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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
Opening Keynote - Where the Market Stands
Michael Borron
AVP, Global Data Center Advisory Group
Cushman & Wakefield
The Canadian Data Center Market: Where Growth, Capital and Policy Actually Stand
Strahan McCarten
SVP, Product & Strategy
eStruxture Data Centers
Jeffrey Moerdler
Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure
Haynes and Boone
Graeme Kavanagh
Partner & CRO
Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities
Randy Borron
Vice Chairman, Global Data Center Advisory Group
Cushman & Wakefield
Powering the Boom: Grid Strategy, On-Site Generation and the Deals Behind Them
Dave Misra
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Galaxy Data Centers
Craig Sievenpiper
VP, Science + Technology
H.H. Angus and Associates Limited
Lee Hodgkinson
Head of Renewable Energy
Dream Unlimited
Adam Banack
Partner
Mintz
Why You Need To Be At the Canadian Data Centre Conference and Expo
Why This Matters
Canada's pitch to global data centre capital used to be simple: cheaper power, more available land and less friction than the US. At DICE Canada in Toronto, we're looking at why that pitch is being rewritten in real time. That pitch is being rewritten in real time. Ontario, Alberta, Quebec and BC have each moved to ration power to data centers in the last year, institutional capital has split between funds moving in aggressively and funds walking away on price, and equipment lead times are now creating as much schedule risk as grid access. If you're making a decision about where to build, lease, invest or supply into this market, you need a current read on where growth is actually happening, how projects are getting powered under new provincial rules, and what's changing in the contracts and construction timelines that get a project from ground to grand opening. DICE Canada brings the people solving these problems from every angle, engineering, legal, capital, construction and procurement, onto one stage.
What You'll Learn
Where Toronto, Montreal and Calgary are diverging as markets, and what's actually driving demand and capital allocation in each
Why some of Canada's largest institutional investors are moving into data center infrastructure aggressively while others are publicly walking away on price
How developers are designing around provincial power rationing, from on-site generation to behind-the-meter deals, and what's changing in the contracts that structure them
What's actually sitting on a twelve-month lead time right now, and how procurement delays are reshaping lease terms and MSAs that were never built to account for them
Where the real risk sits when power and equipment both become conditional, and who ends up bearing it in the deal structure
What the next twelve to eighteen months look like for Canadian data center growth, and which assumptions from the last few years no longer hold
Who You'll Network With
Investors and capital allocators active in Canadian digital infrastructure, developers and owners with projects underway in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and BC, engineers and technical consultants specializing in mission-critical and power infrastructure, energy and real estate counsel, general contractors and equipment suppliers, utility and grid-adjacent stakeholders, and operators and tenant-side representatives navigating leases and MSAs in a constrained market.
Stay Informed Ahead Of The Event
LS Power Raises $6B To Capitalize On Data Center Power Demand
Data Center IPO Wave Reveals A Variety Of New Strategies In Booming Sector
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.
Agenda
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7:30 AM
8:25 AM
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Registration, Breakfast, and Networking
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8:25 AM
8:30 AM
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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8:30 AM
8:45 AM
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Opening Keynote - Where the market stands
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8:45 AM
9:25 AM
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The Canadian Data Center Market: Where Growth, Capital and Policy Actually Stand
A wide-angle look at where demand, investment and provincial policy are heading across Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and beyond, and where the old assumptions no longer hold. |
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9:25 AM
9:40 AM
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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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9:40 AM
10:00 AM
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Networking Break
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10:00 AM
10:40 AM
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Powering the Boom: Grid Strategy, On-Site Generation and the Deals Behind Them
With Ontario, Alberta, Quebec and BC all rationing capacity differently, securing power now touches engineering, utility negotiation, legal structuring and capital all at once. A cross-disciplinary look at how projects actually get powered in 2026. |
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10:40 AM
11:30 AM
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Post Panel Networking
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Venue
Hyatt Regency Toronto
370 King Street West
Toronto Ontario, M5V 1J9
Ballroom/Floor: Regency ABC / Mezzanine Level
Parking Rates:
Up to C$40.00
Public Drive-Up Parking Rate Daytime (Mon–Fri, in after 5:00 AM, out by 7:00 PM): C$12.00
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