Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Pacific Northwest

Tue Apr 14, 2026

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Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Pacific Northwest

INVESTIGATING HOW POWER MARKETS, AI INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY EXPECTATIONS AND LAND CONSTRAINTS ARE RESHAPING DATA CENTER GROWTH.

Tuesday April 14 2026 @ 7:30 AM PDT

$415.00

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Speakers and Panels

Jay Smith

VP, Data Center Operations and Engineering, Evocative

Kyle Chien

Sr. Director, Market Insights - Innovation Accelerati, Digital Realty Trust

Marc Bhuyan

Product Manager, Google

Phil Read

Sr. Director, Colocation Product Management, Equinix

Refugio Fernandez

Head of Supply Chain, Dropbox

Maria Poyer

Head of Acquisition, Verrus

James Richards

Manager, Economics and Development Program, Nuclear Innovation Alliance

Rishab Harikrishnan

Principal Hardware Manager, Oracle

Delvina Uka

Chief Development Officer, Hydria

Teresa Giralt

Business Development Specialist, Data Centers, Ameristar Perimeter Security USA

Drew Unger

EVP, Polargy

Charles Casey

Account Executive, Johnson Controls

Blake Roskelley

Sr Preconstruction Manager, Mission Critical, Clark Pacific

Why You Can't Miss this Data Center Conference

What You'll Learn:

How Pacific Northwest data center growth, investment patterns, and public/private collaboration are reshaping one of North America’s most closely watched digital infrastructure regions.
What project planning and site selection approaches are winning across urban edge, suburban rings, and rural corridors—from power and land evaluation to managing community expectations and benefits.
The most effective resilience strategies for risks ranging from grid constraints and climate pressures to permitting delays and policy uncertainty.
How modular builds, rapid deployment models, and construction technology are transforming campus delivery timelines and capacity in an AI-driven market.
How deal and capital structures are evolving amid higher power costs, tight vacancy, and surging demand, including new routes to financing and value creation.
What practical AI, automation, and data intelligence tools are moving from pilot to scaled use in operations, and how they’re changing expectations for reliability and efficiency at high density.
How leading operators are balancing advanced technology, streamlined processes, and workforce strategy to run resilient, high-performing facilities under rising energy and ESG scrutiny.
Which innovations in integrated design, engineering methods, digital modeling, and industrialized construction are setting new benchmarks for speed, sustainability, and project outcomes?

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

Gain actionable strategies to move faster—from smarter site selection across urban, suburban and rural settings to resilient build, commissioning and handover processes tuned to regional constraints.
Understand how to futureproof your approach to risk, power, and capital, capturing new financing opportunities while positioning projects to withstand policy and grid uncertainty.
See which technologies and operating models are truly moving the needle in the Pacific Northwest—from microgrids and high-density cooling to construction tech and AI-assisted operations—and how to deploy them for real ROI.
Build relationships that plug you into deal flow, development pipelines and best practices, connecting you with the operators, utilities, investors and partners driving the region’s next wave of growth.
Leave with market-specific insights, contacts and next steps to advance your role in the Pacific Northwest’s fast-evolving digital infrastructure ecosystem.

Who You’ll Network With:

Connect with industry leaders defining the future of the Southwest’s data center landscape:

Developers, Owners & Operators — visionaries, engineers, and planners delivering new capacity from Central Washington to greater Seattle and beyond.
Construction & Design Professionals — architects, GCs, modular specialists, and engineering teams pushing the envelope on delivery speed, density and standardization.
Utility & Infrastructure Partners — grid strategists, energy providers and transmission planners grappling with fast-rising tech loads and resource adequacy.
Investors & Financial Partners — infrastructure lenders, private capital leaders and sustainability-focused investors backing large-scale PNW capacity expansions.
Technology & Solution Providers — innovators in high-density cooling, power and automation enabling AI-scale deployments and more efficient operations.
Policy & Regulatory Experts — influential voices shaping permitting, climate policy and community frameworks for data centers in Washington and Oregon.

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Why You Should Attend:

DICE Pacific Northwest is the essential summit for anyone invested in the region’s next chapter of digital infrastructure—from AI-driven power demand and capital deployment to siting, resilience and operations. With an agenda built around real-time challenges and opportunities—grid constraints, climate expectations, rapid delivery and evolving financial models—this event will surface the strategies, partnerships and ideas needed to navigate one of the most dynamic data center markets in the U.S. Whether you’re breaking ground, scaling a campus, entering the market or optimizing existing assets, you’ll benchmark your approach, meet influential peers, and position your organization to capture opportunity in one of digital infrastructure’s most scrutinized and opportunity-rich regions.

