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State of the Canadian Data Centre Market:

Activity, Trends and the Challenges Ahead

AJ Byers

AJ Byers

President, International

Compass Datacenters

Todd Coleman

Todd Coleman

President & CEO, Founder

eStruxture Data Centers

Sean Maskell

Sean Maskell

President, Canada

Cologix

Strahan McCarten

Strahan McCarten

Senior VP, Product and Strategy

eStruxture Data Centers

Jaime Leverton

Jaime Leverton

CEO

Hut 8 Mining

Dave Misra

Dave Misra

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Galaxy Data Centers

Jeffrey Moerdler

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Haynes and Boone

Randy Borron
Moderator

Randy Borron

Vice Chairman, Global Data Center Advisory Group

Cushman & Wakefield

Brad Henderson
Moderator

Brad Henderson

Managing Director, Global Data Center Advisory

Cushman & Wakefield

Todd Coleman

President & CEO, Founder

eStruxture Data Centers

Todd Coleman is the President and CEO of eStruxture. Todd brings more than 25 years experience in the IT, data center and telecommunications industries. Most recently, Todd was the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Cologix. Todd has also held several senior positions at Level 3 Communications, a global telecommunications company, including Senior Vice President of Data Centers, Senior Vice President of Media Operations and President of Level 3 Communications Europe. Todd holds a juris doctorate and a bachelor's degree in computer information systems.

Sean Maskell

President, Canada

Cologix

Mr. Sean Maskell serves as President of Cologix Canada at Cologix, Inc. He has over 16 years of experience in Telecommunication and Data Facility Operations. He founded Telehouse Centre Canada in 2004, which quickly became the fastest growing carrier neutral facility in Toronto over the next 8 years. Through Sean's vision and leadership, Telehouse has modeled a more efficient data center that reduces operational costs, while escalating facility reliability and customer experience. He continues to provide leadership and strategic direction for the Toronto and Vancouver locations to ensure Cologix customers receive the highest level of services to meet their most demanding applications.

Mr. Maskell is an active volunteer in his community and holds a degree from Niagara College, along with sales/management certifications.

Strahan McCarten

Senior VP, Product and Strategy

eStruxture Data Centers

Strahan is responsible for eStruxture’s product strategy, corporate development, and M&A and adds over 20 years of leadership experience in IT services & mission-critical data centers to the team at eStruxture.

Prior to joining eStruxture, Strahan was the Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Q9, a pan-Canadian data center provider that was recently fully acquired by Bell Canada. Before Q9, Strahan was the Vice President of Marketing & Product Development for Scalar Decisions. Strahan has also held senior leadership positions in the Hosting & Cloud Computing practice of Bell Canada, as well as management consulting and hands-on IT services delivery roles.

A respected cloud & IT infrastructure expert, Strahan has written several articles on Cloud Computing and spoken frequently at vendor and analyst conferences, including CICA Audit Conference, ITAC in Ottawa, DCIE in Montreal, L’Expert in Toronto, IDC Conference, ISAAC, and IT Canada. Strahan is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Toronto Public Library, North America’s largest Public Library system.

Strahan received his MBA from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto in 2005 and currently resides in Toronto, with his wife Heather and their three children.

Dave Misra

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Galaxy Data Centers

Dave Misra is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galaxy Data Centers, where he leads global strategy, tenant relationships, and investment decisions for the firm’s data centre platform. He has executed billions of dollars in leases with leading cloud clients, including hyperscalers, enterprise colocation clients, and cutting-edge AI companies. Dave began his career in venture capital before transitioning into data centre development. He has trained under former CEOs of CoreSite and Vantage, and has built strategic capital, leasing, and energy relationships with top technology firms worldwide. With a consistent focus on innovation, operational excellence, and long-term value creation, Dave has driven the growth of Galaxy's platform and established himself as a trusted partner to hyperscalers and enterprise clients navigating the evolving digital infrastructure landscape.

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Haynes and Boone

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.

Randy Borron

Moderator

Cushman & Wakefield

Randolph (Randy) is a Vice Chairman at Cushman & Wakefield with 41 years of experience in commercial real estate and data center and portfolio optimization site acquisition and disposition, lease

negotiations, and over 40 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate. His data center expertise covers site selection, risk analysis, portfolio strategy, Real Estate strategic planning, and account

management.

Randolph is one of the founding members of Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Data Center Advisory Group. This highly specialized group is made up of uniquely qualified real estate brokers who

understand the specialized requirements of mission critical environments. Mr. Borron ensures that his client’s real estate solutions create optimum efficiency and minimized risk while meeting the

business’ needs.

