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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

John Day

John Day

Chief Commercial Officer

CleanArc Data Centers

Ludo Hintos

Ludo Hintos

VP, Infrastructure Planning & Development

Corscale

Cisha Adams

Cisha Adams

Director, Utility Engagement

QTS Data Centers

Adebisi Ogunsanmi

Adebisi Ogunsanmi

Manager, Critical Environment Operations

Microsoft

Christine Guhl-Sadovy

Christine Guhl-Sadovy

Commissioner

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

Rob Doretti

Rob Doretti

Director, Data Center

Lincoln Property Company

Perry Pound

Perry Pound

Founder & CEO

Cambridge Pacific Ventures

Steve Mathews

Steve Mathews

Director of Project Development

E-Finity

Steven Shparber

Steven Shparber

Member

Mintz

Justin Toone

Justin Toone

National Manager, Fuel System Products

ESI Total Fuel Management

Zach Neal

Zach Neal

Senior Vice President

Solaris Energy Infrastructure

Clint Allen

Clint Allen

Partner

Archer & Greiner P.C.

Gary Hill
Moderator

Gary Hill

CEO

DVL Group

Candace McPhillips
Moderator

Candace McPhillips

Associate VP

Gregory

Chrissy Olsen
Moderator

Chrissy Olsen

VP, Critical Power Solutions

MPI Energy

Christine Guhl-Sadovy

Commissioner

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

Christine Guhl-Sadovy is the President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). Governor Phil Murphy nominated Guhl-Sadovy to serve as a Commissioner in 2023. Shortly after her appointment, Guhl-Sadovy was named President in September of that year. Prior to her current role, Guhl-Sadovy served as Cabinet Secretary for Governor Murphy, where she spearheaded the creation of the Governor’s Fellow Program, which connects recent graduates and early career professionals to positions in key policy and programmatic fields in state government.

Before joining the Governor’s Office, President Guhl-Sadovy worked on staff at NJBPU, where she rose to the position of Chief of Staff to President Joe Fiordaliso and advanced priority initiatives related to community solar, offshore wind, and lead service line replacement. Prior to serving in the Murphy Administration, President Guhl-Sadovy held roles at the national Sierra Club, where she worked on state and federal energy policy matters, and at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey.

President Guhl-Sadovy is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners serving on the Energy Resources and the Environment, and Consumers and the Public Interest committees. She is a lifelong New Jersey resident and a graduate of Rutgers University.

Rob Doretti

Director, Data Center

Lincoln Property Company

Rob Doretti is the Director, Data Center Leasing at Lincoln Property Company, where he supports the firm’s leasing strategy for Lincoln-owned data centers nationally, as well as third-party assets for private and institutional investors. He is responsible for driving growth across the firm’s data center portfolio, focusing on leasing and client relationships.

With over six years of experience in the data center leasing sector, Rob brings a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics and strategic leasing solutions. Prior to joining Lincoln Property Company, Rob was a Global Account Executive at DataBank, where he was instrumental in expanding the company’s Hyperscale platform. Throughout his career, Rob has supported the leasing of more than 100MW of data center capacity, working with a wide range of clients from hyperscale to enterprise operators.

Rob’s expertise in data center leasing and his ability to execute complex transactions make him a key leader in helping clients navigate the evolving digital infrastructure landscape. His strategic insights and client-focused approach drive success across Lincoln Property Company’s data center portfolio.

Perry Pound

Founder & CEO

Cambridge Pacific Ventures

Perry J. Pound is the Managing Partner of Cambridge Pacific, a capital formation and infrastructure investment platform that finances the physical layer of the intelligence economy. The firm partners with institutional investors, family offices, developers, and infrastructure sponsors to originate, finance, and scale data centers, energy infrastructure, and strategic real assets. Since inception, Cambridge Pacific has executed and advised on more than $1 billion of transactions.

