State of the Data Center Market:

Capital, Development and the Evolving Canadian Ecosystem

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  Jaime Leverton

  CEO

  Hut 8 Mining

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  Sean Maskell

  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.

  Cologix

  President, Canada

  Sean Maskell

  President, Canada

  Cologix

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  Randy Borron

  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.

  Cushman & Wakefield

  Vice Chairman, Global Data Center Advisory Group

  Moderator

  Randy Borron

  Vice Chairman, Global Data Center Advisory Group

  Cushman & Wakefield

The Modernization of the Data Center Life-Cycle:

Design, Efficiency, Infrastructure and Operations

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  James Beer

  James is the Senior Vice President of Operations at eStruxture and brings over 20 years of experience in customer service, mission critical 24×7 operations, data centre design/build, managed services and cyber security and compliance. Prior to eStruxture, James was the Vice President of Services at Scalar Decisions where his national team of professional services, managed services and project management experts delivered complex IT infrastructure, security and cloud solutions to a broad base of Canadian customers. James previously held data centre and security leadership roles at Q9 and Bell Canada including the operations of more than 13 customer facing data centres nationally and harmonizing security compliance practices to meet the needs of the most stringent security standards.

  eStruxture Data Centers

  Senior VP, Operations

  James Beer

  Senior VP, Operations

  eStruxture Data Centers

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  Brian Ferris

  Director, Real Estate Operations

  Bell

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  Michael McCormick

  Michael, Vice-President, Property Management, for Canderel, is responsible for all site management, operations and technical services. Michael’s role involves taking a holistic view of property management ensuring best in class service for Canderel’s clients, tenants and partners. During his career he has planned and led a number of complex projects. The most recent is a major electrical infrastructure upgrade for one of Canada’s largest banks. He greatly enjoys the challenges of balancing technical, operational, people and financial interests in finding solutions to business issues. Michael joined Canderel in 2016 as a General Manager at a mission critical complex serving financial services tenants. He was promoted to Vice-President in July 2017 with oversight of the Greater Toronto Area portfolio. Prior to joining Canderel, Michael worked at IBM in a variety of finance and real estate roles. He championed agile office development and the repurposing real estate for client engagement opportunities. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and holds MBAs from both Cornell & Queen’s universities.

  Canderel

  VP, Property Management - Toronto

  Michael McCormick

  VP, Property Management - Toronto

  Canderel

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  Thomas Perkins

  Tom Perkins, Vice President of Global Data Center Operations, Engineering and Real Estate at Sungard Availability Services is responsible for the operations and engineering of Sungard’s Data Centers, Workplace facilities and offices around the globe. He has extension knowledge of managing and delivering diverse infrastructure and IT solutions to medium and large organization. He has an in-depth experience with helping organizations design, plan and implement highly availability technology solutions. Tom has responsible for over 5 million square feet of data center space across 75+ locations around the world. Over the past 30 years Tom has assisted organizations with successfully building, operating, and ensuring resiliency of their business operations. As a IT Resiliency expert he has directly assisted organizations which were impacted by various local or regional disasters including the World Trade Center attack and Super Storm Sandy. He has a thorough understanding and practical experience with managing crisis events. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is ITIL V3 Foundations and Service Operations certified. He holds a Certified Data Centre Design (CDCD) certification.

  Sungard Availability Services

  VP, Data Center Operations & Real Estate

  Thomas Perkins

  VP, Data Center Operations & Real Estate

  Sungard Availability Services

• Moderator

  Peter Kangas

  VP & Preconstruction Manager, Critical Facilities

  Turner Construction Company

Financial Sector Deep Dive:

Scalability, Sustainability and the Enterprise Perspective in the Cloud Age

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  Stephan Abraitis

  Stephan Abraitis is a seasoned enterprise technology executive with over two decades of experience leading mission-critical infrastructure and global IT service transformations across the financial sector. He is best known for his tenure at RBC, where he spearheaded the global transformation of the bank’s high-availability data center portfolio, overseeing site strategy, design-build delivery, operational governance, and vendor management across more than 91 facilities worldwide. At RBC, Stephan’s mandate included modernizing physical environments to support next-generation workloads, enhancing resiliency standards, and negotiating complex vendor and service provider contracts. He helped shape a scalable, risk-resilient platform strategy that enabled 24/7 uptime for trading, core banking, and customer-facing services; while delivering cost efficiencies and long-term modernization aligned with enterprise continuity requirements. Currently at Manulife, Stephan leads a global IT organization of 750+ professionals delivering services across infrastructure, operations, service management, and AI Ops. Under his leadership, Manulife has accelerated its transition to a cloud-first architecture, while embedding AI-powered observability and automation across platforms. Stephan is a speaker on enterprise resilience, operational excellence, and data center modernization. His unique blend of structured risk governance, engineering depth, and entrepreneurial leadership has made him a trusted advisor.

