7:30am REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:50am Chair’s welcome remarksModerator: Bruce Taylor, DCD

9:00am Plenary keynote: Superpowers for engineers: Generative design and deep Learning in webscale design and operationsLloyd Taylor, Autodesk

9:20am Plenary panel: How AI/machine learning is being deployed to drive data center and cloud infrastructure optimizationModerator: Rich Miller, Data Center FrontierPanellists:David Driggers, Cirrascale | Lloyd Taylor, Autodesk | Rob Ober, NVIDIA | Amir Michael, Salesforce | Serena DeVito, eBay

10:10am How the Internet-of-Me and smart cities will mould webscale “digital factories” to deliver ever-intense social and economic interactionDr. Julie M. Albright, University of Southern California

10:50am MORNING COFFEE BREAK & SOLUTION STAGES

Hall 1

Chair: Stephen Worn, DCD

Hall 2

Hall 3 Hall 4

11:40am Why cloud computing is requiring us to rethink resiliency at the edge

Kevin Brown, Schneider Electric

Beyond real-time. New apps when memory & storage converge  

Valentin Bercovici, Peritus.ai

The hybrid data center: A new design paradigm for IT scalability

George Slessman, IO Data Centers

Software-defined infrastructure: An auto-pilot for the data center

Stewart Dale, Intel Data Center Solutions

12:15pm “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” - Next Generation Reliability and Sustainability for Dynamic Grids and Compute

Jakob Carnemark, Aligned Energy

The next frontier for infrastructure management – Optimizing for security and business sustainability

Shay Demmons, BASELAYER RunSmart

Insourced vs outsourced management of data center operations

Mark Acton, CBRE

Risk Management: Upgrading or expanding the UPS system into an existing data center infrastructure

Joergen Madsen, ABB Power Protection

12:50pm Big Data and IoT: Challenging the edge

Herb Villa, Rittal Corporation

Delivering capacity to meet the needs of an increasingly hybrid IT/cloud world

John Ford, Sabey

Structured cabling design for high- fiber-count backbone

Dwayne Rogers, Corning Optical Communications

Case study panel: Fortrust’s Denver data center diesel rotary UPS adoption

Bob Suchon, E1 Dynamics Keith Klesner, Uptime Institute Ron Vokoun, M+W Group Rob McClary, FORTRUST |

1:25pm LUNCH BREAK & SOLUTION STAGE PRESENTATIONS

3:00pm Panel: Infrastructure Masons Women in Technology Infrastructure (WITI)

Maricel Cerruti, Infrastructure Masons Carrie Goetz, Paige DataCom Sarah Keller, Uber Carissa Clark, Facebook Serena DeVito, eBay

Optimizing data center infrastructure for core to edge solutions

Stefanie Woodbury, Vertiv

Jeff Grau, Vertiv

Panel: Is the future of the “digital factory” one of standardization and commoditization, from open-source reference architectures to full IT stack kit?

Sriram Sankar, Facebook Cole Crawford, Vapor IO Zaid Ali Kahn, LinkedIn

How’s your fiber diet? Successful pathways to ensure ultimate agility and scalability

Russell Dearnley, Panduit Corp

3:40pm DevOps and production-level digital infrastructure capacity - linking modern ‘digital’ and traditional ‘legacy’ services

Andi Mann, Splunk

Managing data center costs in the AI era: How to cost-effectively run DC infrastructure to support high-density applications

Jim Weynand, Green Revolution Cooling

Baidu and Google Collaboration on Future 48V Rack Power Architecture for Data Center Technology

Charles Ingalz, Baidu Xin Li, Google

New European Data Protection Regulations: How can US tech companies continue to thrive in Europe despite GDPR?