Over a 24-year career spanning $4.5B+ in institutional real estate and infrastructure transactions, Perry built and led Greystar's Southern California Development Division, deploying $1.5B+ across institutional development and raising $650M+ in equity from global pensions and sovereign wealth funds. His earlier work at Recurrent Energy covered utility-scale solar acquisitions — land control, interconnection position, and offtake diligence — experience directly relevant to today's powered land market.

Perry holds a Master of Arts from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, with a concentration in International Finance & Banking and cross-registration at Harvard Business School, along with a B.A., cum laude, from Pepperdine University. He splits his time between Texas, New York, and Paris.

Steve Mathews

Director of Project Development

E-Finity

Steve Mathews is Director of Project Development at E-Finity Distributed Generation, where he leads a multidisciplinary team developing large-scale onsite power generation solutions for some of the most power-intensive facilities in the country, including AI and hyperscale data centers. He specializes in distributed generation and combined heat and power across natural gas generating assets helping data center owners, developers, and operators achieve energy independence, grid resilience, and long-term cost certainty.

Steven Shparber

Member

Mintz

Steven represents energy project developers, private equity and infrastructure funds, commercial and corporate end users of energy, and clean energy trade groups across a broad spectrum of high-stakes legal and business matters. His practice encompasses handling federal and state regulatory issues involving the power sector, with a particular emphasis on matters involving wholesale power markets, advising clients on emerging issues in the energy sector, and counseling clients on energy transactional and project development matters.

In his regulatory practice, he provides strategic advice and counseling, prepares Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) filings in support of transactions, and manages negotiations and dispute resolution proceedings. He also leads administrative litigation, rulemaking and ratemaking proceedings before FERC and state regulatory agencies, and has experience appealing FERC decisions to federal courts of appeals. Shparber also has a significant transactional practice that includes advising parties seeking to develop, own, operate, and finance utility-scale renewable energy projects, distributed energy resources, green hydrogen projects, microgrids, and EV-charging networks.

Justin Toone

National Manager, Fuel System Products

ESI Total Fuel Management

Justin Toone serves as National Manager, Fuel System Products at ESI Total Fuel Management, providing leadership across ESI’s fuel system product strategy and partner ecosystem. As data center and commercial operations continue to grow—and customer expectations increase for advanced, scalable fuel programs—this role supports ESI’s ability to deliver consistent access to high-performance fuel system products and capabilities that strengthen operational resiliency nationwide. Justin brings more than 17 years of experience across upstream, midstream, and downstream segments of the oil and gas industry. His background includes leading commercial fuel operations across the Eastern U.S. and developing turnkey fuel infrastructure solutions, including full EPC project execution across multiple market segments. He has also supported delivery of large-scale compressor stations and gas processing facilities, building deep expertise in ASME code equipment, permitting, supplier development, and complex project delivery.

At ESI, Justin is responsible for developing and managing key client and partner relationships in support of ESI’s fuel and revenue objectives. He oversees ESI’s national network to ensure dependable access to HVO and diesel fuel while reinforcing strategic relationships across both coasts. Justin also contributes to market assessments and competitive analyses that inform ESI’s product and service roadmap, and he leads performance tracking and operational reporting to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement across the Fuel, Product, and On-Site Services divisions.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oklahoma and completed coursework at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering. He also holds an FAA Airframe & Powerplant License and a Private Pilot Certificate, reflecting a technical foundation and disciplined approach to systems, safety, and operational execution.

Clint Allen

Partner

Archer & Greiner P.C.

Clint concentrates his practice in land use, environmental permitting and regulatory compliance, helping clients navigate the federal, state, and local regulatory processes related to their land acquisition and planned development projects. He has obtained entitlements for a wide spectrum of projects throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including residential site plans and subdivisions, commercial and industrial parks, shopping centers, Brownfield sites, renewable energy sites, and fossil fuel power generations facilities.

