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Breakfast & Registration
8:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast & Registration
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General Session
8:30am - 9:15am
Economy/Demand Drivers: Can The Challenging Global Economic Environment Deter The Hockey Stick Growth?
- If AI & Power Are #1 & #2 What Else Is On Top Of The List?
- Supply chain bottleneck and infrastructure constraints
- Impact of the ending of remote work and DOGE? Will other demand drivers make up for the negatives?
- AI and compute demand vs. The fallout of deep seek, 9 months later
- The power supply arms race: At what point do data centers get kicked off the grid?
- The big beautiful bill and renewables and how are the politics and NIMBY looking?
- How big is big? How big is big in 10 years?
- How much are costs going up?
- Different sub-markets and data center markets going forward
- Will the strong pre-leasing continue?
- Investment and M&A trends
- Geraldine Barlow - Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure, Affinius Capital
- Hamish Kidd - Managing Director - Investments, Infrastructure, Brookfield
- Kevin Imboden - Global Director, Market Research & Intelligence, EdgeConneX
- Jeff Moerdler - Member, Mintz
- Dash Pinger - Market Intelligence Lead, Rosendin
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General Session
9:15am - 10:00am
Senior PE Financier/User Corporate Strategy Plenary: Navigating Capital Markets To Finance Your Long-Term Vision (non-moderator slots PE supplier only)
- Comparing different models, markets, exits, de-risking strategies and market position
- Geographic focus: Tier 1 locations versus emerging markets? What about alternative power-independent sites?
- Investment preference: Chasing hyperscale giants or focusing on mid-sized 10-20MW facilities or the reliable enterprise colocation segment?
- Strategic approaches: Full platform acquisitions vs. joint ventures vs. standalone investments
- Capital allocation, capital stack and structure
- Critical factors for market dominance and competitive advantage
- What was the last disagreement with your financing partners? How was it resolved?
- Land vs. powered land vs. powered shell vs. turnkey: Which strategy are you pursuing?
- Your equity investors as more and 4x the funds focus on this area
- Getting involved in facilities that would like to expand vs tackling growth of new AI-specific construction
- PE players: To what extent does your team engage in operational management details?
- Matt Pfile - Founder & CEO, Crane Data Centers
- Stuart Murray - Managing Director | Infrastructure Debt, BlackRock
- Sapna Sirohi - Managing Director - Infrastructure Investing, Goldman Sachs
- Varun Sablok - Managing Director, Igneo
- Jerry Tang - Founding Partner, VCV Digital
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Networking Break
10:00am - 10:45am
Refreshments
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Track B
10:45am - 11:30am
Critical Lease Structures, End User Control & Operational Insights for Data Center PE Portfolio Owners
- Is your lease financeable, and if financeable does it contain terms that adversely affect your interest?
- Yield on cost/powered shell deals: What’s appropriate to be included in costs?
- Purchase options and tenant transfers: When can they be exercised and at what price?
- Landlord guaranties: what’s being guaranteed and what is the necessary credit for that landlord guarantor?
- Powered shell vs. turnkey landlord vs. NNN leases and their cap X and operational responsibility
- Force majeure: SLAs, equipment and power procurement delays
- In colocation leases are you seeing any free rent?
- Service level agreements vs. controlling things out of control
- New, untraditional tenants like GPU, high-performance computing and quantum computing as a service, AI model training specialists and edge infrastructure providers
- New technical, infrastructure, operational, risk management and compliance factors to consider in this market
- Ilisa Miller - Founder & CEO, imiller
- Sonia Hingorany - Head of Data Center Position Optimization, Microsoft
- John Chesser - CEO, Quantica Infrastructures
- Haynes Strader - Chief Development Officer, Skybox Datacenters
10:45am - 11:30am
Looking Out The Window… The California Data Center Market* (Small Group Meeting Format)
- 500 MW projects: How are they being handled from a power perspective?
- What would you look to happen in the California markets to increase your new data center builds in California?
- What are some local markets you are looking at that would be a California substitute?
