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Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE): Pacific Northwest
Exploring Data Center Development, Cooling and Future Trends in Oregon and Washington State
Held in Seattle
Event Ended On: Tuesday April 23 2024
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Speakers and Panels
State of the Pacific Northwest Data Center Market: Trends, Opportunities, Future Outlook
Optimizing Facilities and Cooling Strategies: Best Strategies for The Changing Dynamics of Technologies and Customer Demands
Presentation: Water Sustainability and Data Centers
Building In Security: How To Do it Right and Why it Matters
Roundtable Discussion: Planning for Growth: Best Practices Around Supply Chain, Sourcing and Network Strategy
Building Data Centers of the Future: What do They Look Like and How Are Stakeholders Future Proofing Builds?
Why You Can't Miss This PNW Data Center Event
What You'll Learn From Data Center Owners, Operators, or Developers:
- Last year, Portland was tied with Northern Virginia for the top data center market in the world. What characteristics continue to draw developers to this market?
- The Northwest had another record year of development with all projects being pre-leased prior to completion - what can expect in 2024?
- What are the main drivers of growth for Oregon and Washington? How is the narrative changing?
- What's the current state of power availability and renewable energy in the region?
- What are innovations and best practices in data center management to facilitate maximum efficiency? How are operators using less water and energy to cool increasing rack density?
- What cooling strategies will we be seeing more of in the next 3-5 years? What are vendors and operators seeing from their customers?
- Security on the data center site is critical to operations and can be extremely costly if an incident occurs - how are data center security manager working with various team to ensure seamless security?
- What types of developments are taking place int he region and across the nation to meet the speed of which clients are expecting? What future-proofing strategies are being implemented?
Relevant News & Developments:
- Crane and Principal Asset Management to develop 100+ MW data center campus in growing Portland market
- Small eastern Oregon city could be the next hotspot for big data centers
- Sabey planning $950m data center campus in emerging Oregon market
- Microsoft planning 3 new data centers in Washington state
How You'll Do More Business From Attending: Get up to speed on one of the fastest growing tier II data center markets, learn what customers are looking for and make better business decisions based on the right insights.
Who You'll Meet During Networking: Investors, vice president of design and construction, owners, head of acquisitions, providers, contractors, engineers, brokers, developers
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Click here to be considered for a complimentary pass. *Hyperscaler, colocation provider (non-sales), investor, private equity, or enterprise tenant.
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact ellie.boyle@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
For questions, group ticket rates or interest in becoming a speaker or sponsor, please email our DICE Global Director, Adam Knobloch, adam.knobloch@bisnow.com
Venue
Hilton Motif Seattle
1415 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
Ballroom/Floor: Emerald 1 (Program), Emerald 1 Foyer (Networking) - 3rd Floor
Parking Information:
Self-parking: $71.11 per day
Agenda
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7:30 AM 8:20 AM |
Registration, Breakfast and Networking
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8:20 AM 8:30 AM |
Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE Pacific Northwest
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8:30 AM 9:10 AM |
State of the Pacific Northwest Data Center Market: Trends, Opportunities, Future Outlook - What to Expect in 2024 and Beyond
With markets in the region outpacing the growth of Northern Virginia, the Pacific Northwest continues to gain momentum when it comes to data center development and investor interest. The Portland data center market continues to grow given the business-friendly environment, access to power and renewable energy and proximity to major tech hubs. While Washington State recently renewed and expanded its tax abatement program and is expected to continue development of large scale data center campuses. Overall, what market dynamics can we expect to see within the Pacific Northwest? How is connectivity, power, costs, incentives changing?
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9:10 AM 9:55 AM |
Optimizing Facilities and Cooling Strategies: Best Strategies for The Changing Dynamics of Technologies and Customer Demands
Keeping facilities running efficiently is critical in today’s environment. How are enterprise clients and data center operators optimizing their current infrastructure and designs to further enhance cooling, energy usage and mitigate risk? What is working and what should be innovated?
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9:55 AM 10:15 AM |
Presentation: Water Sustainability and Data Centers
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10:15 AM 10:40 AM |
Networking Break
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10:40 AM 11:00 AM |
Building In Security: How To Do it Right and Why it Matters
When it comes to bringing data centers online and keeping them secure, physical security is a big component. If proper security practices are not in place, a project could be put behind millions of dollars and have significant time delays. These are risks that can't be taken. Hear from security experts on best practices and what teams should be doing to ensure vulnerabilities are reduced.
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11:00 AM 11:25 AM |
Roundtable Discussion: Planning for Growth: Best Practices Around Supply Chain, Sourcing and Network Strategy
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11:25 AM 12:10 PM |
Building Data Centers of the Future: What do They Look Like and How Are Stakeholders Future Proofing Builds?
With customer demands and applications evolving at a rapid pace, building today with flexibility for future requirements and technologies is critical to success. With that, how are stakeholders looking at data center design and construction and thinking about today’s and tomorrow’s requirements? What will remain the same and what will change?
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12:10 PM 12:30 PM |
Post-Event Networking
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