Adam Levine, DATA4 Francisco Romero, SoftLayer

4:20pm Panel: Delivering reliable webscale IT services required for the Zettabyte era

David Liggit, datacenterHawk Simon Lee, Sapience Capital Sean Ivery, CBRE Kindra Martone, Cyxtera Technologies

Getting the biggest, most resilient cloud bang for the buck: Enabling software-defined cloud workload automation, optimization and amplification

Amiram Shachar, Spotinst Brent Eubanks, Ticketmaster - Live Nation

Part 1: AI-scale data centers of the future, opportunities and challenges

Part 2: The Future of warm liquid cooling for high-density data center and harmonization of international standards

Ali Bedari, Baidu | Dale Sartor, LBNL

5:00pm Main Plenary: Big Idea keynote panel: Infrastructure Masons’ Data Center Performance Index

Dean Nelson, Uber Compute, Infrastructure Masons Peter Gross, Bloom Energy

5:40pm - 7:00pm

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MAIN PLENARY

CONFERENCE AGENDA

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Conference Agenda | Tuesday June 20

BRUNCH & LUNCH BRIEFINGS BIG DISCUSSION

11:00am- 12:00pm

Brunch Briefings by Invitation

Root data center: Why the world’s largest cloud companies have landed in Montreal, Canada! Renewable energy, lowest cost in North America, and data safe haven: and it’s super-close!Room A

AJ Byers, Root Data Center

Black & Veatch: Building at the edgeRoom B

Rob Nash-Boulden, Black & Veatch

Nexans: Re-examining layer 1 technologies and optimizing TCO

Room C

Mike Connaughton, Nexans

Data4 group: Brexit & EU regulation - What is the impact on European DC and Cloud provider strategies?

Room D

Adam Levine, DATA4 Group Francisco Romero, SoftLayer

1:30pm- 3:00pm

Lunch Briefings by Invitation

SWITCH

Room D

HUBER + SUHNER: How optical switching delivers on the infrastructure requirements for your enterprise’s digital economy strategy

Room C

Stephen Worn, DCDTony Walker, Huber + Suhner

12:30pm Designing and Operating Data Centers in the Age of HyperscaleBig Discussion Room next to Hall 4

Jim Smith, Microsoft

SOLUTION STAGE

11:00am E&I ENGINEERING: Integrated switch gear and power distribution solutions.

11:20pm AFL HYPERSCALE: Scalable and innovative network infrastructure solutions.

1:35pm IO Data Centers

1:50pm NEXANS: Solutions for large and hyperscale data center operators.

2:05pm RITTAL: Efficient climate control solutions

Herb Villa, Rittal Corporation

2:20pm Stulz: Direct liquid to chip cooling, the key to the micro data centerDavid C. Meadows, Stulz

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Speakers &Press Room

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Exhibitor list

AFL Hyperscale.....................................................................................62AMCO Enclosures ...............................................................................57 Austin Hughes ......................................................................................55Casne Engineering .............................................................................80CBRE Data Center Solutions ............................................................25Centeris Data Centers ........................................................................68ComRent ................................................................................................46Corning Optical Communications ...............................................39Cyxtera ....................................................................................................36DCPRO ....................................................................................................3DCD ..........................................................................................................1DCIMPro .................................................................................................2E1 Dynamics ..........................................................................................34E+I Engineering .................................................................................59East Penn ................................................................................................24EnerSys ....................................................................................................60Fusion Storm .........................................................................................65Geist .........................................................................................................31Green Revolution Cooling ...............................................................9HUBER+SUHNER ................................................................................52Intel DCM ...............................................................................................41Jacobs - Mission Critical...................................................................21Kohler Power Systems .......................................................................8Liquid Technology ..............................................................................3M+W Group ...........................................................................................35Molex .......................................................................................................1

MTU Onsite Energy ............................................................................23Munters ...................................................................................................56MPI Narada ............................................................................................63Nexans Data Center Solutions ........................................................28Nlyte Software.......................................................................................51POWERSMITHS ....................................................................................5Rahi Systems .........................................................................................26RakworX ..................................................................................................83Raritan .....................................................................................................4RF Code ...................................................................................................40Rittal .........................................................................................................42S&C Electric Company .......................................................................22Sabey Data Centers .............................................................................29Saft Batteries ..........................................................................................47Server Technology ..............................................................................58Schneider Electric ................................................................................49Sipi Asset Recovery .............................................................................74 STARLINE ...............................................................................................44Switch ......................................................................................................72Tate Inc ...................................................................................................81Thomson Power Systems .................................................................48Toshiba ....................................................................................................2Vertiv ........................................................................................................71Victaulic ..................................................................................................75Virginia Transformer Corporation ................................................79

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