Brad Henderson

Moderator

Cushman & Wakefield

Brad joined Cushman and Wakefield in 2020 and has over 40 years of experience in the real estate, information technology and telecom sectors. He is the Managing Partner of C&Ws largest

team, a highly specialized group made up of uniquely qualified real estate brokers and other professionals all of whom understand the specialized requirements of mission critical environments.

The team’s data center expertise covers site selection, risk analysis, portfolio strategy, strategic planning, and account management.

Prior to joining C&W, Brad was CEO of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, one of the largest members of the Sotheby’s International Realty Network. With 600 team members in 32 offices

across Canada, Sotheby’s provided luxury residential brokerage services valued at over $5B in client transactions annually. Prior to Sotheby’s, Brad was Regional Managing Director for CBRE

with P&L responsibilities for $150M revenue and 1,200 employees in Canada and the North Central US. Service line responsibility included; transaction management, project management,

facilities management, strategic consulting as well as accounting and administration functions.

In addition to his considerable experience in real estate, Brad also spent over a decade in the ITT industry most recently as President of Gibraltar Solutions, an IT solution provider specializing in

virtualization, remote access and cloud computing. Prior to that he was Group Vice President & General Manager at TELUS Communications where he was responsible for TELUS’ IT

management and contact center outsourcing business in the Philippines, Singapore and Korea, TELUS’ Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing Service and TELUS’ Non-ILEC

operations in Ontario & Quebec. The three groups had combined revenue of $800M and 6,000 employees.

Brad graduated a member of the Dean Honor Roll from York University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics. He also holds an Institute of Corporate Directors Designation

ICD.D from the Rotman School of Management.

Key Assignments

Through his many roles and years of service, Brad has provided comprehensive services to many enterprise organizations such as Ameriprise, Carlson, Comerica, HPE, IBM Canada,

Infrastructure Ontario (Ontario Government), Government of Canada, RBC Royal Bank, State of Ohio, TD Bank and Volkswagen of America to name a few.

Meeting Client Demand in Today’s Dynamic Environment:

How Have the Needs of IT Users Evolved?

Sanjeevan Srikrishnan

Sanjeevan Srikrishnan

Head of Global Solutions Architecture, Canada

Equinix

Padmalatha "Padma" Ragunathan

Padmalatha "Padma" Ragunathan

Principal & Technical Architect

Google Cloud

Pramod Vasista

Pramod Vasista

Technical Lead, Canada

Oracle

Jon Pettitt

Jon Pettitt

CCO

Excool

Nabeel Mahmood

Nabeel Mahmood

Co-Founder

Nomad Futurist Foundation

Scott Metcalfe
Moderator

Scott Metcalfe

Data Centre Practice Lead, Canada

Royal LePage Commercial

Pramod Vasista

Technical Lead, Canada

Oracle

Technical leader with overall 15+ years of extensive experience in Cloud solution and security architecture, CIAM, Identity Cloud, Okta, CyberSecurity, DevSecOps, Cloud Native, Kubernetes - CKA, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & PaaS, Oracle Access Management, Cloud security posture management, SIEM and SOAR integrations with Oracle Cloud Guard, Azure Sentinel and SCIM and OAuth multi-cloud integrations with Azure AD. With 15+ years in Oracle Corp and having experience in managing and leading teams for federal and provincial govt. Telco, retail customers on cloud and security projects, cloud architecture and implementation, SOC management, Prod Support, building relationships & ops management. I am Canadian citizen with security clearance.

I have strong experience in account management, problem solving, implementation support, customer services, strategy building, operations management, performance management & leading teams.

My role involves coordinating with the key client stakeholders and executive management during various stages of engagement from inception until the post-production support. Continuous enforcement and maintenance of stable security posture and minimize the threat landscape. The activities involve leading a team for successful CIAM & cloud security implementation by leading the planning, design, architecture (Zero Trust), risk assessments, pen tests reviews & work closely with leadership teams for building strategic security measures and directions across the organization. This also involves migrating brownfield application to the cloud securely keeping in mind the cybersecurity CIA principles considering customer priorities & budgets, conducting project periodic reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews, 24/7 attack surface monitoring, reporting, proactive engagements on critical KPI’s & Continuous support for ensuring reliability.

I am a speaker and loves to share Cloud, Network & CIAM Security-based experiences in various Cloud & Cybersecurity Expo held in Chicago, Dallas & Toronto.

I am a CKA with implementation and Site Reliability experience in CIAM, Middleware & k8s for customers implementing CI/CD pipelines for their (multi-)cloud, hybrid or on-premise implementations. The implementation involves OKE, GKE (k8s engines) using Terraform scripts, setup Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring the domain. Supporting CIAM implementation solutions as PaaS aswell as on premise. Oracle Access Management, OAG, OUD, OID, x509, MFA, OAuth integration with IDCS (Oracle Identity Cloud Service) & other IdaaS solutions like Okta.

