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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!
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Speakers and Panels
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Chris Downie
Managing Partner
Welles Infrastructure Advisors
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Kevin Imboden
Global Director, Market Research & Intelligence
EdgeConneX
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Eanna Murphy
Founder and CEO
Montera Infrasructure
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Jay Smith
VP, Data Center Operations and Engineering
Evocative
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Nabeel Mahmood
Co-Founder
Nomad Futurist Foundation
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Kyle Chien
Sr. Director
Digital Realty Trust
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Greg Bowman
Director, Construction - Physical Security
Crusoe
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Jesse Brodhagen
Product and Customer Success Manager
Nucor Data Systems
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Zachary Rainey
Manager
Fujitsu
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Meghan Reckling
CEO
Victory Field Operations (VFO)
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Graeme Kavanagh
Partner & CRO
Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities
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David Fanning
Principal
Gensler
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Brandon Barker
Member
Mintz
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Scott Rugen
VP, Advanced Technology
Graham Construction
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Dylan Swallow
Managing Principal – Americas
SLS Consultants
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David Norton
Partner
Allen Matkins
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Anand Ramesh
CTO/Co-Founder
Verrus
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Mark Calvano
President
Calvano Development
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Jeffrey Moerdler
Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure
Haynes and Boone
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Brandy Byrd Chapman
Business Development Specialist, Mission Critical
Ameristar Perimeter Security
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Rav Dhaliwal
VP & Office Leader, San Francisco & Santa Clara
HITT Contracting
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Preet Gill
EVP, Global Technology Risk Practice Leader
Lockton
Venue
San Jose Marriott
301 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Ballroom / Floor: San Jose Ballroom / 2nd Floor
Parking Options:
Marriott Valet Parking:
$13 per hour | $53 daily maximum (standard vehicles, overnight)San Jose Convention Center Self-Parking (connected to the hotel):
$4 per hour | $25 daily maximum (no in/out privileges)Additional Local Parking:
http://parksj.org/
Agenda
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7:30 AM
8:30 AM
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Breakfast, Registration and Networking
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8:30 AM
9:15 AM
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Earning the Right to Build: Community Engagement in the Data Center Era
Opposition is no longer a late-stage surprise. Noise, water use, power rates and thin local job counts are turning hearings into the main project risk across the West, and the developers who win approvals are the ones who showed up long before the application. Examine what community engagement looks like when it works, who actually moves a skeptical council or neighborhood and what workforce and local-benefit commitments hold up after the ribbon cutting. Identify the promises that backfire and decide what to concede early to protect the schedule. |
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9:15 AM
10:00 AM
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Behind the Meter or Back of the Line: How Developers Are Actually Getting Power
Waiting for the utility is no longer a strategy, but self-generation is no shortcut either. Developers are pairing fuel cells, batteries and phased energization with grid service to hold schedules, and each path carries its own cost, permitting and reliability tradeoffs. Compare bridge power against the cost of waiting, probe what utilities can really promise and define which timelines survive underwriting. |
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10:00 AM
10:30 AM
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Networking Break
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10:30 AM
11:15 AM
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The Powered Land Premium: Who Pays for Megawatts When Acres Are Cheap
Land stopped being the asset. A site with a credible power path commands a premium that has little to do with acreage, and buyers are paying it before they know what entitlements will cost them. Price power certainty into land deals, weigh zoning and utility risk against speed and spot where the premium has outrun the fundamentals. |
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11:15 AM
12:00 PM
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Designed for a Chip That Doesn't Exist Yet
Design cycles run years while silicon roadmaps turn over in months, so every facility is a bet on densities no one can confirm. Liquid cooling, higher-voltage distribution and structural loads are being locked in now for hardware still on the drawing board. Compare flexibility against cost and speed, price what a retrofit really takes and decide which choices are worth making early. |
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12:00 PM
1:00 PM
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Networking Lunch
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12:20 PM
12:40 PM
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From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
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1:00 PM
1:45 PM
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Fast, Cheap or Reliable: What Compressed Delivery Is Costing Operators
Hyperscale schedules keep shrinking, and the bill shows up after go-live. Corners cut in construction surface as commissioning failures and operational headaches that the operations team inherits from people who have already left the site. Identify where schedules slip, lock procurement before ground breaks and hand over a facility that performs on day one. |
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1:45 PM
2:05 PM
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Networking Break
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2:05 PM
2:20 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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2:20 PM
3:05 PM
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Who Gets Financed: Tenant Credit, Obsolescence and the Bubble Question
Capital is plentiful, but lenders are getting pickier about what they will fund. Tenant concentration, power certainty and technology obsolescence are separating financeable projects from the ones that stall, regardless of how strong the headline demand story sounds. Compare equity and debt appetite, expose where underwriting has quietly tightened and answer whether this is a durable buildout or a cycle. |
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3:05 PM
3:50 PM
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The New Tenant Roster: Neoclouds, Credit Risk and Who Stands Behind the Lease
The tenant list is no longer just the big names. AI-native operators are signing large commitments with thinner balance sheets, and developers, lenders and contractors are all exposed to a credit story they have never had to underwrite. Examine what guarantees and structures are holding up, who absorbs the loss when a tenant stumbles and how insurance and contract terms are being rewritten around counterparty risk. |
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3:50 PM
4:50 PM
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Cocktail Reception
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Why Attend the West Coast Data Center Conference
Why This Matters
Demand for data center capacity across the West is not in question. What is in question is who can deliver it. Power timelines, land that comes with a credible energy path, community opposition and a tenant roster full of newer, thinner-credit names are now deciding which projects get built and which stall. At the same time, design decisions are being locked in for chips that have not shipped and schedules keep compressing, which pushes risk onto operators long after the ribbon cutting. The developers, investors and operators who understand where these pressures meet will have the edge in the next wave of Western development.
What You'll Learn
How developers are securing power when utility timelines will not hold, and which on-site and bridge options survive underwriting
Where land premiums have outrun the fundamentals and how entitlement and community risk are being priced into deals
What community engagement looks like when it wins approvals and which local-benefit promises backfire
How design teams are building for AI densities that outpace chip roadmaps without overspending on flexibility
Where compressed delivery schedules break down and what that costs operators after go-live
How lenders and investors are underwriting tenant credit, obsolescence and neocloud counterparties
Who You'll Network With
Connect with developers, hyperscale and colocation operators, investors, lenders, utility and energy providers, landowners, general contractors, engineers, architects, attorneys, insurers and public sector leaders who are shaping how data center capacity gets built across the West.
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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