National DICE Capital Markets

Thu Jul 16, 2026

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National DICE Capital Markets

Funding the next wave of digital infrastructure by linking AI workloads, power readiness, delivery execution and capital stacks across markets

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Thursday July 16 2026 @ 7:30 AM EDT

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Speakers and Panels

Dave Ferdman

President & Managing Director, Primary Digital Infrastructure

Fentress Boyse

Member of Mgmt., Private Infrastructure - Americas, Partners Group

Hunter Newby

Owner, Newby Ventures

John Ghirardelli

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Daniel English

Managing Partner, Legacy Investing

Aaron Kutner

Regional Head, Mid-Atlantic Acquisitions, MetLife Investment Management

Mehdi Khalili

Investment Manager, Legal & General (L&G)

Robert Gutman

SVP, Investor Relations & Capital Markets, Compass Data Centers

Kamil Homsi

CEO, GRC Investment Group - Dubai (SFO)

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

Brian Chen

VP, Stewart Title

Moderator

Michael Morris

President, Cresa

Jennifer Toeppner

Data Center Lead, Sales & Business Development, Metromont

Why You Can't Miss DICE Capital Markets

What You’ll Learn:

How AI-driven workloads, cloud migration and enterprise IT strategies change your demand forecasts, market selection decisions and long-term investment theses for data center portfolios.
Ways to use site selection, power procurement and interconnection strategy to manage capital risk around grid bottlenecks, community resistance and permitting uncertainty.
Strategies for structuring upfront diligence on title, entitlements, environmental review and risk allocation so projects meet lender and equity requirements for bankability.
Approaches for using modular, prefabricated and factory-first delivery models to reshape capex, reduce schedule risk and scale capital deployment from single assets to regional programs.
Insights into how capital stacks differ across single-asset, boutique, regional and platform strategies, and how customer mix, market choice and sponsor track record affect leverage, pricing and exit outcomes.
Ways AI, automation and advanced data intelligence in operations can improve opex, resilience and performance in ways that directly influence asset valuation and investment decisions.
Tactics for integrating design, construction and operations so assets are more resilient and future-ready while supporting sustainability targets and long-term growth assumptions in your underwriting.
Methods for strengthening workforce capabilities, delivery processes and partnerships with utilities and technology providers to reduce execution risk, accelerate time-to-revenue and enhance portfolio performance.

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

Win and retain customers by positioning your pipeline, sites and product set where AI and cloud demand support durable, financeable growth.
De-risk deals and compress timelines by applying proven strategies for securing power, advancing entitlements and structuring modular execution in ways capital will back.
Make sharper calls on sites, partners, technologies and capital structures using real-world lessons from recent transactions, RFPs and program rollouts.
Focus your innovation bets on the AI, cooling, construction and automation approaches that are delivering measurable ROI and value uplift in current assets.
Build the relationships that connect you to active deal flow, strategic capital, utility partners and solution providers across the full data center lifecycle.

Who You’ll Network With:

Developers, Owners & Operators — leaders shaping where and how the next wave of capacity gets built, from enterprise facilities to regional AI campuses.
Construction & Design Teams — GCs, architects, engineers and modular specialists executing high-density, prefabricated and fast-track builds under tight power and schedule constraints.
Utility & Infrastructure Partners — grid, power and network stakeholders tackling interconnection queues, on-site generation, and long-term capacity planning for digital infrastructure.
Investors & Financial Partners — lenders, private equity and infrastructure funds underwriting risk, pricing capital and backing both boutique assets and scaled platforms.
Technology & Solution Providers — innovators in AI infrastructure, cooling, automation, monitoring and connectivity enabling higher-density, more efficient operations.technology
Policy, Regulatory & Community Stakeholders — public-sector, ESG and community voices shaping permitting outcomes, incentive structures and expectations around resilience and sustainability.