Jon Pettitt

CCO

Excool

Jon Pettitt is a highly experienced, successful and well-regarded business leader within the data center Industry. Since 2011 Jon held the position of Vice President of data center for EMEA & APAC, specialising in data center cooling solutions and energy efficient systems for the Munters data center business area, Jon has over 15 years of extensive knowledge of HVAC projects for data centres and critical facilities. His background has included employment at York International and Johnson Controls.

Nabeel Mahmood

Co-Founder

Nomad Futurist Foundation

Nabeel Mahmood is a Technologist, Futurist and a Keynote Speaker. His career is driven by one question – what’s next? He is passionate about the power of technology to deliver competitive and transformational change and the need to develop digital leadership that will create the enterprise of the future. He believes strongly in simplification, with a purpose. Nabeel brings 18 plus years of experience leading large-scale global technology organizations through seasons of explosive growth via M&A, global expansion, implementing new business models and technology innovation. His expertise includes leading organizations through transformation changes, connecting IT to the needs of the business, technology innovation, Big Data, Cloud, ERP, IoT, Mobility and Data Centers. He brings a unique blend of experiences spanning the entire breadth of technology from Grid to Chip. At, heart he’s a true technologist and futurist, he is a proven strategist, winsome communicator and leader with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. Nabeel is a strategic CIO identifying opportunities that are being underpinned by emerging technologies. He serves on multiple boards and is an advisor to CIOs and CEO across a number of industries.

WHY THIS MATTERS

What You'll Learn:

  • Adaptive opportunity in Canada, can existing assets be converted to find yield?

  • What makes Toronto and Montreal desirable data center markets? Can Montreal compete with Northern Virginia?

  • How is the digital surge increasing interest for edge and high-density facilities?

  • Hyperscale is on the rise. How are expanding hyperscalers creating an opportunity for Toronto to emerge as a desirable tier two market? How much are the land prices impacting regional expansion?

  • What operational incentives does Ontario have to offer? Are cooling strategies and energy expenses worth the investment?

How You'll Do More Business: You will learn how data centre deals can be done in the Toronto market, which trends are leading to consistent growth and which investment opportunities are driving returns.

Who You'll Meet: Data Centre CEOs, VPs, developers, investors, general contractors, architects, lenders, engineers, end-users and owners.

Why You Should Attend: To learn why the Toronto market continues to scale as a data centre market, what unique investment opportunities there are to enter the space and the latest trends in management and ops. 

What Else You Should Check Out: Toronto State of the Market (click here for event details) taking place on August 4 (same venue). This event is focused more broadly on the state of the real estate market and multifamily development in Toronto and across the Greater Toronto Area. 

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Global Data Center Director, Adam Knobloch at adam.knobloch@bisnow.com

Venue

Omni King Edward
37 King St E
Toronto, ON M5C 1E9, Canada

Ballroom: Vanity Fair Ballroom


The Hotel has temporarily discontinued valet parking but there are multiple, self- parking options within close proximity of the Hotel. They have negotiated an exclusive rate with a local partner that includes in and out privileges.
• Car Park Management Services, 1 Toronto Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 2V8 (Entrance on Court Street), (416) 920 338
• $35 Weekend rates (with in and out privileges) plus tax
• $45 Weekday rates (with in and out privileges) plus tax

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Agenda

Time Activity
12:00 PM
12:55 PM
Registration, Breakfast and Networking
12:55 PM
1:00 PM
Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE Canada!
1:00 PM
1:45 PM
Opening Panel: State of the Canadian Data Centre Market: Activity, Trends and the Challenges Ahead

State of the Canadian Data Center Market: Activity, Trends and the Challenges AheadIn Canada, the Toronto market continues to steadily gain local and international demand, Calgary is gaining traction given its geography and connectivity, and Montreal has the lowest power rates in the industry. With that, how is the Canadian data center market ranking against top tier markets in the US? How are developers and owners circumnavigating the region's challenges and building to meet customer demand? What trends and opportunities can we expect to find in the next 3-5 years?

1:45 PM
2:30 PM
Meeting Client Demand in Today’s Dynamic Environment: How Have the Needs of IT Users Evolved?

How are data center environments changing to support next generation cloud infrastructures? How have priorities shifted in the wake of more stringent facility efficiency requirements, if at all? Latency, resiliency, sustainability and security - where do these stand against the other for the various users in today’s environment?

2:30 PM
3:00 PM
Post-Event Networking

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