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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!
Are you an end user?
Hyperscalers, colocation providers (non-sales), investors, private equity, or enterprise tenants - email Virginia.Baker@bisnow.com to be considered for a complimentary pass.
Speakers and Panels
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Gaurav Chopra
CEO
FivD
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Justin Leon
Business Development Manager, Data Centers
Avtron Power Solutions
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Graeme Kavanagh
Partner & CRO
Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities
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Karin Selchert
EVP
AC³E Energy Services
Tickets
Super Early Bird
$215.00 /ticket
Save the most on the final registration price by registering now! Only 9 tickets left.
- Insights and takeaways that directly impact your bottom line
- Connections with the people you need to do more business
- A fun, high-impact morning that actually helps you drive deal flow
- Breakfast and coffee included to fuel your morning
Group Tickets
$205.00 /ticket
Group Tickets
Save when you register 3+ members of your team!
AECs, GCs & Utility Contractors Pass
$174.50 /ticket
To qualify for this rate, your company must be an:
- Architect or Engineering firm
- General Contractor
- EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction)
- MEP Contractor (Mechanical, Electrical or Plumbing)
- Utility Contractor
**Anyone registering for this pass who does not meet the above criteria is subject to registration cancellation.
Owners/Operators, Developers, Investors & Hyperscalers Pass
To qualify for this rate, your company must be one of the following types and have substantial data center assets under management (AUM) or publicly planned:
- Hyperscaler
- Data Center Developer
- Data Center Owner/Operator
- Investor or Private Equity Firm
Questions about eligibility? Email virginia.baker@bisnow.com
**Anyone registering for this pass who does not meet the above criteria is subject to registration cancellation.
Agenda
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7:30 AM
8:30 AM
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Registration, Breakfast, Networking
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8:30 AM
9:15 AM
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State of the Market: Tennessee's Growth Story and Its Limits
Tennessee's data center pipeline reads like one growth story. It isn't. Memphis is a hyperscale, self-power market carrying real tenant concentration risk. Nashville just absorbed a zoning moratorium after public pushback. Knoxville and Oak Ridge run on federal land and a nuclear pathway neither market can match. Growth and backlash aren't separate storylines here, they're the same input into every underwriting model, especially as new state data shows residential rates climbing in heavy buildout counties even as commercial rates fall. Work out what's actually driving capital in, what's genuinely at risk of slowing it, and whether Tennessee is one thesis or three submarket bets. |
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9:15 AM
10:35 AM
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From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
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10:35 AM
11:00 AM
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Networking Break
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11:00 AM
11:45 AM
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Power, Site Selection and Execution: Building in Tennessee's Real Constraints
TVA doesn't run an RTO-style interconnection queue. Large loads go through federal board approval, with a new data center rate class headed toward a vote later this year, while a federal rule change on temporary equipment classification has tightened environmental permitting and a growing patchwork of local moratoria means site diligence now runs jurisdiction by jurisdiction. None of that matters if power availability is dictating a construction schedule that forces tradeoffs nobody talks about publicly. Site selection and delivery aren't sequential problems here, they're the same problem under two different names. Get into where power pathway and regulatory pathway collide, how developers underwrite around it, and where corners actually get cut once ground breaks. |
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12:05 PM
12:30 PM
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Post-Panel Networking
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Venue
Omni Nashville Hotel
250 Rep John Lewis Way S.
Nashville, TN 37203
Ballroom/Floor: Cumberland ¾ and Cumberland 5/6, third floor
Parking Rates:
Valet Only (daily) - $35 per vehicle
The nearest self-parking option is the Music City Center Parking garage (about a 1.5 block walk from the hotel entrance).
Why You Need To Be At the Tennessee Data Center Conference and Expo
Why This Matters
Tennessee's data center market is at an inflection point that most conference programming hasn't caught up to yet. Capital keeps flowing in, but the state's underlying constraints, tenant concentration in Memphis, a fresh moratorium in Nashville, a federal approval process at TVA that doesn't work like anywhere else on the grid, and a construction cycle now dictated by power timelines rather than schedule, are no longer background risk. They're the thing underwriting has to price directly. This event gets past the growth narrative and into the mechanics that actually determine whether a Tennessee data center deal closes, gets built on time, and holds up once ratepayers and regulators start paying closer attention.
What You'll Learn
How Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville/Oak Ridge differ as investment theses, and why treating Tennessee as a single market misprices risk
What the residential electricity rate data shows county by county, and how it's starting to surface in local political response
How TVA's federal board approval process for large loads differs from RTO-style interconnection queues, and what the pending data center rate class vote could change
What the federal rule change on temporary equipment classification means for permitting timelines on active projects
How to read the current patchwork of local moratoria before committing to a site, not after
Where power timeline pressure is changing construction sequencing and scope decisions on the ground
What tradeoffs made during construction most commonly surface as problems once a facility goes operational
Who You'll Network With
Developers and capital markets professionals underwriting or financing Tennessee data center assets, site selection consultants and land use attorneys navigating a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction regulatory map, utility and transmission infrastructure executives working through TVA's federal approval process, general contractors and engineering firms delivering under compressed power-driven timelines, operations and facilities leadership inheriting construction-phase tradeoffs, equipment manufacturers and mechanical/electrical trades, and local and state economic development officials shaping the policy environment around all of it.
For questions or interests in becoming a speaker or sponsor, please email our global director, data centers, Adam Knobloch, at adam.knobloch@bisnow.com
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact ally.araco@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
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