, this role ensures customers benefit from localized expertise, strengthened supplier relationships, and fuel and product strategies aligned with regional operational realities and infrastructure demands. Alex brings more than 25 years of experience in fuel distribution, energy market strategy, and commercial account development. His background includes extensive work supporting large, multi-site customers with complex fuel supply and infrastructure requirements, providing a deep understanding of how fuel sourcing, logistics, and system integration directly influence uptime, resiliency, and long-term operational performance. Throughout his career, Alex has introduced advanced fuel products, including renewable diesel, into established customer environments and led educational initiatives focused on fuel markets, supply chain dynamics, and risk mitigation. He has also held leadership roles in adjacent industrial sectors, where he developed market entry strategies, managed regulatory compliance, and built regional teams to support sustained growth. At ESI, Alex is responsible for aligning the company’s fuel, fuel system products, and service offerings with the specific needs of the Southeastern market. He manages a robust network of regional partners and suppliers to ensure reliable access to diesel and HVO fuels while supporting customers with tailored strategies designed to enhance site performance and operational resilience. He also contributes to market assessments and regional analyses to identify evolving customer requirements, infrastructure trends, and regulatory considerations. In addition, Alex oversees performance tracking and reporting to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement across fuel and product delivery. His leadership ensures that ESI’s regional approach remains proactive, technically sound, and closely aligned with the demands of mission-critical operations. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has completed extensive advanced sales and technical training. His experience strengthens ESI’s ability to deliver fuel and fuel system solutions that are regionally informed, operationally disciplined, and engineered to perform when reliability matters most.

ESI Total Fuel Management

Manager

Alex Larence

Manager, ESI Total Fuel Management

Moderator

Craig Compiano

CEO, Modius

Delivery at Scale: How to Move From One Off Wins to a Repeatable System

Cody Bain

Principal, AG&E

Hani Noshi

Hani Noshi is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Hani has 20+ years of Projects, Operations, Strategy, and Business Transformation experience. In the Operations Excellence space, Hani focused on the full life cycle of operations transformation: from target operating model design through to operations transformation delivery, change management and implementation. Hani has led projects in Oil & Gas, Resources, and Consumer Products operating groups in 4 continents and 36 countries. In consulting, Hani has provided services involving supply chain lean transformation and process excellence for several large clients. He prides himself on his ability to help clients through complex transformations. A few noteworthy examples include: Helping an Energy Supermajor organization to develop a multi-million dollar business case to streamline their Capital Projects and Engineering processes resulting in $200M in savings and a 15 times return on investment. Advising a public utility company through a full core business transformation and helping an executive team through the development of one of the most ambitious business transformation strategies in their industry resulting in an $148M in cummulative savings over 3 years. During this time Hani was also involved in innovative thought leadership where he published white paper articles in the Lean New Product Introduction and Rapid & Sustained Cost Management space. Prior to joining Accenture, Hani started his career in industry with General Electric Company in 1999, where he joined their Operations Management Leadership program. He then held various functions in hard core manufacturing, supply chain, and product development with increasing levels of responsibility. Throughout Hani’s career in GE, he was promoted throughout several GE businesses where he invented five US and European patents.

Microsoft

Principal Program Manager, Data Center Delivery (DCD)

Hani Noshi

Principal Program Manager, Data Center Delivery (DCD), Microsoft

John Rewolinski

Head of Schedule Analytics, Doxel

John Tomlinson

Director, Mission Critical, XYZ Reality

Chris Walsh

Christopher M. Walsh is a data center and digital infrastructure executive with 20+ years of experience across technology, real estate, power strategy, connectivity, site selection, development execution, and large‑scale infrastructure deployment throughout North America and international markets. He currently represents Upchurch, a national provider of mission‑critical infrastructure solutions supporting the full data center lifecycle—Build, Sustain, and Perform—delivering construction and retrofit capabilities, along with performance‑driven MEP, HVAC, controls, energy efficiency, building optimization, and maintenance services across hyperscale, cloud, colocation, and enterprise environments. Over his career, Walsh has held senior leadership roles with leading data center owners, operators, and developers, including Lincoln Property Company – Data Center Division (Vice President), Cyxtera (Global Director), and Interxion (International Director, pre–Digital Realty acquisition). His experience spans site selection advisory and large‑scale multi‑building campus developments, utility and energy coordination, AI infrastructure and power strategy, turnkey hyperscale and colocation leasing, and complex real estate and infrastructure transactions supporting Fortune 10–50 energy companies, hyperscale platforms, cloud and colocation providers, and global enterprise clients. Walsh began his career as a network technician installing copper, fiber, routers, and servers in Silicon Valley—providing a technical foundation that continues to shape his practical, full‑stack approach to digital infrastructure today. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University’s Business School and holds a Texas Real Estate License and OSHA 30 Construction certification. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christophermwalsh1