- Best ways to limit local development costs and NIMBY opposition when doing business locally
- PGE’s proposed electric rule 30 and other legislative updates
- The latest power demand growth predictions
- John DeLacio - Principal, AVAIO Digital Partners
- Ali Harandi - SVP - Investment Officer, Prologis
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Track B
11:30am - 12:15pm
Key Valuation Metrics & Benchmarks For The Individual Property, Company & Deal
- What are your favorite valuation metrics, asset-specific factors and market-driven valuation elements?
- Do you expect multiples to remain high?
- Valuing properties that are future proofed for higher density servers and other critical developments
- Colo vs. hyperscale
- Lease term and lessee evaluation
- Impact of rising cost of insurance
- Does sustainability impact valuation?
- How are all the mega data centers impacting smaller centers’ valuation?
- JV vs. property vs. company valuation
- Where will value be in ’26?
- John Day - Chief Commercial Officer, CleanArc Data Centers
- Chris Moon - Managing Director, Digital Bridge
- Usman Arshad - VP of Finance, HostDime
- Brett Strohlein - Mission Critical Market & Preconstruction Lead, Rosedin
11:30am - 12:15pm
Hyperscale Deep Dive: Will The Demand & Market Growth Continue? (Small Group Meeting Format)
- What is the growth of this part of the market? Financial strength? New money coming in?
- AI-Driven demand factors and technological evolution
- Hyperscale as your sole tenant: How are you managing risk?
- Capital expenditure trends: Are you looking to self-build?
- What is your power strategy?
- Using PE: Strategic partnerships and the rest of the capital stack
- What is your exit strategy?
- Consolidation trends and the M&A landscape
- Mega campus strategy
- If I had a billion dollars…
- Curt Owen - SVP Development, Affinius Capital
- Derek Chang - Founding Partner, Stratus Data LLC
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Track B
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Power Generation: Build vs. Buy, Behind the Meter Power Generation + Power Procurement Strategies
- Getting a major utility to help back your off-the-grid project… Anatomy of a strategic alliance, partnership or joint venture between data center operators and electric utilities
- When is on campus the best choice? Which BYOP strategies are you favoring, is it a bridge/backup or prime/permanent approach?
- Evaluating your mix of generators, batteries and renewable sources for more than just warming coffee pots: What should be the mix? Clean energy practicality and dissecting the greenwashing
- What are your options if you can’t get adequate power delivered before tenant termination rights come up? Can force majeure apply?
- Looking at Tier 1 market challenges
- Examining local power market changes
- Powering AI vs. traditional data centers
- Grid/off-grid combination approaches
- Integrating load management: How far can software or other optimization techniques get you?
- Nuclear power beyond the 3-mile hype
- Timeline for getting transformers and substations
- John Malone - Principal, AVAIO Digital Partners
- Suhrid Mantravadi - Partner, Grey-Rock
- Erik Brumbaugh - Sr. Business Development Manager, INNIO Group
- Lee Ye - VP, Data Center Power Procurement, Prologis
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Building Smarter: Reducing Construction Risk While Assembling AI-Ready, Powered Land for Edge Development (Small Group Meeting Format)
- The keys to securing power, entitlements, local regulations & other site prep
- How are land prices looking? How about all-in construction prices of shell vs. turnkey and on-site vs. prefab?
- How long is entitlement in major markets taking? Other pre-development work?
- Are you spec building? Key to making it succeed
- How are you finding power? What kind of timing buffer are you building in? Going off-the-grid vs. procuring off-site and rightsizing power potential
- Powered land assemblages: What kind of cost and time frame?
- Financing the prep work and developments for different data center strategies
- The coolest cooling and latest in rack design
- AI & best practice strategies to more effectively design, build, reduce timelines, improve procurement and manage material costs
- Michael Johnston - Partner, Acquisitions & Asset Management, Menlo Equities
- Tejo Pydipati - SVP, Design & Construction, Stream Data Centers
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Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
Optional Luncheon Roundtable (AI; Power; Leasing; Land Development/Construction; Financing) please sign up at Registration
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General Session
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Is There Enough Debt? … Assessing The Debt Markets As Interest Rates Remain Uncertain
- Financing shovel ready vs. construction projects
- How do debt providers underwrite the higher costs?