  Manulife

  VP, Global Technology Service Management (GTSM)

  Stephan Abraitis

  VP, Global Technology Service Management (GTSM)

  Manulife

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  Nabeel Mahmood

  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.

  Nomad Futurist Foundation

  Co-Founder

  Nabeel Mahmood

  Co-Founder

  Nomad Futurist Foundation

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  Kirby Peters

  Director, Critical Facilities

  BMO Financial Group

The Last Mile:

5G, Data Center Interconnectivity and Life on the Edge

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  Shane Clemons

  Shane is the product lead for the Platform and Applications services within Verizon Partner Solutions portfolio. Products include: IoT, Data Center, Security, Professional Services and Emerging Services. He is a 12-year wireless, cloud computing, data center and M2M veteran having held sales management, product development and marketing roles. Shane also served as an Engineer Company Commander in the United States Army. His service includes an eleven-month tour conducting route clearance missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). Shane is an Army R.O.T.C alumnus and holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.

  Verizon

  Global Team Leader, Platforms & Applications

  Shane Clemons

  Global Team Leader, Platforms & Applications

  Verizon

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  Josh Crowe

  Josh Crowe leads Sungard Availability Services’ (Sungard AS) initiatives to capitalize on emerging technologies and deliver fully recoverable production products and services to address customer availability and business continuity challenges. With over two decades in the field, Crowe is responsible for product management and engineering, including all of Sungard AS’ portfolio of offerings: data centers and recovery centers, cloud and hosting, managed application cloud and recovery, and business continuity services. He also leads the company’s global information technology and chief security office organizations. Before joining Sungard AS, he was senior vice president, product development for Internap and served in roles as vice president of software development and cloud services at Savvis (now CenturyLink). Josh holds a Bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University and Master’s degrees in both business administration and information management from Washington University in St. Louis.

  Sungard Availability Services

  CTO

  Josh Crowe

  CTO

  Sungard Availability Services

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  Alano Medonte

  As the GTM lead for Google Cloud (GCP ) Canada, Alano Medonte leads the Channel & Partnership organization for GCP (Google Cloud Platform) managing the countries mission to ensure customers have the best and most talented partners in the program to assist & consult on Cloud Migrations. Alano's role involves supporting multiple Global Enterprise Customers & Partners through cloud migration journeys . His PDM ( Partner Development Managers) team build experienced Solution integrators, resellers & MSP partners who help customers migrate from Data centers to Cloud. His partnership team also have a fleet of PSM (Partner Sales Managers) who work directly with Partners, Customers and Googler's in migrations journeys to the cloud. The focus of his group is mainly on Hybrid cloud workloads , Data Lake migrations, containers (kubernetes ) with Anthos & GKE, C4M (Cloud for marketing), VM migrations and SAP migrations ). Prior to Google his passion for the networks and interconnectivity lead him to Equinix as the Director of Channel Sales & Alliances (Canada & North East U.S). During this time, alano worked with the world's largest managed services providers and Cloud Hyperscalers on data center & cloud migrations in an extremely global fast growth environment. During 3 year stay at Equinix the company grew from $245 USD a share to $575 USD growing from $19B to $49B market cap. Canada has also penetrated most of the key Enterprise and Global customers during that time. Prior to Equinix he had spent 15 years of his Career at Hewlett Packard most notably as the Director of Networks for Enterprise & Global accounts. Do to his time at HP alano is intimately familiar with Data Center ( servers, storage and networking and data center solutions). Outside of work , you can find alano teaching yoga as a certified kundalini yoga instructor, or sculpting interesting work that has made its way into several art galleries in Toronto and Montreal.

  Google

  Channel Lead, Canada & GTM Partnerships, Canada

  Alano Medonte

  Channel Lead, Canada & GTM Partnerships, Canada

  Google

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  Padmalatha Ragunathan

  Cloud Solution Architect

  Microsoft

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  Sheldon So

  Executive Director, Canada

  KPMG

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  Sanjeevan Srikrishnan

  Head of Global Solutions Architecture, Canada

  Equinix

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  Lin Zhu

  Director, Global Network Services

  Scotiabank

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  Adam Kupsta

  Adam has over 26 years of experience ranging from technology leadership, strategy, product design and management, digital transformation as well as public cloud enablement across a variety of verticals including financial, retail, media, and public sectors. Over the past 18 years he was involved with founding, designing, operationalizing, and managing 5 managed service providers. Since founding Oncore, Adam has been an enabler of next generation digital cloud enablement helping enterprises transform, remove risk and simplify integration with existing system through Cloud Adjacent Hybrid services. Oncore maintains Gold Partner status with Equinix and Microsoft, alongside Google, VMware, Red Hat and others. Together with the Oncore team and our partner ecosystem, we help clients maintain their technical maturity and leadership through their digital journey while delivering next-generation hybrid infrastructure enablement for the modern, cloud-enabled enterprise.

  Oncore Cloud Services

  CEO

  Moderator

  Adam Kupsta

  CEO

  Oncore Cloud Services