Upchurch

Full Lifecycle Data Center Solutions

Moderator

Chris Walsh

Full Lifecycle Data Center Solutions, Upchurch

De-Risking Data Centers: How to Spot and Share Risk From Land to Operations and Beyond

David McCall

Brand Evangelist, QTS Data Centers

Joe Walsh

Chief Delivery Officer, Montera Infrastructure

Remarks from the Podium

Jake Ring

CEO & Co-Founder, PDM - Power and Data Management

Why You Can't Miss DICE South 2026

What You'll Learn:

Why Texas and the broader Southern corridor have become benchmark markets for AI era capacity, capital deployment, and new campus development.
Which site selection, utility engagement, and permitting strategies are helping teams turn more shortlisted locations into fully entitled, power-ready projects?
What capital providers are looking for as AI, neocloud, and enterprise workloads reshape credit views, deal structures, and return expectations.
How leading developers are managing design complexity, construction risk, and schedule pressure while still bringing new facilities online at speed.
Which power planning approaches, including hybrid utility and onsite solutions, are proving most resilient as grid constraints intensify?
How high-density design, liquid cooling, and evolving white space layouts are changing the way teams think about shells, envelopes, and long-term flexibility.
Where modular, prefabricated, and skid-based approaches are genuinely cutting timelines and de-risking delivery across fast-moving campuses.
How operators are using automation, data, and new playbooks to run AI-heavy sites more efficiently while maintaining reliability and compliance.
What practical risk mitigation, governance, and partnership models are helping stakeholders align incentives from land and capital decisions through long-term operations?

How You'll Do More Business From Attending This Conference:

Gain concrete strategies to move projects from promising sites to energized, revenue-generating facilities faster and with fewer surprises.
Learn how peers are structuring deals, contracts, and delivery models so you can de-risk projects and protect margins in volatile conditions.
Sharpen your decisions on markets, partners, technologies, and modular approaches that truly improve speed to market and long term performance.
Understand which AI, high-density, and cooling innovations are commercially meaningful today and which remain experimental.
Build relationships with the developers, operators, capital partners, and solution providers who are closest to current deal flow and best practices.

Who You'll Network With:

Developers, Owners, and Operators — leaders shaping strategy, assembling sites, and delivering the next generation of AI-ready campuses.
Construction and Design Professionals — architects, general contractors, engineers, and modular specialists raising the bar on speed, quality, and constructability.
Utility and Infrastructure Partners — power, grid, and network stakeholders focused on delivering the megawatts and connectivity new campuses require.
Investors and Financial Partners — equity, lenders, and capital allocators underwriting data center demand, customer mix, and evolving risk profiles.
Technology and Solution Providers — power, cooling, modular, monitoring, and automation experts enabling high-density, resilient operations.
Policy, Regulatory, and Community Stakeholders — advisors and decision makers navigating permitting, incentives, compliance, and the public lens on large-scale projects.

Why You Should Attend:

DICE South is the essential gathering for anyone shaping the next chapter of data center growth across Texas and the broader Southern corridor. With an agenda built around real market pressures and opportunities, from power constraints and AI-driven design to modular delivery, risk, and capital, every session is geared toward decisions you are making right now. You will hear directly from the developers, operators, investors, and partners who are delivering projects, restructuring deals, and rethinking operations in this fast-moving region. Whether you are selecting sites, financing campuses, building facilities, or running high-density environments, you will leave with clearer strategies, stronger relationships, and a sharper view of where the Southern market is headed next.