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

Seattle Marriott Waterfront
2100 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98121

Ballroom/Floor: Grand Pacific Ballroom / Floor B1

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Agenda

Time	Activity
7:30 AM 8:20 AM	Coffee, Networking & Breakfast
8:20 AM 8:30 AM	Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE Pacific Northwest 2026!
8:30 AM 9:10 AM	State of the Pacific Northwest: Opportunities, Challenges and What’s Next Data center development in the Pacific Northwest is at an inflection point, with AI-fueled demand, grid constraints, and policy scrutiny reshaping how and where new capacity comes online. Developers, operators and investors are weighing the region’s power advantages and cool climate against emerging community concerns, environmental expectations and transmission bottlenecks, forcing new playbooks on siting, engagement and long-term planning. As national and global capital chases scalable AI infrastructure, the Northwest must decide whether it will lean into growth, set firmer guardrails, or both—so what does the next chapter of this market really look like?
9:10 AM 9:50 AM	Urban Edge, Suburban Rings, Rural Plays: Choosing the Right Setting for Growth As AI and cloud workloads scale, the calculus for where to build has shifted from “closest to downtown” to a much more nuanced mix of urban-edge, suburban and rural locations tied to power, fiber and politics. Developers are increasingly chasing exurban and rural sites with better grid access or land availability while still relying on urban and suburban hubs for network convergence, talent and customer proximity. With utilities, communities and regulators reacting differently across these geographies, how should stakeholders balance latency, cost, risk and long-term optionality when choosing where the next campus goes?
9:50 AM 10:10 AM	Networking Break
10:10 AM 10:50 AM	Turning Dirt Into Capacity: New Playbooks for Rapid Campus Delivery Traditional brick-and-mortar delivery models are straining under AI-era timelines, forcing project teams to rethink how they turn entitled land into energized, revenue-generating capacity. Owners, designers and builders are experimenting with prefabricated modules, standardized blocks, parallel permitting and technology-enabled coordination to compress schedules while maintaining safety and performance. As demand spikes and long-lead equipment remains a bottleneck, how far can the industry push new delivery playbooks before cost, complexity or risk outweigh the benefits?
10:50 AM 11:30 AM	Building Resilience Into Every Decision: A New Look at Data Center Risk Rapid expansion, high-density designs and growing dependence on digital infrastructure are forcing stakeholders to rethink risk—from grid reliability and climate impacts to policy shifts and financing structures. Developers, operators and capital providers are embedding resilience into site selection, contracting, engineering and energy strategy, exploring tools like microgrids, diversified interconnections and more flexible capital stacks. As load forecasts, weather patterns and regulatory expectations all move in uncertain directions, how should decision-makers redefine “acceptable risk” for the next generation of data center assets?
11:30 AM 12:45 PM	Lunch & Networking Break
12:45 PM 1:25 PM	Funding the Next Generation of Data Centers: Capital, Returns and Strategy Explosive demand for AI-ready capacity has turned data centers into one of the most sought-after infrastructure asset classes, attracting a broader mix of lenders, private credit and institutional capital. Sponsors and operators are using new combinations of equity, project finance, securitization and sustainability-linked structures to fund multi-billion-dollar development pipelines while managing rising costs and longer lead times. As capital sources proliferate and competition intensifies, how should stakeholders think about returns, alignment and strategic partnerships for the next wave of digital infrastructure builds?
1:25 PM 2:05 PM	On-Site Generation, Storage and Microgrids: New Models for Assured Megawatts With grid interconnection timelines stretching and peak-load forecasts climbing, more operators are exploring on-site generation, storage and microgrids to secure firm power for AI-scale campuses. Energy providers, developers and technology partners are piloting natural gas microgrids, battery systems and hybrid configurations that promise faster deployment, higher reliability and alignment with evolving sustainability goals. As these solutions move from concept to mainstream, what models will prove most bankable, scalable and acceptable to regulators and communities?
2:05 PM 2:25 PM	Networking Break
2:25 PM 3:05 PM	Operating at High Density: Reliability, Efficiency and Uptime at Scale AI workloads are pushing rack densities far beyond legacy norms, forcing operators to rethink everything from cooling strategies and power distribution to monitoring and maintenance philosophy. Operators are deploying liquid and hybrid cooling, more advanced controls and AI-assisted operations to maintain uptime, manage energy use and protect hardware as thermal and electrical loads spike. As densities continue to climb and business tolerance for downtime falls, what operational models will keep facilities both efficient and resilient at scale?
3:05 PM 3:45 PM	From Blueprint to Bytes: How Construction Technology Is Reshaping Data Center Delivery Data center builds are becoming as digital as the infrastructure they house, with project teams leaning on BIM, digital twins, advanced project controls and industrialized construction to manage complexity and speed. Contractors and owners are integrating design and construction data, prefabrication workflows and real-time analytics to reduce rework, improve coordination and align field execution with aggressive AI-driven timelines. As construction tech tools evolve, will the industry fully embrace a more “productized” approach to data center delivery—or will legacy processes hold back the next leap in efficiency and predictability?
3:45 PM 4:45 PM	Closing Remarks & Post-Event Networking