Relevant News and Developments:

Why You Should Attend:

This conference is the place for investors, lenders and sponsors who need to price risk and deploy capital in an AI- and cloud-driven build cycle where power, sites and structures are all in flux. Each panel moves a step along the deal chain, from understanding workload-led demand signals and delivery models, to making land truly financeable, to structuring capital across single assets, regional programs and platforms, so every discussion maps directly to underwriting, capital allocation and exit outcomes. You’ll see how peers are recalibrating demand forecasts, managing grid and entitlement risk, using modular execution to protect IRR, and differentiating their strategies in a crowded capital environment. Whether you’re backing, originating or operating data center deals, you’ll leave with clearer investment theses, sharper decision frameworks and relationships that plug you into live transactions and best practices across the full lifecycle of data center capital formation and deployment.

Are you an end user*?

Click here to be considered for a complimentary pass. *Hyperscaler, colocation provider (non-sales), investor, private equity, or enterprise tenant.

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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Agenda

Time	Activity
7:30 AM 8:25 AM	Registration, Breakfast and Networking
8:25 AM 8:30 AM	Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE Capital Markets
8:30 AM 9:10 AM	Workloads in Motion: How AI, Cloud and Enterprise IT Are Rewriting Demand AI labs, cloud platforms and enterprise IT teams are driving a step-change in demand, density and deal structures across the data center landscape, and forcing capital providers and operators to rethink how they underwrite future growth. As workloads shift toward AI training, inference and cloud-native applications, customer expectations around location, redundancy, interconnection and flexibility are evolving faster than most pipelines can keep up. This session brings together operators, capital partners and end users to unpack what is actually showing up in today’s RFPs and renewals—from power profiles and contract terms to campus strategies and regional preferences. How are these demand signals reshaping underwriting, deployment priorities, portfolio strategy and capital allocation, and where do industry leaders expect new requirements and growth to surface over the next 12–24 months?
9:10 AM 9:25 AM	Top Ten Data Center Legal and Business Issues for Powered Land, Leases and MSA's That You Should Know About
9:25 AM 9:45 AM	Coffee & Networking Break
9:45 AM 10:25 AM	Building for Every Customer: Delivering Projects from Single Facility to Regional Footprint Today’s market spans everything from bespoke enterprise builds to repeatable colo footprints and mega-campuses serving AI and cloud at scale. Sponsors, developers and builders must tailor design, phasing and delivery models to serve very different customer types while still hitting aggressive timelines, capex budgets and return thresholds.. This conversation explores how teams are standardizing core elements, leveraging modular and prefabricated approaches, and sequencing projects to move smoothly from one-off facilities to multi-building campuses and regional programs. What delivery strategies, contract structures and collaboration models are helping stakeholders balance speed-to-market, resiliency, sustainability, cost and capital efficiency across such a diverse spectrum of project sizes and customer needs?
10:25 AM 11:05 AM	Land, Risk and Readiness: Making Sites Financeable Before You Go Vertical In a capital- and power-constrained cycle, only truly “ready” sites will attract funding and move quickly from concept to construction. Developers must navigate title defects, easements, rights-of-way, environmental constraints, local approvals and community pushback before a project is viewed as bankable by lenders and equity partners. This panel dives into the front-end work required to turn interesting parcels into financeable, shovel-ready data center sites across a range of deal sizes and market types. What are capital providers insisting on around entitlements, permitting, risk allocation and utility coordination—and how can sponsors structure diligence, partnerships and documentation so projects clear investment committees and stay on schedule?
11:05 AM 11:25 AM	Coffee & Networking Break
11:25 AM 12:05 PM	Funding the Spectrum: Capital Approaches for Boutique, Regional and Platform Strategies From single-asset enterprise facilities to regional colo footprints and large-scale platforms, capital is chasing a wide range of data center opportunities, but not all deals are created equal. Investors are weighing customer mix, market selection, development risk, operating track record and scale to determine leverage, pricing, structure and exit pathways. This session convenes lenders and equity providers to compare how they evaluate and underwrite different strategies, including boutique projects, roll-up plays and long-horizon platform bets. Which characteristics are separating funded projects from those left on the drawing board, and how should sponsors position their pipelines, partnerships and capital stacks to secure backing and build durable value across market cycles?
12:05 PM 12:35 PM	Post‑Event Networking