A strong advocate for his clients, Clint takes a practical approach to help his clients meet their business objectives, efficiently solve land use challenges, and advance their projects with minimal delays. Clients, including industrial, commercial, and residential property owners and developers, benefit from Clint’s track record of success in navigating the complex process of multiagency permits, approvals and certifications from local planning boards and zoning boards, county boards and special regional and state agencies, such as the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware River Basin Commission. Moreover, Clint has extensive experience in successfully defending commercial and residential developers in connection with New Jersey Uniform Construction Code enforcement actions.

Clint has facilitated the approval and development of a wide variety of warehouse and logistic center development projects, many of which have played a prominent role in Gloucester County and Salem County in New Jersey. He also has extensive experience representing resource extraction operators in connection with facility permitting.

Additionally, Clint has extensive experience serving as lead defense counsel representing parties before federal, special regional and state agencies such as the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the United States of Environmental Protection Agency regarding air, water, hazardous waste and hazardous substances shipping and handling enforcement matters.

Candace McPhillips

Moderator

Gregory

Candace McPhillips is an Associate Vice President at Gregory, where she develops strategic

communications programs for clients across the clean technology, sustainability, and data

center sectors. She helps organizations translate complex technical topics into compelling

stories that build credibility and drive business results.

A former journalist, Candace brings an editor's perspective to every engagement. She develops

media strategies for major announcements, secures coverage in leading national and trade

publications, and helps clients communicate through industry shifts with clear, effective

messaging. Her experience includes working with data center and digital infrastructure

companies on topics ranging from AI infrastructure and energy to sustainability and emerging

technologies.

Known for her strategic thinking and collaborative approach, Candace helps clients identify

meaningful story opportunities, strengthen their messaging, and earn media attention that

supports long-term business goals.

Chrissy Olsen

Moderator

MPI Energy

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.

Why You Can't Miss this Data Center Conference

What You'll Learn: 

  • Which procurement structures are actually getting East Coast campuses to first power today, including how nuclear offtake agreements, gas-backed bridge generation, curtailment-based interconnection and demand response programs are being stacked to work around utility timeline constraints.

  • How operators and developers are evaluating powered land strategies, ramp schedules and blended utility and alternative source approaches to bring capacity online faster without destroying the underwriting model.

  • Which backup architectures, UPS configurations, generator sequencing strategies and energy storage deployments are proving financially and operationally defensible as AI workloads push rack densities from 10kW toward 50kW and beyond.

  • How cooling integration, power distribution design and infrastructure monitoring are being redesigned from the ground up to support high-density AI halls without sacrificing uptime or operational predictability.

  • What FERC's large-load interconnection docket, evolving state tariff frameworks and the cost-allocation debates reshaping PJM mean for how deals actually get structured and underwritten today.

  • How the legal architecture of co-location agreements, transmission security packages and special retail contracts has fundamentally changed what a utility service negotiation looks like and where sponsors are still exposed.

  • Where operators, developers and their counsel are finding the most friction in getting regulatory approvals, interconnection commitments and contract structures aligned on the same timeline.

  • What the power, resiliency and regulatory landscape is likely to look like over the next three to five years as AI demand accelerates and grid constraints tighten across major US markets.

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

You'll get a ground-level view of how leading developers, operators, capital allocators and their advisors are navigating the widening gap between data center demand and grid readiness. From procurement strategy and infrastructure design to the regulatory and contractual shifts rewriting how deals get done, you'll leave with concrete intelligence on where the real friction is, which approaches are actually working and who is solving problems at scale. That combination of market insight and operational specificity will help you sharpen your strategy, de-risk your pipeline and walk into your next deal better positioned than when you walked in.

Who You’ll Network With:

  • Developers, Owners and Operators -- executives and project leaders planning, entitling and delivering the next wave of data center capacity across major US markets.

  • Utility and Energy Partners -- grid operators, utility planners, generation owners and energy service providers working to align large-load growth with real-world infrastructure constraints.

