2026 Speakers

Jeff Wood

Vice President North America

Uptime Institute

Ganesh Mani

Senior Director of Engineering

GEICO

Reena Brilliot

Director of Economic Development & Sustainability

City of Santa Clara

Mohit Goenka

Director of Engineering

Yahoo

Martin Renkis

Executive Director Data Center Infrastructure Services

Johnson Controls

Kushal Dagli

Global Data Center Deployment Optimization Lead

Microsoft

Jesline Leston

Program Manager, Data Center Delivery

Microsoft

Erica Garaffo

Large Load Energy Customer Development Lead

City of San Jose

Melissa Farney

Editor at Large

Data Center Frontier

Andy Dickey

Head of Americas & Asia-Pacific - HP Construction Services

HP

Lori Mitchell

Director

San José Clean Energy

Mayor Lisa Gillmor

Mayor

City of Santa Clara

Jay Paidipati

Vice President of Energy and Sustainability Program Management

Uptime Institute

EJ Odo

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Claire Inan, P.E.

Water Program Manager - Data Center Development

Meta

Roger Strukhoff

Editor-in-Chief

International Data Center Authority (IDCA)

Dave Stehlin

Chief Executive Officer

Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

Sri Soundararajan

Senior Manager - AI Software

Samsung Semiconductor

Brad Barton

SVP Construction Procurement

Applied Digital

Peter Hoegler

Associate Director Data Center Solutions

EDF power solutions

Christopher (CJ) Johnson

Principal and Founder

Avanza Energy

Yuval Bachar

Founder & CEO

EdgeCloudLink

Mark Scher

President and Founder

Applied High Voltage

Subhankar Dhar

Professor of Information Systems & Technology

San Jose State University

Alan Howard

Vice President, Data Center Solutions

National Power

Dean Richards

Co-CEO

Global Piller Group

Dominik Fry, P.E.

Director of Product, PIPE-FLO

PIPE.FLO from Revalize

Brian Matthews

Founder & CEO

AMPERA

Andrew Klinman

Principal, Sales Engineer

Channel Performance

Eric Turon

Chief Experience Officer

Spartan Critical Systems

David Warrick

EVP Enterprise

Overhaul

Bryan Dusza

Sales Director

Rypos

Dr. Joseph G. Allen, DSc, MPH, CIH

Professor and Director of the Healthy Buildings Program

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Shivani Cott, PhD

Senior Scientist

9 Foundations

Edward Jingdong QU

CEO & Co-Founder

Vigiles Robotics Inc

Vincent Racine

DC & DCI Sales Engineer

EXFO

Olivier Crene

President, Digital Workplace, Cloud, and Infrastructure

Milestone Technologies

Chris Summers

Head of Customer Engineering

Aria Networks

Ambroise Lalloz

Director of Strategic Development

FirstBlock

Michael Lisonbee

Director of Enterprise Sales: Data Center / Colocation

Ziply Fiber

Gordon Johnson

Senior CFD Engineering (BSEE, CDCDP, DCEP)

Subzero Engineering

Tess Hau

Founder

Tess Ventures

R. Tee Gibson

Sales Support Engineer

Distech Controls

Guillaume Lavallée

Senior Director, Innovation & Partnerships

Ecosystem

Anne-Catherine Briand-Fortin

Delegate of Québec in Los Angeles

Québec Government Office in Los Angeles

Previous Speakers

Sean Farney

Vice President, Data Center Strategy

JLL

Lori Mitchell

Director

San José Clean Energy

Dexter He

Senior Engagement Manager

McKinsey & Company

Kyle Chien

Senior Director

Digital Realty

Rebecca Weekly

Vice President of Infrastructure

GEICO

Vaibhav Tupe

Tech Lead

Equinix

Zackary Matthews

VP of Hyperscale & Cloud

Iron Mountain

Brinda Ganesh

Principal, Azure Hardware Strategy Planning

Microsoft

Cosimo Pecchioli

IT and OEM Partnership Director

BP

Harsha Bojja

Principal AI Platform Architect

Microsoft

Ken Johnston

Director Data Platforms and Telematics

Ford Motor Company

Nicholas Simoné

Head of Security Operations & Technology

Waymo

Gordon Dolven

Research Director - Americas Data Centers

CBRE

Harry Wang

Director, Data Center Market

Hitachi Energy

Ejiofor Odo

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Greg Bowman

Regional Security Leader

Meta

Howard Berry

Principal & Data Center Specialist

Avison Young

Radhika Kunte

Principal Program Manager, AI & Advanced Architecture

Microsoft

Bob Kinscherf

Executive Director

Constellation

Donna Wilczek

Chief Product Officer

Oomnitza

Avik Ghosh

VP, AI & Data Product Management

Oomnitza

Syed Natif Nawaz

Chief Growth Officer & Managing Partner

Aurum Equity Partners

John Francis

Senior Vice President - Americas

ETAP

Abhishek Sastri

Founder & CEO

FluixAI

Gopal Bhat

CTO

Fanatics

Altaf Bora

Vice President of Data Centers

Metro One LPSG

Alisson Sol

VP of Software Engineering

Capital One

Wish Bakshi

AI Systems Engineer

AQ Energy

Araceli Colclough

Associate Director Business Intelligence & Data Analytics

BD

Yinon Eliaz

VP of Strategy

ECL

Blaine Frederick

VP of Solutions Engineering

Alcatraz

Vinay Gangadhar

Principal AI Hardware Architect

Microsoft

Suvendu Mohanty

Senior ML Engineer

Amazon

Katarzyna Kazior

Key Account Manager

DCX Liquid Cooling Systems

Linda Kinney

Independent Board Director

Hotstart Thermal

Christopher Abramo

CEO

Mod42

Rodrigo Rochedo

Regional Sales Manager

IMI

Samuel Gibson

CEO & Founder

Hadron Energy

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