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Speakers and Panels
Michael Falleroni
Principal
Ryan
Remarks from the Podium
Adeel Usman
VP
Power and Data Management
Southern Data Center Playbook: How Texas and Its Neighbors Are Redefining the Map
Haynes Strader
Chief Development Officer
Skybox Datacenters
Lindsey Bruner
COO
CleanArc Data Centers
Asher Genoot
CEO
Hut 8
Tom Spackman
Owner & CEO
Gigabit Fiber
Shawn Ronda
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
Smart Site Bets: What It Actually Takes to Get a Site Built
Robert Child
EVP, Data Center Development
KDC
Brian Chen
VP
Stewart Title - Energy & Infrastructure
Chuck McCallum
President
KWRE and Kier & Wright
Mike Falleroni
Principal
Ryan
Mark Looney
Partner
Cooley
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
Partner & CRO
Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities
Bobby Little
Chief Investment Officer
NTT DC REIT
Stuart Miller
Executive Director
JLL
Tyler Noesser
Director
Alliant Group
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
General Manager, AMERS EPC
Microsoft
Swadeep Rachoor
Director of Project Controls - U.S. Operations
Decima International
Scott Worley
Sr. Director
Stabilis Solutions
Justin Leon
Manager
Avtron Power Solutions
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
Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure
Haynes and Boone
Doug Recker
CEO
Duos Edge AI
Matt Tyndall
Head of Site Development
Core Scientific
Bailey West
CEO
R&B Power Solutions
Jordan Castaneda
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
Delvina Uka
Chief Development Officer
Hydria
Chrissy Olsen
VP, Critical Power Solutions
MPI Energy
From Plan to Delivery: What Actually Works in AI-Era Data Center Construction
Tara Pazhohande
Construction Manager
Crusoe
Dale Allison
National Market Director
TRC, Member of WSP
Adam Henderson
Enterprise Account Manager
Nucor Rebar Fabrication
Tyler Stevenson
SVP
Clune Construction
Ron Mann
VP
Compu Dynamics Modular (CDM)
Kurt Lindorfer
Founding Principal
PARADIGM Structural Engineers
Designing for AI Density: Power, Cooling and System Integration in Next-Gen Data Centers
Robert D'Agostino
Data Center Development Engineer
Hut 8
Bruce Baxter
Director, Design & Engineering
Element Critical
Parker Brunelle
VP
Tidal Time Solutions
Malcolm Ferguson
Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Lindsey Mickelson
Regional Manager
Belimo
Bill Evanger
Director, Solutions Architecture
ByteBridge
From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
Jesse Fenner
National 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
Jay Smith
VP, Data Center Operations and Engineering
Evocative
Marc Bhuyan
Former Product Manager
Mike May
Director
Schneider Electric
James RePass
SVP, Global Operations
Fleet Data Centers
Alex Larence
Manager
ESI Total Fuel Management
Robert Hug
Director of Technology Support Services
Wesco
Craig Compiano
CEO
Modius
Delivery at Scale: How to Move From One Off Wins to a Repeatable System
Gabe Andrews
Partner
Mousterian
Megha Brahmbhatt
Principal Technical Program Manager
Oracle
Cody Bain
Principal
AG&E
Hani Noshi
Principal Program Manager, Data Center Delivery (DCD)
Microsoft
John Rewolinski
Head of Schedule Analytics
Doxel
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
John Tomlinson
Director, Mission Critical
XYZ Reality
Joe Walsh
Chief Delivery Officer
Montera Infrastructure
Corey Potts
Sr. Executive, National Programs
OxBlue
Why You Can't Miss this Texas Data Center Conference 2026
What You'll Learn About the Texas Data Center Boom:
Why Texas markets like DFW 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 Texas data center 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 The South's Largest Data Center Investment and Development 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 expansion 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.
Relevant News and Developments
A 3 trillion AI boom is set to make Texas the largest data center market on earth
Data center construction boom positions Dallas-Fort Worth as ...
2026 US Data Centers and Energy Key Trends Shaping Power ...
Texas vs Virginia: Which Will Get Top Data Center Market Status
Texas Could Pass Virginia as the World's Top Data Center Market
US Data Center Regions 2026: How Power and AI Are Reshaping the Map
Big Digital Energy acquires land for 311MW data center campus outside Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
More headlines: https://www.bisnow.com/data-center
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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%
Venue
Live! by Loews Hotel Arlington
1600 E. Randol Mill
Arlington TX 76011
Ballroom/Floor: Arlington Ballroom / 2nd Floor
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Agenda
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5:30 PM
6:00 PM
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Registration and Networking
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6:00 PM
6:10 PM
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Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE South 2026!
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6:10 PM
6:55 PM
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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. |
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6:55 PM
7:35 PM
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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. |
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7:35 PM
8:00 PM
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Networking Break
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8:00 PM
8:45 PM
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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. |
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8:45 PM
9:30 PM
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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. |
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9:30 PM
10:30 PM
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Day 1 Post-Event Cocktail Reception!!
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12:30 PM
1:20 PM
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Registration, Breakfast and Networking
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1:20 PM
1:30 PM
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Opening Remarks Day 2
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1:30 PM
2:15 PM
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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. |
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2:15 PM
2:30 PM
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Top Ten Data Center Legal and Business Issues for Powered Land, Leases and MSA's That You Should Know About
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2:30 PM
3:15 PM
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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. |
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3:15 PM
3:30 PM
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Networking Break
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3:30 PM
4:15 PM
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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. |
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4:15 PM
5:00 PM
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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. |
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5:00 PM
6:00 PM
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Networking Lunch
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5:15 PM
5:35 PM
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From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
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6:00 PM
6:45 PM
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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. |
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6:45 PM
7:00 PM
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Networking Break
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7:00 PM
7:45 PM
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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. |
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7:45 PM
8:30 PM
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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. |
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8:30 PM
9:30 PM
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Day 2 Post-Event Cocktail Reception!!
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