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Venue

Live! by Loews Hotel Arlington
1600 E. Randol Mill
Arlington TX 76011

Ballroom/Floor: Arlington Ballroom / 2nd Floor

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Agenda

August 12	Activity
12:30 PM 1:00 PM	Registration and Networking
1:00 PM 1:10 PM	Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE South 2026!
1:10 PM 1:55 PM	Southern Data Center Playbook: How Texas and Its Neighbors Are Redefining the Map Texas and the broader Southern corridor have moved into the first tier of global data center regions, but not every submarket is playing the same game. ERCOT's unique regulatory structure and a surge of activity in rural and exurban corridors beyond DFW and Austin are creating a development environment unlike anything in PJM or WECC markets. Non-grid generation is becoming a defining feature of Texas growth, not a workaround. Hear what recent deals and pipelines reveal about the South's evolving role on the national stage and how stakeholders can position themselves for the next wave of growth.
1:55 PM 2:35 PM	Smart Site Bets: What It Actually Takes to Get a Site Built Getting a site under contract is easy compared to getting it entitled, powered and ready to build. The variables that kill projects are often the ones teams underestimate: wetlands, endangered species surveys, archaeological assessments, flood plain exposure and local political opposition can stop a technically perfect site cold. In Texas, the "and" framing on energy has replaced either-or thinking, with developers combining renewables, gas and grid in ways that vary submarket to submarket. Learn what the full due diligence picture actually looks like before you commit capital.
2:35 PM 3:00 PM	Networking Break
3:00 PM 3:45 PM	Underwriting the AI Wave: How Customer Mix Reshapes Returns The surge of AI, neocloud and evolving enterprise demand is changing not just who fills data centers, but how those assets are financed. Single-tenant concentration risk has become one of the most scrutinized variables in underwriting, as large commitments tied to neo-cloud counterparties raise real questions about credit quality and renewal behavior. Powered land basis is moving faster than comps, and lenders and equity are trying to underwrite development deals in a market where the numbers keep changing. A capital markets conversation first: hear how investors and lenders are reading today's tenant landscape and where money moves over the next twelve to twenty four months.
3:45 PM 4:30 PM	Beyond the Grid: Onsite Generation and Bridging the Power Gap The conversation has moved well beyond temporary construction power. Onsite generation, fuel bridging strategies and hybrid systems are becoming core to how developers sequence projects and manage timeline risk while grid connections are secured. Rising utility costs are also shifting the economics of behind-the-meter solutions from stopgap to longer-term consideration for some projects. The real bottleneck is often transmission, not generation. Find out what is actually working in the field, where onsite solutions create real advantage and what the honest risk picture looks like around cost, fuel logistics and emissions.
4:30 PM 5:30 PM	Day 1 Post-Event Cocktail Reception!!
August 13	Activity
7:30 AM 8:20 AM	Registration, Breakfast and Networking
8:20 AM 8:30 AM	Opening Remarks Day 2
8:30 AM 9:15 AM	AI, Energy and Real Estate: What This Fourth Industrial Revolution Means for Markets The convergence of AI demand, energy infrastructure and large-scale digital real estate is beginning to reshape industrial and regional dynamics on a scale that resembles a new industrial revolution. Data centers are influencing where new transmission and generation get built, how metros think about land use and economic development and which markets rise or fall in strategic importance. National priorities around competitiveness, energy independence and resilience are increasingly tied to how quickly and wisely this infrastructure gets deployed. Step back from project details and explore how AI, energy and real estate together could redefine market winners and losers over the next decade.
9:15 AM 9:30 AM	Top Ten Data Center Legal and Business Issues for Powered Land, Leases and MSA's That You Should Know About
9:30 AM 10:15 AM	Power Strategy: Securing Capacity in Constrained Markets Utilities are raising collateral requirements to screen speculative developers from committed ones, and structural incentives within the utility model are pushing power providers toward arrangements that don't always align with what developers need or when they need it. Transmission innovations that could unlock existing capacity exist but aren't being deployed at the pace the market requires. The gap between when utilities can deliver power and when projects need it is the defining tension in development right now. Hear what teams are actually doing to close that gap and where creative engagement and deal structuring are gaining traction.
10:15 AM 10:30 AM	Networking Break