  • Construction and Design Professionals -- architects, engineers, EPCs and infrastructure specialists rethinking delivery models as density and complexity climb.

  • Investors and Financial Partners -- debt and equity capital providers focused on how power timing, regulatory exposure and procurement structure are reshaping risk and return profiles in digital infrastructure.

  • Technology and Solution Providers -- companies delivering advances in backup power, energy storage, cooling, power distribution and infrastructure monitoring for mission-critical environments.

  • Legal, Regulatory and Policy Advisors -- counsel and policy professionals navigating the interconnection, tariff and contract structures that now sit at the center of how data center projects get approved and financed.

Why You Should Attend This Philadelphia Data Center Event: 

National DICE Power Capacity, Energy and Sustainability in Philadelphia is the premier gathering for data center leaders confronting the most consequential set of power, infrastructure and regulatory challenges the industry has faced. With AI demand reshaping what campuses need to deliver and grid constraints tightening across major US markets, the decisions being made right now on procurement strategy, operational resilience and regulatory positioning will determine which projects get built and which stall. Whether you are assembling your first complex energy stack, rethinking your backup and storage architecture or navigating a utility negotiation that looks nothing like it did three years ago, you will leave Philadelphia with sharper strategies, stronger relationships and a clearer picture of what it actually takes to get a campus powered, built and operating at scale.

Relevant News and Developments:

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.

Venue

Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown
201 N 17th St
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Ballroom: Liberty Ballroom D

Parking:
Secure underground parking is available at the Hotel. Current daily rates are $53.00 for self-parking and $69.00 for valet parking.

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Agenda

Time Activity
7:30 AM
9:00 AM
Registration, Breakfast and Networking
8:30 AM
9:15 AM
Getting to First Power: Generation, Procurement and the Energy Stack

AI-driven demand is outpacing grid readiness across major US markets, and operators can no longer count on utility timelines to align with customer commitments. From nuclear offtake agreements and gas-backed bridge generation to curtailment-based interconnection and demand response programs, the path to first power now requires assembling a procurement stack rather than signing a single utility contract. Which combinations are actually closing and which are still more pitch deck than project?

9:15 AM
9:45 AM
Coffee and Networking Break
9:45 AM
10:30 AM
Power Management, Resilience and the Infrastructure Behind Reliable Operations

As rack densities climb and AI workloads stress facilities at unprecedented scale, the gap between a data center that performs on paper and one that performs at 3am is widening. UPS architecture, generator sequencing, cooling integration, power distribution design and energy storage configuration are all being rethought as operators move from 10kW to 50kW and beyond per rack. What are today's operational realities teaching the industry about building infrastructure that holds?

10:30 AM
11:15 AM
Regulatory Reality Check: How Shifting Policy Is Reshaping Data Center Deals

FERC's large-load interconnection docket, evolving state tariff frameworks and the legal architecture of co-location agreements, transmission security packages and special retail contracts are fundamentally changing how data center deals get structured and closed. What used to be a relatively standard utility service negotiation now involves multiple regulatory jurisdictions, cost-allocation disputes and contract structures that didn't exist three years ago. How are sophisticated operators, developers and their counsel actually approaching the regulatory and transactional side of getting a campus built and powered?

11:15 AM
12:00 PM
Closing the Loop: Water Reuse, Battery Storage and the Sustainability Technologies Rewriting the Power Stack

Much of the public conversation about data center water use is still built on assumptions that no longer hold. Closed-loop cooling systems are displacing the open-loop designs that drove the water-consumption headlines, and battery energy storage systems are increasingly doing the job diesel generators used to do, without the emissions, fuel logistics or permitting friction that come with them. Move past the ESG talking points to the engineering and economics: what closed-loop water architecture actually requires to deploy at scale, where BESS genuinely displaces diesel versus where it's still a supplement, and how operators are using these technologies to correct outdated narratives with utilities, regulators and communities rather than just checking a sustainability box.

12:00 PM
12:15 PM
Post Panel Networking

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