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Ed Myers
Moderator

Ed Myers

Advisor

Twin Palms Capital Group

Adam Knobloch
Emcee

Adam Knobloch

VP & Head of Data Centers

Bisnow

Chris Bunio

Chris Bunio

Senior Director, Higher Education

Microsoft

Ken Kremer

Ken Kremer

COO

Involta

Ed Myers

Moderator

Twin Palms Capital Group

Ed Myers brings more than two decades of telecommunications infrastructure sales and transaction experience to his role as an advisor to Twin Palm Capital. He has been the principal consultant for Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure on large scale data center campus developments for Long Ridge Energy and is assisting to develop the platform for Oceanic Data Centers. Ed was one of the founders and Vice President for the telecom group at Parallel Infrastructure, a national build-to-suit communications tower and fiber service provider company. He has held senior business and real estate development roles at ExteNet, Cheytec Telecommunications, FiberTower, and AT&T. Ed has also held leadership and principal consultant roles with Level 3, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. Ed lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his three children.

Adam Knobloch

Emcee

Bisnow

Adam Knobloch has been involved in the commercial real estate event and media space since 2010, having held roles in sales, account management, production and coordination. He joined Bisnow Media as the Global Director of Data Centers after having led event sales and strategy efforts in the CRE space for nearly a decade. Since 2012, he has found a significant passion for the data center and technology sectors, while building an international network of active followers across numerous asset classes in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. In his current role, Adam oversees Bisnow Media's event and sponsored media strategy for the data center sector, having expanded its Datacenter Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Series event offerings to more than 15 markets, with an international presence in the UK and Canada.

He previously held a board member role on the Telecom Exchange (TEX) Advisory Board, collaborating on content, speaker recommendations and event strategy. Additionally, he has made a point of promoting local and national organizations with a focus on STEM education and advancing the next generation into the technology sector through support, collaboration and ambassadorship. Notable organizations include the Nomad Futurist Academy, Infrastructure Masons, H5 Data Centers' STEM Fest and local chapters of both 7X24 Exchange and AFCOM.

In his personal life, Adam is a musician, having toured the east coast as the drummer of The Gantry. He was a frequent member of the NYC folk/indie rock music scene and is currently the drummer for A.M. County.

Adam holds a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration from American University's Kogod School of Business, with a focus on Marketing and Public Relations.

Ken Kremer

COO

Involta

Ken Kremer, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, uses a methodical and measured approach to his work that has been instrumental in the growth of Involta’s national data center footprint. As one of Involta’s co-founders, Ken’s consistent leadership in technical services and operations has enabled the company to expand its data center and managed services portfolio.

Prior to Involta, Ken held leadership positions in high-tech companies focusing on operational efficiencies, innovative solution engineering and regulatory compliance issues. Ken’s career has been focused on data center operations and managed services since 1997.

Ken seamlessly integrates people, processes and services to help Involta deliver on its promise of ‘People Who Deliver.”

Summary

  1. What are the biggest technical challenges working and learning from home have created for organizations and providers?

  2. What technologies need to improve in order to better support the new normal?

  3. What new technologies are industries looking at to leverage the capabilities of edge data centers, 5G and increased access to high speed broadband solutions?

  4. New technologies and the need to work and learn from home introduced added security risk. How are industry players addressing this concern and who is driving solutions to mitigate these concerns?

  5. What are today's biggest gaps in technologies and who is addressing these challenges?

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