10:30 AM 11:15 AM	From Plan to Delivery: What Actually Works in AI-Era Data Center Construction Structural steel lead times remain one of the sharpest supply chain pain points, while modular and factory-built approaches are moving from experimental to mainstream as teams run fabrication concurrently with on-site work to reduce field labor dependence. Design complexity is compounding the construction challenge: chip generations are turning over faster than building cycles, and teams need a clear view of what the white space must accommodate when current and next-generation architectures arrive. DC power delivery into IT rows is approaching commercial reality. Hear what is actually working across procurement, modular delivery and designing for adaptability.
11:15 AM 12:00 PM	Designing for AI Density: Power, Cooling and System Integration in Next-Gen Data Centers Rack-level direct liquid cooling has moved from emerging to mainstream for GPU-dense deployments, with design requirements tied directly to current and next-generation GPU architectures. Two-phase cooling and other advanced thermal approaches are in active development for what comes next. Air cooling has not disappeared: hybrid environments require careful system integration that can serve different tenants and workloads from the same underlying infrastructure. PDUs and upstream electrical infrastructure are difficult to replace without disrupting everything connected to them, which means flexibility has to be engineered in from the start. Hear how operators, engineers and technology providers are aligning power, cooling and controls for current density requirements while leaving room for the architectures already in development.
12:00 PM 1:00 PM	Networking Lunch
12:15 PM 12:35 PM	From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
1:00 PM 1:45 PM	Operating the AI Data Center: How Teams, Tools and Playbooks Are Evolving The staffing model is in flux. The industry has shifted from siloed specialists to command-and-control operations, and the question now is whether AI-era complexity is forcing another pivot or whether a new hybrid model emerges. Building a workforce pipeline that creates genuine career paths and develops local talent is becoming as strategic as technology decisions. On the systems side, operators are pushing hard for convergence: separate logins for power monitoring, building management and cooling control create training burdens and response gaps that staffing shortages cannot absorb. Incident response and the growing complexity of community relations have also become core operational responsibilities. Hear how leading operators are updating their tools, playbooks and organizational strategies to keep uptime high in a more demanding environment.
1:45 PM 2:00 PM	Networking Break
2:00 PM 2:45 PM	Delivery at Scale: How to Move From One Off Wins to a Repeatable System Winning once on a fast and successful data center project is hard; doing it repeatedly across multiple markets is harder. Organizations are building playbooks that connect standard designs, prefabricated elements, digital coordination and program-level governance into a coherent system, while figuring out how to capture lessons learned and feed real performance data back into planning for the next site. Hear how top players are turning individual project successes into a repeatable delivery engine that can keep pace with AI and cloud demand.
2:45 PM 3:30 PM	De-Risking Data Centers: How to Spot and Share Risk From Land to Operations and Beyond Risk in today's data center projects spans site control, power, equipment, counterparties, contracts and long-term operating performance, and unpredictable elements like grid constraints, equipment lead times and policy changes can shift that profile midstream. Capital providers and project teams are rethinking how to identify red flags earlier, structure contracts and insurance programs and decide who should carry which risks. Walk away with practical approaches to spotting, pricing and sharing risk across the capital stack and project lifecycle so the right parties are accountable without slowing viable projects.
3:30 PM 4:30 PM	Post-Event Networking!!

By the Numbers — 2025 Recap

720 attendees representing 505 companies
Elite participation from industry-defining organizations: AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, CyrusOne, QTS, DataBank, Sabey Data Centers, Compass Datacenters, Vantage, DigitalBridge, JP Morgan, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Vertiv, and more
Nearly 45% C-Suite or Executive Level participants

Seniority Breakdown:

42% C-Suite / Executives (CEOs, Presidents, COOs, CTOs, Founders)
15% SVPs, EVPs, VPs / Directors
21% Directors / Managing Directors
20% Managers / Associates / Analysts

Industry Representation

Our 2025 event saw multiple organizations bringing multi-person teams—with some groups sending over 10 attendees each! The crowd spanned the entire data center value chain:

Data Center Operators & Developers: 30%
Cloud / Hyperscalers: 31%
Power, Utilities, Consulting, General Services: 25%
Capital Markets, Advisory, Legal & Other: 14.0%

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