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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
What AI Actually Needs from the Network: Infrastructure Gaps the Cloud Build Cycle Left Behind
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Neila Wilson
Consultant
DWI Group
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Craig Deering
Architect, Senior Data Center Construction Manager
Oracle
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Zachary Carpenter
Scale-Up Solutions Innovations Manager
Corning Optical Communication
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Bob Wagner
Senior Manager
Panduit
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Marshall Sorenson
VP
Metromont
The Network Returns Gap: Interconnection Repricing, Buildout Risk and What Capital Is Actually Underwriting
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Khalil Benlemlih
Director
Igneo Infrastructure Partners
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Pavan Kundurthi
Engineering Manager, Data Center Engineering
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Dave Cohen
VP, Hyperscale
BIG Fiber
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Shah Karim
CEO
SafeRock
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Virginia Baker
Director, Event Production
Bisnow
Why Attend Data Center Connectivity & AI Infrastructure Conference & Expo
Why This Matters
The data center industry spent the last decade optimizing for cloud. The next decade is being built around AI — and the infrastructure requirements are not an incremental upgrade. AI training clusters push hundreds of gigabits per second between nodes. Inference workloads have latency tolerances that punish poorly designed network paths. The gap between what legacy connectivity infrastructure was built to handle and what AI-scale demand requires is now wide enough to reshape where campuses get built, how they get connected and which operators win the next cycle of customer commitments.
At the same time, the network layer itself is under pressure from every direction. Hyperscalers are building private backbone capacity that bypasses traditional carrier relationships. New submarine cable systems are coming online faster than inland interconnection infrastructure is being upgraded to capture them. Spectrum auctions, fiber rights-of-way and middle-mile constraints are turning public policy into a direct variable in private infrastructure investment. And the capital markets are trying to underwrite assets whose revenue assumptions depend on technology transitions — from 100G to 400G to 800G — that are happening faster than most depreciation schedules anticipated.
DICE Connectivity & AI Infrastructure is built for the practitioners who are working through those intersections right now. Not a survey of trends but a room full of people who are making network architecture decisions, signing interconnection agreements, routing capital into fiber and switching infrastructure and trying to figure out which connectivity bets hold up as AI demand matures and the hyperscale build cycle continues to evolve.
The questions worth spending a day on: what the AI infrastructure stack actually demands from the network layer that the cloud stack did not. How carriers and colo operators are repricing interconnection as 400G becomes the baseline expectation. What private backbone buildout by hyperscalers means for the independent fiber and carrier ecosystem. And where the next wave of submarine cable capacity lands commercially — not just geographically.
What You'll Learn
What AI training and inference workloads actually demand from network architecture that cloud-era infrastructure was not designed to provide
How interconnection economics are changing as 400G becomes the baseline and hyperscalers increasingly build around traditional exchange and carrier relationships
What the private backbone buildout by the largest cloud platforms means for independent fiber operators, carriers and neutral colocation providers
Where the next generation of submarine cable capacity is landing and which inland operators and interconnection venues are positioned to capture it commercially
How capital markets are underwriting connectivity and AI infrastructure assets when the technology transition curve is moving faster than traditional depreciation models
Who You'll Network With
Carriers and fiber network operators, neutral colocation and interconnection platform executives, hyperscaler and cloud network strategy and deployment teams, digital infrastructure investors and lenders, submarine cable system developers and landing station operators, AI infrastructure operators and GPU cluster developers, enterprise network architects and CIOs, economic development officials in major network hub markets and technology and equipment vendors serving the connectivity and AI infrastructure stack.
Articles You Should Read!
Big Tech's AI Ambitions Require Billions Of Dollars Of New Fiber, But No One Wants To Pay For It
Texas Might Soon Have More Data Centers, But Investors Still Prefer Northern Virginia
Compass Datacenters CEO On Walking Away From 12M SF Project: 'We'll Go To Another Spot'
Officials End Efforts To Build One Of World's Largest Data Center Clusters
For questions or interests in becoming a speaker or sponsor, please email our global director, data centers, Adam Knobloch, at adam.knobloch@bisnow.com
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Venue
Hyatt Regency Dulles
2300 Dulles Corner Blvd.
Herndon, VA 20171
Ballroom/Floor: Cirrus Ballroom & Foyer / 1st floor
Parking: Complimentary
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Agenda
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7:30 AM
9:00 AM
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Registration, Breakfast and Networking
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9:00 AM
9:45 AM
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What AI Actually Needs from the Network: Infrastructure Gaps the Cloud Build Cycle Left Behind
AI training and inference don't scale up cloud network architecture, they break it. Training clusters overwhelm interconnect designs built for east-west cloud traffic, and inference latency tolerances expose routing gaps cloud workloads could absorb. The fiber, switching and power decisions operators locked in during the cloud build are now the constraint. What's different about AI-native network builds, and where is legacy infrastructure falling short? |
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9:45 AM
10:15 AM
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Coffee and Networking Break
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10:15 AM
11:00 AM
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The Network Returns Gap: Interconnection Repricing, Buildout Risk and What Capital Is Actually Underwriting
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11:00 AM
11:30 AM
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Post-Event Networking
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Who Attends
Aligned Data Centers | Amazon Web Services | Astra Capital Management | CleanArc Data Centers | CloudHQ | Clune Construction | Cologix | CoreSite | CyrusOne | Digital Realty | DPR Construction | EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure | Edged | Equinix | Google | HITT Contracting | Holder Construction | Kestrel Venture Partners | Meta | Microsoft | Montera Infrastructure | NTT Global Data Centers | Oracle | PointOne Data Centers | PowerHouse Data Centers | QTS | ServerFarm | Siemens | STACK Infrastructure | Stonebridge | Stonepeak | T5 Data Centers | Vantage Data Centers | Vertiv | Viking Data Centers | The Weitz Company | Whiting-Turner
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