- Where do good assets go to finance?
- Comparing debt from real estate vs. infrastructure funds
- Credit rating and debt service ratio implications of debt
- Comparing terms of construction to perm vs. stabilized assets vs. refinancing in different markets for hyperscale vs. edge opportunities
- When to hedge
- Is the ABS market maxed out? How are the alternatives looking?
- Looking at the sale leaseback market
- Debt or equity or pref: Where is the value today for the investor vs. owner?
- Abbe Borok - Managing Director, Head of US Debt, Bental Kennedy / Green Oak
- Eric Wittleder - Managing Director - Infrastructure, Brookfield
- Sharin Valia - Managing Director of Capital Markets, King Street
- Ariana Batori - Principal, Stonepeak Credit
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General Session
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Cloud Centers Case Study
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General Session
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Together, Forever And Never Apart: How Tied Together Are AI Demand And Data Center Investments
- Risk management and what are the risks of investing in a large AI data center in a tertiary market compared to a primary market? Remember the dot.com bust… How are you protecting yourself against the AI market cratering and market saturation?
- The latest end user requirements for AI-driven data centers
- Will data center clusters be the dominant force shaping campuses?
- Financing, valuing and structuring the AI data center vs. others
- Capital deployment timelines
- Deep seek update, AI inference computing and Chip SAS: How are they changing the data center industry? How is the rest of the AI market evolving and how will that be impacting all facets of the industry?
- John Day - Chief Commercial Officer, CleanArc Data Centers
- Michael Ortiz - Chief Commercial Officer, Innova Cloud Data Centers
- Charles Pensig - Founding Partner, Stratus Data LLC
- Joel Ogren - CEO, Assured Communications
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Networking Break
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General Session
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Going Up & Down The Equity Part Of The Capital Stack: Finance, Exit & Structure
- Joint venture vs. straight equity vs. pref equity waterfalls, promotes and other terms
- What kind of exits exist for data centers and where do you see this market evolving the most?
- Does location matter and how do you assess the energy needs and requirements before making an investment?
- Single tenant user or multi-tenant co-location: Is there a difference in cap rates or how they are financed?
- Land and construction financing vs. stabilized acquisition
- How is oversea equity looking in this political climate? How about pension and other LP monies? • Considering the tenant and building spec
- Equity requirements for built-to-suit vs. spec vs. stabilized vs. retrofits
- Risk-adjusted return expectations across different data center asset classes
- Chea Hart - Principal, Digital Bridge
- Syed U. Ahmed - Managing Director, Apterra Infrastructure Capital LLC
- Neil Sherlock - Senior Vice President, Finance, CleanArc Data Centers
- Daniel English - Managing Partner, Legacy Investing, LLC
- Scott Jacobs - VP, Acquisitions, StratCap
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General Session
5:00pm - 5:45pm
The Future Is Now: Picking Markets & Designing Your Data Center While Preparing For Disruptions & Risks (Small Group Meeting Format)
- Cool cooling, Chips as a service and AI infrastructure advances including clusters that are going to change the market… How are these developments impacting how and where you are building?
- US-China dynamics, export controls, and foreign power generation issues that US hyperscalers and investors should be thinking about
- Building your next data center: What are the key factors to decide what will be important 5 years from now?
- The Return of the Jedi vs. and the return of 3 Mile Island: Where are we with nuclear power for data centers?
- Should you be preparing for quantum computing?
- Tier 3 markets and personnel… Are we going to be remoting in?
- Sustainability: A key to getting past the NIMBY crowd?
- How big can we get? How much supply is too much supply?
- BYOP, energy contracting and future efficiencies
- Federal and state regulations that will impact the most
- Regional power dynamics, emerging hubs and which tier two markets are going to perform #1?
- Daniel Silverberg - Managing Director, Capstone
- Ken Moreano - Co-Founder, CEO & President, Scott Data Center
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Cocktail Networking Reception
5:45pm - 6:45pm
Cocktail Networking Reception
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